This collection of short memoirs and critical essays explores the relation between home as metaphor and symbol, and home as a physical, material and spatial entity. In the first section, 'Our house, ' Colette Bryce, Eil an N Chuillean in, Theo Dorgan, Mary Morrissy and Macdara Woods remember houses from their childhoods and show, in Ni Chuilleanain's words, how the house is a 'way of understanding the world, its differences and boundaries.' In the second section, entitled 'Their house, ' Angela Bourke, Nicholas Grene, Adam Hanna, Howard Keeley, Lucy McDiarmid and Maureen O'Connor look at...
This collection of short memoirs and critical essays explores the relation between home as metaphor and symbol, and home as a physical, material and s...