Confessions of a Shanty Irishman is a hybrid memoir, with some fictional elements about an Irish American Catholic family in San Francisco during the mid to late 20th century. It is a coming of age story. It is also a love story.Here is an excerpt from a review: "'Michael Corrigan proves that the American Irish have their own magical way with words in his spellbinding memoir of growing up on the wrong side of Market Street in San Francisco…But the secularization of a good Irish Cat...

Can a person born into a nomadic culture find a home? When Michael Mulligan and Maria Burke flee Ireland during the famine, she leaves her tyrannical husband, Nathaniel Burke, and Mulligan abandons a secret society of Irish freedom fighters.

Broken dreams aren't always the pits. With this collection of interconnected stories, Corrigan weaves together a narrative of love and loss as Declan Mulligan visits Ireland after the loss of his wife, Dexter Flanagan writes a love song and Sean Dineen travels to Paraguay for his son's weeding."Narrator Alex Hyde-White changes locale, accent, and personality in an instant as he moves from an Idaho Shoshone reservation invaded by Mexican gangs to a Gettysburg battlefield where a rel...

Idaho author Michael Corrigan joins together his series of short stories of doppelganger Michael Mulligan, circa 1860's to early 20th Century, into this lyrical and surreal historical fiction biography.

These Precious Hours is a collection of related and interconnected stories concerning loss and recovery. At the end, many of the characters meet.Declan Mulligan has lost a wife and visits Ireland to connect with a remote past. Dexter Flanagan has lost a beautiful woman to another, but writes a great love song. After a personal tragedy, Sean Dineen joins his ailing ex-wife to see the wedding of their son in Paraguay.About the author: Michael Corrigan holds an MA in English fro...

Can a person born into a nomadic culture find a home? When Michael Mulligan and Maria Burke flee Ireland during the famine, she leaves her tyrannical husband, Nathaniel Burke, and Mulligan abandons a secret society of Irish freedom fighters.

Broken dreams aren't always the pits. "Narrator Alex Hyde-White changes locale, accent, and personality in an instant as he moves from an Idaho Shoshone reservation invaded by Mexican gangs to a Gettysburg battlefield where a relative who is a Civil War hero rests." ( AudioFile)

After a fatal one night stand, a young film student named Steven Demko kills a hitman in self defense and steals mob money to help fund his film. He attends the American Film Institute, but while facing temptation in the Hollywood world of glamor and hidden gold, he finds himself the object of a hunt by a police detective and the mob, including the hitman's brother. Will the film ever get made? Who will show up on the set, and might be an odd collaborator? In the tradition of "Get Shorty,"...

William Faulkner continues to be an author who is widely read, studied, and admired. This book provides a new and interdisciplinary account of Faulkner's legacy, arguing that his fiction is just as relevant today as it was during his own time. Indeed, Faulkner's far-reaching critique of his Southern heritage speaks directly to the anti-racism discourse of our own time and engages the dire threat to subjecthood in a technologically saturated civilization. Combining literary critique with ne...

The “transmigration of souls is no fable. I would it were, but men and women are only half human.” With these words, Ralph Waldo Emerson confronts a dilemma that illuminates the formation of American individualism: to evolve and become fully human requires a heightened engagement with history. Americans, Emerson argues, must realize history’s chronology in themselves—because their own minds and bodies are its evolving record.Whereas scholarship has tended to minimize the mystical u...

First published in 1899, The Catholic's Pocket Prayer-Book is a devotional manual compiled from approved sources. This volume offers a selection of prayers, meditations, and liturgical texts designed for personal use, particularly by those unable to attend regular services. It bears the imprimatur of Archbishop Michael Augustine Corrigan, ensuring its conformity with Catholic doctrine.Michael Augustine Corrigan (1839-1902) was a prominent American Roman Catholic prelate who served ...

"In an evidence-driven era, gathering comprehensive data will enable schools to meet their academic goals and to engage in a holistic approach to education."—Avis Glaze, PresidentEdu-Quest International Inc., Valhalla, NY"The challenges facing educators today are immense and the pressure to ′perform′ is clearly evident. This book provides a fresh and compelling argument to look far beyond test score performance when measuring success in our schools."...