O'Reilly, Séamas
Summary: Séamas O'Reilly's mother died when he was five, leaving him, his ten (!) brothers and sisters, and their beloved father in their sprawling bungalow in rural Derry. It was the 1990s; the Troubles were a background rumble, but Séamas was more preoccupied with dinosaurs, Star Wars, and the actual location of heaven than the political climate. ­An instant bestseller in Ireland, Did Ye Hear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'REILLY, SEAMAS O'RESummary: Kevin McArevey, a maverick Elvis-loving headmaster in a rough Belfast housing estate, sends his young pupils home with the philosophy to challenge violence. He uses critical thinking and a big dollop of humor to restore hope in a community, plagued by poverty and drugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC YOUPringle, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.621 PRIAdams, Gerry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.6082 ADAMitchell, Brian
Summary: The dynamic history of North West Ireland can be seen in the richness and variety of it surnames. Mitchell has attempted to compile concise but informative histories of those surnames which are most closely associated, through numerical strength or uniqueness, with North West Ireland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield 2010
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.342 MITMeyer, Carolyn.
Summary: The author relates her visit to Northern Ireland where she interviewed Protestants and Catholics and recorded their feelings growing up in a country torn apart by religious and political conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.6 MeyerMcAnulty, Dara
Summary: "From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCANULTY, DARA MCAMitchell, Brian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1988
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.341 MITFormat: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Travelers' Tales ; Berkeley. Calif. 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.6082 MOLMoloney, Ed
Summary: "On condition that their stories be kept secret until after their deaths, two key paramilitary leaders on opposite sides of Northern Ireland's troubles spilled the bloody secrets of their long and violent war"--Publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Irish Family Names Society 1991
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 DURConroy, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.67 CONFalley, Margaret Dickson
Contents: v. 1. Repositories and records -- v. 2. Bibliography and family index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1981
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 FALLEMitchell, Brian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Magazines - previous years, Call number: R GEN 929.341 MITElliott, Marianne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.416 ELLFitzGibbon, Constantine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5 FITSummary: "This Insight Guide is a lavishly illustrated inspirational travel guide to Ireland and a beautiful souvenir of your trip. Perfect for travelers looking for a deeper dive into the destination's history and culture, it's ideal to inspire and help you plan your travels. With its great selection of places to see and colorful magazine-style layout, this Ireland guidebook is just the tool you need...
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Publisher / Publication Date: APA Publications (UK) Ltd 2023
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Summary: "Both a celebration of the natural world and a memoir of one family's experience during the Troubles, Thin Places is a gorgeous braid of "two strands, one wondrous and elemental, the other violent and unsettling, sustained by vividly descriptive prose" (The Guardian)"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOCHARTAIGH, KERRI NI DOCBell, J. Bowyer
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.6 BELNeill, Sam
Summary: "Get to know the star of some of the world's favourite film and TV classics in this fascinating and remarkably honest memoir from Sam Neill'Hilarious, wicked, wonderful, kind, thoughtful, engaging and wise' STEPHEN FRY'Just wonderful, so funny and charming and sharp. Sam Neill's lively, lovely book made me laugh out loud' MERYL STREEP' Really, really, really funny. There are some cracking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Michael Joseph 2023
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Summary: "A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the Grand Hotel in the coastal town of Brighton, England. Rooms were obliterated, dozens of people wounded, five killed. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in her suite when the explosion occurred; had she been just a few feet in another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 CARFerguson, Jane
Summary: "From award-winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an unflinching memoir of ambition and war--from the Troubles to the fall of Kabul. In Northern Ireland in the 1980s and '90s, war was a secret, and young Jane Ferguson wanted to know the truth. For her, war was called the Troubles, bomb threats and military checkpoints on the way to school were commonplace, and an uncle's gunshot wound in IRA...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Summary: "A stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019