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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a family of silence. His mother and father often sat in the same room but exchanged no words. He and his siblings learned, without being told, that certain thoughts and feelings were not to be shared. On the evenings his father didn't come home, the rest of the family would eat dinner without him, his whereabouts unknown, his absence pronounced but unspoken. And on a cold night just before Christmas...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of five generations of the Kennedy dynasty explains how their Irish Catholic roots informed their lives and political beliefs, and reveals how the immigrant experience shaped both their remarkable success and many tragedies.
Author
Publisher
Catholic University of America Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A family of his own covers Edwin O'Connor's comfortable upbringing in Rhode Island, his formation at Notre Dame, his obscure years in radio and the Coast Guard during World War II, his adoption of Boston, his long association with his publishers at "Atlantic Monthly" and Little, Brown and Company, his toil in journalism and television reviewing, his several sojourns in Ireland, and his extraordinary dedication to his craft while living close to poverty....
Author
Publisher
Familius LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Using his own personal history, and telling a few of the stories that audiences across the nation have found captivating, award-winning bilingual children's author and storyteller Antonio Sacre weaves the Spanish language, Cuban and Mexican customs, and Irish humor into a memoir that is a unique blend of inspiration, tradition, and family.
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Exploring the themes of family love, loss, and national identity, the author describes his journey to Ireland to reconnect with his Irish identity, rediscover his parents' past, and define its links to his future.
In a moving, uproarious, and uniquely entertaining memoir, popular essayist Frank Gannon combines acerbic wit, personal revelation, and ten thousand years of history in a trans-Atlantic quest to discover what it is to be an Irish American...
Author
Publisher
Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"National Review senior writer Michael Brendan Dougherty delivers a mediation on belonging, fatherhood, and nationalism, through a series of letters to his estranged Irish father. The child of an Irish man and an Irish-American woman who split up soon after he was born, Michael Brendan Dougherty grew up with an acute sense of absence. He loved his mother but longed for his father, who only occasionally returned from Ireland for visits. He was happy...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"Alfred E. Smith lost the 1928 presidential election by a landslide. Herbert Hoover and the Republicans sailed into office on a wave of prosperity, the promise of a chicken in every pot, and the support of the Ku Klux Klan. In retrospect, it may seem that the brash Catholic anti-prohibitionist from New York's Lower East Side never stood a chance, but at the time, millions of Catholics and Jews rallied behind the "Happy Warrior" in the belief that...
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