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Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion
by Michael Patrick MacDonald  Publisher Comments In All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Irish South Boston. In Easter Rising he tells the story of how he got out. Desperate to avoid the normal life of...
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
by Michael P Macdonald 
Publisher Comments Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in "the best place in the world" — the Old Colony projects of South Boston — where 85 percent of the residents collect welfare in an area with the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the U.S. In All...
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Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans
by Thomas Lynch Publisher Comments Traces the author's numerous visits to the Ireland community where his grandfather lived one hundred years before, describing his relationships with local farmers, writers, clergypeople, and others and his observations on how the town and its people...
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
by Michael Patrick MacDonald Publisher Comments Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in "the best place in the world" — the Old Colony projects of South Boston — where 85 percent of the residents collect welfare in an area with the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the U.S. In All...
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Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish-America
by Tom Hayden Publisher Comments Tom Hayden first realized he was "Irish on the inside" when he heard civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland singing "We Shall Overcome" in 1969. Though his great-grandparents had been forced to emigrate to the US in the 1850s, Hayden?s parents erased...
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Mysteries of My Father
by Thomas J Fleming Publisher Comments Did Thomas Fleming’ s father love him? And did he love his father? These are central mysteries of this story about his father. An Irish-American coming of age story, the memoir will show what Teddy Fleming had to do to make himself a...
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Far from the Shamrock Shore: The Story of Irish-Immigration Through Song
by Mick Maloney Synopsis The nation's leading authority on Irish folk music presents a passionately written, beautifully illustrated history of Irish immigrants in America, accompanied by an 18-song CD....
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Irish Heroes & Heroines of America: 150 True Stories of Irish American Heroism
by John Bartimole Synopsis For centuries, Irish Americans have been making an invaluable contribution to American culture. Now, here are the fascinating stories of 150 men and women who have indelibly changed the face of the country. From presidents (John F. Kennedy) to movie...
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Motherland: Writings by Irish American Women about Mothers and Daughters
by Caledonia Kearns Publisher Comments The BonesetterCarolyn Curtin Alessio Until I was twelve, I considered my mother an ethnic renegade. She'd repudiated her Irish-immigrant parents in a single, flagrant act, by marrying a young engineer by the name of Sergio Antonio Alessio. My pride in my...
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Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America
by Peter Quinn Synopsis In this remarkable collection of writings chronicling the author's exploration of his own past, Quinn paints a brilliant new portrait of the Irish-American men and women whose culture and values now play such a central role in all of our identities as...
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Booking Passage: We Irish & Americans
by Thomas Lynch Publisher Comments So, Tom That Went and Tom that would come back! is how Nora Lynch greeted the young American Thomas Lynch in 1970, at the edge of the ocean in West Clare, outside the cottage that his great-grandfather--another Thomas Lynch--had left nearly a century...
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The Boston Irish: A Political History
by Thomas H Oconnor Synopsis According to Thomas O'Connor, Irish political dominance in Boston grew out of generations of bitter and unyielding conflict between Yankees and Irish Catholic immigrants. Unlike the Irish in other American cities, the settlers in Boston encountered a...
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Uphill Walkers : Portrait of a Family (01 Edition)
by Blais
Publisher Comments In 1952, Madeleine Blais's father died suddenly, leaving his pregnant wife and their five young children to face their future alone. Uphill Walkers is the story of how the Blais family pulled together to survive and ultimately thrive in an era when a...
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Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under
by Michael P Macdonald
Publisher Comments A powerfully redemptive story of escape from the Irish American ghetto. Michael Patrick MacDonald's All Souls: A Family Story from Southie told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Boston's Irish...
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Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States
by J J Lee Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction. This lavish compendium looks at the Irish and America from a variety of perspectives. — USA Today For anyone with the slightest interest in the history of Irish immigrants in America, Lee and Casey...
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Making the Irish American: History & Heritage of the Irish in the United States
by J. J. Lee Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction. This lavish compendium looks at the Irish and America from a variety of perspectives. — USA Today For anyone with the slightest interest in the history of Irish immigrants in America, Lee and Casey...
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Irish America: Coming Into Clover
by Maureen Dezell Publisher Comments A dazzling and bracingly honest look at a great people in a great land. For many people in this country, Irish American culture conjures up thoughts of raucous pubs, St. Patrick's Day parades, memoirs peopled with an array of saints and sinners, and such...
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Out of Ireland :the story of Irish emigration to America
by Kerby Miller Publisher Comments Out of Ireland, a remarkable collaboration between Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Wagner and prominent historian Kerby Miller, explores the history of Irish emigration between 1841 and 1926, when 7 million people fled Ireland to come to the United...
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The Irish American Family Album (American Family Albums)
by Dorothy Hoobler Publisher Comments Erin go bragh. Ireland forever. The popular Celtic saying is heard in the United States from New York to San Francisco because there are more than 39 million Americans who list their ancestry as Irish. Nearly 800,000 Irish arrived here between 1841 and...
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A Celtic Childhood
by Bill Watkins Publisher Comments The first book in a trilogy, A Celtic Childhoodoffers a collection of colorful characters and humorous memories spanning Watkins's boyhood years. Whether saving his elementary school Christmas pageant from utter disaster when a fire breaks out on stage...
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