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Light of the Diddicoy
Eamon Loingsigh
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Description for Light of the Diddicoy
Paperback. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 136 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
Light of the Diddicoy is the riveting and immersive saga of Irish gangs on the Brooklyn waterfront in the early part of the 20th century, told through the eyes of young newcomer Liam Garrity. Forced at age 14 to travel alone to America after money grew scarce in Ireland, Garrity stumbles directly into the hard-knock streets of the Irish-run waterfront and falls in with a Bridge District gang called the White Hand. Through a series of increasingly tense and brutal scenes, he has no choice but to use any means necessary to survive and carve out his place in a ... Read more
Light of the Diddicoy is the riveting and immersive saga of Irish gangs on the Brooklyn waterfront in the early part of the 20th century, told through the eyes of young newcomer Liam Garrity. Forced at age 14 to travel alone to America after money grew scarce in Ireland, Garrity stumbles directly into the hard-knock streets of the Irish-run waterfront and falls in with a Bridge District gang called the White Hand. Through a series of increasingly tense and brutal scenes, he has no choice but to use any means necessary to survive and carve out his place in a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Three Rooms Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
254g
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780988400894
SKU
V9780988400894
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About Eamon Loingsigh
Novelist and poet Eamon Loingsigh's family emigrated from Ireland in the late 19th century, and his grandfather and great-grandfather ran a longshoreman's saloon on Hudson Street in Manhattan from 1906 to the late 1970s. The author of numerous articles on Irish American history, as well as the novella An Affair of Concoctions and the poetry collection Love and Maladies, he ... Read more
Reviews for Light of the Diddicoy
"Novelist Eamon Loingsigh has so comprehensively inhabited the teeming New York City of his debut novel Light of the Diddicoy that he captivates the reader from the first page... It's a brutal story of Irish America that the author, whose family roots in the city are as deep as his characters, was apparently born to write. Loingsigh's prose has immense ... Read more