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Famines Ireland History 19th century Ireland Ireland Emigration and immigration History 19th century Ireland History Ireland History Famine, 1845-1852 Irish Republican Army. Monastic libraries Ireland Northern Ireland History 1969-1994 Fiction Political violence Northern Ireland History 20th century Fiction Scriptoria IrelandMoloney, Ed
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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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5 MOLMoorhouse, Geoffrey
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MoorhGleeson, James Joseph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyon's Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5082 GLEPringle, 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 PRICahill, Thomas.
Summary: A history of the Dark Ages showing that as Europe was in an intellectual decline, Ireland became a haven for scholarship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 941.501 CAHPuleo, Stephen
Summary: "The remarkable story of the mission that inspired a nation to donate massive relief to Ireland during the potato famine and began America's tradition of providing humanitarian aid around the world More than 5,000 ships left Ireland during the great potato famine in the late 1840s, transporting the starving and the destitute away from their stricken homeland. The first vessel to sail in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 PULTaylor, Patrick
Summary: "Ireland, home of legendary poets and storytellers, has been wracked by bloody sectarian violence over the last quarter century. Bombs and guns were, and once again are, the primary negotiation tools used by Catholic and Protestant extremists in the conflict surrounding the sovereignty of Northern Ireland--the six counties known as Ulster. Patrick Taylor's Only Wounded centers on the hopes and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYLee, Tony
Summary: When Ireland suffers under the rule of Henry VIII, Grace O'Malley takes to the seas after her husband's murder and gains a reputation as the Pirate Queen of Ireland and confronts Queen Elizabeth I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OMASummary: Recreation of the events of "Bloody Sunday", Jan. 30, 1972, when British troops fired on unarmed protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland. By the end of the day, 13 civilians were dead and 14 more wounded in the tumult and tragedy of Northern Ireland's darkest day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLOO'Toole, Fintan
Summary: "We Don't Know Ourselves is a very personal vision of recent Irish history from the year of O'Toole's birth, 1958, down to the present. Ireland has changed almost out of recognition during those decades, and Fintan O'Toole's life coincides with that arc of transformation. The book is a brilliant interweaving of memories (though this is emphatically not a memoir) and engrossing social and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.7082 O'TOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.7082 OTORutherfurd, Edward.
Summary: "Edward Rutherfurd's stirring account of Irish history, the Dublin Saga, concludes in this magisterial work of historical fiction. Beginning where the first volume, The Princes of Ireland, left off, The Rebels of Ireland takes us into a world transformed by the English practice of "plantation," which represented the final step in the centuries-long British conquest of Ireland. Once again...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUTDonaldson, Madeline.
Summary: Examines the geography, history, economy, society, people, and culture of Ireland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 941.7 DONLaxton, Edward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5081 LAXKelly, John
Summary: Describes the Great Irish Potato Famine that began in 1845 and discusses how the combined forces of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance started a disaster that killed twice as many people as died during the American Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5081 KELSummary: Provides a portrait of life in Celtic Ireland, from A.D. 400 to 1200, through an examination of legends, ancient texts, artifacts, art, and architecture of the time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 941.501 WHASummary: Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins his brother, Teddy in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom. As the Irish freedom fighters bold tactics bring the British to a breaking point, both sides finally agree to a treaty to end the bloodshed. But, despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts and families who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5 FITHarrison, Cora
Summary: Cork, Ireland, 1923. When, one wet March morning, Reverend Mother Aquinas discovers a body at the gate of the convent chapel, she immediately sends for one of her former pupils, Police Sergeant Patrick Cashman, to investigate. Dead bodies ar not unusual in the poverty-stricken slums of Cork, but this one is dressed in evening finery; in her handbag is a dance program for the exclusive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCahill, Thomas.
Summary: The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, Doubleday 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.501 CahilKeefe, Patrick Radden
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
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 KEECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 KEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime KeefeLee, Leslie
Summary: We Are The Land is an exploration of Ireland--its ancient history, DNA, and culture through the adventurous search of four sisters for their Irish ancestry. The author's interest in how ancient languages evolved and migrated leads readers through the heart of Ireland to the modern revolution of the ancestral DNA of the Irish people. The author investigates the parallels between mythology,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Leslie Lee Publisher 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.5 LEECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5 LEECoogan, Tim Pat
Summary: "The 1916 Easter Rising and its aftermath changed Ireland for ever. The British government's execution of 14 republican rebels transformed a group hitherto perceived as cranks and troublemakers into national heroes. Those who avoided the British firing squads of May 1916 went on to plan a new - and ultimately successful - struggle for Ireland's independence, shaping their country's destiny for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.7 COOTaylor, Patrick
Summary: A British Army bomb disposal expert goes undercover to try to identify the source of the bombs being used by the Provisional IRA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2013