The Laughter of Mothers Book Reviews

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Paul Durcan
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The Laughter of Mothers by Paul Durcan Book Summary

'Thank you, O golden mother, / For giving me a life,' says Paul Durcan in this brilliant new collection, a poignant tribute to 'the first woman I ever knew'. Sheila MacBride came from a political family – her uncle John MacBride was executed in 1916 for his part in the Easter Uprising – but when Sheila married into the 'black, red-roaring, fighting Durcans of Mayo' she was obliged to give up a promising legal career. These poems commemorate his mother as Paul Durcan remembers her playing golf, reading Tolstoy, and initiating him in the magic of the cinema. He recalls her compassion and loyalty when he was committed to a mental hospital in adolescence and how she endured the ordeal of her old age.

Durcan also muses upon the beauty of Greek women and questions our need for newspapers and the new religion of golf. He is beguiled by a beggar woman, enraged by a young man picking his nose on the Dublin–Sligo commuter train, and gets into difficulty at the security gate of Dublin airport.

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Book Name The Laughter of Mothers
Genre Literary Criticism
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Language English
E-Book Size 445.01 KB

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The The Laughter of Mothers book written by Paul Durcan was published on 18 January 2011, Tuesday in the Literary Criticism category. A total of 68 readers of the book gave the book 0 points out of 5.

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