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Booking Passage: We Irish & Americans

In February of 1970, Thomas Lynch, aged twenty-one, bought a one-way ticket to Ireland. He landed in the townland of Moveen, at the edge of the ocean in West Clare, outside the thatched cottage that his great-grandfather had left late in the nineteenth century with a one-way ticket to America. Tommy and Nora Lynch, Thomas Lynch`s elderly, unmarried, distant cousins welcomed the young American `home`. In the words of the author, `it changed my life`. Booking Passage is part travelogue, part cultural study, part memoir and elegy, part guidebook for what Lynch calls `fellow pilgrims` working their way through their own and the larger histories. It is a magnificent hymn of praise to Ireland.

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