Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Two Cycles of Irish-American Fiction -- 1. Backgrounds and a Habit of Satire -- 2. The Profession of Novelist: James McHenry and Charles Cannon -- 3. The Famine Generation: Practical Fiction for Immigrants -- 4. Mrs. Sadlier and Father Quigley -- 5. Respectability and Realism: Ambivalent Fictions -- 6. Mr. Egan and Mr. Dooley -- 7. A Generation Lost -- 8. James T. Farrell and Irish-American Fiction -- 9. Regional Realists of the Thirties and Forties -- 10. "These Traits Endure": The Irish Voice in Recent American Fiction -- 11. Liberating Doubleness in the Nineties -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.