New England Journal of Public Policy Volume 9 | Issue 1 Article 9 6-21-1993 Good-bye to All That: The Rise and Demise of Irish America Shaun O'Connell University of Massachusetts Boston,
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[email protected]. I Good-bye to The Rise and All That Demise of Irish America Shaun O'Connell The works discussed in this article include: The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley 1874-1958, by Jack Beatty. 571 pages. Addison -Wesley, 1992. $25.00. JFK: Reckless Youth, by Nigel Hamilton. 898 pages. Random House, 1992. $30.00. Textures of Irish America, by Lawrence J. McCaffrey. 236 pages. Syracuse University Press, 1992. $29.95. Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, by James M. O'Toole. 324 pages. University of Notre Dame Press, 1992. $30.00. When I was growing up in a Boston suburb, three larger-than-life public figures defined what it meant to be an Irish-American.