TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Irish Americans
KW - Polish Americans
KW - Hungarian Americans
KW - polka
KW - police
KW - Protestants
KW - Jewish Americans
AU - Lester Goran
AB - Goran’s third collection of short stories set in Pittsburgh's Irish Club: the 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.
C1 - 1945-73
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail; Oakland; Forbes Field; Mellon Institute; Pitt Stadium; Syria Mosque; Carlow University; St. Agnes School; University of Pittsburgh; Cathedral of Learning; Hotel Schenley; Stephen Collins Foster Memorial; Schenley High School; Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; Carnegie Museum; St. Paul Cathedral; St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church; St. Peter’s Episcopal Church; Allegheny County Juvenile Court; Ancient Order of Hibernians Local No. 9; Pittsburgh Athletic Association; Point Breeze; Hill District; Uptown; Duquesne University; Squirrel Hill; Central Catholic High School; Schenley Park; Carnegie Mellon University; Greenfield; South Side; East Liberty; North Side; Troy Hill; Central Northside; Allegheny General Hospital; South Side; Jones & Laughlin Steel; Moon Twp.; Robert Morris University; Pittsburgh International Airport; Neville Island; Sharpsburg; Dormont; Crafton; Homestead; Monroeville; Marshall Twp.; Thorn Hill Reformatory (Allegheny County Industrial and Training School for Boys); Fayette County; Connellsville
C4 - Literary; Historical
CY - Kent, OH
LA - English
M3 - Short Stories
N1 - <p>Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Carlow University is Mt. Mercy College; Robert Morris University is Robert Morris College; Carnegie Mellon University is Carnegie Institute of Technology. Allegheny County Industrial and Training School for Boys is referred to as Thorn Hill Reformatory, as it was commonly known.</p>
N2 - Goran’s third collection of short stories set in Pittsburgh's Irish Club: the 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.
PB - Kent State University Press
PP - Kent, OH
PY - 1999
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 - 358 p.
TI - Outlaws of the Purple Cow and Other Stories
ER -