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(Fictitious character) Irish, Jack (Fictitious character) Irish, Jack Drama Australia Country life Social aspects Australia Drama Criminal investigation Criminal investigation Australia Drama Families Australia Drama Nurses Australia Drama Private investigators Private investigators Australia DramaSummary: When an Australian aid-worker is kidnapped by Muslim extremists, a high-stakes race to save his life pits East against West in these exciting new episodes. From the island of Mindanao in the Philippines to Melbourne, Jack Irish is caught in a global web of religious zealotry among right-wing Christians and media-savvy jihadists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JACSummary: After World War II, a nurse returns to Australia to start a new life after spending twenty years in Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pl 5Summary: Emmy Award-winner Guy Pearce reprises his iconic role as Jack Irish, former criminal lawyer, and part-time debt collector, with a penchant for getting wrapped up in things he shouldn₂t. The long-suppressed trauma of Isabel Irish₂s brutal and random murder by Jack's former client Wayne Milovich which launched the first Jack Irish installment, Bad Debts rears its ugly head when Jack discovers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JACSummary: Janet King, a senior crown prosecutor, returns to work after maternity leave to find her workplace even more demanding than when she left. She quickly becomes involved in a high-profile and controversial case, and makes several enemies in her search for the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JANSummary: Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family. Regina has ensnared Bligh patriarch and political aspirant George in marriage, but she continues to plot against Sarah, exploiting the rising fear of Communism to target her rival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PLA NOT RATEDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pl 4Summary: Set in rural Australia in the years following World War II, this beautifully acted, sharply written series follows the fortunes of a woman returning home after spending two decades abroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pl 1Summary: Jack Irish is the brooding antihero of Australian writer Peter Temple's award-winning novels. The mystery finds Jack grappling with more personal and professional drama as he continues to investigate crimes in Melbourne's seedy underbelly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JACSummary: Jack Irish, is a brooding antihero of Australia. Reeling in the wake of his wife's murder, the former lawyer has reinvented himself as a part-time private investigator and full-time alcoholic, intent on drowning his demons. When an old client dies after leaving Jack several frantic voicemails, the PI realizes he can't outrun or out-drink his past. Jack returns to the world that took everything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JACSummary: Janet confronts a hornet's nest of illegal gambling, organized crime and money laundering while tracking the tragic death of a young sports star. What begins as a spot betting investigation soon unmasks the elite professional sportsmen and women, and their connection to the shadowy underbelly of performance enhancing drugs, match fixing, kickbacks and ultimately murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pl 2Summary: When an Australian aid-worker is kidnapped by Muslim extremists, a high-stakes race to save his life pits East against West in these exciting new episodes. From the island of Mindanao in the Philippines to Melbourne, Jack Irish is caught in a global web of religious zealotry among right-wing Christians and media-savvy jihadists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JACSummary: Janet is seconded from a case of psychological abuse in the armed services to head up a Royal Commission into gun crime. Conscripting solicitors Richard and Lina, and the ambitious Owen Ramsey, Janet trades the rarefied atmosphere of mahogany courtrooms, wigs, and gowns for plain clothes and a community hall. There, she and her team focus on the murder of 25-year-old Hani Akvan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JANSummary: Jack Irish, is a brooding antihero of Australia. Reeling in the wake of his wife's murder, the former lawyer has reinvented himself as a part-time private investigator and full-time alcoholic, intent on drowning his demons. When an old client dies after leaving Jack several frantic voicemails, the PI realizes he can't outrun or out-drink his past. Jack returns to the world that took everything...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD JAC NOT RATEDSummary: Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family. It is dealing with themes such as anti-Semitism, sexuality, and social class.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Entertainment 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pl 3Summary: In the final season, Sarah Nordmann finally marries wealthy landowner George Bligh. But as Sarah takes her place as lady of Ash Park, George's mother, Elizabeth, feels pushed out of the household. George's son, James, returns from abroad to start a business, while his daughter, Anna, lives in Hawaii with her sister-in-law, hiding a secret from the family. The Bligh's face tragedies, betrayals,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019