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From the Sin-é Café to the Black Hills : notes on the new Irish

Title
From the Sin-é Café to the Black Hills : notes on the new Irish / Eamonn Wall.
Author
Wall, Eamonn, 1955-
Publication
Madison, Wis. ; London : University of Wisconsin Press, c1999.

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Description
xiii, 139 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • 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
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-134) and index.
Contents
Preface -- Exile, attitude, the Sin-é Cafe: notes on the new Irish -- The long journey home to Brooklyn: Michael Stephens's books of the dead -- Immigration, technology, and sense of place -- Reading Mary Gordon's Final payments in America -- Four paintings by Danny Maloney: a short story -- The search for majectic shades: contemporary American poets migrate to Ireland -- Helena Mulkerns on the Lower East Side -- Irish voices, American writing, and green cards -- Roger Boylan in his own words: Q & A -- "Even better than the real thing": Brian Moore's The great Victorian collection -- How decent people live: Thomas McGonigle's going to Patchogue -- The Black Hills, the Gorey Road, and object lessons.
ISBN
  • 0299167208 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0299167240 (paper : alk. paper)
LCCN
99006590
OCLC
  • ocm41503057
  • SCSB-1123170
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library