Subject: New York (N.Y.) -- Biography (Keywords)

His father conceived of the Brooklyn Bridge, but it was Washington Roebling who built this iconic feat of human engineering after his father's tragic death. It has stood for more than 130 years and is now as much a part of New York as the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. Yet, as re...

From one of the food world's brightest young stars, this is a brash, moving, and potent take on the first-generation immigrant's journey - and a bold redefinition of American identity for the 21st century.

As a young girl Alice Carey came to realise that 'home' can mean different things. Raised in New York by Kerry immigrants in search of a better life Alice sometimes visited Ireland with her mother, travelling steerage on ocean liners. The radical contrast between 1960s rural Ireland and cosmopoli...