Knock is the Lourdes of Ireland, a busy place of pilgrimage in what is historically the poorest part of Ireland. In 1879, when the west of Ireland was racked by the Land War, several people reported seeing an apparition of the Virgin Mary there. Today Knock offers Marian devotion on an industrial scale, and is also home to an international airport from which the newly prosperous people of the region fly to their holiday properties overseas. Sharp-eyed, witty and intelligent, Ann Marie Hourihane tells the stories of this extraordinary place in Seasons of Devotion.
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Lively and fascinating . . . a vivid tapestry * Times Literary Supplement * In She Moves through the Boom, Ann Marie Hourihane has pulled off a rare journalistic feat: she uses a mosaic of many real stories to give us the big picture. Hourihane's gift is for empathy and for people * Irish Times *
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 135 mm
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978-1-84488-119-2 (9781844881192)
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Ann Marie Hourihane is a columnist for the Irish Times and author of the acclaimed She Moves through the Boom.
