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Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-515489-4. Kerby A. Miller; Patricia Mulholland Miller (2001). Journey of Hope: The Story of Irish Immigration to America. San Francisco: Chronicle. ISBN 978-0-8118-2783-6.
Prior to the working on the book, Bush met all of the immigrants whose stories are covered in the book. [1] In creating the book, Bush stated "My hope is that Out of Many, One will help focus our collective attention on the positive effects that immigrants have on our country." [2] Out of Many, One quickly became a New York Times bestseller. [2]
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Image credits: Gript The traditional family, labeled “A,” is shown as rural and loving their Irish roots, shown posing in front of their farm and animals. However, those characteristics are ...
The powerful mother is a common pivotal figure in immigrant fiction, just as the sensitive child, torn between this matriarchal authority and a weaker, less adaptive father, often assumes the book's central consciousness. Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959), fits the pattern, with its tense mother-daughter duo, Silla and Selina ...
Edna O'Brien, Ireland's literary pride and outlaw who scandalized her native land with her debut novel “The Country Girls” before gaining international acclaim as a storyteller and iconoclast ...
Three of his books -- Passing the Time in Ballymenone, [1] The Spirit of Folk Art, [2] and Turkish Traditional Art Today [3]-- were named among the "Notable Books of the Year" by The New York Times. Glassie has won many awards for his work, including the Charles Homer Haskins Prize of the American Council of Learned Societies for a ...
Donleavy's first published work was a short story entitled A Party on Saturday Afternoon, which appeared in the Dublin literary periodical Envoy in 1950. [4] He gained critical acclaim with his first novel, The Ginger Man (1955), which is one of the Modern Library 100 best novels. [6]