A Ghost Upon Your Path

We all have a need to belong, to have a place and people we feel tied to: our family, our house, our hometown, our nation. Ever since he first visited Ireland with his family twenty years ago, John McCarthy has felt a strong affinity with its people and landscape. Yet in spite of his Irish name, he never thought of himself as remotely Irish.When McCarthy sets up home in a wild and isolated corner of County Kerry where his ancestors were living a thousand years before, he realises that he is about to undertake not only a journey into that small rural community but also into his own history and his family. What he discovers there reveals a curious sense of belonging to a place he has never before lived in and peels back the emotional layers of his own fractured past.

Product details

• Authors: John McCarthy
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.03.2010
• EAN: 9780552776509
• ISBN: 978-0-552-77650-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL / Europe / Ireland, Travel writing, Ireland