Remembered Fragments: A Memoir - Couverture souple

Shellard, Mr Stephen Patrick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1068621508 ISBN 13 : 9781068621505

Editeur : Neilsen UK Book Data, 2024

Synopsis

“In marking his unique place within a territory where who-owns-what-space is often a highly contentious issue, the County Down born writer blends sharp observation, humour and affection to call up memories from the people, the music, the meeting places, the watering holes and the dance halls of growing up around the beautiful shores of Carlingford Lough in the second half of the last century.” Colum Sands, folk musician and winner of the Living Tradition Award for services to Folk and Traditional Music.

Irish Times - "compelling, informative and entertaining." Pat Quigley, biographer of Constance, Casimir and Stanislav Markievicz

Remembered Fragments is a memoir grounded in the author’s coming of age during the civil and political disintegration in Northern Ireland in the 1960s and early 1970s. It tells the story of his Anglo-Irish family with its roots in Dublin, Limerick and Bandon, Co. Cork, where his parents met, and married in 1945. Following the Second World War, they moved to Belfast and then to Newry, where the author was born in 1953. These relocations did not diminish enduring family affections and interests which crossed all the vexed geographical, political and religious divisions of Ireland.
The author is sharply critical of the failures of unionist politics to respond constructively to the changing world of the 1960s. From the perspective of his wider experience in the 1970s and 1980s, in Canada, in Reading, in Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, in West Berlin, the author reflects on the trauma of his homeland in the context of the national and international turmoil of that era. The narrative describes the various challenges which eventually led his entire family to move to southwest Scotland in the second half of the 1980s.
Remembered Fragments offers a perspective on the Northern Irish Troubles which reminds us that, amidst the violence which led up to the Good Friday Agreement, many people were unwilling to take a position on either side and were always seeking and hoping for a more agreeable way to live. It is a narrative defined by anecdote and a rich appreciation of human character. It is a political commentary which avoids rancour or invective and is a contribution to the literature and understanding of a period in Irish history which is still a painful memory for many but which the author recalls with a surprising degree of humour and affection.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Neilsen UK Book Data
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1068621508
• ISBN 13: 9781068621505
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 239
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