- Hardcover: 512 pages
- Publisher: Hutchinson; First Edition edition (7 Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0091750296
- ISBN-13: 978-0091750299
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 16.5 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 533,776 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A journey into our own psyche.... Tim Pat Coogan has dug, Heaney-like, into the past while opening doors to faraway places." - Frank McCourt
"Tim Pat Coogan manages to find "the story" in almost every country he has visited. This volume will stand as a challenging and controversial work..." - Dermot Keogh, "The Irish Times" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"Tim Pat Coogan manages to find "the story" in almost every country he has visited. This volume will stand as a challenging and controversial work..." - Dermot Keogh, "The Irish Times" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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'...long-awaited account of the Irish Diaspora is the most far-reaching and comprehensive study of that phenomenon ever written.’
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's English, but sure don't be lettin that bother ya,
By A Customer
This review is from: Wherever Green is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora (Paperback)
One of the most amusing moments in this book is where the author is asked for some of his books by someone wanting to find out about Irish history, only to reject them as "propaganda" when he finds out they are published in Britain.It's a worry he needn't have had, as this is a wonderfully fair-minded and even-handed account of the Irish diaspora, filled with charming anecdotes like the one above. The author sets himself a monumental task; like a coffin-ship captain during the famine, he has to decide who to leave in and who to leave out, sometimes this results in biblical lists of people who are household names only in their own communities, which is the books biggest weakness. This is an optimistic books with a positive outlook on the future of the Irish diaspora and of Irish relations with Britain. Though the author's colours are nailed firmly to the nationalist mast and he reminds us more often than is necessacary what a bogus, vapid ideology "loyalism" is, he recognises the complexities of Anglo-Irish relations and their long, tangled history. Ranging in scope from Patagonia to Japan and from the era of medieval monks to that of the World Wide Web, this is a major, impressive, necessacary work.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Freeloading my way around the world,
By PygmyTwylyte (Citizen of the world) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora (Paperback)
After reading another description of another dinner or banquet given for Coogan by the exile great and good,you end up thinking,"You tight old sod,why don't you ever buy a meal for youself?"
This book is in some ways the worst of Coogan-his kneejerk assumption the Catholics are the goodies and Protestants are baddies-and the cringe-inducing sentimentalism-as someone once put it "Irish with a capital 'O'".It's unfair to criticise Coogan for not seeing into the future,but the right royal screwing the ECB and IMF have given to Ireland since November 2010 shows the reality of Coogan;s faith in Ireland's real influence in the EU and amongst it's movers and shakers,and also what those movers and shakers really think of Ireland.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
5 for effort, 1 for execution,
By A Customer
This review is from: Wherever Green is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora (Paperback)
TPC has obviously spent a lot of time researching for this project, and in this respect it is a valuable source for scholars. However, I have some major caveats. His prose is cliched, turgid and over-floral - he constantly refers to himself and how he was wined and dined by the great and the good around the world. No stereotype is left unturned with endless reminders of what a funny, jolly people the Irish are (I'm half Irish myself and I'm not funny) and ceaseless references to drinking and how much the Irish like a pint of Guinness. His reference to the victims of the Birmingham bombings as "innocent civilians" is quite galling too, as if to infer that some civilians are guilty. I fear this is designed for the Irish-American audience who want to hear how great they are and find it difficult to deal with the more difficult aspects of Irish society (ie racism, terrorism). It might have been a good book at half the length and more attention paid by the editor. Sorry if this sounds cruel, but I bought two copies of this and I wish I hadn't. Carlos Quinn, London
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