{"product_id":"9781739353766","title":"Drayhorses","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis third volume of Patricia Craig's trilogy or memoir - following her celebrated Asking for Trouble and A Twisted Root: Ancestral Entanglements in Ireland - takes its title from Louis MacNeice: \"My diehard countrymen like drayhorses\/drag their ruin behind them\". A memoir of her upbringing in Belfast and life in London, from the 1960s onwards - but with scenes from childhood, adolescence, and later. A view of the Troubles from elsewhere but based on a strong familiarity with Belfast attitudes and exigencies. Some dramatic incidents not in the public sphere - for example, the funeral of hunger-striker Joe McDonnell - are included. Much brilliant literary content is covered, as well as personal involvement with some notable Belfast characters, such as Sinn F�in's Rita O'Hare, a close friend from schooldays (though later estranged).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookmonger","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":60214992961870,"sku":"9781739353766","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0874\/5795\/6174\/files\/9781739353766.jpg?v=1784987473","url":"https:\/\/thebookmongerbearsden.co.uk\/products\/9781739353766","provider":"The Bookmonger","version":"1.0","type":"link"}