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The Light of Ordinary Days: An Irish American Journey of Healing and Homeland
Paperback
Biographies GeneralIrish History
Publisher Price: $20.95
ISBN13: 9781967510467
Publisher: GFB
Published: Aug 11 2026
Pages: 338
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Featured in the Santa Cruz Sentinel
A deeply moving memoir of healing and ancestral reconnection, weaving an intimate personal story with the epic history of Ireland.
In 2013, exactly a century after her grandparents emigrated from Ireland to America, Carolyn Brigit Flynn returned to her ancestral homeland in the wake of a family tragedy. Raised in a boisterous Irish Catholic family in 1970s Washington, DC, Flynn grew up amid traditional music, stories, and blarney-but also with silence about the poverty and hardship her grandparents left behind. Her charismatic father bore his own wounds and shunned her when she fell in love with another girl in high school.
In her thirties, Flynn realized she could not build an authentic life until she reckoned with the Irish ghosts she felt coursing through her blood. Her journey took her from the sacred stones of Newgrange to a windswept Irish island where she lived alone for a month. In the coming years, she braided her own experience of trauma and healing with the deeper thread of Ireland's history of colonization, ancient spirituality, and profound resilience. At once intimate and expansive, Flynn's memoir is both a personal love letter and a historical excavation. Ultimately, The Light of Ordinary Days invites readers to consider how we reassemble ourselves after tragedy-how we make a true home, across the sea or within the soul, by honoring the places and people who came before.
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