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Tom Deignan Interviews Stephan Talty
Tom Deignan (left) talks to Stephan Talty (right) about The American School of Spies: His…
Terror From America
This thrilling historical fiction/espionage novel marks Golway’s debut as a novelist, blending his signature expertise…
10 Books by Irish Writers
Reviews by Darina Molloy She Died Young: A Life in Fragments / By Brenda Fricker…
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Country Girl: A Memoir by Edna O’Brien
In this excerpt from her memoir, Edna O’Brien returns to Ireland to build a house in which she hopes to avail of the “peace of that passeth understanding,” only to […]
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 […]