Looking Back: From Famine to Wall Street

ISBN-10
0996331182
ISBN-13
9780996331180
Series
Looking Back
Language
English
Published
2015-07-04
Author
Metwally

Description

memories from life in Torrington, CT, through college and including the fourteen years she spent in NYC working in the financial district as a female in a male dominated world. It also includes her research into her ancestry and the role that the potato famine in Ireland played on those relatives that came before her and as a result on her destiny.

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