{"product_id":"9781910864463","title":"Together in friendship's name","description":"John Grehan was born in Co. Longford in the Republic of Ireland in 1928. The second eldest son of a family of seven, he spent little time at school, working on a farm for 6 shillings a week from the age of thirteen. In his early twenties John joined many of his countrymen, and boarded the ferry at Dun Laoghaire for England. Life for a casual labourer in England was tough - digging roads with a pick and shovel, rough lodging houses and isolation. But life went on and John worked his way through a variety of different jobs - a short spell on the railway hauling heavy rails and dirty sleepers; then a salesman; then a few years in the motor industry before a return to hard manual work in the tunnels. His final position before retirement was as part of a team maintaining London's bridges. Over these years, he wrote poetry in his spare time, as a retreat from the gruelling realities of life and as an outlet for his creativity.","brand":"Action Publishing Technology","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062391161072,"sku":"9781910864463","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781910864463_p0.jpg?v=1763628015","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781910864463","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}