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portada Jumping the Border
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2018
Language
English
Pages
206
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9781908420268
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Jumping the Border

Séamas Ó Catháin (Author) · Phaeton Publishing Limited · Paperback

Jumping the Border - Séamas Ó Catháin

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Synopsis "Jumping the Border "

Séamas Ó Catháin was born in Tyrone in 1942 to a family of Catholic business people and farmers. His home town of Drumquin was ‘a stone’s throw’ from the border that separates the Republic of Ireland from the Six Counties of Northern Ireland. This book is an engaging, often eye-opening, account of his experience – as a child and as a young man – in three distinctive cultures, now radically changed.He describes the Tyrone of the 1940s and 1950s where Protestant and Catholic neighbours shared their lives at a personal level, but where institutions were divisive. His father’s prosperous business was ruined be­cause of a political event he supported.  The schools and the curriculum were dividers of the two communities. The border was a nuisance to everyone.As a post-graduate student in the 1960s, he took up residence in the Donegal Gaeltacht of Na Cruacha, where ‘real old Irish’ was still spoken. He carried out a study of the place­names of Na Cruacha, recording the area’s distinctive music and speech.Shortly afterwards his research took him to the far north of Europe, to Sápmi (an area extending over parts of four countries, and generally known as Lapland). There he immersed himself in the culture and language of the Sámi people, at a time when their native language and customs were belittled and under threat.

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