| Title | : | House of Splendid Isolation |
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| ISBN | : | 0452274524 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 |
Book Description Publication Date April 1, 1998 The author of A Fanatic Heart offers a timely novel that looks into the mind and heart of contemporary Ireland as an escaped IRA operative takes refuge in an abandoned house until the occupant unexpectedly returns home....
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| Title | : | The Kings in Winter |
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| ISBN | : | 031286888X |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 |
It was a time of legend, a time of strugle, a time when the Kingship of the hero Brain Boru is being contested by men of other clans, and by the Danish invader who had come in their longships to take hold of Ireland and make it their own All through a long winter of strife, Muirtagh struggles to balance his own honor and that of his clan, against his divided loyalties to It was a time of legend, a time of strugle, a time when the Kingship of the hero Brain Boru is being contested by men of other...
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| Title | : | Narvla's Celtic New Year |
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| Format | : | Paperback |
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Narvla s life is as precisely choreographed as the routines that have made her a national step dancing champion She has a loyal best friend, a devoted boyfriend, and a lock on admission to her dream college, the University of Notre Dame Until her mother is named U.S Ambassador to Ireland, and her life unravels First Narvla receives a disturbing picture of her boyfriend Narvla s life is as precisely choreographed as the routines that have made her a national step dancing champion She has a loyal best frien...
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| Title | : | The Death of an Irish Politician (Peter McGarr, #1) |
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| ISBN | : | 0380732734 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 |
Chief Inspector of Detectives Peter McGarr is the hard nosed policeman of Bartholomew Gill s widely acclaimed series of atmospheric Irish mysteries Now, here is the novel that started it all the Chief Inspector s very first appearance
It was twilight on Killiney Bay when they pulled the Yank out of the water, his head split open by a violent blow For McGarr, the case w
Chief Inspector of Detectives Peter McGarr is the hard nosed policeman of Bartholomew Gill s widely acclaimed series of atmospheric...2.5
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| Title | : | An Irish Country Girl (Irish Country #4) |
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| ISBN | : | 0765320711 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 319 |
Readers of Patrick Taylor s books know Mrs Kinky Kincaid as the unflappable housekeeper who looks after two frequently frazzleddoctors in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo She is a trusted fixture in the lives of those around her, and it often seems as though Kinky has always been there.Nothing could be farther from the truth.Some forty odd years before and ma Readers of Patrick Taylor s books know Mrs Kinky Kincaid as the unflappable housekeeper who looks after two frequently frazzled doctors ...
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| Title | : | The Last Prince of Ireland |
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| ISBN | : | 0812579135 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 |
The history of Ireland is studded with tragedies, but none is poignant, or decisive, that the battle of Kinsale There the Gaelic nobility who held sway over Ireland for two thousand years were finally and resolutely crushed by the English invaders There would follow four hundred years of English domination.The Last Prince is Donal Cam O Sullivan, still determin The history of Ireland is studded with tragedies, but none is poignant, or decisive, that the battle of Kinsale There the Gaelic nob...
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| Title | : | Two Lives |
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| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 375 |
William Trevor s astonishing range as a writer his humor, subtlety, and compassionate grasp of human behavior is fully demonstrated in these two short novels In Reading Turgenev, a lonely country girl escapes her loveless marriage in the arms of a bookish young man In My House in Umbria, a former madam befriends the other survivors of a terrorist bombing with surprisin William Trevor s astonishing range as a writer his humor, subtlety, and compassionate grasp of human behavior is fully demonstra...
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| Title | : | Round Ireland in Low Gear |
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| ISBN | : | 0864426275 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 324 |
Having decided to explore Ireland by bicycle, Eric and Wanda Newby set out one December not the best time to ride a bike around the highways and by ways of the Emerald Isle, even when protected by thermal underwear From the Cliffs of Moher to St Brigid s Vat, Dublin, the Aran Islands, the Ring of Kerry and Croagh Patrick, their rain soaked journey is beset by minor disa Having decided to explore Ireland by bicycle, Eric and Wanda Newby set out one December not the best time to ride a bike around the highw...
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| Title | : | The Gathering |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0802170390 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 261 |
Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland s most singular voices Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in D Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland s most singular voices Now she delivers <...
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| Title | : | Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1101873019 |
| Format | : | ebook |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 |
An all new, never before published original short novel by the bestselling author of The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency, about a hapless American tourist s larger than life comical trip to Ireland Shortlisted for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fictionCornelius P Fatty O Leary and his wife, Betty, plan a vacation in Ireland for his fortieth birthd An all new, never before published original short novel by the bestselling author of The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency, about a...
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| Title | : | Rosewater and Soda Bread |
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| ISBN | : | 081297249X |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 292 |
Mehran s novel delights the senses on every page The story pulses with life as three Iranian sisters struggle to make sense of matters of the heart and the spirit Elizabeth Cox, author of The Slow MoonMore than a year has passed since Marjan, Bahar, and Layla, the beautiful Iranian Aminpour sisters, sought refuge in the quaint Irish town of Ballinacroagh Opening the Mehran s novel delights the senses on every page The story pulses with life as three Iranian sisters struggle to make sense of matt...
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| Title | : | Woodbrook |
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| ISBN | : | 009935991X |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 |
Woodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from the old port of Sligo It has been owned since the seventeenth century by the Anglo Irish Kirkwoods In 1932, David Thomson, aged eighteen, went there as a tutor He stayed for ten years.This memoir, acknowledged as a masterpiece, grew out of two great loves for Woodbrook and fo Woodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from the old port of Sligo It has been owned since...
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| Title | : | The Stolen Village |
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| ISBN | : | 0862789559 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 398 |
From the PublisherIn June 1631, Barbary and Turkish pirates stormed ashore near Balti, a small village on the southern tip of County Cork, Ireland Led by notorious pirate captain Morat Rais, the brigands captured almost all the villagers and dragged them away to be sold in the slave markets of North Africa Only two ever saw Ireland again.The Sack of Balti was sen From the PublisherIn June 1631, Barbary and Turkish pirates stormed ashore near Balti, a small village on the southern tip of County Cork, Irela...
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| Title | : | Dubliners |
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| ISBN | : | 0553213806 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 |
James Joyce has been hailed as one of the great literary rebels of our time He rebelled against social and literary conventions, against Catholicism, and against Dublin, the city at the center of this magnificent collection of stories.In Dubliners, Joyce paints vivid portraits of the denizens of the city of his birth, from the young boy encountering death in the fist stor James Joyce has been hailed as one of the great literary rebels of our time He rebelled against social and literary co...
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| Title | : | Jude |
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| ISBN | : | 1905847246 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
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This is the tale of Jude, a Tipperary reared orphan, who on his 18th birthday, sets off to discover the wide world and his true parentage....
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| Title | : | The Good Life |
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| ISBN | : | 1586420496 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 350 |
All Mary Mullen wants is a better life, but after she hooks up with the notorious Egan brothers, her battered body is found dumped into one of Dublins canals Inspector Matt Minogues investigation takes him into a netherworld of drugs, pornography, and prostitution, and the situation only gets worse when his partners twin brother, a man with a serious drug problem, is rele All Mary Mullen wants is a better life, but after she hooks up with the notorious Egan brothers, her battered body is found d...
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| Title | : | The Great Hunger |
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| ISBN | : | 0450051676 |
| Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 429 |
The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many to emigrate to America It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British obtuseness, short sightedness and ignorance and stubborn commitment to laissez faire solutions largely caused the disaste The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many to emi...
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