Looking for Jimmy : : A Search For Irish America / / Peter Quinn.
In this stunning work chronicling the author’s exploration of his own past—and the lives of many hundreds of thousands of nameless immigrants who struggled alongside his own ancestors—Peter Quinn paints a brilliant new portrait of the Irish-American men and women whose evolving culture and values co...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- I. FAMILY AND MEMORY
- Looking for Jimmy
- In Search of the Banished Children
- The Skillins
- The Perils of Pat
- Stones of Memory
- II. POLITICS & PLACE
- Plunkitt of Tammany
- Local Politics, Irish-American Style
- Life of the Party
- Civil Service
- The Bronx is Burning
- Cast a Cold Eye: William Kennedy's Albany
- III. FAITH AND IMAGINATION
- Confessions of a Bronx Irish-Catholic
- Sic Transit
- The Catholic Imagination
- Holy Orders
- City of God, City of Man
- IV. SILENCE AND HISTORY
- The Triumph of Bridget Such-a-One
- An Interpretation of Silences
- Closets Full of Bones
- Lost and Found
- A Famine Remembrance
- CONCLUSION
- Irish America at the Millennium: How the Irish Stayed Irish