irish american women

Grandmother and granddaughter, Cliona and Grainne, drawn together by the haunting beauty of Inis Muruch, the Island of Mermaids off the Irish shore, reflect upon their lives, and their relationships with each other and with Grace, Grainne's mother and Cliona's daughter, who died of breast cancer.

Chronicles the life of Chicago May, an Irish woman who, at age nineteen stole her family's fortune and fled to America, where she worked as a thief, a showgirl, and a prostitute, eventually being tried for robbery and attempted murder in 1901.

Lydia, an Irish American shopgirl marries Henry Wickett, a shy medical student; however, soon after their wedding, Henry quits school to create a mail-order patent medicine and Lydia finds herself working in an experimental ward during the influenza epidemic.

Lydia, an Irish American shopgirl marries Henry Wickett, a shy medical student; however, soon after their wedding, Henry quits school to create a mail-order patent medicine and Lydia finds herself working in an experimental ward during the influenza epidemic.

"The story of a Brooklyn-born woman's life - her family, her neighborhood, her daily trials and triumphs - from childhood to old age"--Provided by the publisher.