书本目录:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction: Memory, History, and the Shaping of the Irish American Present
  • Chapter 2 On why this book should and should not begin with Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • Chapter 3 Edward McSorley and Irish America's Coming of Age
  • Chapter 4 A Community Deformed in Mary Doyle Curran's The Parish and the Hill
  • Chapter 5 “Good Catholic Radicals”: Harry Sylvester's Moon Gaffney and Irish American Catholicism at Mid-Century
  • Chapter 6 How the Other Half Lives: Ellin Berlin’s Lace Curtain
  • Chapter 7 John Steinbeck’s Irish Grandfather: Samuel Hamilton, East of Eden, and Post World War II Irish American Fiction
  • Chapter 8 The Last Hurrah for a Way of Life: The Private Side of Edwin O’Connor’s Famous Novel
  • Conclusion - Communities in Jeopardy.