This book talks about a life among the Boston Irish, the New York Irish and the Irish Irish. Sheila Sullivan is an American journalist who has worked for The Irish Times for seventeen years. She was born in 1956 in Chelsea, the first city north of Boston, and after college worked as a reporter on the New York Daily News reporter and a producer for CNN. She moved to Dublin in 1986 and to Achill Island, County Mayo, in 1998. Follow the Moon: An American in Ireland is a highly original work, an engaging and beautifully crafted account of an unusual life among the Boston Irish, the New York Irish and the Irish Irish. It is the story of three moves - from Boston to New York, from New York to Dublin, and from Dublin to Achill - each one difficult and life-enhancing. Part memoir and part social and literary history, Follow the Moon contains a close portrait of legendary New York newspaperman Jimmy Breslin, along with cameos of writers Tom Mac Intyre, Jay McInerny and Dominick Dunne. There is a behind-the-scenes look at the coverage of the retrial of Claus von Bulow, the second televised trial in US history, with Sheila as its producer in the field. Moriarty about modern Ireland and a description of Heinrich Boll's time in Achill. At its heart is the story of her meeting with New Zealand-born composer Brent Parker, who later became her husband. 'Sheila Sullivan's new book is delightful and written in sentences that carry you along in the finest of style' - Jimmy Breslin, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author.
This is a book about two people who are introduced by friends. Mike and Janet get on well and enjoy doing things together. They decide they want to live together, but initially their families try to discourage them. This love story traces the ups and downs of their relationship, until they are able to make a commitment to each other. Readers can identify with Mike and Janet, and use the book as a starting point to explore their own relationships, and the role of families, friends and carers in supporting them.
Contemporary Fiction. Frances Olar Kavanagh finds her world upside down and inside out. Through laughter and a fun plot twist, Frances learns how to live her own truth.
This is a book about two people who are introduced by friends. Mike and Janet get on well and enjoy doing things together. They decide they want to live together, but initially their families try to discourage them. This love story traces the ups and downs of their relationship, until they are able to make a commitment to each other. ..." --Back cover.
New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly gives you a short story that will whet your appetite and last just as long as your tea stays warm. In this quick taste of Sheila’s mysteries, a neighborhood that takes care of their own sometimes has to take care of business . . . “Dinty’s Bar has occupied the same corner in Cambridge since before I was born. Not the Cambridge with the glitzy shops and exotic restaurants catering to parents dropping their little darlings off at the Big H, or the Cambridge filled with techy wonks. Dinty’s keeps a toehold in the back end of Cambridge, between Central Square and the river. Its patrons come from the neighborhood and they’re pretty consistent: blue-collar, mostly construction workers, a scattering of cops and firefighters, all Irish in some way or another. Somehow this little area called Cambridgeport has escaped the gentrification that has crept through the city, and that’s the way the people here like it. I’m the one who doesn’t belong. I was one of those pampered students, and when I graduated I didn’t know what I wanted to do, or at least I knew what I didn’t want to do. I wanted some time with no grades, no letters of recommendation, no internships and interviews to make a professor or parent proud. Nope, I just wanted to stick around for a while and breathe. My bewildered parents didn’t put up much of an argument, and as a graduation present they gave their baby boy enough cash to put a deposit on a top-floor apartment in a rundown triple-decker, with enough left over to buy a bed and a kitchen table with a couple of chairs. I heard about the opening behind the bar at Dinty’s through a friend of a friend, and I’d wandered in with no expectations and gotten the job. Just for the summer, I thought. Three summers later I’m still here. After one of those increasingly rare calls from my folks, I try to convince myself that I’m collecting information for a novel that I’ll probably never write. Mostly I’m drifting and watching. It suits me, at least for now.” So begins the latest short story from New York Times bestselling mystery author Sheila Connolly. Loosely based on an old Irish ballad, The Rising of the Moon tells the tale of a young bartender at an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and how, together with the community, he takes a stand against crime. In addition to the story, readers will get a sneak peek into the first book in Sheila’s new County Cork Mystery Series, Buried in a Bog.
Focusing on the family background of young homeless people, this study examines: leaving home and family conflict in both disrupted and non-disrupted households; leaving home and what happens after; and difficult lives - homeless young people compared with young people from the estates.
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