Going to My Father's House: A History of My Times Joyce Patrick
Going to My Father's House: A History of My Times Joyce Patrick A historian's personal journey into the complex questions of immigration, home and nationFrom Ireland to London in the 1950s, Derry in…
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Going to My Father's House: A History of My Times Joyce Patrick
A historian's personal journey into the complex questions of immigration, home and nationFrom 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. What does it mean to be British after the suffering of Empire and of war? Why do certain places continue to haunt us?
But they never really left the homeland. 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. 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
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