Bagpipe Brothers
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America
American history
Author_Kerry Sheridan
Bagpipe
Bagpipe Band
bagpiping
Bagpiping ritual.
Body recovery
brothers
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commemoration
community
culture
duty
Emerald Society
Emerald Society Bagpipe Band
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FDNY
Firefighters
funeral
Funeral bagpiping
Funerals
Grief
Ground Zero
healing
history
humanitarian
instruments
Irish American
Irish American culture
Irish American tradition
memory
Mourning
musician
National tragedy
New York City
NYC
Recovery
remembrance
solidarity
support
terrorism
terrorist
terrorist attack
tradition
traditional
tragedy
trauma
World Trade Center
World Trade Center terrorist attacks
Product details
- ISBN 9780813538617
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 May 2004
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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After the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attacks, New York City's Emerald Society Bagpipe Band of firefighter-musicians took out their instruments and prepared to bury their dead--343 brothers in duty and in blood. Many firefighters alternated between playing their instruments at funerals and digging for the missing in the rubble of Ground Zero. The Irish American tradition of funeral bagpiping became the sound of mourning for an entire nation.
Bagpipe Brothers tells the unforgettable story of four firefighters in the band, who struggled to bring peace to their families and themselves while searching for the dead, coping with the endless round of funerals, and rethinking the meaning of faith. Their experiences illustrate the grief and recovery of the nation in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
Kerry Sheridan has written the first book to cover the ordeal of the massive number of funerals, the importance of recovering bodies in Irish American culture, and the bagpiping ritual, both traditional and modern.
Bagpipe Brothers tells the unforgettable story of four firefighters in the band, who struggled to bring peace to their families and themselves while searching for the dead, coping with the endless round of funerals, and rethinking the meaning of faith. Their experiences illustrate the grief and recovery of the nation in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
Kerry Sheridan has written the first book to cover the ordeal of the massive number of funerals, the importance of recovering bodies in Irish American culture, and the bagpiping ritual, both traditional and modern.
KERRY SHERIDAN is an editor on the Middle East desk of Agence France Presse in Cyprus. She has worked as a freelance correspondent in Cairo, Egypt, and has written for the San Francisco Chronicle and Irish American newspapers in New York and California.
