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Book Notes

What Are You Like? Tom O’Neill

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
October / November 2019

October 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

On the best advice he ever received, talking on plane rides, and being 20 years late on his book deadline! It took 20 years of intensive research, hundreds of interviews, missed deadlines, and publishers demanding their money back, but Tom O’Neill’s CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties is worth the wait. It’s a chilling page-turner … [Read more...] about What Are You Like? Tom O’Neill

What Are You Like? Writer Mary Beth Keane

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
August / September 2019

August 1, 2019 by 2 Comments

Author Mary Beth Keane as an infant with her father, Willie.

On swanky hotels, Gráinne O’Malley’s tailor-made pirate outfits, and her own unusual hidden talent. Mary Beth Keane’s novel, Ask Again, Yes, is a lyrical, moving tale spanning 40 years about family, love, alcoholism, and mental illness. Told with tenderness and empathy for the human condition, it is juxtaposed with just the right amount of humor to carry the story along. … [Read more...] about What Are You Like? Writer Mary Beth Keane

Book Notes:
Being New York, Being Irish

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
January / February 2019

December 22, 2018 by Leave a Comment

Being New York, Being Irish is available now in all good bookstores and online at www.iap.ie.

Reflections on Twenty-Five Years of Irish America and New York University's Glucksman Ireland House. ℘℘℘ Terry Golway assembled Irish and Irish-American writers to give voice to Being New York, Being Irish, a tribute to Glucksman Ireland House on its 25th Anniversary. The name, Glucksman Ireland House, always seemed somewhat offbeat, as “Glucksman” and “Ireland” don’t sound … [Read more...] about Book Notes:
Being New York, Being Irish

Book Notes

By Irish America Staff
November/December 2018

November 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment

Anna Burns Wins Man Booker Prize Novelist Anna Burns won the 2018 Man Booker Prize for her third book, Milkman. Burns is the first writer from Northern Ireland to ever win the award, and the first woman since 2013 to do so. The experimental novel takes place in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, the armed conflict in the region in the late 20th century. It is narrated by an … [Read more...] about Book Notes

Book Notes:
Novelist Edna O’Brien to Become a Dame of the British Empire

By Mary Gallagher, Editorial Assistant
June / July 2018

May 9, 2018 by Leave a Comment

It has been reported that renowned Irish novelist Edna O’Brien will be made an honorary Dame of the British Empire for her contributions to the field of literature. Because O’Brien is a native of County Clare, the title will be unofficial. O’Brien jump-started a career of over five decades with her acclaimed debut novel, 1962’s The Country Girls, establishing a worldwide … [Read more...] about Book Notes:
Novelist Edna O’Brien to Become a Dame of the British Empire

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