Written by an author brought up in working-class Liverpool in the 1960s and 1970s, Liverpool: A Memoir of Words is a work of creative non-fiction that combines the study of language in Liverpool with social history, the history of the English language and personal memoir.
Tony Crowley challenges received notions, revisits familiar materials, and considers previously little-known evidence in order to present this history of the language, culture, and social and political history of Ireland from the time of the reign of Henry VIII to the present day.