Celtic WordCraft

02/12/2023

Memphis, 1952. Blessed Martin House blessing of memphis’ first Catholic Worker House.

02/06/2018

https://www.amazon.com/Half-Life-Free-Radical-Growing-Catholic/dp/0975884697

A bravely honest and richly detailed account of growing up in Jim Crow Memphis on the white side of the color line in the midst of a large Irish-Catholic family in the Baptist Bible Belt. Glimpses of Ida B. Wells, Mother Jones, Boss Crump, Dorothy Day Martin Luther King, Jr., and Elvis Presley gi...

03/30/2017

Glad to see all these folk at my book talk tonight. Two Memphis natives and a few with Irish Catholic roots kept me honest!

02/05/2017

New shipment of books! Order yours today.

11/26/2016

Another good review.

Recall the history of Iraq over the past thirty-six years. Recall its wars, its invasions, its occupation, its no-fly zones, its sectarian slaughter and its dictatorships. Now imagine this series …

11/07/2016

Another good review!

11/06/2016

John X says: "Read it! A very good book."

09/24/2016

Ed Kinane likes a good read.

09/19/2016

09/18/2016

Some old friends with young and dear hearts.

08/24/2016

If you missed my book talk at Malaprop's here it is: thanks to Ellen Thomas.

Clare Hanrahan, Author of "The Half Life of a Free Radical" -

Part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7bAm5wTK-0
Part 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v99_PPFLqgU

Clare Hanrahan, activist and author, reads from her new book, "The Half-Life of a Free Radical: Growing Up Irish Catholic in Jim Crow Memphis" at Malaprops B...