![]() ![]() The book intertwines the stories of a penniless single mother raising her daughter in the Five Points slum in 1870, a young artist who travels from Ireland in 1960 intent on becoming a Broadway actor, and an Irish billionaire who comes to New York in 2010 in search of the link that ties them all together. ![]() Gone to Amerikay, written by Derek McCulloch and illustrated by Colleen Doran, was inspired by Thousands Are Sailing, a Pogues ballad about generations of Irish emigrants travelling "across the western ocean to a land of opportunity". "DC COMICS, the publisher of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, has launched a graphic novel about Irish immigrants to New York, which draws inspiration from a song by the band The Pogues. ![]()
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