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The Shanachie Volume 10, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society Jan 1998

The Shanachie Volume 10, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

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Cry Of The Famishing: Ireland, Connecticut And The Potato Famine, Neil Hogan, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society Jan 1998

Cry Of The Famishing: Ireland, Connecticut And The Potato Famine, Neil Hogan, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society Monographs (CTIAHS)

Cry of the Famishing focuses on the relationship between the Famine in Ireland and the state of Connecticut. Includes why and where Irish emigrants settled in Connecticut, the jobs they held, conflicts that arose between the Yankees and the Irish newcomers, and individual stories of some of the Famine Irish in Connecticut. Illustrated with Famine drawings from newspapers and periodicals of the 1840s and 1850s.


Joy Harjo, Rhonda Pettit Jan 1998

Joy Harjo, Rhonda Pettit

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Who is Joy Harjo? To anyone familiar with Native American writing and/or contemporary poetry, the obvious answer to this question might be: a Native American poet. Readers familiar with her work might also consider her a Western U. S. writer, since she lives in the Southwest and uses Western landscapes and locales as settings, as vehicles for psychological probing, and as subjects endowed with transcendent power. If these labels seem reductive, other cultural and literary locations Harjo occupies complicate the issue of her identity.