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Going to My Father's House - A History of My Times (Hardcover)
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Going to My Father's House - A History of My Times (Hardcover)
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A historian's personal journey into the complex questions of
immigration, home and nation From 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. Why do certain places continue to haunt us?
What does it mean to be British after the suffering of Empire and
of war? 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. But they never
really left the homeland. 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 how they manifest in
a globalised world. He explores the places - the house, the street,
the walls and the graves - that formed his own identity. He ask
what place the ideas of history, heritage and nostalgia have in
creating a sense of our selves. He concludes with a plea for a
history that holds the past to account but also allows for dynamic,
inclusive change.
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