Booking Passage: We Irish&Americans (Thomas Lynch), Auckland in Auckland, Auckland for sale

pp 301 including notes on frontispieces&selected bibliography.'In February of 1970, Thomas Lynch, aged twenty-one, bought a one-way tticket to Ireland. He landed in the townland of Moveen, at the edge of the ocean in West Clare, outside the thatched cottage that his great-grandfather - aanother Thomas Lynch - had left late in the nineteenth century with a one-way ticket to America. Tommy and Nora Lynch, his elderly, unmarried distant cousins welcomed the young American"home". In the words of the author"it changed my life". He inherited the"home place"when Nora died in 1992. Inthe three decades since that first landing and in dozens of return trips tp Moveen, Lynch learne dto look for the larger world inside the small one, the planet in the local parish; to find, as Montaigne wrote,"the whole of Man's estate"in every man.a magnificant hymn to Ireland'.
Author
Thomas Lynch
Title
Booking Passage: We Irish&Americans
Publisher name
Jonathan Cape, London
Shipping time
3 - 7 days
Publication year
2005
Edition
First edition
Binding type
Hard cover
Vendor name
Booked
Vendor rating
Key words
Nonfiction, History, Ireland, America, Irish, Travel, Travelogue, Memoir, Culture, Irish Culture
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