by Billy Gogan | Dec 12, 2016 | Book Signings
On Saturday June 11, 2016, a heat wave rolled over the city of Chicago. It was well into the 90’s and you could cut through the humidity with a knife. As most Chicagoans are concerned, it was just a sunny summer day in the city. The weather didn’t...
by Billy Gogan | Apr 29, 2016 | The Book
The Billy Gogan Story Cycle will encompass a four-volume fictional memoir told by an old Army general of his adventures as a young man in the prime of his youth—and in the prime of his adopted country’s youth. The first volume, Billy Gogan: The Memoir of an American,...
by Billy Gogan | Jun 12, 2015 | The Book
“Billy Gogan – American” begins its journey in social media.
by Billy Gogan | Jun 12, 2015 | The Time Period
The Great Famine (Irish: an Gorta Mór) or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852.
by Billy Gogan | Jun 12, 2015 | The Book
Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine. Billy Gogan’s father has just died in a British prison, and Billy has been cast from cousin Seamus’s house and forced to make his way to America. Billy and his traveling companions, a destitute Irish peasant woman named Máire...
