While many Irish-Americans identify the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century as the pivotal event in their ethnic history, most people in Ireland knew little about it as its 150th-anniversary ap
To be a staff writer at The New Yorker during its heyday of the 1950s and 1960s was to occupy one of the most covetedand influentialseats in American culture. Witty, beautiful, and Irish-born Maeve Br
In 1895, Bridget Cleary, a strong-minded and independent young woman, disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. At first her family claimed she had been taken by fairies-but then her badly burned
Captures the unique spirit of these sites through a series of color photographs. Holy wells are places of popular religious devotion. At many of them the waters are believed to have healing powers; so
Exploring the fascination of Irish folklore and storytelling for collectors, scholars, writers, and readers, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the complex relationship between oral traditio
