A Ghost Upon Your Path: An Irish Journey (Signed)

First edition, first impression.  310pp. Signed by the author, John McCarthy, in black ink on the title pate.  Black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine.  Blue endpapers.  8vo.  Toning to text block edges and page margins.  Gift inscription neatly inked on the front free endpaper else internally neat, clean and tight.  In its original illustrated dust wrapper, price clipped, a little bumped and rubbed at the extreme edges, signed copy sticker on front panel.

John McCarthy looks back at Ireland’s turbulent past, reflecting on how this past shaped and nurtured his own family roots, and often finds his thoughts and reflections, filtered through the notional homeland of Ireland and its past, turn to his own ghosts and particularly the death of his mother while he was held hostage in captivity in Lebanon, sharing a cell with Irish hostage Brain Keenan for several years.