Ghost Upon Your Path

by John McCarthy

We all have a need to belong, to have a place and people we feel tied our family, our house, our hometown, our nation. Ever since he first visited Ireland with his family twenty years ago, John McCarthy has felt a strong affinity with its people and landscape. Yet in spite of his Irish name, he never thought of himself as remotely Irish.

When McCarthy sets up home in a wild and isolated corner of County Kerry where his ancestors were living a thousand years before, he realises that he is about to undertake not only a journey into that small rural community but also into his own history and his family. What he discovers there reveals a curious sense of belonging to a place he has never before lived in and peels back the emotional layers of his own fractured past.

Genres: Nonfiction, Travel, Ireland, Memoir

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

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Reviews

[Michele · Rating 2 out of 5]

John McCarthy was a television journalist who was held captive in Beirut for 5 years from 1986- 1991. Upon his return, he journeys to County Kerry in Ireland to seek solace and find out about the land of his ancestors.

[Ellen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I just couldn't get into it. It was not the book.