How too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.At first, it seemed to be nothing. It was a curled-up dark brown leaf about the size of a good lock of hair and it was preserved in glass in a room in the Fairlow Herbarium in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A typewritten card alongside the leaf said that it was taken from an infected potato plant in Ireland during the famines of … [Read more...] about Leaves of Pain
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The latest Irish books.℘℘℘Non-FictionOften it's easy to think that the only real Irish cities in America are New York, Chicago, and Boston. But as author Pat O'Neill shows in the vibrant and revealing From the Bottom Up: The Story of the Irish in Kansas City, great Irish stories can be found all over the map.Kansas City's contribution to Irish-American history is especially … [Read more...] about Book Reviews