Featured Titles in New Arrivals - Ireland
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No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travellers
by Katharine Quarmby Synopsis
They are reviled. For centuries the Roma have wandered Europe; during the Holocaust half a million were killed. After World War II and during the Troubles, a wave of Irish Travellers moved to England to build a better, safer life. They found places to... (read more)
The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
by Tim Pat Coogan Publisher Comments
During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Irelands citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mór, the Great Hunger. Waves of hungry peasants fled... (read more)
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