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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Mike Barry & the KY.Irish American

Mike Barry & the KY.Irish American

Crews, Clyde F.

Hardcover

Writing InstructionGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0813118980
ISBN13: 9780813118987
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: Jul 14 1995
Pages: 184
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.72 Depth: 8.76
Language: English

The Kentucky Irish American began life in 1898 as one of many ethnic newspapers in America, but by its final years it attracted an avid national audience of many ethnicities. From 1925, the KIA was owned and edited by the Barry family of Louisville: by John J. Barry to 1950, and by his son Michael to its demise in 1968.

This anthology focuses on the Mike Barry years--a time of Cold War and Vietnam, of Kennedy, Nixon, McCarthy, Goldwater, and Happy Chandler. Under Mike's brilliant editorship, the KIA offered its readers a richly textured, pungent voice that combined humor with a constant push for social improvement in Kentucky and in the nation.

Always the KIA was strong in its support of all things Irish, Catholic, and American. It was also an acerbic commentator on the absurdities of Kentucky politics. But the KIA was notable--and noticed--for its strong positions on national and international issues.
Red Smith once described the KIA as all the excuse any man needs for learning to read. Today's readers can now discover the pleasures of a livelier era in journalism.

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