We all have a need to belong, to have a place and people we feel tied to: our family, our house, our hometown, our nation. Ever since he first visited Ireland with his family 20 years ago, John McCarthy has felt a strong affinity with its people and landscape. Yet in spite of his Irish name, he never thought of himself as remotely Irish. When McCarthy sets up home in a wild and isolated corner of County Kerry where his ancestors were living a thousand years before, he realises that he is about to undertake not only a journey into that small rural community but also into his own history and his family. What he discovers there reveals a curious sense of belonging to a place he has never before lived in and peels back the emotional layers of his own fractured past. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Title: A Ghost Upon Your Path
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom, London
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0552999679
ISBN 13: 9780552999670
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 299 grams

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Author John McCarthy examines what it means to be Irish in this unsentimentalzed picture of Irish people and the issues confronting them in the 21st century. A book about change and continuity, betrayal and loss, it is, above all, about commitment to community and a tribute to the strength of character of ordinary people.

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