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Terror From America
This thrilling historical fiction/espionage novel marks Golway’s debut as a novelist, blending his signature expertise…
Winter 2025 Review of Books
Reviews by Darina Molloy She Died Young: A Life in Fragments / By Brenda Fricker…
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The In-Laws By Sinéad Moriarty Amanda, Katie and Melanie are the daughters-in-law of the domineering…
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Book Notes: Enright Honors McGahern
Next year will mark six decades since celebrated Irish novelist and short story writer John McGahern was censored and banned in his own country. Now, another celebrated writer – Anne […]
But Always Meeting Ourselves
[My grandfather] the man whom I had met only once was becoming flesh and blood through the pages of a fiction. A LONDON nursing home. The shape of a figure […]
Maid as Muse: Emily Dickinson’s Irish Connection
Aífe Murray tells Irish America the story of how an Irish maid influenced Emily Dickinson’s poetry and saved it from destruction. Genius does not exist in a vacuum. This was […]
God Box: A Daughter’s Story
When Mary Lou Quinlan (GABELLI ’82) was an M.B.A. student attending classes during the evening while working full time at Avon Products, she pursued what she believed would be her […]
“I Never Did Like Politics”
“I Never Did Like Politics”: How Fiorello La Guardia Became America’s Mayor, and Why He Still Matters Terry Golway literally wrote the book on Tammany Hall, the Irish-dominated political machine […]
American Mother
The crowd on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at Manhattan’s Swift Hibernian Lounge, off The Bowery, was energetic. In the back room, Dublin-born author Colum McCann smiled and shook many hands, […]