Daniels & O'Keefe
The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings by Thomas Maier.
Just when you thought there was no way to write about the Kennedys from a new angle, Maier comes up with one. His take is to view the family through the green prism of Ireland and, by extension, to examine their relationship to the Roman Catholic Church. This makes for surprisingly fresh reading.
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Irish America : Coming into Clover by Maureen Dezell.Reviewer comments: Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and No Ordinary Time: "This is truly a wonderful book..." Peter Quinn ,Author of Banished Children of Eve: "Maureen Dezell is an unrepentant truth teller..." Nuala O'Faolain, author of Are You Somebody?: "...Maureen Dezell joins the ranks of the Irish American woman journalists who are as smart as they are charming..." |
From the Sin-E Cafe to the Black Hills : Notes on the New Irish
by Eamonn Wall
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Irish Rebel : John Devoy and America's Fight for Ireland's Freedom by Terry Golway.
In 1871, John Devoy, a young Irishman fighting for Irish independence, came to the United States in exile. Yet even while across the ocean, the Fenian greatly influenced Irish affairs.
Terry Golway's suspenseful and assiduously researched biography of Devoy chronicles a lifetime of activism in which he garnered tremendous financial and moral support for the cause in Ireland. Devoy was instrumental in both the Easter Rising of 1916 and the creation of the Irish Free State.
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The Irish in America
by Michael Coffey (Editor), Terry Golway (Editor)
A beautiful coffee table sized companion volume to the PBS series
Long Journey Home: The Irish in America. Filled with hundreds of photographs and illustrations. Contibutions by such well known writers as Frank McCourt, Pete Hamill, Maeve Binchy, Peter Quinn and more.
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Talking Irish : The Oral History of Notre Dame Football By Steve Delsohn. The stories in TALKING IRISH come straight from the Notre Dame players and coaches who lived with them. Their reminiscences will spark laughter and tears, raise tempers and stir cherished memories. Filled with
never-before-told anecdotes, here is the rollicking story of Notre Dame football.
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The Irish in Philadelphia: Ten Generations of Urban Experience by Dennis Clark. " A fund of good stories and some interesting conclusions on the extraordinarily adept transition managed by an essentially rural people into a rough and bustling urban environment in the mid-nineteenth century" - Philadelphia Inquirer |
Cabbage and Bones : An Anthology of Irish American Women's Fiction by Caledonia Kearns (Editor). A groundbreaking collection that confirms the contribution Irish-American women have made to literature in this century. Organized chronologically from writings at the turn of the century to the present day, these 25 pieces explore the sometimes crushing love of family, the mixed blessing of faith,
identity and sexuality, and serve to resurrect the image, once buried of Irish women as storytellers .
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The New Irish Americans by Ray O`Hanlon. The Boston Globe, Kevin Cullen :" There have been few voices as perceptive in chronicling ... the changes among Irish-Americans as Ray O'Hanlon...." |
The Irish Catholic Diaspora in America
by Lawrence J. McCaffrey . Published originally in 1976, it won rave reviews and quickly became the standard college and university text on the Irish-American experience. Named the
"best short history of the Irish in America" by Andrew M. Greeley in a New York Times review, McCaffrey's work traced the experience of Irish-American Catholics from their beginnings as detested, unskilled pioneers of the urban ghetto to their rise as an essentially affluent, powerful,
middle-class suburban community.
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