Irish on the Inside

Tom Hayden first realized he was ''Irish on the inside'' when he heard civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland singing ''We Shall Overcome'' in 1969. Though his great-grandparents had been forced to emigrate to the US in the 1850s, Hayden''s parents erased his Irish heritage in the quest for respectability. In this passionate book he explores the losses wrought by such conformism. Assimilation, ...