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What's on UT professor Kathleen Ochshorn's nightstand?
By Piper Castillo, Times Staff Writer
Published March 16, 2008
Kathleen Ochshorn's Irish Protestant ancestors would not have celebrated St. Patrick's Day. Yet Ochshorn, who teaches contemporary Irish lit at the University of Tampa and edits the Tampa Review, knew many people who did: "I grew up in an Irish Catholic neighborhood in New York."
What is on your nightstand? I'm rereading The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor. What sparked the rereading? This book is elegiac. It's a tribute both to the beauty of rural Ireland and to the complex attachments and conflicting claims of the Anglo-Irish and the Catholic majority. ... In 1920, a 7-year-old Protestant girl runs away, refusing to leave Ireland with her parents after their home is attacked and their dogs poisoned. Piper Castillo, Times staff writer, is reachable at pcastillo@sptimes.com.
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