The
Wee Wild One
Stories of Belfast and
Beyond
Ruth Schwertfeger
Irish Studies in Literature
and Culture
Michael Patrick Gillespie, Series Editor
"Fascinating, different, and illuminating."
—Eamonn Wall, author of From the Sin-é Café
to the Black Hills
Born in Ballycoan, Northern Ireland, Ruth
C. Schwertfeger
represents history and memory in an impressionistic memoir of
her childhood on a farm and attending a girls' school in Belfast.
Through the author's girlhood and discovery of her own national
and religious identity, this humorous memoir is shaped significantly
by images of Schwertfeger's father— "the Wee Wild One"—who
spent his childhood on the same farm in Ballycoan.
Schwertfeger's voice reflects a shared and persistent desire
to return to one's roots. She also explores many facets of social
life in Northern Ireland that are often hidden behind the stereotypes
of history and public rhetoric.
Ruth Schwertfeger is professor of German at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
She is the author of Else Lasker-Schuler: Inside This Deathly
Solitude and Women of Theresienstadt: Voices from a Concentration
Camp. Schwertfeger was born in Ballycoan, Northern Ireland.
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April 2004
LC: 2003020578 DA
122 pp. 5 x 8 1/2
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