Of memory and the misplaced: Irish immigrant life writing in the United States

Part I. Memory and the Irish in the United States. Social frameworks of memory

Irish American memory narratives

Life writing and the Irish immigrant

Part II. Life writing. Note of introduction

Edmond Ronayne's memoir (1899-1900)

Mary Jane Hill Anderson's memoir (1922)

Nora O'Connor's memoir (1947)

Margaret McGuinness's memoir (1973)

Part III. Narratives of proximity. Note of introduction

Abridged memoirs