Everything Irish

by Judy Wells

Poetry. Judy Wells' sixth poetry collection, EVERYTHING IRISH, is a "family memoir in verse...at once a poignant poetic documentary of Irish-Catholic girlhood and a rollicking riot of laughs"--Bridget Connelly. "EVERYTHING IRISH says it all for me. She captures the times all of 'Our Girls' were haunted by a wayward Holy Ghost, a perfect Holy Mary, a thundering Holy Father. She inspires me to remember the times Saint Anthony found everything for me (and still does), and PleaseGod got me out of a fix (and still does). I know exactly what she means when she says, 'and your lips get purser and purser/ and kapowie and kapowie inside...' because she means exactly, precisely, excruciatingly, that a Catholic Girlhood will never leave you even if you try to say goodbye"--Mary Norbert Korte.

112 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 1999