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Real Lace Revisited: Inside the Hidden World of America’s Irish Aristocracy
James P. Macguire
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Hardback. Here is a revisitation--part tribute, part update--of Stephen Birmingham's beloved Real Lace. James P. MacGuire, a member of one of Birmingham's Irish Families, creates his own entertaining portrait of life among the Irish Rich, further detailing and filling out this engrossing portion of America's social history. Num Pages: 312 pages, 16 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 603.
Here is a revisitation--part tribute, part update--of Stephen Birmingham's much-loved Real Lace. James P. MacGuire, a member of one of Birmingham's Irish Families, creates his own entertaining portrait of life among the Irish Rich, further detailing and filling out this engrossing portion of America's social history. Real Lace Revisited chronicles the religious, financial and social evolution of the First Irish Families’ world, its rise, peak, decline, fall, and, in some cases, transformative rebirth. Rather than a memoir, however, the book reads as an informed historical, non-fiction account of the upper-class Irish world as it grew and changed. Real Lace ... Read more
Here is a revisitation--part tribute, part update--of Stephen Birmingham's much-loved Real Lace. James P. MacGuire, a member of one of Birmingham's Irish Families, creates his own entertaining portrait of life among the Irish Rich, further detailing and filling out this engrossing portion of America's social history. Real Lace Revisited chronicles the religious, financial and social evolution of the First Irish Families’ world, its rise, peak, decline, fall, and, in some cases, transformative rebirth. Rather than a memoir, however, the book reads as an informed historical, non-fiction account of the upper-class Irish world as it grew and changed. Real Lace ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Guilford, United States
ISBN
9781493024902
SKU
V9781493024902
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About James P. Macguire
James P. MacGuire was born in New York and educated at Johns Hopkins and Cambridge. He has worked, inter alia, at Time Inc., Macmillan, The Health Network, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. His poetry, fiction and journalism have been published in many national publications. He is the author or co-author of ten books and two beloved sons, Pierce ... Read more
Reviews for Real Lace Revisited: Inside the Hidden World of America’s Irish Aristocracy
In Real Lace Revisited James MacGuire does for American Irish Catholics what Evelyn Waugh did for those eccentric English recusants at Brideshead: with wit, insight, and critically engaging affection he brings several generations to a life beyond life. But this account, soaring from Birmingham's springboard, has the added authority of a true insider who grew up with the very families ... Read more