Summary: 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: In pre-World War II France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with a dashing air force pilot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WELSummary: Not wanted : Hollywood legend Ida Lupino makes her directorial debut in this ahead-of-its-time shocker! Naive teenager Sally Kelton falls for womanizing jazz pianist Steve Ryan. When the struggling musician suddenly leaves town for another gig, the lovestruck girl runs away from home to find him. But Steve rejects her, leaving Sally to fend for herself on the street. She is taken in by kindly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IDASummary: Young & innocent: Robert is the estranged husband of a beautiful actress with a bad reputation. When he discovers her lifeless body on the beach, he is mistaken for the murderer and soon finds himself on the run, learning that the murder makes for very strange bedfellows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BCI Eclipse 2007
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ALFSixsmith, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LEE, PHILOMENA SIXSixsmith, Martin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEE, PHILOMENA SIXKeegan, Claire
Summary: "It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already a bestseller in France and certain to be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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 HANSummary: When the team's most popular and sexy soccer star admits he is gay, he is suspended by the team. He joings a gang of other gay players, and the Eleven Men Out keep winning games on their march to the championship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products, Inc. 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ELESummary: 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 Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SHIÓlafur Jóhann Ólafsson.
Summary: In this beautifully crafted novel, Icelandic writer Olaf Olafsson tells the moving story of a woman who, in the remaining months of her life, undertakes an extraordinary emotional journey.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLASummary: In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country's best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF RAMHo, Joanna
Summary: "Her son will be courageous and kind, powerful and curious, and blaze his own trail. He will know that it is okay to cry, or be scared, or uncertain. Above all, he will know that he is more than enough exactly as he is. An extraordinary gift for Mother's Day and loved ones everywhere" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This heartwarming comedy centers on two brothers, John Joe and Jimmy, who haven't seen each other in twenty years. Having parted on bad terms, they meet at the All Ireland traditional music finals as leaders of rival Irish dance bands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BOYO'Connor, Carlene
Summary: "Former New Yorker and interior designer Tara Meehan is eagerly anticipating the grand opening of her architectural salvage shop Renewals in her newly adopted home of Galway. She's in the midst of preparations when heiress Veronica O'Farrell bursts in to announce she's ready for some renewal of her own. To celebrate one year of sobriety, she's invited seven people she wronged in her drinking...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC O'COSummary: Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall of Fame 2005
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MaDench, Judi
Summary: A woman searches for her lost son, who was taken away from her many years ago after she was forced to live in a convent after she became pregnant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PHICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHI RATED PG-13Summary: In the final season, Doug and Carrie decide that they are through, but race each other to the airport to get their newly adopted Chinese daughter. Meanwhile Arthur decides to get married to Ava, but she is only marrying him because she thinks he's gay.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD KINSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEASummary: Regarde la mer: "During a summer escape to the beautiful island of Yeu, Sasha's beginning to grow bored. She's been spending her days tending to her new baby daughter while awaiting the arrival of her husband from his office on the mainland. Her charming seaside cottage rests in perfect isolation for Tatiana, a brooding teen-aged backpacker in desperate need of a place to pitch her tent....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEESummary: The United Kingdom decides to convert to the Euro in seven days. For the Irish criminal world, it's the biggest opportunity as there ever was. When a railway heist goes wrong and an enormous bag of money falls from the sky into the hands of Damian and Anthony, there's only one thing the two can do, spend it like there's no tomorrow. But Damian and Anthony have differing views on what to do with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MILSummary: A black comedy in which a young man's sexual impulses go haywire when he discovers that the woman he has just slept with happens to be his mother's lesbian lover. Set against Reykjavik's swinging nightlife, Hlynur soon finds that he can't continue resisting adulthood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONESummary: In 1952, a young Philomena was sent to the convent of Roscrea in Ireland after giving birth to her first child. When her son became a toddler, the nuns sent him to America for adoption. Philomena then spent the next fifty years seeking for him in vain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014