Going to My Father's House: A History of My Times

by Patrick Joyce

A historian's personal journey into the complex questions of immigration, home and nation

From Ireland to London in the 1950s, Derry in the Troubles to contemporary, de-industrialised Manchester, Joyce finds the ties of place, family and the past are difficult to break. Why do certain places continue to haunt us? What does it mean to be British after the suffering of Empire and of war? How do we make our home in a hypermobile world without...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839763248
• ISBN13: 9781839763243
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"