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Sorry For Your Troubles

Sorry For Your Troubles

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Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich
ISBN: 9781848254626
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 26/07/2013
Width: 12.6 cm
Height: 198 cm

One of the most engaging voices contemporary spirituality in is that of the Irish poet, Padraig O'Tuama. This second poetry collection arises out of a decade of his hearing stories of people who have lived through personal and political conflict in Northern Ireland, the Middle East and other places of conflict.

These poems tell stories of individuals who have lived through conflict: their loves and losses, their hope and generosity. One poem, 'Shaking hands' was written when Padraig witnessed the historic handshake between Queen Elizabeth II and Martin McGuinness, who has since used the poem publicly.

The phrase 'Sorry for your troubles' is used all over Ireland. It comes directly from an Irish phrase, yet Irish has no word for 'bereavement' - the word used is 'troibloid'. So the phrase would be better translated 'Sorry for your bereavements'. With this in mind, this new book speaks evocatively about a time when thousands of people lost their lives and many thousands more lived through the searing pain of grief.

Pádraig Ó Tuama

Pádraig Ó Tuama lives in Belfast. He is a popular speaker at Greenbelt, leads an annual retreat on Iona, and tours churches, retreat centres, pubs and literary festivals throughout the UK and in the US and Australia.

 

Read an interview with Pádraig at On Being

 

Pain in a Poem: Pádraig on ABC Radio

'this wonderful book will not raise the dead but [it has] a power far more profound than that...the power to raise the living to the place where life is not experienced as death.' Pete Rollins on Readings From the Book of Exile

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