Lyn: A Story of Prostitution

by Lyn Madden, June Levine

Overview

Lyn Madden worked for twenty years as a prostitute, mostly in Dublin. Her career ended on the night she watched her lover and pimp John Cullen, throw a fire bomb through the window of Dolores Lynch’s home. Dolores, who had ‘escaped’ from prostitution some years previously, perished along with her elderly mother and aunt.That murder shocked Lyn out of her dependence on John and enabled her to summon up the courage necessary to denounce him to the police. She began writing this book whilst awaiting the trial during which John Cullen was sentenced to eighteen years in jail.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908634481
Publisher:	Cork University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1987
Series:	Lyn Madden
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	704 KB

About the Author

Lyn Madden worked as a Dublin prostitute for over twenty years
June Levine was born in Dublin. She is the author Sisters, a personal history of the Irish feminist movement (Dublin, Ward River Press, 1985), Lyn (with Lyn Madden) a story of prostitution (Dublin, The Women’s Press, 1988) and her novel A Season of Weddings (Dublin, New Island Books, 1992). She died in Dublin in 2008.

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Lyn Madden worked for twenty years as a prostitute, mostly in Dublin. Her career ended on the night she watched her lover and pimp John Cullen, throw a fire bomb through the window of Dolores Lynch’s home. Dolores, who had ‘escaped’ from prostitution some years previously, perished along with her elderly mother and aunt.That murder shocked Lyn out of her dependence on John and enabled her to summon up the courage necessary to denounce him to the police. She began writing this book whilst awaiting the trial during which John Cullen was sentenced to eighteen years in jail.