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Sto caricando le informazioni... Going to My Father's House: A History of My Timesdi Patrick Joyce
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Patrick Joyce wrote Going To My Father's House for his children to commemorate his parents and upbringing. As a historian, he chose not to write a memoir and left out real personal experiences and feelings. Instead, he put major family roots and whereabouts in the context of the transformation of a peasant society to an industrialized Ireland, emigration, and urbanization in Ireland en the United Kingdom. The book starts with unraveling the three men on the cover photo, linking them to Irish places, landscapes, language, and culture. Next, the concept of belonging, calling a house your home, destruction of homes in World War II by both the Germans and the Allied forces are addressed, Religious conflicts, graveyards, the decline of industrial glory days in Manchester, Derry during the Troubles, and urban renewal are elaborated, interwoven with Joyce's family. Our past formed our identity, but we can't hold to the past. We live only in the here and now, shaping a future for the next generations. An inclusive society is what the author aims for. Accessible, yet thorough, personal at some level, conceptual and contextual at many others. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
A historian's personal journey into the complex questions of immigration, home and nation From Ireland to London in the 1950s, Derry in the Troubles to contemporary, de-industrialised Manchester, Joyce finds the ties of place, family and the past are difficult to break. Why do certain places continue to haunt us? What does it mean to be British after the suffering of Empire and of war? How do we make our home in a hypermobile world without remembering our pasts? Patrick Joyce's parents moved from Ireland in the 1930s and made their home in west London. But they never really left the homeland. And so as he grew up among the streets of Paddington and Notting Hill and when he visited his family in Ireland he felt a tension between the notions of home, nation and belonging. Going to My Father's House charts the historian's attempt to make sense of these ties and to see how they manifest in a globalised world. He explores the places - the house, the street, the walls and the graves - that formed his own identity. He ask what place the ideas of history, heritage and nostalgia have in creating a sense of our selves. He concludes with a plea for a history that holds the past to account but also allows for dynamic, inclusive change. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Patrick Joyce is a social historian, which quite well puts his finger on the pulse of this book: it’s to do with history, partly his Irish heritage, and partly with how he blends the past and the present. Who doesn’t? ( )