ISBN: 9781741668322
Blackgum Item Code: RH47
Title: Many Coloured Land
Author: Christopher Koch
Imprint: Random House
RRP: $19.95
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When Christopher Koch sets out on a journey through Ireland with his friend the folksinger Brian Mooney, each is seeking an aspect of the past. Mooney is returning to a country where he spent much of his adult life, while two of Koch's great-grandmothers came from Ireland to Van Diemen's Land: one of them a convict, whose turbulent story begins this account. Koch is looking for traces of the mid-19th century: the time of the Famine, which flung the ancestors of so many Irish-Australians across the globe.