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Brigid - 9780958580540
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780958580540
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Brigid
- Item Height
- 140mm
- Publisher
- Indra Publishing
- Topic
- Books
- Item Width
- 215mm
- Item Weight
- 292g
- Number of Pages
- 262 Pages
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Product Information
Jill Blee's second novel is at once a travel story and an historical novel set in modern Ireland, where Jill's first visit to her ancestral homeland is hijacked by the very real presence of her long-dead great aunt, Brigid. While Jill intends to acquaint herself with the country, the people and the history from which her great-grandparents had migrated, Aunt Brigid single-mindedly steers her back to the wind swept cliffs of County Clare, and the high Burren above the village of Ballyvaghan. Brigid has some unfinished business which quickly becomes Jill's main quest, through which she is brought into a much deeper experience of the great famine than her history books could ever give her. As she follows her aunt's story on the west coast and back to Dublin, Jill's own travel story, complete with Lonely Planet Guide, Irish pubs and Norman ruins, is told with an intense imagery which presents Ireland in her beauty and her romance as clearly as could any cinematographer. Jill Blee is first and foremost an historian, but one who uses fiction to illuminate the past. What Brigid does best is to cast light on what the experience of the famine in a small community, Ballyvaghan, meant in emotional terms for those experiencing it. This is a compassionate novel, well-researched, a compelling read if one has an interest in what is quite recent history, a history which threatens to repeat itself in the modern world.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Indra Publishing
ISBN-13
9780958580540
eBay Product ID (ePID)
88185149
Product Key Features
Book Title
Brigid
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
1999
Number of Pages
262 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
140mm
Item Width
215mm
Item Weight
292g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
Australia
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- GB 976952259
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