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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
French Thoughts on Irish evils. Translated from the “Revue des Deux Mondes,” with notes by a son of the soil
Author: French Thoughts on Irish Evils
Author: My Father Left Me Ireland
Author: Michael Brendan DoughertyPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525538674
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The perfect gift for parents this Father’s Day: a beautiful, gut-wrenching memoir of Irish identity, fatherhood, and what we owe to the past. “A heartbreaking and redemptive book, written with courage and grace.” –J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy “…a lovely little book.” –Ross Douthat, The New York Times The child of an Irish man and an Irish-American woman who split up before he was born, Michael Brendan Dougherty grew up with an acute sense of absence. He was raised in New Jersey by his hard-working single mother, who gave him a passion for Ireland, the land of her roots and the home of Michael's father. She put him to bed using little phrases in the Irish language, sang traditional songs, and filled their home with a romantic vision of a homeland over the horizon. Every few years, his father returned from Dublin for a visit, but those encounters were never long enough. Devastated by his father's departures, Michael eventually consoled himself by believing that fatherhood was best understood as a check in the mail. Wearied by the Irish kitsch of the 1990s, he began to reject his mother's Irish nationalism as a romantic myth. Years later, when Michael found out that he would soon be a father himself, he could no longer afford to be jaded; he would need to tell his daughter who she is and where she comes from. He immediately re-immersed himself in the biographies of firebrands like Patrick Pearse and studied the Irish language. And he decided to reconnect with the man who had left him behind, and the nation just over the horizon. He began writing letters to his father about what he remembered, missed, and longed for. Those letters would become this book. Along the way, Michael realized that his longings were shared by many Americans of every ethnicity and background. So many of us these days lack a clear sense of our cultural origins or even a vocabulary for expressing this lack--so we avoid talking about our roots altogether. As a result, the traditional sense of pride has started to feel foreign and dangerous; we've become great consumers of cultural kitsch, but useless conservators of our true history. In these deeply felt and fascinating letters, Dougherty goes beyond his family's story to share a fascinating meditation on the meaning of identity in America.
Catalogue of the Library
Author: Hispanic Society of America LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Nottingham (England). Public LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
The Nottingham Library Bulletin
Author: Nottingham Free Public LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The London Quarterly Review
Author: William Lonsdale WatkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
Author: ohne AutorPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846048054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.