Summary: Life is a challenge for any priest in a small mountain town, and Father Aiden O'Connell finds himself not only dealing with a new romance for Niamh and Orla and a new garda for Bally K, but some troubles of his own as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BALSummary: Based on a true story, twelve-year-old Tom and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the air raids on Belfast in 1941.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZoBanville, John
Summary: "Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, author John Banville ... saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child. It was first a birthday treat, the world his beloved, eccentric aunt inhabited. When he came of age and took up residence there, the city was a frequent backdrop for his dissatisfactions as a young writer (James Joyce had 'seized upon the city for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.18 BANSummary: In Ireland in the 1960s, four women were sent to the Magdalene Laundries, an institution for "fallen" women, where they will atone for their sins through a regimented life of work and prayer. They all had to work in the laundry, where the strict nuns would break everyone's wills through sadistic punishment. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAGSummary: Quigley, the irrepressible entrepreneur has departed suddenly. New arrival, Australian priest, Father Vincent Sheahan, has joined the fold and is soon learning the ways of the villagers. From Dermot's online confessional to a surprise takeover at the pub and further shenanigans with Liam and Donal, there's every reason for one more visit to this idyllic village.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BALEllis, Peter Berresford.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5 ELLCahill, Thomas.
Summary: A history of the Dark Ages showing that as Europe was in an intellectual decline, Ireland became a haven for scholarship.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.501 CAHRutherfurd, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUTMitchell, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield 2010
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.342 MITSummary: A truly inspiring story of one ordinary family's extraordinary journey. An orphaned boy named Tomas is adopted by Maire O'Donnell to live on a whimsical Irish isle filled with new friends, secret caves and a lost baby pup seal stranded on the coast. But when Maire's reluctant husband Alec refuses to accept Tomas as his own son, the boy drifts down a fateful path of adventure and self-discovery,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHISummary: The sons of the Phelan family - two farmers, a schoolteacher, and a priest - are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. Real-life brothers Joe, Mark, Paul, and Stephen McGann star as the Phelans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HANMitchell, Brian.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1988
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.341 MITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.341 MitO'Grady, AnnMarie.
Summary: An introduction to Ireland through its history, stories, traditions, and songs. Includes instructions for making a variety of items based on Irish themes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: O'Brien Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 394.2 O'GRASummary: On Easter Monday 1916, a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would soon win a moral victory, with their actions leading to the creation of an independent Irish State and contributing to the eventual disintegration of the British Empire. They have inspired countless freedom struggles throughout...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NINSummary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 941.501 WHAFalley, Margaret Dickson
Contents: v. 1. Repositories and records -- v. 2. Bibliography and family index.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1981
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 FALLEMoloney, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5 MOLMoorhouse, Geoffrey
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MoorhSummary: Central Ireland's waterlogged landscape is no ordinary ground. Here, the moist earth halts decomposition, perfectly preserving corpses from the prehistoric Iron Age, over 2,000 years ago.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PERCahill, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, Doubleday 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.501 CAHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.501 CahilO'Carroll, Brendan
Summary: A widow struggles to support and raise her seven children in a central Dublin neighborhood.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OCAJoyce, James.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOYSolnit, Rebecca
Summary: In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Enriched by cross-cultural comparisons with the history of the American West, A Book of Migrations carves a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5 SOLSummary: Gabriel and Gretta Conroy are enjoying a holiday party when Gretta begins to have poignant memories of a former lover who is deceased. Gabriel begins to see his life in an entirely new light with the shattering revelation of Gretta's secret past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009