Download or read book The Parish and the Hill written by Mary Doyle Curran and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told from the vantage point of a young woman who grows to maturity in a New England mill town in the 1920s, The Parish and the Hill portrays three generations of an Irish immigrant family in their urge to negotiate multiple identities. Mary O'Connor is the product of a family and a town divided by the conflicting values of the "shanty" and "lace-curtain" Irish.