Join distinguished historian and Professor, David Emmons, as he returns to ILHS and shares excerpts from his upcoming manuscript, tentatively titled: Fosterland: Irish Catholics in Protestant America, 1830-1930. Emmons is the author of two prize winning Irish American books: The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town and Beyond…
Three celebrated Irish writers – Mike McCormack (Solar Bones); Catherine Ryan Howard (Distress Signals) and Emilie Pine (Notes to Self) – join the Bay Area Book Festival lineup for “Writing Irish” (1pm). Crime writer Catherine Ryan Howard takes part in “Criminally Good Writing” at (10am).
The Bay Area Book Festival invites you to Writing Irish. Three celebrated Irish writers join the Festival this year. Award winning, Mike McCormack, and author of "Solar Bones," is joined by Catherine Ryan Howard, author of thriller, "Distress Signals", with Emilie Pine, author of heartfelt, "Notes to Self". If you…
Eugene O’Neill, the only American playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, told his son Eugene, Jr., that “The one thing that explains more than anything about me is the fact that I’m Irish. And, strangely enough,” O’Neill complained, “it is something that all the writers who have attempted…
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