Banville, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.18 BANEllis, Peter Berresford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5 ELLO'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'REO'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, Call number: 941.7082 OTOMoloney, 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 MOLPuleo, 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 PULSolnit, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5 SOLHarris, Robert L.
Summary: In 1987, Robert Harris happened upon an unusual job posting in the local paper--a new warden service was being set up on the island of Skellig Michael, and the deadline was imminent. Just weeks later he was on his way to set up camp in one of Ireland's most remote locations, unaware that he would be making that same journey every May for the next 30 years. Here he transports us to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 HAMMoloney, 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 MOLLynch, Becky
Summary: "This compelling and deeply personal memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin--a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. Becky Lynch--delves into her earliest wrestling days, her scrappy beginnings, and her meteoric rise to fame. By age seven, Rebecca Quin, now known in the ring as Becky Lynch, was already defying what the world expected of her. Raised in Dublin, Ireland in a devoutly Catholic family, Rebecca...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2024
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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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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 OMAMeyer, 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 MeyerStorey, Aidan
Summary: Growing up in the suburbs of Dublin, Aidan Storey was the youngest of seven, a much-loved, happy child who enjoyed family life. But there was one difference between Aidan and his friends: When everyone left, Angels visited Aidan. Unafraid of the beautiful, luminous spirits that watched over him, it wasn't until much later that Aidan realized not everyone could see what he could and not everyone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STOREY, AIDAN STOO'Connell, Mark
Summary: "From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous murder in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary subversion. Malcolm MacArthur was a well-known Dublin socialite and heir. Suave and urbane, he passed his days mingling with artists and aristocrats, reading philosophy, living a life of the mind. But by 1982, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.708 DONSixsmith, Martin
Summary: Fifty years after giving her son up for adoption, Irishwoman Philomena Lee decides to find him, while, on the other side of the Atlantic, her son, a lawyer in the first Bush administration, struggles to find his mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "The Indestructible Tom Crean reveals the incredible true stories of Crean's adventures on the Discovery, Terra Nova, and Endurance expeditions. When the Endurance becomes trapped in the frozen sea and sinks, it is up to Crean and several others to go for help"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CREMcAnulty, 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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Summary: "Bono, artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2, has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. 'When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd previously only sketched in songs. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.67 CONHawks, Tony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.1504 HAWByrne, Lorna.
Summary: An Irish mystic talks about her encounters with angels and other spiritual beings, discussing how these entities exist as guardians and companions to every person and provide comfort and guidance in every stage of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008