Kirkus Reviews
Lightly mixing personal and family experience with an idiosyncratic
social history of Irish immigration, Mathieus first book draws
on her
travels to Ireland and her interviews with the Irish in rural
Roscrea and environs and in New York City to survey the landscape
of emigration
in Ireland and in the US. The author arrived in the small town
of Roscrea, County Tipperary, in central Ireland, the year after
she finished
college, hoping to "discover who stays in these unreconciled
parts of the world, and ultimately who leaves them.'' MORE
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