Sorry For Your Troubles
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Sorry For Your Trouble
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Author : Ann Marie Hourihane
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2022-07-19
Sorry For Your Trouble written by Ann Marie Hourihane and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-19 with Family & Relationships categories.
The Irish do death differently. Funeral attendance is a solemn duty - but it can also be a big day out, requiring sophisticated crowd control, creative parking solutions and a high-end sound system. Despite having the same basic end-of-life infrastructure as other Western countries, Irish culture handles death with a unique blend of dignified ritual and warm sociability. In Sorry for Your Trouble, Ann Marie Hourihane holds up a mirror to the Irish way of death: the funny bits, the sad bits, and the hard-to-explain bits that tell us so much about who we are. She follows the last weeks of a woman's life in hospice; she witnesses an embalming; she attends inquests; she talks to people working to prevent suicide; she follows the team of specialists working to locate the remains of people 'disappeared' by the IRA; and she visits some of Ireland's most contested graves. She also explores the strange and sometimes surprising histories of Irish death practices, from the traditional wake and ritual lamentations to the busy commerce between anatomists and bodysnatchers. And she goes to funerals, of ordinary and extraordinary people all over the country - including that of her own father. 'I had joined a club,' she writes, 'the club of people who have lost someone very close to them.' And then, with her family, she sets about planning a funeral in the middle of a pandemic. Sorry for Your Trouble sheds fresh, wise and witty light on a key pillar of Irish culture: a vast but strangely underexplored subject. Rich, sparkling and eye-opening, it is one of the best books ever written about Irish life. ___________________________ 'A beautiful, insightful reflection on a very, very peculiar country's approach to the oddest experience of them all' RYAN TUBRIDY 'Hugely moving and illuminating. All of life, somehow, is here' TANYA SWEENEY, IRISH INDEPENDENT 'Moving, comforting and funny' BUSINESS POST
Life After Loss
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Author : Christy Kenneally
language : en
Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
Release Date : 1999
Life After Loss written by Christy Kenneally and has been published by Mercier Press Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Family & Relationships categories.
This is a book for all of us who are unsure how to behave and what to say when faced with friends, family, loved ones, colleagues and acquaintances who are bereaved.
Troubles
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Author : J.G. Farrell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-06-17
Troubles written by J.G. Farrell and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-17 with Fiction categories.
WINNER OF THE 1970 BOOKER PRIZE 'And so at the Majestic everything returned to the way it had been before. The gleaming tiles became dulled. Sofas as sleek as prize cattle lost their glow.' 1919, the Majestic Hotel in Kinalough, Ireland. Haunted war veteran Major Brendan Archer arrives to marry Angela Spencer, daughter of the house. But his fiancée is strangely altered, and her family's fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline. The hotel's hundreds of rooms are disintegrating; its few remaining guests thrive on rumours and games of whist; herds of cats have taken over the Imperial Bar; bamboo shoots threaten the foundations; and piglets frolic in the squash court. And outside the order of the British Empire totters, as the violence of 'the troubles' mounts. 'A work of genius' Guardian
The Course Of Love
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Author : Alain de Botton
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-06-14
The Course Of Love written by Alain de Botton and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-14 with Fiction categories.
Traces the way original ideals about romance change in the face of real-world challenges, exploring the relationship of Rabih and Kirsten, who endure life-affirming philosophical and psychological compromises after marrying and having children.
Borders And Belonging
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Author : Pádraig Ó Tuama
language : en
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Release Date : 2021-01-29
Borders And Belonging written by Pádraig Ó Tuama and has been published by Canterbury Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-29 with Religion categories.
A leading poet and a theologian reflect on the Old Testament story of Ruth, a tale that resonates deeply in today's world with its themes of migration, the stranger, mixed cultures and religions, law and leadership, women in public life, kindness, generosity and fear. Ruth's story speaks directly to many of the issues and deep differences that Brexit has exposed and to the polarisation taking place in many societies. Pádraig Ó Tuama and Glenn Jordan bring the redemptive power of Ruth to bear on today's seemingly intractable social and political divisions, reflecting on its challenges and how it can help us be effective in the public square, amplify voices which are silenced, and be communities of faith in our present day. Over the last year, the material that inspired this book has been used with over 6000 people as a public theology initiative from Corrymeela, Ireland's longest-established peace and reconciliation centre. It has been met with an overwhelming response because of its immediacy and relevance, enabling people with opposing views to come together and be heard.
Representing The Troubles In Irish Short Fiction
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Author : Michael L. Storey
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2004-05
Representing The Troubles In Irish Short Fiction written by Michael L. Storey and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05 with Drama categories.
Representing the Troubles in Irish Short Fiction offers a comprehensive examination of Irish short stories written over the last eighty years that have treated the Troubles, Ireland's intractable conflict that arose out of its relationship to England.
Poetry Unbound
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Author : PAdraig O. Tuama
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-02-27
Poetry Unbound written by PAdraig O. Tuama and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-27 with categories.
An immersive collection of poetry to open your world, curated by the host of Poetry UnboundThis inspiring collection, edited by Pádraig Ó Tuama, presents fifty poems about what it means to be alive in the world today. Each poem is paired with Pádraig's illuminating commentary that offers personal anecdotes and generous insights into the content of the poem.Engaging, accessible and inviting, Poetry Unbound is the perfect companion for everyone who loves poetry and for anyone who wants to go deeper into poetry but doesn't necessarily know how to do so.Poetry Unbound contains expanded reflections on poems as heard on the podcast, as well as exclusive new selections. Contributors include Hanif Abdurraqib, Patience Agbabi, Raymond Antrobus, Margaret Atwood, Ada Limón, Kei Miller, Roger Robinson, Lemn Sissay, Layli Long Soldier and more.
Angela S Ashes
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Author : Frank McCourt
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1998-12-17
Angela S Ashes written by Frank McCourt and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland—now with a new introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe. “When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.” So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank’s mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank’s father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy—exasperating, irresponsible, and beguiling—does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father’s tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies. Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank’s survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig’s head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors—yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance, and remarkable forgiveness. Angela’s Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt’s astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.
Dark Waters
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Author : Kathryn Mitchener
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2011-07-28
Dark Waters written by Kathryn Mitchener and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-28 with Poetry categories.
As a young child I suffered from depression for over six and a half years as I developed into a young adult. This molded my life and the person I am today, but so much along the journey I felt I was alone and that no-one truly understood me. I hope that readers can connect with me through my writing and see that there are many challenges we may face in life but that they can be overcome. My work is not all dreary and black. I tell of love, family, gratitude and simplicity. I also bare my soul and let people see the absolute despair of a child and young woman as she struggles to fi nd herself and the meaning of a life that has so many different pathways offered but no signpost to indicate which direction to take. Not all my writing is based on my own experiences but written from my observations of the world and people around me.
The Disappointed Bridge
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Author : Richard Pine
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-02
The Disappointed Bridge written by Richard Pine and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-02 with Performing Arts categories.
This original study is the first major critical appraisal of Ireland’s post-colonial experience in relation to that of other emergent nations. The parallels between Ireland, India, Latin America, Africa and Europe establish bridges in literary and musical contexts which offer a unique insight into independence and freedom, and the ways in which they are articulated by emergent nations. They explore the master-servant relationship, the functions of narrative, and the concepts of nationalism, map-making, exile, schizophrenia, hybridity, magical realism and disillusion. The author offers many incisive answers to the question: What happens to an emerging nation after it has emerged?