{"product_id":"9780856400841","title":"A Twisted Root: Ancestral Entanglements in Ireland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautifully written Irish memoir about an extraordinary family.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author’s great-grandmother Katherine Rose, who made her way from Stratford-upon-Avon to Lisburn as part of the Plantation of Ulster, and her forebear William Blacker, who founded the Orange Order, to her great-uncles Frank, Matt, Gerry and Jimmy Tipping, who were all active in nationalism in the 1920s, this astonishing cast of characters brings Irish history to life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘My direct and indirect forebears are a wonderfully heterogenous lot – down and up the social scale (mostly down), in and out of church and chapel, Lurgan Papes and Wexford Prods, hanged and hangmen, street-brawlers and scholars, full-blown Orangemen and republican activists.’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstaff Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124995866864,"sku":"9780856400841","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780856400841_p0.jpg?v=1763757333","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780856400841","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}