Crossing Highbridge by Maureen Waters

Crossing Highbridge by Maureen Waters

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. Writing her memoir has meant coming to terms with the powerful matriarchal voices that inspired both affection and immobilizing guilt.

In her moving memoir, Waters recounts her parents’ divergent memories of growing up in Ireland and their emigration to the Bronx in the early twentieth century; she investigates how these versions of the
past helped shape her own identity as an Irish American

|A touching meditation on her Irish immigrant family and her own life.

Maureen Waters is professor of English and acting director of Irish Studies at Queen's College, New York. She is the author of The Comic Irishman and the coeditor of Lady Gregory: Selected Writings.

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ISBN 13	9780815606932
ISBN 10	0815606931
Title	Crossing Highbridge
Author	Maureen Waters
Series	Irish Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Syracuse University Press
Year published	2019-10-30
Number of pages	168
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