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In a style reminiscent of Bill Bryson, O’Connor recounts his extraordinary tour of the United States, visiting the nine different towns called Dublin as well as some of the great cities and tiny hamlets in between. His coast-to-coast tour begins in New Hampshire, continuing south all the way to Texas before turning west towards Nevada and on to California. Along the way, he charts the Irish immigrant experience and exposes the intertwined roots of American music, from Irish ballads to jazz, country, blues and gospel. Sweet Liberty is a hilarious and poignant book which celebrates the breathtaking diversity of the Irish influence on America – and discovers along the way a town called Dublin that does not have one single pub within its limits.
Picador 1996
Translated into: Albanian
Carole Blake
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