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Table of Contents

Foreword | 11
I. Family and Memory
Looking for Jimmy | 19
In Search of the Banished Children | 43
The Skillins | 57
The Perils of Pat | 67
Stones of Memory | 74
II. Politics and Place
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall | 87
Local Politics, Irish-American Style | 101
Life of the Party | 112
Civil Service | 122
The Bronx is Burning | 127
Cast a Cold Eye: William Kennedy's Albany | 138
III. Faith and Imagination
Confessions of a Bronx Irish-Catholic | 155
Sic Transit | 164
The Catholic Imagination | 172
Holy Orders | 188
City of God, City of Man | 193
IV. Silence and History
The Triumph of Bridget Such-a-One | 211
An Interpretation of Silences | 231
Closets Full of Bones | 246
Lost and Found | 257
A Famine Remembrance | 267
Conclusion
Irish America at the Millennium: How the Irish Stayed Irish | 273

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/03/2022
      ISBN13: 9780823299478, 978-0823299478
      ISBN10: 0823299473

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Foreword | 11
      I. Family and Memory
      Looking for Jimmy | 19
      In Search of the Banished Children | 43
      The Skillins | 57
      The Perils of Pat | 67
      Stones of Memory | 74
      II. Politics and Place
      Plunkitt of Tammany Hall | 87
      Local Politics, Irish-American Style | 101
      Life of the Party | 112
      Civil Service | 122
      The Bronx is Burning | 127
      Cast a Cold Eye: William Kennedy's Albany | 138
      III. Faith and Imagination
      Confessions of a Bronx Irish-Catholic | 155
      Sic Transit | 164
      The Catholic Imagination | 172
      Holy Orders | 188
      City of God, City of Man | 193
      IV. Silence and History
      The Triumph of Bridget Such-a-One | 211
      An Interpretation of Silences | 231
      Closets Full of Bones | 246
      Lost and Found | 257
      A Famine Remembrance | 267
      Conclusion
      Irish America at the Millennium: How the Irish Stayed Irish | 273

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