"Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document, one of this century's most significant and influential artistic statements on identity, represents the ultimate merging of feminism and minimalist performativity. . . . It is an extraordinary work that is viscerally experienced rather than statically received."--Maurice Berger, New School for Social Research
Evan and Hannah have found a robin in the snow. It's not moving, and they soon realize that the tiny robin is stuck! They call the RSPCA and an inspector arrives to help. It's snowing heavily and they need to act fast. Can the RSPCA perform a snowy robin rescue? An exciting, inspiring story based on a real-life animal rescue. With illustrations throughout and lots of facts about robins and the RSPCA.
Enshrining a Fateful Memory
Focusing on the Irish experience in America, this work places Ireland's Great Famine at the center of the modern ethnic narrative. It offers a fresh perspective on how the Famine influenced Irish-American identity and legacy, presenting a compact synthesis that highlights its significance in shaping historical and cultural contexts. The book challenges conventional approaches, emphasizing the Famine's lasting impact on the Irish diaspora and its broader implications in American history.
The Story of Baby Jesus retold using simple language to help beginner readers develop reading stamina. Follow Mary and Joseph as they travel to Bethlehem in this magical retelling of the Christmas story.
In a hidden Ireland where fishermen and tenant farmers find solace in their ancient faith, songs, stories, and communal celebrations, young Honora Keeley and Michael Kelly wed and start a family. Because they and their countrymen must sell both their catch and their crops to pay exorbitant rents, potatoes have become their only staple food. But when blight destroys the potatoes three times in four years, a callous government and uncaring landlords turn a natural disaster into The Great Starvation that will kill one million. Honora and Michael vow their children will live. The family joins two million other Irish refugees--victims saving themselves--in the emigration from Ireland. Danger and hardship await them in America. Honora, her unconventional sister Máire, and their seven sons help transform Chicago from a frontier town to the "City of the Century." The boys go on to fight in the Civil War and enlist in the cause of Ireland's freedom. Spanning six generations and filled with joy, sadness, and heroism, GALWAY BAY sheds brilliant light on the ancestors of today's forty-four million Irish Americans--and is a universal story you will never forget.
In time for Scorsese's 80th birthday and the release of Killers of the Flower Moon, a new edition of the seminal oral history tracing Scorsese's journey from young filmmaker to legend, featuring a foreword by Steven Spielberg číst celé
In this collection of writings from 1976 to 1995, Mary Kelly asks questions about the analysis of current practices in art and makes arguments for a criticism informed by semiotics, psychoanalysis and feminism.
Of Irish Blood is a heartfelt story of Irish-American history from the acclaimed Irish-American author of the bestselling Galway Bay.
One wet Monday afternoon a body is found in a closed tank of liquid clay at Shentall's long-established pottery. Present at the irruption of this alien violence is Nicholson, a freelance detective engaged by Luke Shentall to investigate the leakage of new designs to foreign imitators. Nicholson reviews what has passed, from his arrival to the gathering tension of the hours before the crime, knowing that no scrap of behaviour may be dismissed as irrelevant. He gradually succumbs to the spirit of Shentall's, to the unique atmosphere of the blackened Midlands city, and to his feeling for the chief suspect, Corinna Wakefield, the firm's designer. In the investigation which follows Nicholson is driven, with a bitterly divided mind, to reveal what he knows will bring unhappiness to all involved.
Irish-American author Mary Pat Kelly draws upon family history to craft another striking work of historical fiction featuring Chicago-born heroine Nora Kelly.