Reflections from "That Further Shore": A Constitutional Lawyer's Immigrant Family History
John D. Feerick, Photo Fordham University School of Law
The book in its initial stages (18 years ago) was to be a story of my parents, both of whom emigrated to America from Ireland in their late teens. The idea of writing such a book, rather than on the Constitution as my earlier book efforts, developed at the end of the decade after their deaths in the late 1980's. I felt the pain of their loss very deeply, and began in 1989 to make trips in the summer period to Ireland to learn more about them as children... Читать дальше...