Provides information on the history of Ireland and on the customs, language, religion, and experiences of Irish Americans.
Rich in colorful detail, balanced in judgment, and the most comprehensive work of its kind yet published, THE AMERICAN IRISH is a lasting achievement by a master historian that will become a must-have volume for any American with an ...
Timothy J. Meagher. Irish American newspaper editors and their commitment to progressive reform at the turn of the century. Shannon, William. The American Irish. New York: Colliers, 1974. First published in 1963 with a second edition ...
Perhaps the three best Irish historical novels are Thomas Flanagan's Year of the French ( New York , 1972 ) and Tenants ... IRISH AMERICA Among the many interpretations of Irish America are John B. Duff , The Irish in America ( Belmont ...
"Here is a new Clay Sanskrit Library publication of the middle book of Valmiki's Ramayana, the source revered throughout South Asia as the original account of the career of Rama, the ideal man and the incarnation of the great god Vishnu.
lost to Spencer Tracy, who won that year for his Father Flanagan in Boys Town. Cagney and O'Brien took on the roles of sinner and saint two years later in The Fighting 69th, a hokey if wholly likable rendering of the famed Irish ...
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OneandTwo TheAranIslands 100 Irish Lives The Luck of the Irish: Our Life in County Clare HISTORY The Twilight Lords How the Irish Saved Civilization The Troubles Modern Ireland 1600—1972 TheCelts Social Historyof Ancient Ireland ...
Few writers on the Irish in America have looked beyond the nineteenth-century ethnic enclaves of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, or Chicago, or have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be ...
The greatest Irish - American writer , F. Scott Fitzgerald ( 1896–1940 ) , combined a talent for realism with a profound moral vision . Born in St. Paul , Minnesota , and later educated at Princeton ( though he never earned his degree ) ...
Though his great-grandparents had been forced to emigrate to the US in the 1850s, Hayden's parents erased his Irish heritage in the quest for respectability. In this passionate book he explores the losses wrought by such conformism.