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This unique book explores the connections between events of Irish history and their effects on the Irish. It defines the Irish-cultural personality, examines Romantic "Uncatholic" visions of Yeats and Fitzgerald, Realistic Catholic visions of Joyce, Farrell and O'Connor and how they contrast with and parallel each other. Of Cops and Priests is about American Irish-Catholicism: loyality, family, religion, sex, guilt and repentence found in the works of Hogan, Breslin, Dunne, Uhnak, Gordon, O'Connor, Wolfe, Reardon and Daley. It examines the replacement of the collective stereotypes of Irish-American fiction by dynamically evolved figures as discussed by Spencer and illustrated by Hamil, Powers, and Hynes.
About the author
The Author: Dennis J. Carroll is an assistant professor of English at St. John's University where he received his doctorate in English Literature. He teaches at Notre Dame College at St. John's University, and has taught at the College of Staten Island, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, both of the City University of New York and St. John's Univeristy School of Graduate Education and Human Services. His writings have appeared in the
New York Times Book Review, New York Newsday, Catholic New York and the
Voice of First Army. He served as a senior Internal Review officer on the special staff of the 77th United States Army Reserve Command's Internal Review Division.
Report
"Your take on this area is fresh; by no means the usual one. You've entered a rich terrain and I found it all very interesting." (Tom Wolfe, Author of 'The Bonfire of the Vanities')
"An interesting, provocative and entertaining study of Irish-American fiction and the cops and priests who people it". (Veronica M.S. Kennedy, St. John's University)
