A Twisted Root: Ancestral Entanglements in Ireland

Biography & Memoir, Literary, Nonfiction, History
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Author: Patricia Craig ISBN: 9780856400841
Publisher: Blackstaff Press Ltd Publication: October 5, 2012
Imprint: Blackstaff Press Language: English
Author: Patricia Craig
ISBN: 9780856400841
Publisher: Blackstaff Press Ltd
Publication: October 5, 2012
Imprint: Blackstaff Press
Language: English

A beautifully written Irish memoir about an extraordinary family.

From the author’s great-grandmother Katherine Rose, who made her way from Stratford-upon-Avon to Lisburn as part of the Plantation of Ulster, and her forebear William Blacker, who founded the Orange Order, to her great-uncles Frank, Matt, Gerry and Jimmy Tipping, who were all active in nationalism in the 1920s, this astonishing cast of characters brings Irish history to life.

‘My direct and indirect forebears are a wonderfully heterogenous lot – down and up the social scale (mostly down), in and out of church and chapel, Lurgan Papes and Wexford Prods, hanged and hangmen, street-brawlers and scholars, full-blown Orangemen and republican activists.’

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A beautifully written Irish memoir about an extraordinary family.

From the author’s great-grandmother Katherine Rose, who made her way from Stratford-upon-Avon to Lisburn as part of the Plantation of Ulster, and her forebear William Blacker, who founded the Orange Order, to her great-uncles Frank, Matt, Gerry and Jimmy Tipping, who were all active in nationalism in the 1920s, this astonishing cast of characters brings Irish history to life.

‘My direct and indirect forebears are a wonderfully heterogenous lot – down and up the social scale (mostly down), in and out of church and chapel, Lurgan Papes and Wexford Prods, hanged and hangmen, street-brawlers and scholars, full-blown Orangemen and republican activists.’

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