Motherland
Subtitle: writings by Irish American women about mothers and daughters
By: edited and with an introduction by Caledonia Kearns
Edition: 1st Perennial ed.
Publisher: Perennial; Harper Perennial
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780688175863; 9780688165659
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Mothers; American prose literature; Fiction; Motherhood; Women authors; Irish American women; Mothers and daughters; Mother and child; Irish American authors; Women
Description: In Motherland Caledonia Kearns celebrates the diversity and experience of Irish American women and explores the bonds that tie them to their mothers and their homeland. Ireland is the motherland of the Irish diaspora, and a sense of Irish heritage is often passed down from mother to daughter. Written from both perspectives, these twenty-four pieces - many of which have never been published in book form - are a testament to the complexities and blessings of the mother-daughter relationship.
Table of contents: title: "The bonesetter" [1996] / Carolyn Curtin Alessio; title: From Lace curtain [1948] / Ellin Mackay Berlin; title: From Uphill walkers [1999] / Madeline Blais; title: "The eldest child" [1968] / Maeve Brennan; title: From Manhattan, when I was young [1995] / Mary Cantwell; title: From The mermaids singing [1998] / Lisa Carey; title: From What girls learn [1997] / Karin Cook; title: "My mother and politics" [1972] / Mary Doyle Curran; title: "Mother and 'Miss E.'" [1988] / M.F.K. Fisher; title: From The rebel girl [1955] / Elizabeth Gurley Flynn; title: From Wait till next year [1997] / Doris Kearns Goodwin; title: "My mother is speaking from the desert" from Shadow man [1996] / Mary Gordon; title: From The autobiography of Mother Jones [1925] / Mary Harris "Mother" Jones; title: "Trinity" [1999] / Kerry Herlihy; title: "Charting life with a daughter" [1977] / Maureen Howard; title: "Motherlove" [1999] / Caledonia Kearns; title: "The child as houseguest" [1978] / Jean Kerr; title: From A likely story : one summer with Lillian Hellman [1998] / Rosemary Mahoney; title: From Chasing grace : reflections of a Catholic girl, grown up [1996] / Martha Manning; title: "Wildflowers" from Monkeys [1986] / Susan Minot; title: "The vocabulary of absence" [1999] / Helena Mulkerns; title: "In the beginning" from Living out loud [1988] / Anna Quindlen; title: "The need to feed" [1997] / Carolyn Ramsay; title: "The goal" from The new motherhood [1922] / Margaret Higgins Sanger.