Shanty Irish

Memories of an Irish-American growing up log-shack poor in small-town Ohio

“Shanty Irish is a window, cracked and soiled, into a time and a place and a people before the moving pictures became an American obsession, people who had to create their own dreams, invent their own stories, and find escape from hopeless lives in hard liquor or the cold comfort of a promised Hereafter.”—from the foreword by John Sayles

Jim Tully was an American writer who enjoyed critical acclaim and commercial succe...