Private Histories: The Writing of Irish Americans, 1900-1935

by Ebest, Ron

• ISBN13: 9780268027711
• ISBN10: 0268027714
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Summary

A complete literary history of the American Irish during the first part of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Mary McCarthy's Other Life	1	(14)
Family: Shanty Irish
Fathers: Violent Recourses	15	(12)
Mothers: ``Turned Down Hard I've Been''	27	(14)
Daughters and Sons: Verbal Massacre	41	(16)
Status: The Irishtocracy and Pick of the Celtic Shovelry
Noel Coward and Mrs. Griffin	57	(20)
An Innocent Bystander of the Western World	77	(18)
Septic Origins	95	(12)
Craig's Wife	107	(22)
Education: Ceaseless Combat
Sad Warped Sisters and Battling Berthas	129	(14)
Le Premier Pas	143	(15)
A Joy and a Study	158	(25)
Neighborhood: Kind of Like Home
Fences, Goats, and Vegetable Gardens	183	(14)
Green Thumb in the City	197	(25)
The Fastest Runner on Sixty-first Street	222	(15)
Death: The Quintessential Irish-American Story
Three Chairs for Mr. Murphy	237	(26)
Notes	263	(34)
Bibliography	297	(20)
Index of Authors	317