They are still with us, the shoes. Tan-colored Rockports. Size tens. We have put them in a box and left them in the corner of a cupboard, although the reason why we have kept them is still mysterious to me. On September 11th my father-in-law was in Tower One of the World Trade Center. Miraculously he managed to escape. Unable to return to his home on Long Island, he walked, … [Read more...] about Grandpa’s Shoes
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For the Little Ones
Renowned broadcast journalist, Maria Shriver is know to millions of people who can't even stay up to watch the late news; it's past their bedtime. The best-selling author of What's Heaven, Shriver has written a new book that tackles another difficult issue for kids, people with disabilities. It's a topic Shriver has become familiar with through her family's founding and support … [Read more...] about For the Little Ones
Book Reviews
A sampling of the latest Irish books on offer. ℘℘℘ RECOMMENDED The scope of Tim Pat Coogan's latest book Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora is like nothing he's ever done before -- and perhaps like nothing ever done in Irish history. The esteemed journalist spent the last five years traveling the world, from Japan to Latin America, from Africa to the U.S. … [Read more...] about Book Reviews
A Pricey Bundle of Joyce
Also available for viewing for the first time, or at least it was before it was auctioned off, was a previously unknown draft of one of the final chapters of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The Eumaeus chapter, described by Joyce critic Hugh Kenner as ‘the book’s most profound tribute to its hero Ulysses,’ has only one other known working draft – the one kept at the State University of … [Read more...] about A Pricey Bundle of Joyce
For the Love of Ireland
Author Susan Cahill tells what prompted her to write For the Love of Ireland: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers.I grew up in New York City in an Irish-American family whose patriarch on my mother's side fought to keep Ulysses out of the Queensborough public libraries and later grand-marshaled the St. Patrick's Day Parade. As a graduate student in David Greene's … [Read more...] about For the Love of Ireland