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reviewed Unsettled by Rosaleen McDonagh

Rosaleen McDonagh: Unsettled (Paperback, english language, 2021, Skein Press) 4 stars

From sleeve: "Rosaleen McDonagh writes fearlessly about a diverse experience of being Irish. Unsettled explores …

Unsettling

4 stars

Unsettled is a touching, unsettling, heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful memoir by a human who is thrice marginalised. Writer and academic Rosaleen McDonagh writes her memoir of life as an Irish Traveller woman with cerebral palsy with charm and humour. It is compelling storytelling throughout and feels like a cathartic chance for McDonagh to present an argument for equality that doesn't exclude. We can only hope.