Product details
- ISBN 9780715655184
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2024
- Publisher: Duckworth Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying two suitcases and a ton of unseen baggage. It took years, and a bitter struggle with alcohol addiction, to unpick the intricate traumas of her past and present.
Candid yet lyrical, In Ordinary Time mines the ways that trauma reverberates through time and through individual lives, drawing connections to the events and rhythms of Ireland’s long Celtic, early Christian and Catholic history. From tragically lost siblings to the broader social scars of the Famine and the Magdalene Laundries, Mc Mahon sketches the evolution of a consciousness – from her conservative 1970s upbringing to 1990s New York, and back to the much-changed Ireland of today.
Carmel Mc Mahon grew up in County Meath, and lived in New York City 1993–2021, when she returned to Ireland’s west coast. A graduate of CUNY, her writing has been published in the Irish Times and shortlisted for the Hennessy Literary Award.
