
Cole Moreton
Author of Hungry for Home: Leaving the Blaskets - A Journey from the Edge of Ireland
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Cole Moreton writes for the Independent on Sunday.
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Hungry for Home: Leaving the Blaskets - A Journey from the Edge of Ireland (2000) 112 copies, 1 review
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An assembly of short well-humored yet thought-provoking essays grouped around three headings: Creation; Fall; and Resurrection
The long-predicted death of the established Church has already happened, argues Moreton. He uncovers the battles, blunders, sex scandals and financial disasters that contributed to it. But this extraordinary story is about ALL of us, not just Christians. Can a new national identity emerge, now that we have a thousand gods instead of only one? Moreton believes we can. show more From the miner's strike to the climate camp, from Hillsborough to the funeral of Jade Goody, he reveals how a continually evolving but uniquely English spirituality remains at the heart of who we are. show less
The long-predicted death of the established Church has already happened, argues Moreton. He uncovers the battles, blunders, sex scandals and financial disasters that contributed to it. But this extraordinary story is about ALL of us, not just Christians. Can a new national identity emerge, now that we have a thousand gods instead of only one? Moreton believes we can. show more From the miner's strike to the climate camp, from Hillsborough to the funeral of Jade Goody, he reveals how a continually evolving but uniquely English spirituality remains at the heart of who we are. show less
A book about HOME; what it means, a voyage to America from the edge of Ireland, gripping account of a vanished people; most of all about the Kearney's... breathtaking journey from one way of life to another. Author is neither Irish nor American, born in East London 1967.
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