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All Souls

Author	: Michael Patrick MacDonald
Publisher	: Beacon Press
Release Date	: 2010-07-28
ISBN 10	: 9780807071984
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (719 users)

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Download or read book All Souls written by Michael Patrick MacDonald and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald's Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger's crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald's Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters like his Ma, a miniskirted, accordion-playing single mother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children. Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community's code of silence, MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty.

Easter Rising

Author	: Michael Patrick MacDonald
Publisher	: HMH
Release Date	: 2015-03-10
ISBN 10	: 9780547527239
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (272 users)

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Download or read book Easter Rising written by Michael Patrick MacDonald and published by HMH. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “alternately funny and heartbreaking” memoir of leaving—and finding—home, by the author of All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Newsweek). In All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Irish South Boston. In Easter Rising, he tells the story of how he got out. Desperate to avoid the “normal” life of Southie, Michael first reinvents himself in the burgeoning punk rock movement and the thrilling vortex of Johnny Rotten, Mission of Burma, and the Clash. At nineteen, he escapes further, to Paris and then London. Finally, out of money, he contacts his Irish immigrant grandfather—who offers a loan, but only if Michael will visit Ireland. It is on this reluctant journey to his ancestral land that Michael will find a chance at reconciliation—with his heritage, his neighborhood, and his family—and, ultimately, a way forward.

The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America

Author	: Ronald Bayor
Publisher	: Columbia University Press
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN 10	: 0231119941
Pages	: 1032 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (41 users)

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Download or read book The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America written by Ronald Bayor and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 240 primary sources, this introduction to a complex topic is a resource for student research.

Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity

Author	: Lauren Onkey
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2011-02-09
ISBN 10	: 9781135165710
Pages	: 245 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (657 users)

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Download or read book Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity written by Lauren Onkey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between the Irish and African-Americans since the mid-nineteenth century in popular culture and literature. Irish writers and political activists have often claimed - and thereby created - a "black" identity to explain their experience with colonialism in Ireland and revere African-Americans as a source of spiritual and sexual vitality. Irish-Americans often resisted this identification so as to make a place for themselves in the U.S. However, their representation of an Irish-American identity pivots on a distinction between Irish-Americans and African-Americans. Lauren Onkey argues that one of the most consistent tropes in the assertion of Irish and Irish-American identity is constructed through or against African-Americans, and she maps that trope in the work of writers Roddy Doyle, James Farrell, Bernard MacLaverty, John Boyle O’Reilly, and Jimmy Breslin; playwright Ned Harrigan; political activists Bernadette Devlin and Tom Hayden; and musicians Van Morrison, U2, and Black 47.

Writing Hard Stories

Author	: Melanie Brooks
Publisher	: Beacon Press
Release Date	: 2017-02-07
ISBN 10	: 9780807078815
Pages	: 226 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (788 users)

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Download or read book Writing Hard Stories written by Melanie Brooks and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the country’s most admired authors—including Andre Dubus III, Mark Doty, Marianne Leone, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Richard Blanco, Abigail Thomas, Kate Bornstein, Jerald Walker, and Kyoko Mori—describe their treks through dark memories and breakthrough moments and attest to the healing power of putting words to experience. What does it take to write an honest memoir? And what happens to us when we embark on that journey? Melanie Brooks sought guidance from the memoirists who most moved her to answer these questions. Called an essential book for creative writers by Poets & Writers, Writing Hard Stories is a unique compilation of authentic stories about the death of a partner, parent, or child; about violence and shunning; and about the process of writing. It will serve as a tool for teachers of writing and give readers an intimate look into the lives of the authors they love. Authors profiled in Writing Hard Stories: Andre Dubus III, Sue William Silverman, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Joan Wickersham, Kyoko Mori, Richard Hoffman, Suzanne Strempek Shea, Abigail Thomas, Monica Wood, Mark Doty, Edwidge Dantict, Marianne Leone, Jerald Walker, Kate Bornstein, Jessica Handler, Richard Blanco, Alysia Abbott, and Kim Stafford Insights from Writing Hard Stories “Why we endeavor collectively to write a book or paint a canvas or write a symphony...is to understand who we are as human beings, and it’s that shared knowledge that somehow helps us to survive.”—Richard Blanco “Here’s what you need to understand: your brothers [or family or friends] are going to have their own stories to tell. You don’t have to tell the family story. You have to tell your story of being in that family.”—Andre Dubus III “We all need a way to express or make something out of experiences that otherwise have no meaning. If what you want is clarity and meaning, you have to break the secrets over your knee and make something of those ingredients.”—Abigail Thomas “What we remember and how we remember it really tells us how we became who we became.”—Michael Patrick MacDonald “The reason I write memoir is to be able to see the experience itself...I hardly know what I think until I write...Writing is a way to organize your life, give it a frame, give it a structure, so that you can really see what it was that happened.”—Sue William Silverman “After a while in the process, you have some distance and you start thinking of it as a story, not as your story...It was a personal grief, but no longer personal...[It’s] something that has not just happened to me and my family, but something that’s happened in the world.”—Edwidge Danticat “Tibetan Buddhists believe that eloquence is the telling of a truth in such a way that it eases suffering...The more suffering that is eased by your telling of the truth, the more eloquent you are. That’s all you can really hope for—being eloquent in that fashion. All you have to do is respond to your story honestly, and that’s the ideal.”—Kate Bornstein “You can never entirely redeem the experience. You can’t make it not hurt anymore. But you can make it beautiful enough so that there’s something to balance it in the other scale. And if you understand that word beautiful as not necessarily pretty, then you’re getting close to recognizing the integrative power of restoring the balance, which is restoring the truth.”—Richard Hoffman

Birth

Author	: Tina Cassidy
Publisher	: Grove Press
Release Date	: 2007-09-10
ISBN 10	: 0802143245
Pages	: 610 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (45 users)

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Download or read book Birth written by Tina Cassidy and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed social history of childbirth examines the physical, political, social, religious, and anthropological factors that influence how women bring new life into the world, examining such topics as why birth can be difficult, how women have handled pain, the role of men during childbirth, and other important topics. Reprint.

Irish-American Autobiography

Author	: James Silas Rogers
Publisher	: Catholic University of America Press + ORM
Release Date	: 2017-01-27
ISBN 10	: 9780813229195
Pages	: 208 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (291 users)

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Download or read book Irish-American Autobiography written by James Silas Rogers and published by Catholic University of America Press + ORM . This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively survey of the ever-changing Irish-American experience contains “many perceptive, and sometimes surprising, observations” (The Irish Times). Irish-American Autobiography explores the evolution of Irishness in America through memoirs that describe, define, and redefine what it means to be Irish. From athletes and entertainers to saloon keepers, community activists, and Catholic priests, Irish-Americans of all stripes share their thoughts and perceptions on their ever-evolving ethnic identity. Poet and Irish studies specialist James Silas Rogers begins his evocative analysis with celebrity memoirs by athletes like boxer John L. Sullivan and ballplayer Connie Mack―written when the Irish were eager to put their raffish origins behind them. Later, he traces the many tensions registered by lesser-known Irish-Americans who’ve told their life stories. South Boston step dancers set themselves against the larger culture, framing their identity as outsiders looking in. Even the classic 1950s sitcom The Honeymooners speaks to the poignant sense of exclusion felt by its creator Jackie Gleason. Rogers also examines the changing role of Catholicism as a cultural touchstone for Irish Americans, and examines the painful diffidence of priest autobiographers. Irish-American Autobiography becomes, in the end, a story of a continued search for connection—documenting an “ethnic fade” that never quite happened.

Trauma and Visuality in Modernity

Author	: Lisa Saltzman
Publisher	: UPNE
Release Date	: 2006
ISBN 10	: 158465516X
Pages	: 310 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (6 users)

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Download or read book Trauma and Visuality in Modernity written by Lisa Saltzman and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays exploring the role of trauma in modern art.

At the Altar of the Bottom Line

Author	: Tom Juravich
Publisher	: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Release Date	: 2009
ISBN 10	: 1558497250
Pages	: 262 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book At the Altar of the Bottom Line written by Tom Juravich and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive interviews with workers in four different industries, this book takes us behind the statistics of the economic collapse and into the lives of Americans who are struggling to make ends meet and support their families. Tom Juravich combines oral history with social and economic analysis to provide a vivid account of the multiple challenges presented in today's workplaces. At a Verizon call center in Andover, Massachusetts, customer service reps find themselves overwhelmed by the pace of work and the constant monitoring. They describe a daily routine marked by regimentation, intense pressure to sell, and unrelenting stress. In New Bedford, undocumented Guatemalans in the fish-processing industry are fired if they don't work fast enough, cheated out of wages, and mistreated by supervisors. Juravich describes a brutal immigration raid by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that divided families and forced workers further underground. Juravich then takes us inside the operating rooms at the Boston Medical Center, where hospital consolidation has brought a new "bottom line" philosophy that has fundamentally altered the way patient care is delivered. Surgery takes place almost non-stop, driving some nurses from their chosen profession and leaving those who remain exhausted. The final case study looks at the shuttering of the Jones Beloit plant, an internationally known manufacturer of machinery for the paper industry. Despite the best efforts of highly skilled and productive workers to save their plant, it was abruptly closed and they were abandoned after their CEO recklessly became involved in a shaky foreign investment. Juravich argues that workers face a series of paradoxes in the contemporary American workplace. They can no longer assume that large established firms create good jobs. The new working conditions often resemble what was traditionally associated with marginal and low-wage employers. He concludes that we must bring a discussion about the quality of jobs back into the public discourse and that a "good jobs" strategy is a fundamental building block to economic recovery. Workers' voices are front and center in this highly readable book. It includes striking photographs by Paul Shoul and a CD that presents a series of audio documentaries with excerpts from the interviews, as well as four original songs written and performed by Juravich.

Life Stories

Author	: Maureen O'Connor
Publisher	: ABC-CLIO
Release Date	: 2011
ISBN 10	: 9781591585275
Pages	: 723 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (852 users)

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Download or read book Life Stories written by Maureen O'Connor and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2011 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs, autobiographies, and diaries represent the most personal and most intimate of genres, as well as one of the most abundant and popular. Gain new understanding and better serve your readers with this detailed genre guide to nearly 700 titles that also includes notes on more than 2,800 read-alike and other related titles. * A list of subjects and suggested "read-alikes" accompany each title * Appendixes cover awards, websites, and resources * Detailed indexes provide further points of access

Ireland and the Americas

Author	: James Patrick Byrne
Publisher	: ABC-CLIO
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN 10	: 9781851096145
Pages	: 967 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (961 users)

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Download or read book Ireland and the Americas written by James Patrick Byrne and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2008 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides reference entries on interactions between Ireland and the United States, Canada, and Latin America throughout history and the cultural and political impact these relations have had for each country.

The Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to Text

Author	: Paul D. Mandel
Publisher	: BRILL
Release Date	: 2017-05-22
ISBN 10	: 9789004336889
Pages	: 423 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (368 users)

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Download or read book The Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to Text written by Paul D. Mandel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Paul Mandel presents a study of the words darash and midrash from the Bible until rabbinic literature, claiming that the words refer to instruction in law and not to interpretation of text.

City of Neighborhoods

Author	: Anthony Bak Buccitelli
Publisher	: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date	: 2016-04-20
ISBN 10	: 9780299307103
Pages	: 252 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (71 users)

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Download or read book City of Neighborhoods written by Anthony Bak Buccitelli and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals that stereotypical ethnic neighborhoods have developed into multicultural communities that use ethnic symbolism as a means for inclusion, not exclusion.

Irish Boston

Author	: Michael Quinlin
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date	: 2013-10-01
ISBN 10	: 9781493004539
Pages	: 208 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (45 users)

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Download or read book Irish Boston written by Michael Quinlin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of the Irish in Boston unfolds in this engagingly written history-cum-guidebook. Full of heroism and romance, politics and brawls, it tells the stories behind the well-known history and vividly portrays what life was like for the Harrigans, Gallaghers, Kelleys, Finnegans and others who made their home in Boston over the past three centuries. From the days of "No Irish Need Apply" in the 1850s to the inauguration in 1960 of the first Irish Catholic president, the Boston Irish have molded the history of the city--and the nation--in all areas of culture and society, and their spirited tale is told in these pages. The cast of characters includes such larger-than-life personalities as *Hugh O'Brien, Boston's first Irish Catholic mayor (1885) *John Singleton Copley, America's first great portrait painter *Louis Sullivan, the father of American Architecture, born in Boston's South End in 1856, *Brendan Connolly, the first top medalist in the modern Olympic Games (1896) *John L. Sullivan, world heavyweight boxing champion *Patrick Kennedy and Bridget Murphy, progenitors of the Kennedy political dynasty Those who want to do more than just read about the saga of the Irish in Boston will also find information on dozens of Irish-related historic and cultural sites, such as the Irish Famine Memorial, the Civil War Monument, St. Augustine's Cemetery, the Irish Cultural Centre, the JFK Library, and the pub where Seamus Heaney and his buddies frequently enjoyed a pint. Also included is a directory of Irish gift shops, annual events, genealogical resources, Irish organizations, and Irish-related academic courses. This one-of-a-kind guide is a complete source for the total Irish experience, both past and present.

Understanding White Privilege

Author	: Frances E. Kendall
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2013
ISBN 10	: 9780415874267
Pages	: 242 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (742 users)

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Download or read book Understanding White Privilege written by Frances E. Kendall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding White Privilege delves into the complex interplay between race, power, and privilege in both organizations and private life.

Easter Rising

Author	: Michael Patrick MacDonald
Publisher	: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date	: 2006
ISBN 10	: 0618470255
Pages	: 296 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (55 users)

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Download or read book Easter Rising written by Michael Patrick MacDonald and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This utterly unconventional narrative of reinvention begins with the young MacDonald's first forays outside the soul-crushing walls of Southie's Old Colony housing project. He provides one-of-a-kind 1980s social history and a powerful glimpse of what punk music was for him.

Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century

Author	: David Pierce
Publisher	: Cork University Press
Release Date	: 2000
ISBN 10	: 1859182089
Pages	: 1380 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (89 users)

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Download or read book Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century written by David Pierce and published by Cork University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With five Nobel Prize-winners, seven Pulitzer Prize-winners and two Booker Prize-winning novelists, modern Irish writing has contributed something special and permanent to our understanding of the twentieth century. Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century provides a useful, comprehensive and pleasurable introduction to modern Irish literature in a single volume. Organized chronologically by decade, this anthology provides the reader with a unique sense of the development and richness of Irish writing and of the society it reflected. It embraces all forms of writing, not only the major forms of drama, fiction and verse, but such material as travel writing, personal memoirs, journalism, interviews and radio plays, to offer the reader a complete and wonderfully varied sense of Ireland's contribution our literary heritage. David Pierce has selected major literary figures as well as neglected ones, and includes many writers from the Irish diaspora. The range of material is enormous, and ensures that work that is inaccessible or out of print is now easily available. The book is a delightful compilation, including many well known pieces and captivating "discoveries," which anyone interested in literature will long enjoy browsing and dipping into.