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Sorry for Your Trouble - The Irish Way of Death (Hardcover)
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Sorry for Your Trouble - The Irish Way of Death (Hardcover)
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The Irish do death differently. Funeral attendance is a solemn duty
- but it can also be a big day out, requiring sophisticated crowd
control, creative parking solutions and a high-end sound system.
Despite having the same basic end-of-life infrastructure as other
Western countries, Irish culture handles death with a unique blend
of dignified ritual and warm sociability. In Sorry for Your
Trouble, Ann Marie Hourihane holds up a mirror to the Irish way of
death: the funny bits, the sad bits, and the hard-to-explain bits
that tell us so much about who we are. She follows the last weeks
of a woman's life in hospice; she witnesses an embalming; she
attends inquests; she talks to people working to prevent suicide;
she follows the team of specialists working to locate the remains
of people 'disappeared' by the IRA; and she visits some of
Ireland's most contested graves. She also explores the strange and
sometimes surprising histories of Irish death practices, from the
traditional wake and ritual lamentations to the busy commerce
between anatomists and bodysnatchers. And she goes to funerals, of
ordinary and extraordinary people all over the country - including
that of her own father. 'I had joined a club,' she writes, 'the
club of people who have lost someone very close to them.' And then,
with her family, she sets about planning a funeral in the middle of
a pandemic. Sorry for Your Trouble sheds fresh, wise and witty
light on a key pillar of Irish culture: a vast but strangely
underexplored subject. Rich, sparkling and eye-opening, it is one
of the best books ever written about Irish life.
___________________________ 'A beautiful, insightful reflection on
a very, very peculiar country's approach to the oddest experience
of them all' RYAN TUBRIDY 'Hugely moving and illuminating. All of
life, somehow, is here' TANYA SWEENEY, IRISH INDEPENDENT 'Moving,
comforting and funny' BUSINESS POST
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