The Ghost Upon Your Path

John Mccarthy

ISBN 10: 0593048849 / ISBN 13: 9780593048849

Published by Transworld Publishers Ltd, 2002

About this Item

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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ghost Upon Your Path
• Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593048849
• ISBN 13: 9780593048849
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

A personal exploration of Irish identity.

We all have a need to belong, to have a place we feel tied to: our nation, our family, or our home town. So how is it that one can find these feelings of belonging in a place where one has never lived? Despite his Irish name, John McCarthy never thought of himself as Irish. Yet ever since he first visited Ireland over twenty years ago, he has had a sense of another connection apart from his antecedents.

To explore this affinity he sets up home on the west coast of Ireland and immerses himself in the lives of those around him. In the midst of a welcoming, caring and close-knit community, he hears stories of isolation, frustration and even madness. There, McCarthy finds an Ireland that is not just the idealized place so often presented to visitors, but one beneath which run darker currents.

About the Author

John McCarthy was born and brought up in Hertfordshire. After graduating from university he had a number of jobs, finally settling in TV news. He is the co-author of two non-fiction titles: Some Other Rainbow, with Jill Morrell, and Between Extremes, with Brian Keenan.