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Drayhorses, Hardback Book

Drayhorses Hardback

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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).

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  • Format:Hardback
  • Pages:275 pages, Illustrations, unspecified
  • Publisher:IRISH PAGES
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  • ISBN:9781739353766
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  • Format:Hardback
  • Pages:275 pages, Illustrations, unspecified
  • Publisher:IRISH PAGES
  • Publication Date:
  • Category:
  • ISBN:9781739353766