Crossing Highbridge : A Memoir of Irish America / Maureen Waters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waters, Maureen, 1939-

Series:

Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)

Irish studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholics--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Catholics.

Catholic women--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Catholic women.

Irish Americans--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Irish Americans.

Irish American women--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Irish American women.

New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Biography.

Bronx (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Bronx (New York, N.Y.).

Bronx (New York, N.Y.)--Biography.

Waters, Maureen, 1939---Childhood and youth.

Waters, Maureen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 pages).

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Maureen Waters began writing about the Bronx in the spirit of dinnseachas, Irish place lore, as a means of recuperating from the accidental death of her son, whose story frames her own. Finding her way through the disorienting 1960s, after a girlhood tutored by nuns and inspired by the Holy Ghost, she set out on a kind of spiritual journey to recover what was valuable and life-sustaining in the Irish Catholic experience left behind. Writing her memoir meant coming to terms with the powerful matriarchal voices that inspired both affection and immobilizing guilt. Ultimately, Crossing Highbridge is a tribute to her father, for whom storytelling was an art of healing.

Contents:

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Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780815606291

081560629X

OCLC:

1132687612