From the Bottom Up : The Story of the Irish in Kansas City

by Pat O'Neill

For a lonesome immigrant, home was the country he or she left behind. For many of us Irish-Americans, our image of home involves a parish, a school and the house we grew up in. Having grown up as part of an extended Catholic family in a neighborhood that included lots of other Irish-American families, when I think of "home," I picture a front porch, a rusty glider, a postage-stamp yard with a patch or two of grass, and a church bell tower poking up...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0996587101
• ISBN13: 9780996587105
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Seat "O" Pants Publishing