Mulligan: A Civil War Journey

Written by Michael Corrigan

Narrated by Alex Hyde-White

Can a person born into a nomadic culture find a home? When Michael Mulligan and Maria Burke flee Ireland during the famine, she leaves her tyrannical husband, Nathaniel Burke, and Mulligan abandons a secret society of Irish freedom fighters. 

Michael Corrigan is an American author. He has an English MA from San Francisco State and his story “Free Fall” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His work includes “These Precious Hours” and “A Year and a Day.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: SAGA Egmont
• Release date: Aug 12, 2020
• ISBN: 9788726576245

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.