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Booking passage: we Irish & Americans

By Thomas , Lynch

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN
0393042065
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2305861 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
xliv, 296 pages : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1948- -- Travel -- Ireland;Clare (Ireland) -- S-- 1948-;Ireland;Ireland -- ClareAmericans;Americans--Ireland;Emigration and immigrThomas

Description

Traces the author's numerous visits to the Irish community where his grandfather lived one hundred years before, describing his relationships with local residents and how the town and its people reflect the larger outside world.;Prologue: Fit & start -- Introduction: The ethnography of everyday life -- The brother -- The same but different -- Inheritance : a correspondence with Sile de Valera -- Death comes to the young curate : a pilgrim's story -- Bits & pieces -- Great hatred, little room -- The sisters Godhelpus -- Odds & ends -- On some verses by Irish & other poets.

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