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Julian Moynahan is Professor of English Emeritus at Rutgers University. His most recent book is Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture. (May 2000)
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Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
by Frank McCourt
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by Frank McCourt
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
by Michael Patrick MacDonald
May 25, 2000 issue
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by Ken Kesey
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Displaced Persons
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The Old Man and Me
by Elaine Dundy
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by Eugene Walter
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Coming Up For Eire
The American Irish: A Political and Social Portrait
by William V. Shannon
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