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Exile on Bridge Street: A Novel
Eamon Loingsigh
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Description for Exile on Bridge Street: A Novel
Paperback. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: FFH; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 380.
Exile on Bridge Street details teenage Irish immigrant Liam Garrity's struggle to adulthood in pre-Prohibition Brooklyn. Back home, Ireland's fight for its own independence erupts with the 1916 Easter Rising. The fate of Garrity's father, an Irish rebel, is unknown, which leaves his mother and two sisters vulnerable on the family farm as British troops swarm, seeking reprisals. Garrity must organize their departure to New York immediately. In Brooklyn, Garrity is adopted by Dinny Meehan, leader of a longshoremen gang based in an Irishtown saloon under the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges. Meehan vows to help Garrity and his ... Read more
Exile on Bridge Street details teenage Irish immigrant Liam Garrity's struggle to adulthood in pre-Prohibition Brooklyn. Back home, Ireland's fight for its own independence erupts with the 1916 Easter Rising. The fate of Garrity's father, an Irish rebel, is unknown, which leaves his mother and two sisters vulnerable on the family farm as British troops swarm, seeking reprisals. Garrity must organize their departure to New York immediately. In Brooklyn, Garrity is adopted by Dinny Meehan, leader of a longshoremen gang based in an Irishtown saloon under the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges. Meehan vows to help Garrity and his ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Three Rooms Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
379g
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781941110423
SKU
V9781941110423
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About Eamon Loingsigh
Journalist/novelist Eamon Loingsigh has long held a great fascination for the history of Irish-Americans in New York City. His family emigrated from Ireland in the late nineteenth century, and his grandfather and great-grandfather ran a longshoreman's saloon on Hudson Street in Manhattan from 1906 to the late 1970s. Loingsigh studied journalism at University of South Florida. He is the author ... Read more
Reviews for Exile on Bridge Street: A Novel
When accomplished Irish American writers address the lives and experiences of the early 20th century Irish in New York they are recording, but also in a deeper sense reclaiming, a lost heritage. This is painstaking work that's worth celebrating in its own right, but then to give us a vivid portrait of these flinty people in all their complexity and ... Read more