Sorry for Your Trouble

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781844885244 Author(s): Ann Marie Hourihane Format: Paperback Illustrator: Yancey Labat Year: 2022 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Pages: 288

Description: Inside the intimate rituals of death in IrelandThe Irish do death differently. Funeral attendance is a solemn duty - but it can also be a social highlight, requiring sophisticated crowd control, creative parking solutions and a high-end sound system. In Sorry for Your Trouble, Ann Marie Hourihane holds up a mirror to the Irish way of death- the funny bits, the sad bits, and the hard-to-explain bits that tell us so much about who we are.She follows the last weeks of a woman's life in hospice; she witnesses an embalming; she attends inquests; and she goes to funerals, of ordinary and extraordinary people all over the country - including that of her own father during a global pandemic. Shedding fresh, wise and witty light on a key pillar of Irish culture, it is one of the best books ever written about Irish life.

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