Boss CrokerIn 1846 the Crokers, a Presbyterian landlord family, flee famine stricken West Cork aboard the Henry Clay, survive shipwreck and land in New York. There they are confronted with the grim realities of the teeming city poverty, prostitution, and street gangs. In this world their youngest son, Richard Eyre Boss Croker (1841 1922) thrives. Through sheer ambition, the barely literate Croker engineer, prize fighter, fixer, union organizer battles his way

As they sail to their first posting in India

The Waking of Willie Ryan reveals John Broderick as one of the most incisive chroniclers of mid‑century Ireland

The Workshop’s reputation was established in 1986 by its first collection

organizing a soup-kitchen

annual visits to London

‘‘No lasting solutions to the problems of war

Flann O’Brien locates his insect drama in Dublin

Caught on the wing

prostitution

one of the most innovative French chefs

so that we are in fact becoming a bourgeois nation

it conveys more of Joyce's personality and style of talk than several dozen of the many other books poured out on him