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Title: Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family's Past by Richard White ISBN: 0-8090-8071-0 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A first rate work by an engaged historian looking at his fam
Comment: Too often the well written and engaging memoir is disengaged from the careful checking of facts and ordering relationships that is the mark of the historian. Richard White tells the story of his Mother's family in Ireland and Chicago, draws on the family stories that he was told, and then relates them to the historical facts and records. The result is a book that is better than it would have been had he relied on a single methodology, and the story is more engrossing than it would be otherwise. While other reviewers would have critisized this methodology, I find that his ability to show where and why discrepancies arise between memory and fact is extraordinarily illuminating.
Rating: 4
Summary: Insight to Irish genealogy
Comment: In tracing the "representative" story of his mother's life, the author provides an insight into the motivation and experience of the Irish immigrant. There is also an interesting lesson on the difference between memory and history. Both of these items are of particular interest to the genealogist.
Rating: 1
Summary: An uninteresting history of the writers mother
Comment: The writing is adequate, but this story is not very interesting to anyone other than the writer, and his family.The character, the writer's mother, left Ireland at age 16, a 4th grade drop out, who matures, in her new-found home town of Chicago, goes to work at a variety of jobs, and eventually meets and marries her husband during the years of WWII. I was hoping that this would be a "Michner" like story, integrating the lives of the "characters" with real historical events taking place in a real time line. I did NOT enjoy this story, nor did I find it very interesting...a "ho hum" kind of tale!
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Title: The Irish Famine: A Documentary by Diarmaid Ferriter, Colm Toibin ISBN: 0312300514 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great Depression by Douglas Monroy ISBN: 0520213335 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Black '47 and Beyond by Cormac O'Grada ISBN: 0691070156 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America by Kerby A. Miller ISBN: 0195051874 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: January, 1988 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum by Tyler Anbinder ISBN: 0452283612 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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