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Ties That Bind

By Mike Taibbi, Contributor
December / January 2001

December 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

Two successful Irish Americans share an experience of giving...more than money. ℘℘℘ Mary Pat Lyons O'Connor listened to the old woman, her grandfather's sister, Margaret, as she spun her narratives of the Irish Famine and the small fenced hillocks, famine graves, where hundreds of the nameless lie buried. The two women were in the sitting room of a three-room farm … [Read more...] about Ties That Bind

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