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“waterfront gospel of Father John M. Corridan preached with all the courage of his soldierly progenitor, Francis Xavier, goes right to the heart of our waterfront problem.”
― On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York
― On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York
“Between Hell’s Kitchen and Greenwich Village lay Chelsea, the heart and soul of the Irish waterfront.”
― On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York
― On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York
“The three-and-a-half-week walkout “had little effect on Britain’s decision to grant Ireland independence,” wrote Bruce Nelson, but it did lead to the integration—if short-lived—of African Americans into the Chelsea Piers workforce, the experience of diaspora and oppression briefly uniting black and Irish dockworkers “who had long regarded each other with suspicion and even hatred.”
― On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York
― On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York
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