The Many-Coloured Land [electronic resource] : A Return to Ireland
Christopher Koch2013
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When Christopher Koch sets out on a journey through Ireland with his friend the
folksinger Brian Mooney, each is seeking an aspect of the past. Mooney is
returning to a country where he spent much of his adult life, while two of
Koch's great-great-grandmothers came from Ireland to Van Diemen's Land: one of
them as a convict. Koch is looking for traces of the mid-nineteenth century: the
time of the Famine, which flung the ancestors of so many Irish-Australians
across the globe. What he finds, between meetings in pubs with folk musicians
and IRA supporters, is modern Ireland. Greatly changed from the impoverished
country he visited in the 1950s, it's enjoying the boom of the early
twenty-first century, despite the unresolved struggle in the North. For Koch,
though, the true soul of this land is to be found in the countryside, where
doorways can still be seen to the different levels of the Faery Otherworld: the
Many-Coloured Land. 'It is difficult to praise this book too highl...
Main title:
The Many-Coloured Land [electronic resource] : A Return to Ireland / Christopher Koch
Author:
Christopher Koch, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : 4th Estate, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (272 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781743098486
Language:
English
BRN:
433257
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