TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Irish Americans
KW - Pie Traynor (1898-1972)
KW - social clubs
KW - nuns
KW - priests
KW - police
KW - Protestants
KW - Jewish Americans
AU - Lester Goran
AB - Set in Pittsburgh's Irish Club—nickname of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Local No. 9, in a second floor loft on Oakland Avenue—these stories revolve around the club, a sort of town hall and village green for the close-knit Irish-American community.  The real club closed in 1965.
C1 - 1940s-70s
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; William Penn Hotel; Oakland; Hotel Schenley; Forbes Field; Schenley High School; Carnegie Museum; University of Pittsburgh; Carlow University; Western Psychiatric Hospital; Presbyterian Hospital; St. Paul Cathedral; St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church; St. Agnes School; The Fairfax Apartments; Phipps Conservatory; Syria Mosque; Ancient Order of Hibernians, Local No. 9 (Irish Club); Pittsburgh Athletic Association; Squirrel Hill; Carnegie Mellon University; Central Catholic High School; Taylor Allderdice High School; Schenley Park; Flagstaff Hill; Schenley Oval; Point Breeze; Mellon Park; North Side; South Side;  Jones & Laughlin Steel; Uptown; Duquesne University; Castle Shannon; Monroeville; South Park
C4 - Literary; Historical
CY - Kent, OH
LA - English
M3 - Short Stories
N1 - Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Carnegie Mellon University is Carnegie Tech; Carlow University is Mt. Mercy College.
N2 - Set in Pittsburgh's Irish Club—nickname of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Local No. 9, in a second floor loft on Oakland Avenue—these stories revolve around the club, a sort of town hall and village green for the close-knit Irish-American community.  The real club closed in 1965.
PB - The Kent State University Press
PP - Kent, OH
PY - 1996
RN - Lester Goran (1928-2014), born and raised in a housing project in Pittsburgh's Hill District, was a novelist and professor of English at the University of Miami. He attended Pittsburgh's Fifth Avenue High School and Schenley High School and he earned a BA and MA in English at the University of Pittsburgh. For more than 50 years he wrote fiction set in Pittsburgh. He lived in Miami, Florida.
EP - 132 p.
TI - Tales from the Irish Club
ER -