Ebook {Epub PDF} Light of the Diddicoy by Eamon Loingsigh

 · "Eamon Loingsigh's book LIGHT OF THE DIDDICOY is an amazing series of literary leaps from terra firma into the stratosphere above. The writing embraces you, and his description of the savagery visited on poor people is offset by the humor and love of the traditional Irish community. Yes there is laughter here too and it is a grand read, leaving Author: Eamon Loingsigh. “Eamon Loingsigh’s book Light of the Diddicoy is an amazing series of literary leaps from terra firma into the stratosphere above. Don’t leave the store without this book.”–Malachy McCourt, author, A Monk Swimming, Malachy McCourt’s History of Ireland “Light of the Diddicoy is written with tremendous flavor and panache, and within its pages is a profound understanding that.  · Light of the Diddicoy by Eamon Loingsigh. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, ,

--Historical Novel Society "Eamon Loingsigh's book LIGHT OF THE DIDDICOY is an amazing series of literary leaps from terra firma into the stratosphere above. The writing embraces you, and his description of the savagery visited on poor people is offset by the humor and love of the traditional Irish community. "Eamon Loingsigh is a poet with a pickaxe-and a scalpel attached to the working end. In LIGHT OF THE DIDDICOY, he depicts the Brooklyn Waterfront of the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries, and the Irish who controlled it, with hammer-blow prose and spare dialogue. "Eamon Loingsigh's book Light of the Diddicoy is an amazing series of literary leaps from terra firma into the stratosphere above. Don't leave the store without this book."-Malachy McCourt, author, A Monk Swimming, Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland "Light of the Diddicoy is written with tremendous flavor and panache, and within its pages is a profound understanding that.

Light of the Diddicoy by Eamon Loingsigh. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , Author Eamon Loingsigh reads from Light of the Diddicoy (Three Rooms Press, March ), his excellent historical fiction novel about Irish gangs of Brooklyn. Light of the Diddicoy, by Irish-American commentator Eamon Loingsigh, is the riveting and immersive saga of Irish gangs on the Brooklyn waterfront in the early part of the twentieth century, told through the eyes of 14 year-old Irish immigrant Liam Garrity.