This Thought's on Me

When Steve Coronella moved to Ireland in the early 1990s he thought he knew what to expect - double-digit unemployment a pub on every corner and weather only a duck could love. In his entertaining memoir <i>This Thought's On Me</i> Coronella shares ahumorous and insightful collection of anecdotes about his new life in Dublin and the Boston upbringing he left behind.<p></br>Soon after Coronella arrives the Celtic Tiger economy springs to life. Ireland is suddenly importing workers rather than shipping people out. And as the money and the good times flow a profound self-contentment causes the Irish to forget - almost - the hard decades that preceded the boom. Coronella discovers thatthis is an ideal setting for a writer with a fresh outlook and an interesting turn of phrase. In his dispatches home - which have appeared previously in the <i>Boston Globe Christian Science Monitor</i> and <i>Cape Cod Times</i> - Coronella brings his dual identity to life in such wide-ranging and revealing essays as Why Europe Doesn't Get Patriotism No Blarney I'm Raising A Dub! and The Summer Of My Irish Commune.<p></br>These thoughtful reflections from a misplaced American provide an intriguing and witty glimpse into what life is really like on theEmerald Isle.