Redemption? Damnation? That is what two old friends meet to discuss over a pint or two in an Irish Pub. It is soon discovered that this is no mere idle debate as two supernatural forces clash over the fate of one Mickey O' Shea.

Based on interviews with tavern owners, musicians, bartenders, and scholars, Chicago's Historic Irish Pubs explores the way the Irish pub defines its block, its neighborhood, and its city.

The Irish pub may survive the meltdown but many will disappear in the process. This book is about those some of those that we hope survive.

In Vanishing New York, he reports on the city’s development in the twenty-first century, a period of "hyper-gentrification" that has resulted in the shocking transformation of beloved neighborhoods and the loss of treasured unofficial ...

When Bill Barich moved to Dublin, he began searching for a traditional pub to serve as his local.

... Irish (Pub) Night's Entertainment, but that he had in mind from the start the situation of the beleaguered and "terrified" dreamer, presumably the precursor of the pub-keeping HCE. I would maintain that those very basic materials were ...

"Aren't you a terrorist?" "There are no roles for people who look like you." "That's a sin." "No girls allowed." They've heard it all. Actress Alia Shawkat reflects on all the parts she was told she was too "ethnic" to play.

They outline the book's basic action, and then simplify -- and clarify -- its complex web of images and allusions. "A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake" is the latest addition to the "Collected Works of Joseph Campbell" series.

Carlene O’Connor ups the ante in her bestselling Irish Village Mystery series, a perfect cozy for fans of Sheila Connolly, Padraig O’Hannon, and Sara Rosett.