Crossing Highbridge : A Memoir of Irish America Hardback
by Maureen Waters
Part of the Irish Studies series
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An evocotive tale of coming to womanhood in the disorienting 1960s-a girl in the world of nuns and the Holy Ghost-but on a deeper level, this is a story of a woman who has suffered unimaglnable loss and attempts to make sense of that loss by re-imagining her past and her own Irish-American heritage.
The first in her family born in the United States, Maureen grew up the ""Bronx Irish"" daughter of two unforgettable immigrants: her storytelling, former revolutionary father, and her fierce, IRA-supporting mother.
Crossing Higbbridge is framed by the accidental death of Waters's son and her struggle to make sense of this loss by re-imagining her past and her heritage.
Her life in postwar New York City was colored by Catholicism and strong cultural links to ""the other side"" - by Irish step dancing, the melodies of Thomas Moore, and the rituals, inflections, and harrowing memories impressed on her.
Sex was a mystery. Schoolgirls wore below-the-knee blue serge uniforms with starched white collars and cuffs.
Brutal treatment at the hands of the hands of the nuns who ran her college drove Waters to transfer to a secular school.
Waters rebelled against an upbringing that seemed to wall her off from the twentieth century.
She married outside the church, divorced, and became a scholar and professor at the City University of New York.
Waters follows in the tradition of her father with this vividly humorous and moving true tale.
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- Pages:149 pages
- Publisher:Syracuse University Press
- Publication Date:30/04/2001
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- ISBN:9780815606826
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:149 pages
- Publisher:Syracuse University Press
- Publication Date:30/04/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780815606826