Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
I. FAMILY AND MEMORY
Looking for Jimmy
In Search of the Banished Children
The Skillins
The Perils of Pat
Stones of Memory
II. POLITICS & PLACE
Plunkitt of Tammany
Local Politics, Irish-American Style
Life of the Party
Civil Service
The Bronx is Burning
Cast a Cold Eye: William Kennedy's Albany
III. FAITH AND IMAGINATION
Confessions of a Bronx Irish-Catholic
Sic Transit
The Catholic Imagination
Holy Orders
City of God, City of Man
IV. SILENCE AND HISTORY
The Triumph of Bridget Such-a-One
An Interpretation of Silences
Closets Full of Bones
Lost and Found
A Famine Remembrance
CONCLUSION
Irish America at the Millennium: How the Irish Stayed Irish