Ann Marie Hourihane: Sorry for Your Trouble: The Irish Way of Death [2022] paperback ZMUSI together with Joyce

together with Joyce

A Reese Witherspoon and Zoella Book Club Pick

as well as the poignancy

author of Before the Ruins

You can handle it

Ann Marie Hourihane: Sorry for Your Trouble: The Irish Way of Death [2022] paperback ZMUSI together with JoyceThe 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