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Michael McCarthy

Michael J. McCarthy was born in St. Jacques, Fortune Bay, moving to Terrenceville at the age of five, where he attended school until grade eleven. He attended Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Ottawa, graduating with an MA. in Literature. He taught in a number of communities until his retirement in 1986. Michael McCarthy is the author of three novels and a history book. He is the co-author of several more books and has written for several magazines, as well as for radio and television. He was married to the former Ann Hamlyn, and they had two children: Michael and Karen Michael J. McCarthy passed away on October 28, 2005.

Books by Michael McCarthy

Pipe Dream

saying goodbye to the best place on earth

by (author) Michael McCarthy

Where Christmas is Christmas

edited by Frank Galgay & Michael McCarthy

Men Against the Sea

Ships Lost in the Newfoundland Foreign Trade

by (author) Michael McCarthy & Joe Prim

Journey Home, The

by (author) Michael McCarthy

A Sea of Mothers' Tears

Sea Stories from Atlantic Canada

edited by Frank Galgay & Michael McCarthy

Yuletide Yarns

Stories of Newfoundland and Labrador Christmases Gone By

edited by Michael McCarthy & Alice Lannon

Olde St. John's

Stories from a Seaport City

by (author) Frank Galgay & Michael McCarthy

Irish In Newfoundland 1600-1900

by (author) Michael McCarthy