Irish and Italian Catholics in New York - IrishCentral
2015年7月30日 · To Father Lynch – and the mostly-Irish clergy in New York – “the Italians' enthused celebrations captured much of what was wrong about their approach to religion. The Irish shunned such loud ...
Silence and secrets permeate an immigrant enclave in Colm ... - NPR
2024年5月9日 · Tóibín's latest, a sequel to his 2009 novel, Brooklyn, is a devastating portrait of an Irish immigrant whose Italian American husband is expecting a baby with another woman.
The love-hate story of New York’s Irish and Italians - U.S. Catholic
2015年12月18日 · Al Capone, Mother Cabrini, Mayor Jimmy Walker, and Tammany boss “Big Tim” Sullivan are among the characters who fascinate in An Unlikely Union, Paul Moses’ lively account of Irish-Italian relations in New York City. Moses persuasively argues that the Irish’s earlier arrival in New York gave them the edge—in the church, workforce ...
St. Patrick’s Day: Once divided, how two Catholic immigrant …
2018年3月16日 · St. Patrick’s Day falls on March 17 and is widely celebrated as an Irish holiday. Patrick converted Ireland to Christianity in the fifth century, forever changing the belief system of the island nation.
Recollections of a Bronx Irish Catholic - Irish America
In the 1950s, the Bronx was a melting pot of immigrants and first-generation families: Jewish, Italian, and Irish alike. Peter Quinn shares his story of what it was like to be a Bronx Irish Catholic, commonly referred to as a B.I.C.
Silence and secrets permeate an immigrant enclave in Colm
2024年5月9日 · "Long Island" opens in 1976, when a strange man appears at Eilis' door and bluntly announces that Tony has impregnated his wife. The humdrum stasis of Eilis' suburban world shatters, as if...
Colm Toibin: In Long Island, Catholic propriety vs a love affair
2024年5月1日 · In “Brooklyn,” beguiling, willful young Irishwoman Eilis Lacey shocked her small-town Irish circle by leaving to marry Italian-American Tony Fiorello. “Long Island” finds her now (1976) the...
An Unlikely Union: The love-hate story of New York’s Irish and …
2015年3月18日 · In the nineteenth century and for long after, the Irish and Italians fought in the Catholic Church, on the waterfront, at construction sites, and in the streets. Then they made peace through romance, marrying each other on a large scale in the years after World War II.
Colm Tóibín on the Irish setting of his book 'Long Island' - Oprah …
2024年5月23日 · For Eilis, the real world became three or four rooms in that small house on Long Island. She put much of her energy and her considerable intelligence into raising her two children. Tony, her husband, remained charming, good-humored, considerate.
A queer perspective on Tóibín’s ‘Long Island (2024). When the …
2024年6月7日 · A queer perspective on Tóibín’s ‘Long Island (2024). When the feisty Eilis tells her Italian-American husband, Tony, that his brother Frank ‘is one of those men’, Tony holds his breath in shock before he bullies Eilis into perpetual silence about it: “you will never say this again. Ever. Not to me or to anyone”.