From the Sin-e Cafe to the Black Hills :

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish". In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community.

Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-e Cafe in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and Americans of Irish heritage, locating them within a literary and historical context. But this is also a deeply personal book in which Wall wrestles with his own identity as an Irishman living in America, from the streets of Manhattan to the western hills of Nebraska.

Eamonn Wall has lived in New York City and Milwaukee and is now associate professor of English at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

Preface

xi

Exile, Attitude, and the Sin-e Cafe

3

(11)

Notes on the New Irish

The Long Journey Home to Brooklyn

14

(9)

Michael Stephen's Books of the Dead

Immigration, Technology, and Sense of Place

23

(7)

Reading Mary Gordon's Final Payments in America

30

(9)

Four Paintings

39

(7)

Danny Maloney

A Short Story

The Search for Majestic Shades

46

(12)

Contemporary American Poets Migrate to Ireland

Helena Mulkerns on the Lower East Side

58

(11)

Irish Voices, American Writing, and Green Cards

69

(12)

Roger Boylan in His Own Words

81

(10)

Q & A

``Even Better Than the Real Thing''

91

(12)

Brian Moore's The Great Victorian Collection

How Decent People Live

103

(6)

Thomas McGonigle's Going to Patchogue

The Black Hills, the Gorey Road, and Object Lessons

109

(18)

Works Cited

127

(8)

Index

135

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From the Sin-e Cafe to the Black Hills : Notes on the New Irish

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