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Cargando... The last house of Ulster: A family in Belfastpor Charles Foran
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. As a university student in Ireland, Charles Foran tags along with some Irish friends as they visit their relatives in Belfast, the McNallys. Foran develops his own long-lasting relationship with the family, visiting them occasionally over the years and witnessing the Troubles from a very personal perspective. This is his memoir of those times, shifting between the past and the present (at the time of writing, the "present" was the early 1990s). I greatly enjoyed reading about his visits with the family, particularly his accounts of their lively conversations in the sitting room every evening. It was also interesting to observe how their relationship deepened and changed as Foran himself became older and had a family of his own. And as a Canadian like Foran, I nodded along with his descriptions of life in the suburbs of Toronto and how greatly it differed from life in Belfast. Recommended if you are interested in history at the personal level. ( ) Foran tells the story of the McNally family of Belfast, whom the author met in 1979 and lived with on and off over the next twenty years, and in telling their story, tells the story of Northern Ireland. Compassionate, funny and frightening, it's a hell of a book. Foran was a 19 year-old student in Dublin when he first visited the family with a school friend. Fascinated, in an arrogantly innocent sort of way by the horror of check points, murders, bombings and all the violence of Belfast during the "Troubles", the authors initial voyeurism soon give way to profound concern and love for the family. The daily life of the family, their struggles to maintain their standards of care for each other, of hospitality, of humor and strength are beautifully detailed. And it is to Foran's credit that he offers no simple answers save those contained in one human being's love for another. This is a poignant account of the connections between people, of the power of place and history, and of courage and pride. It is the story of Ireland, and the story of a single, unforgettable family. Worth reading more than once, it's so good. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In the 1970s, Charles Foran met the McNallys, a Catholic family living in Belfast. Many years and many trips later, Foran came to see their home as a window onto the often violent and volatile world of Northern Ireland. First published to great acclaim in 1995, The Last House of Ulster continues to resonate with readers today. This is the story of Mairtin, arrested at twenty as a member of the IRA, of his sister Patricia who, dazed and exhausted, approaches a soldier and demands that he lower his gun, and of gentle Sean, who grows up knowing that he must leave Belfast. Most of all, this is the story of James and Maureen McNally, who struggle to hold on to their own hopes and dreams while raising their family in a war-torn country. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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