From the Sin-é Café to the Black Hills
Subtitle: notes on the new Irish
By: Eamonn Wall.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Wall, Eamonn, 1955-; American literature -- Irish American authors -- History and criticism.; American literature -- Ireland -- History and criticism.; Irish Americans -- Intellectual life.; Irish Americans in literature.; Irish Americans -- Biography.; Immigrants in literature.; Ireland -- In literature.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Preface; value: Exile, attitude, and the Sin-é Café: notes on the new Irish; value: The long journey home to Brooklyn: Michael Stephens's Books of the dead; value: Immigration, technology, and sense of place; value: Reading Mary Gordon's Final payments in America; value: Four paintings by Danny Maloney: a short story; value: The search for majestic shades: contemporary American poets migrate to Ireland; value: Helena Mulkerns on the Lower East Side; value: Irish voices, American writing, and green cards; value: Roger Boylan in his own words: Q & A; value: 'Even better than the real thing': Brian Moore's the great Victorian collection; value: How decent people live: Thomas McGonigle's going to Patchogue; value: The Black Hills, the Gorey Road, Eavan Boland's object lessons.