Tag: Irish

Cinders to Satin

May 18, 2018

Today we focus on a Staten Island novel whose protagonist is a spunky Irish lass from Dublin. In “Cinders to Satin” (1984) by Fern Michaels, Callie James immigrates to New York during the Potato Famine but before she is allowed to begin her new life is forced to endure some time in Staten Island’s Quarantine … More Cinders to Satin

Tom Grogan

May 18, 2018

The earliest entry in the canon of Staten Island fiction is F. Hopkinson Smith’s “Tom Grogan” from 1896, a polemical novel which purports to expose the evils of organized labor and in which the members of labor unions play a villainous role. Mary Grogan is an Irish-American stevedore foreman who is supervising the unloading of … More Tom Grogan