Luck Was a Stranger: A Memoir
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Born into a prosperous Irish family, Bill Cooney had his life planned out for him before it even began. His mother told him he was destined for the priesthood. His father wanted him to be a doctor. But what he wanted most was to be free. He got out from under the controlling forces of his parents and the Church, to make his own way, leaving for the frontier land of Canada, a journey that took him from prosperity to poverty, and finally, to America, the promised land, where he found that dreams do come true, and nightmares as well.
William R. Cooney
William R. Cooney was born in 1927 in County Westmeath, Ireland. In 1956, he boarded a boat to Canada for adventures in the Great White North. He immigrated to America in 1959, where he lives today, in Queens, New York, with his wife, Pat.
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