About Patricia Burns Patricia Burnsis the author of The Shamrock and the Shield: An Oral History of the Irish and They Were so Young: Montrealers Remember WWII. She lives in Montreal. Books by Patricia Burns Life on the Home Front Montreal 1939-1945 by (author) Patricia Burns Shamrock and the Shield, The An Oral History of the Irish in Montreal by (author) Patricia Burns They Were so Young Montrealers Remember World War II edited by Patricia Burns