Tales from the Irish Club

Year of Publication
1996
Publication Type
Short Stories
Number of Pages or Episodes
132 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Lester Goran
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
City
Kent, OH
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Abstract
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.
Notes
Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Carnegie Mellon University is Carnegie Tech; Carlow University is Mt. Mercy College.
Author Biography
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.
Time
1940s-70s
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