Simplified Chinese edition of a New York Times bestseller and the Pulitzer Prize-winning book ANGELA'S ASHES: A Memoir (Part 2 of 3) by Frank McCourt.
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 ...
The Irish in Rhode Island: A Historical Appreciation
Rendezvous with the Stars
Born in depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants, Frank McCourt experienced a childhood fraught with poverty and occasional cruelty. McCourt recounts his miserable existence with remarkable exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.
Relive the drama of the Irish in Pennsylvania, from the earliest arrivals to the persistence of Irish culture in the twentieth century.
The story describes the family’s drive to succeed, workaholic parents in good times and sad ones, hard work and risk-taking in the family business, disastrous store fires, political ambitions, unpredictable nor’easters, and the ...
That Most Distressful Nation: The Taming of the American Irish
A note on sources Coming to the study of the Irish in America through Oscar Handlin's Boston's Immigrants : a Study in ... Irish and IrishAmerican writers in their discussions of Irish life on the Pacific coast and in San Francisco in ...
Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Irish, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.
The mutual respect between the Irish and the 116th was certainly founded on their shared bravery and suffering during the campaigns from Fredericksburg to Petersburg, but it no doubt also owed something to the remarkable Irish colonel, St. ...