Crossing Highbridge, a memoir of Irish America, Maureen Waters
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Crossing Highbridge, a memoir of Irish America, Maureen Waters
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Crossing Highbridge
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Maureen Waters
Series statement
Irish studies
Sub title
a memoir of Irish America
Summary
Maureen Waters began writing about the Bronx in the spirit of dinnseachas, Irish place lore, as a means of recuperating from the accidental death of her son, whose story frames her own. Finding her way through the disorienting 1960s, after a girlhood tutored by nuns and inspired by the Holy Ghost, she set out on a kind of spiritual journey to recover what was valuable and life-sustaining in the Irish Catholic experience left behind. Writing her memoir meant coming to terms with the powerful matriarchal voices that inspired both affection and immobilizing guilt. Ultimately, Crossing Highbridge is a tribute to her father, for whom storytelling was an art of healing
Target audience
adult
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Creator
Subject
- Waters, Maureen, 1939- -- Childhood and youth
- Catholics -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Irish American women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Electronic books
- Irish Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Catholic women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
Content
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- Classification1
- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Subject10
- Waters, Maureen, 1939- -- Childhood and youth
- Catholics -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Irish American women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Electronic books
- Irish Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Catholic women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
- Content1