A Woven Silence
How do we know that what we remember is the truth? Inspired by the story of her relative Marion Stokes, one of three women who raised the tricolour over Enniscorthy in Easter Week 1916, Felicity Hayes-McCoy explores the consequences for all of us when memories are manipulated or obliterated, intentionally or by chance. In the power struggle after the Easter Rising, involving, among others, Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera, the ideals for which Marion and her companions fought were eroded, resulting in an Ireland marked by chauvinism, isolationism and secrecy. By mapping her own family stories onto the history of the State, Felicity examine…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84889-504-1
- EAN: 9781848895041
- Produktnummer: 18977631
- Verlag: Gill Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'644 KB
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Felicity Hayes-McCoy from Dublin writes for radio,television, music theatre, print and digital media. Sheand her husband, the English opera director Wilf Judd,divide their life and work between a flat in inner-cityLondon and a stone house in the west Kerry Gaeltacht.Her books include Enough Is Plenty - The Year onthe Dingle Peninsula (2015). The daughter of the lateIrish historian G. A. Hayes-McCoy, she is a foundingmember of the UK Women's Equality party.Twitter: @fhayesmccoy
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