New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989.). SIGNED first edition - A 'free-wheeling investigation of Dunne's past - ... an examination of a family at once blessed with money and talent and scarred by suicide and other sorrows...Ranging from the Ireland of the Famine to the red-light district of today's Frankfurt,.. [this is] a brilliantly inventive reflection on what it means to be Irish in America." SIGNED on the title page. 235 pp.

New York: Picador, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1968 in the dying Irish-American community of Oakland Park, Pittsburgh. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-312-195400.

New York: Ballantine, 2000. The memoirs of Michael MacDonald who grew up in Boston's Irish ghetto, Southie, an area of the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the United Staes. MacDonald invites us into Southie's contradictory world where residents besieged by gangs and crime remain loyal to their community. He introduces us to those who inhabit this proud neigborhood, including his unforgettable family members. 266 pgs.