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In Ordinary Time
Fragments of a Family History
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In 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying $500, two suitcases, and a ton of unseen baggage. It took years, and a bitter struggle with alcohol addiction, to unpick the intricate traumas of her past and present. Candid yet lyrical, In...
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In Ordinary Time
A multi-layered exploration of of trauma, grief and addiction that will captivate readers of Notes to Self and Small Things Like These.
A multi-layered exploration of trauma, grief and addiction that will captivate readers of Notes to Self and Small Things Like These
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In 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying $500, two suitcases, and a ton of unseen baggage. It took years, and a bitter struggle with alcohol addiction, to unpick the intricate traumas of her past and present.
Candid yet lyrical, In Ordinary Time mines the ways that trauma reverberates through time and through individual lives, drawing connections to the events and rhythms of Ireland's long Celtic, early Christian, and Catholic history.
From tragically lost siblings to the broader social scars of the Famine and the Magdalene Laundries, Mc Mahon sketches the evolution of a consciousness - from her conservative 1970s upbringing to 1990s New York, and back to the much-changed Ireland of today.
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ISBN: 9780715655184
Publisher: Duckworth Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 February 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Duckworth
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Carmel Mc Mahon grew up in County Meath, and lived in New York City 1993–2021, when she returned to Ireland’s west coast. A graduate of CUNY, her writing has been published in the Irish Times and shortlisted for the Hennessy Literary Award.
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