Learning to be Irish

<p><strong><em>Learning to be Irish</em></strong> showcases the best new and collected writings of a child of Irish migrants. Raised in Surrey in the 1960s and '70s 'the filling in the sandwich' of a family of five children <strong>Maria C. McCarthy</strong> dances to Irish showbands learns rebel songs at an uncle's knee hears home truths half-truths and white lies from the women that gather in her mother's kitchen and learns to be English after the IRA bombs two pubs in Guildford. <strong><em>Learning to be Irish</em></strong> is a search for identity a chronicle of a lost generation and a yearning for truths that may never be known.</p>