Confessions of a Shanty Irishman

Written by Michael Corrigan

Narrated by Marlin May

Confessions of a Shanty Irishman is a hybrid memoir, with some fictional elements about an Irish American Catholic family in San Francisco during the mid to late 20th century. It is a coming of age story. It is also a love story.

Here is an excerpt from a review: "'Michael Corrigan proves that the American Irish have their own magical way with words in his spellbinding memoir of growing up on the wrong side of Market Street in San Francisco…But the secularization of a good Irish Catholic boy under the too strong temptations of the later 20th century is just the bare bones of what ‘Confessions of a Shanty Irishman’ is about. Like all great Irish literature, this book is about death and family, what holds people together and what pulls them apart.” Gerald Nicosia, San Francisco Chronicle.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Author's Republic
• Release date: Mar 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9781662181443

Michael Corrigan

Michael Corrigan was born and raised in San Francisco, California. He holds an MA in English from San Francisco State and attended the American Film Institute to study screenwriting. He taught English and speech communications at Idaho State University. His books include Confessions of a Shanty Irishman, A Year and a Day, a grief memoir published by Idaho State University press, and These Precious Hours, now an audiobook read by Alex Hyde White. He has been active in theatre and worked with Sam Shepard and Peter Coyote. NPR broadcast Corrigan’s play, Letters From Rebecca, and he was nominated for a Pushcart prize for the story, “Free fall.” Mulligan, a novel, is his seventh book. His most recent novel is The Dean Sisters.