"An impressive work of scholarship." - Terry George, Oscar-winning Director of "Hotel Rwanda" "Tells superbly how Abraham Lincoln changed from suspicion of the Irish to deep respect." - Tim Pat Coogan ...
When I was a shaggy-haired youth, back in the late 1970s, New York—or at least Manhattan—was basically an archipelago of Irish bars, separated by short stretches of gum-spotted sidewalk. And it wasn’t ...