Sorry for Your Trouble : The Irish Way of Death by Ann Marie Hourihane

Sorry for Your Trouble : The Irish Way of Death by Ann Marie HourihaneThe Irish do death differently. Funeral attendance is a solemn duty but it can also be a big day out, requiring sophisticated crowd control, creative parking solutions and a high end sound system. Despite having the same basic end of life infrastructure as other Western countries, Irish culture handles death with a unique blend of dignified ritual and warm sociability. In Sorry for Your Trouble, Ann Marie Hourihane holds up a mirror to the Irish way

Despite having the same basic end-of-life infrastructure as other Western countries

"Songs can be incredibly prophetic

In Our Bodies

Clem's sister

and elsewhere

the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation

'Men Who Hate Women has the power to spark social change

Taking an inclusive global outlook on the subject

A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time

disappear and reappear

he also examines the remarkable intelligence network of which it formed a part

which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Deirdre to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir