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acreage called Shamrock Farm that he bought in Iowa: “All about the place, there is a feeling of the past, an echo of men working in the fields and wives hanging the wash, and children playing in the dust of the driveway....of ghosts and broken dreams.”
• On his love of all things Irish: “I don’t remember exactly when I discovered I was Irish... (my parents) were of the generation that strove to leave immigrant roots behind them and join the melting-pot middle class....they recalled too vividly the ‘no Irish need apply mentality of earlier years....rejecting melting-pot homogenization, I chose to recognize and celebrate what was bred in the bone and blood.”.
Illustrated with photos of a life’s journey, Gannon’s book is as much autobiographical and philosophical as it is journalistic. There are pieces on wars
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