We all have a need to belong, to have a place and people we feel tied to: our nation, our family, our hometown or house. So how come one can find these feelings of belonging in a place that one has never visited before? Is it something about Ireland as a physical entity - its landscape - or its people that offered itself up as a mother's bosom to John McCarthy? Where do the roots come from - the soil or the nation? This is not just another jolly journey meeting those funny Irish people and their eccentric ways. As well as humour and eccentricity this is a look at the other side, the sadness beyond the Craic. With sections on the language, literature, music, politics and religion, we follow John McCarthy as he looks to his past and explores his own relationship with Ireland.
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An exploration of Ireland, the phenomenon of Irishness and the Ireland of the mind by the journalist and celebrity hostage (famous for his terrible incarceration with Brian Keenan). What is it about Ireland that draws people there? McCarthy promises rather more than standard travelogue and cultural history. He aims to get to the heart of Ireland, and to the Ireland of his heart, taking the reader through language, literature, music and religion, as well as through an account of his own particular relationship with Ireland. Previous books jointly written with Jill Morrell and Brian Keenan were conspicuous bestsellers. He is a very high-profile author and his past success will be repeated with this new book, despite (or possibly because of) its slightly unexpected subject matter.
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Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
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978-0-593-04884-9 (9780593048849)
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John McCarthy was born and brought up in Hertfordshire. After graduating from the University of Hull, he had a number of jobs, finally settling in television news. He is the author of two non-fiction titles: SOME OTHER RAINBOW, with Jill Morrell, and BETWEEN EXTREMES, with Brian Keenan.
