Summary: 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 ZoO'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...
Format: text
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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Summer, 1994. Maeve Murray wants a good final exam result so she can earn her ticket out of the wee Northern Irish town she has grown up in during the Troubles. As a first step to afford studying journalism in London, Maeve takes a job in a shirt factory. As the British loyalist marching season raises tensions among the Catholic and Protestant workforce, Maeve realizes something is going on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALPringle, Peter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.621 PRIQuinn, Anthony (Anthony J.)
Summary: "Detective Celcius Daly is investigating the abduction of a boy by a group of travelers already under investigation for smuggling and organized crime. As he digs into the child's background, he discovers a family secret linked to an unsolved crime during The Troubles--the disappearance of a young woman and her baby. Daly's investigation shakes loose some harrowing truths about the lawlessness...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUIWilson, Robert McLiam
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILAdams, 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 ADAMeyer, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.6 MeyerSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLOBellacera, Carole.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELMcAnulty, 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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCANULTY, DARA MCATaylor, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TAYMitchell, 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 MITMitchell, 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 MITTaylor, Patrick
Summary: "Before Doctor Barry Laverty joined Doctor Fingal O'Reilly's practice in the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, he was an intern, working long hours, practicing new medical techniques, falling in love, and learning what is most important in the medical field for a family physician -- the bonds of family, friendships, and human kindness. Years later, Barry practices everything he has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction TaylorMoloney, 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 MOLDurning, William P.
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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 DURSummary: When Danny Flynn returns to his Belfast neighborhood after 14 years in prison, all he wants is to find peace, resume his career, and reclaim the love of the woman who has remained etched in his mind. As they slowly embrace the possibilities of renewed romance, they realize cultural taboos stand in the way and fighting for love could cost them their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOXSummary: An accountant's murder pulls DCI Tom Brannick into a hunt for a fortune that he's been hiding since his days as "Goliath." He is allied with the victim's widow, but as Tom tries to conceal their trail, he comes closer to being unmasked.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BLOLi, Winnie M.
Summary: "One bright spring afternoon in West Belfast, cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist Vivian's path collides with fifteen-year-old Irish teenager Johnny and culminates in a horrifying act of violence. Inspired by true events, a riveting novel of suspense about of the dark chapters and chance encounters that can irrevocably determine the shape of our lives"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LINeville, Stuart
Summary: When Detective Inspector Jack Lennon tries to track down his former lover Marie McKenna and their daughter, his superiors tell him to back off. But now an assassin stalks Belfast, tying up loose ends for a vengeance-driven old man. As Lennon unravels a conspiracy that links his daughter to a killer named Fegan, the line between friend and enemy blurs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2010