irish americans

Thomas Lynch shares the lessons he learned about family, history, and the world while traveling back to his ancestors' home in Ireland.

Chronicles the life of Joseph Kennedy, discussing how his ruthless quest for money, power, and social status began in his early childhood and continued through the final days of his life, and how he influenced some of the twentieth-century's most powerful political figures.

Examines the lives of immigrants in Boston from 1790 to 1880, discussing the process of arrival in the city, the physical and economic adjustment, the development of group consciousness, hostility toward the Irish, and the city's eventual relative stability.

Covers O'Connor's comfortable upbringing in Rhode Island, his formation at Notre Dame, his obscure years in radio and the Coast Guard during World War II, his adoption of Boston, his long association with his publishers at Atlantic Monthly and Little, Brown and Company, his toil in journalism and television reviewing, his several sojourns in Ireland, and his extraordinary dedication to his craft while living close to poverty.

Born in 1941 in Queens and raised by alcoholic Irish immigrant parents, Eileen Tumulty dreams of better life and she thinks she's found the perfect partner in a promising research scientist, but Eileen quickly discovers Ed doesn't aspire to the same American Dream and later it becomes clear that his growing reluctance is part of a deeper psychological shift.

Centers around the affair of a middle-aged Irish burglar and a young girl named Beverly Penn, who is dying of consumption in a mansion on the Upper West Side of New York City.