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Drayhorses

Patricia Craig author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:IRISH PAGES

Publishing:1st Apr '25

£25.00

This title is due to be published on 1st April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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This third volume of Patricia Craig’s trilogy or memoir – following her celebrated Asking for Trouble and A Twisted Root: Ancestral Entanglements in Ireland – takes its title from Louis MacNeice: “My diehard countrymen like drayhorses/drag their ruin behind them”. A memoir of her upbringing in Belfast and life in London, from the 1960s onwards – but with scenes from childhood, adolescence, and later. A view of the Troubles from elsewhere but based on a strong familiarity with Belfast attitudes and exigencies. Some dramatic incidents not in the public sphere – for example, the funeral of hunger-striker Joe McDonnell – are included. Much brilliant literary content is covered, as well as personal involvement with some notable Belfast characters, such as Sinn Féin’s Rita O’Hare, a close friend from schooldays (though later estranged).

ISBN: 9781739353766

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

275 pages