Michael Corrigan

Confessions of a Shanty Irishman is a hybrid memoir about an Irish American family in San Francisco in the mid-to-late 20th century. It is a coming of age story set in a time of great cultural changes, including pop culture....

When Michael Mulligan and Maria Burke flee Ireland during the famine, she leaves her tyrannical husband, Nathaniel Burke. Maria dies of ship fever on Grosse Isle. Years later, Michael Mulligan, 80, finally returns to Ireland to buy the rotting Burke mansion and burn it to the ground....

These Precious Hours is a collection of related and interconnected stories concerning loss and recovery. At the end, many of the characters meet....

A Year and a Day is a journal of grief kept for a year and a day after I lost my wife suddenly. It is meant to help others who have suffered a grievous loss....

Through a chance encounter, a young film student kills a hitman in self defense and steals mob money to fund his film....