Traveling to and from Home: an American's Journey Home to Ireland
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From the early 1970s, Thomas Lynch began to get in touch with the tribesmen living in Ireland. Over the past thirty-five years, he crossed the Atlantic dozens of times, traveling back and forth between Ireland and the United States. Lynch followed his family's migration trajectory, looking back on its history and stories, examining his own life, and also thinking about issues such as ethnic belonging and identity. In this work that is half memoir and half cultural study, Lynch writes about his great-grandfather who spoke with an Irish accent about the American dream, and his distant relatives who were enemies of the government for land rights in his later years. He also recalled his own struggle with alcoholism, his former feminist life, and his bittersweet marriage... The character of his writing always hovers between the dual identities of undertaker and poet. His writing style is light and humorous, and is always full of profound philosophical thinking.
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