Ebook: Booking passage: we Irish & Americans

Traces the author's numerous visits to the Irish community where his grandfather lived one hundred years before, describing his relationships with local residents and how the town and its people reflect the larger outside world.;Prologue: Fit & start -- Introduction: The ethnography of everyday life -- The brother -- The same but different -- Inheritance : a correspondence with Sile de Valera -- Death comes to the young curate : a pilgrim's story -- Bits & pieces -- Great hatred, little room -- The sisters Godhelpus -- Odds & ends -- On some verses by Irish & other poets.