Titlebook: Reading Irish-American Fiction; The Hyphenated Self Margaret Hallissy Book 2006 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2006

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,“Picture Postcard Ireland”: Thomas Moran’s ,sh-American; at first, he himself is unconcerned about his heritage. When Nuala and Brigit notice his middle name (his mother’s maiden name) on his hospital record, they turn his attention to his Irish ancestry. His mother’s people were from “ ‘south of Dublin’, ” his grandfather fled to the United

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,The Pain of Not Knowing: Katharine Weber’s ,lear that Patricia does not know Mickey at all. The novel’s epigram is a quotation from James Joyce’s .: “It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended.”. The source of Stephen’s pain is also a central theme of .: not knowing. If Patric

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,Bringing Paddies Over: Alice McDermott’s ,ng his own stepfather, a shoe store owner named Holtzman, to lend Billy the five hundred dollars he needs to pay Eva’s return passage. When Dennis learns from Mary that Eva has married another and used Billy’s money to open “ ‘a gas station on the convent road outside Clonmel,’ “4 Dennis invents the

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,The Rage of the Dying Animal: Mary Gordon’s , The negativity to which Fanning is responding is surely present in ., but it is mainly as part of the characterization of Ellen MacNamara; and it is counterbalanced by the characterization of Vincent, whose position with respect to his own past and to that of the Irish people is more subtle. While

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Introduction,s hair is of a fiery red: he is rosy-cheeked, massive, and whiskey loving… .”1 While none of the novels being discussed here employ such crude stereotypes as that of the Stage Irishman, the novels do draw on certain elements typical of the Irish in America; and the two concepts, type and stereotype, need to be differentiated.

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The Journey,h the spatial motion is a metaphor. When a character comes full circle and returns to the place of origin, therefore making two journeys, one away, one back again, the result is often a better, or at least different, understanding of both places, and of him or herself.

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What Americans Know and How They Know It: Song,ho emigrated, made his fortune in America, then returned to Ireland. The other house is the cottage of two bachelor brothers, John and Thady O’Neill, who seldom leave their own property, much less Ireland itself.

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