Now and in Time to Be, Ireland and the Irish - Softcover

Keneally, Thomas

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9780006377320: Now and in Time to Be, Ireland and the Irish

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006377327 ISBN 13: 9780006377320

Publisher: Flamingo, 1992

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From the furthest rim of the Irish Diaspora, Thomas Keneally – Australian Booker Prize-winning author, of Irish descent – returns to his spiritual homeland.

The result is both an unforgettable journey rich in observation and insight, and a passionate exposition of his own deeply personal view of Ireland today: an attempt to unpack his ‘baggage of myths picked up from ancestors and others and match them against the ambiguous late twentieth-century reality’ . Between Cork, Ulster and Dublin, history reverberates and persists, and modern Ireland presents its ironies and contradictions.

'Now and in Time to Be' is a sometimes poetic, sometimes proud and always thoughtful evocation of Ireland in all its glory and complexity.

‘Thomas Keneally is a sensitive and agreeable companion’
VICTORIA GLENDINNING, 'Literary Review'

‘An enthusiastic account of an odyssey... Keneally is in love with the Irish Character’
JOHN ARDAGH, 'Daily Telegraph'

‘Tom Keneally has written a book full of delights for anyone who loves Ireland’
JUDITH WHITE, 'Sydney Morning Herald'

Synopsis:

A journey round Ireland from the rugged West Coast to the lush pastures of Wexford reflecting on a number of the great Irish questions. The author won the Booker Prize for "Schindler's Ark" in 1989.

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