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The Ghost Upon Your Path
John McCarthy
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Description for The Ghost Upon Your Path
hardcover. Good clean copy, with light nicks and tears to dust jacket
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bantam Press London
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
359
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780593048849
SKU
KMO0001076
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About John McCarthy
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.
Reviews for The Ghost Upon Your Path
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 ... Read more