The Boston Globe, December 27th, 1987
THE BIG BOOK OF AMERICAN IRISH CULTURE, Edited by Bob Callahan. Viking. 287 pp. $24.95 (after March 17, $29.95). Illustrated. MR. DOOLEY AND THE CHICAGO IRISH The Autobiography of a Nineteenth-Century Ethnic Group, By Finley Peter Dunne; edited, with a new introduction, by Charles Fanning. Catholic University of America Press. 329 pp. $39.95 ($19.95, paperback). Martin F. Nolan is editor of the Globe's editorial page. The title alone would make many Irish-Americans cringe. Bad songs badly sung about terror and atrocities, acres of made-in-Taiwan plastic shamrocks bobbing in a sea of green beer...
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