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Ex Isle of Erin
by Fintan Otoole Synopsis O'Toole shows how this small country has created itself anew, put forth a new image, and become a "global" player. But at what price? O'Toole feels that there is indeed a sense that Ireland might be about to drown itself in a flood tide of blandness and...
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Secret History of the Ira
by Ed Moloney Publisher Comments An epic portrayal of one of the twentieth century's longest warsbased on unprecedented access to all the players. Delving deeply into the inner workings, furtive plots, and deadly rivalries of the Irish Republican Army, Ed Moloney, who has covered...
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Irelands Most Wanted
by Thomsen B Publisher Comments Irish is more than a nationality-it's a state of being. What other cultural background allows you to demand a kiss, celebrate the wearing of a color, toast the wee folk, and take pride in one's readiness to fight? What other land is celebrated by parades...
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Irish Rebellions, 1798-1916: An Illustrated History
by Helen Litton Publisher Comments A concise history of the rebellions, using newspaper reports, speeches, eyewitness accounts and a mass of photographs and illustrative material....
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Islandman
by Thomas Ocrohan Publisher Comments Tomas O'Crohan's sole purpose in writing The Islandman was, he wrote, "to set down the character of the people about me so that some record of us might live after us, for the like of us will never be seen again." This is an absorbing narrative of a now...
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Citizen lord :the life of Edward Fitzgerald, Irish revolutionary
by Stella Tillyara Publisher Comments Citizen Lord is the enthralling story -- as Stella Tillyard has recreated it from personal letters and other sources -- of a headstrong young aristocrat who died a martyred rebel for the cause of Irish independence. Son of a duke, heir to estates and...
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Twenty Years a Growing
by Maurice Osullivan Publisher Comments In tellng the story of his youth, Maurice O'Sullivan uses a style derived from the folk tales he learned from his grandfather, and sharpened by his own lively imagination. Though he wrote simply for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his...
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44: Dublin Made Me
by Peter Sheridan Publisher Comments Snow is falling over Dublin. It is almost midnight on New Year's Eve, 1959. On the rooftop of 44 Seville Place, ten-year-old Peter Sheridan clings to the steel rod of a television antenna. When his father urges him to turn the antenna toward England, the...
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The Voyage of the Catalpa: A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels' Escape to Freedom
by Peter F Stevens Publisher Comments Fast-paced, compelling, meticulously researched, and dramatically detailed, this saga from the annals of American, Irish, British, and Australian history comprises the first full telling of the secret yearlong journey of the American whaling ship Catalpa,...
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Killing Rage
by Eamon Collins Publisher Comments Since the 1970s, people have been murdering their neighbors in Northern Ireland. This book is the true account of the small-town violence and terror which lies behind the headlines....
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People of the Sea
by David Thomson Publisher Comments Ghost stories, myths, fairy tales and legends from coastal Scotland and Ireland. Includes an introduction by Seamus Heaney. Advertised in the national press....
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Irish Folk History: Tales from the North
by Henry Glassie Publisher Comments In story, song, and spontaneous essay, these texts tell of the coming of Christianity, of endless war, of the hardships and delights of rural life....
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Jiving at the Crossroads: The Shock of the New in Haughey's Ireland
by John Waters Publisher Comments A journey to the heartland of today's Ireland, its people and politicians, Jiving at the Crossroads marks a radical new departure in Irish writing. Cutting to the very core of the unresolved struggles that haunt the Irish psyche -- the past and the...
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Country Days
by Alice Taylor Publisher Comments This newest work by the acclaimed author of To School Through the Fields, Quench the Lamp and The Village is filled with character and characters, with delicious sensory memories and nostalgic tales both whimsical and warm....
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Irish Childhood
by Pe Somerville Large Publisher Comments An evocative memoir set in pre-war Ireland. "Peter Somerville-Large's memories have an authentic and enchanting quality..." "Contemporary Review"...
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Coopers Wife Is Missing
by Joan Hoff Publisher Comments On March 15, 1895, twenty-eight year old Bridget Cleary, a cooper's wife, disappeared from her cottage in rural County Tipperary. Immediately, strange and lurid rumors began circulating the neighborhood about what had happened. Some said she ran off with...
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Quench the Lamp
by Alice Taylor Publisher Comments For St. Patrick's Day, St. Martin's Press proudly presents a newly redesignededition of this classic book by Alice Taylor, one of Ireland's most respectedand highly acclaimed authors. "(Taylor) manages in this small book to evoke aprecious time and place...
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"One of Ourselves": John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Ireland
by James Rober Carroll Publisher Comments A fascinating and faithful account of President Kennedy's 3-1/2 day visit to Ireland in the late June of 1963....
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St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography
by Philip Freeman Publisher Comments Ireland's patron saint has long been shrouded in legend, but the true story of St. Patrick is far more inspiring than the myths. In "St. Patrick of Ireland," Philip Freeman brings the historic Patrick and his world vividly to life. Patrick speaks in his...
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Irish Politics Today (Politics Today)
by Neil Collins Publisher Comments This new edition has been revised and updated to include coverage of the 1997 general election, the creation of a new coalition of Fianna Fail, and the Progressive Democrats under Bertie Ahern. Reflecting on current developments in Irish politics, the...
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