The Irish American Family Album

This wonderful little book brings the Irish-American experience alive through the words of the people who lived it. Divided into six chapters, the book contains a selection of extracts from memoirs, showing the individual's "on the scene" view of what was happening. Plus, along the way, the reader is treated to numerous informative sidebars, and many interesting black-and-white pictures. Overall, I found this to be a very interesting book. Indeed, being something of an oral history of such a vast and varied experience, it is bound to only hit the highlights. But, that said, what this book sets out to do it does admirably. I really enjoyed reading the many reminisces of what happened, showing the life of the Irish-American from all of its many sides. This is a great book, one that I am glad that I read, and one that I do not hesitate to recommend. Buy it!