From the Sin-e Cafe to the Black Hills Notes on The New Irish

Wall, Eamonn

ISBN 10: 0299167240 / ISBN 13: 9780299167240

Editore: University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1999

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"In this book he comments on his own experiecnes and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community." 139 pages; 6 x 9 ".

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• Titolo: From the Sin-e Cafe to the Black Hills Notes on The New Irish
• Editore: University of Wisconsin Press, Madison
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0299167240
• ISBN 13: 9780299167240
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Near Fine
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Social Sciences

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Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community.
Wall’s starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York’s East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and Americans of Irish heritage, locating them within a literary and historical context. But this is also a deeply personal book in which Wall wrestles with his own identity as an Irishman living in America, raising his children as Americans and learning to love the American landscape, from the streets of Manhattan to the western hills of Nebraska.