Wherever Green Is Worn. The Story Of The Irish Diaspora

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: ARROW
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2002
Edition: Reprint

Description: 746 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A journey into our own psyche... Tim Pat Coogan has dug, Heaney-like, into the past while opening doors to faraway places. Frank McCourtFar more Irishmen live outside Ireland than within it. This fascinating study, by Irelands best known and most controversial contemporary historian, reveals why this is, how it has come about and what the realities are today - political, economic, religious and cultural - for the populations of the Irish Diaspora and the countries they now inhabit. Based on first-hand research in America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and throughout Europe (including, of course, the UK), this book reveals the workings of Irish communities throughout the world, some with great political and economic power (such as in the US, where the Irish political tradition has dominated politics from the 19th century Tammany Hall to presidents Kennedy and Clinton), some with enormous moral authority (including Irish religious communities in Africa) and others living in poverty on the fringes of society.

ISBN: 9780099958505