Crossing Highbridge : a memoir of Irish America

Crossing Highbridge : a memoir of Irish America /

An evocative tale of coming to womanhood in the disorienting 1960s- a girl in the world of nuns and the Holy Ghost- but on a deeper level, this is a story of a woman who has suffered unimaginable loss and attempts to make sense of that loss by re-imagining her past and her own Irish-American heritag...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Waters, Maureen, 1939-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2001.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Waters, Maureen, > 1939- > Childhood and youth.
Waters, Maureen, > 1939-
1900-1999
Irish American women > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Irish Americans > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Catholic women > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Catholics > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Childhood and youth of a person
Catholic women
Catholics
Irish American women
Irish Americans
Manners and customs
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) > Biography.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Biography.
New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Mœurs et coutumes > 20e siècle.
New York (State) > New York
New York (State) > New York > Bronx
Biographies
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Brian Patrick
  • Bronx Irish
  • Mythologies
  • Locating America
  • At the interior.

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