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We’ve loved exploring all the literary sights that Dublin has to offer & spotting a few #FeaturedFive recs along the way. It seems appropriate to shine a light on #InOrdinaryTime while we’re here…
Quietly devastating & beautifully written. Head to Opt Indie to find out more!
Thanks a million @AliceEKinsella & @carmel_mc_mahon for for reading from & discussing their beautiful books #Milk & #inordinarytime @thedockarts as part of @BealtaineFest
Tune in to @BBCRadio3 @BBCFreeThinking to hear hidden histories and secret stories from Ireland with #InOrdinaryTime author @carmel_mc_mahon 🇮🇪
A great line up also includes poet @Maj_Kelly, historian Jackie Uí Chionna and criminologist @Louise_Brangan.
📻 Wed 26 Apr, 22:00
☘️Happy St Patrick's Day from Duckworth!☘️
Tune in to @TimesRadio this evening at 7pm to listen to @carmel_mc_mahon chat with @edvaizey about her debut memoir #InOrdinaryTime
#StPatricksDay2023 #stpaddysday
A stunning memoir for #InternationalWomensDay and every day #InOrdinaryTime by #CarmelMcMahon is out with @Duckbooks now 💚📚📚 https://t.co/uW7yaE6JcC
This is the kind of book I show up to publishing for and I’m so glad @GuardianBooks love it as much as everyone at @Duckbooks.
If you fancy a reading by the author, #InOrdinaryTime is available on @Damian_Barr’s #BookOfTheWeek podcast.
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In Ordinary Time by Carmel McMahon– such a perceptive and thoughtful review ‘this deftly woven meditation on memory, grief, addiction, family, exile and cultural belonging’ @Duckbooks @rowancope @Matt_Casbourne https://t.co/km2FtcY4YD
This week, #InOrdinaryTime by @carmel_mc_mahon is the book of the week on Damian Barr's Literary Salon Podcast🎙️📚
If you'd like to hear a short reading from Carmel's stunning debut memoir, listen here👂⬇️
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Please welcome debut author @carmel_mc_mahon to @Damian_Barr's #LitSalon podcast! We'll be featuring a reading from the critically acclaimed memoir #InOrdinaryTime (@Duckbooks) on Wednesday. In the meantime, discover the books that inspired the author:
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‘I felt the physical charge of traumas like the deaths of my siblings, my alcoholism’ by @carmel_mc_mahon author of #inordinarytime @Duckbooks
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On time:
Henri Bergson was right. Any measure of time, no matter how you slice it, nanoseconds, days, light years, is always interconnected and always flowing.
#InOrdinaryTime
11/11🧵
On ancestral trauma:
What irked me was unconscious and increasingly agitated. In his late years, Carl Jung came to the conclusion that some personal disturbances may be attributed to unresolved ancestral issues.
#InOrdinaryTime
10/11🧵
On trauma:
Even now, certain combinations of light and air on June days sink me. The body remembers what the mind cannot. Sometimes I can smell the sadness coming. Sometimes it is triggered suddenly, in surprising and unrelated ways.
#InOrdinaryTime
9/11🧵
On Grief:
Grief changes time. You no longer roll along. You wobble and stubble, you stall and stagger. You stand still and watch as everything else rushes past.
#InOrdinaryTime
8/11🧵
On my burgeoning relationship with alcohol:
My reticence with alcohol stemmed from a strong sense that if I were to let go, even a little, it would take me, and it would take me to a place from which I might not easily return.
#InOrdinaryTime
7/11🧵
On my mother’s family in Dublin in the 80s:
When my grandparents were born, Ireland was still colonially tied to England. Nanny grew up on Kevin Street in the Liberties when it was the biggest slum in Europe.
#InOrdinaryTime
6/11🧵
On the memory of visiting my sibling's grave as a child:
Wait. I am here again. The memory accessed over and over. I add to it. I take away. The magpies and the crows. My father’s exact wording. Impossible to remember the details with any such certainty.
#InOrdinaryTime
5/11🧵
On visiting my grandparents in the Dublin of the 1980s:
The street smelled of boiled onions and marrowfat peas. Paisley pajamas and piss-stained long joins flapped along the clotheslines the criss-crossed the gardens at the back of the terraced houses.
#InOrdinaryTime
4/11🧵
On St. Brigid and the Goddess Brigid:
Like many early Irish saints, St. Brigid’s life was written about by the monks of the Middle Ages. They overlaid lives like hers with the myths of pre-Celtic deities, and used them to convert a deeply pagan people.
#InOrdinaryTime
3/11🧵
On my first drunk:
That first-time-feeling had blasted itself onto my subconscious, where it remained fresh and unaltered by time or experience. Where it remains so, even still.
#InOrdinaryTime
2/11🧵
It took years and a bitter struggle with alcohol addiction, for @carmel_mc_mahon to unpick the intricate traumas of her past and present
Below, Carmel has chosen 10 evocative quotes exploring different aspects of her life from #InOrdinaryTime, her debut memoir💚
A thread
1/11🧵
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