The Irish Connection and Other Stories

The Irish Connection and Other Stories is a collection, each short story self-contained, yet interconnected and focused on the "Irish" experience. Michael Mulligan flees the famine with the wife of a tyrannical Anglo Irish landlord; over a century and a half later, Declan Mulligan researches the legacy of his mysterious great great grandfather, the same Michael Mulligan: cavalry officer at Gettysburg, secret assassin and theatre producer. Between these bookends appear other stories: two sisters survive the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, a young black woman goes to Ireland to find her Irish roots, a promising woman writer faces cancer, and an ailing retired Jewish lawyer has a magical moment on the Aran Islands.