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- Originally seen as humorous, the song today is considered a powerful anti-war song. Except for an initial framing stanza, the song is a monologue by an Irish woman who meets her former lover on the road to Athy, which is located in County Kildare, Ireland. After their illegitimate child was born, the lover ran away and became a soldier.
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Daddy, We Hardly Knew You is a 1989 book by feminist academic Germaine Greer. The book is a study of her father who was an Australian intelligence officer during World War II.
When her father died in 1983, Germaine Greer realized how little she knew about him. What had happened during World War II to make this charming but distant man draw a “curtain of silence” around himself?
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Jan 1, 2001 · When her father died in 1983, Germaine Greer realized how little she knew about him. What had happened during World War II to make this charming but distant man draw a “curtain of silence” around himself?
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With ''Daddy, We Hardly Knew You'' she has made the imitation manifest. Driven to achieve from a young age, a denizen of libraries, propelled from her native Australia by a scholarship to...
“The Quest,” Germaine Greer titles the opening chapter of “Daddy, We Hardly Knew You,” a memoir of her search for her father’s past begun after his death in 1983, as if to lift her pursuit...
Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" (Roud 3137), also known as "Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye" or "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya", is a popular traditional song, sung to the same tune as "When Johnny Comes Marching Home".
Jan 23, 1991 · When her father died in 1983, Germaine Greer realized how little she knew about him. What had happened during World War II to make this charming but distant man draw a “curtain of silence”...
