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1) Angela's ashes: a memoir

Author

McCourt, Frank

Language

English

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"My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and I was born. Instead, they returned to Ireland when I was four ... When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the...

2) Sorry for your trouble: stories

Author

Ford, Richard

Language

English

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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A woman and man, parted a quarter of a century, reunite in a bar in New Orleans as the St Patrick's Day parade goes by. A divorced suburban dad helps his daughter pick out a card for her friend who's moving away. A group of friends in late middle age, all once promising, reunite for dinner when one of their number loses her husband, but the gathering splinters when bitter revelations about their shared past emerge. Two teenage boys sit in a drive-in,...

3) The pig did it

Author

Caldwell, Joseph

Series

Pig trilogy volume 1

Publisher

Delphinium Books

Language

English

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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An American in Ireland encounters mystery, romance—and an extremely disruptive pig: “Very funny . . . a payoff that is as unexpected as it is satisfying” (Publishers Weekly).
Possibly the most obstreperous character in literature since Buck Mulligan in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Mr. Caldwell’s pig distracts everyone from his or her chosen mission. Aaron McCloud has come to Ireland

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4) The Irish-American almanac and green pages

Publisher

Harper & Row

Pub. Date

[1990]

Edition

Revised edition.

Physical Desc

xii, 307 pages : map ; 24 cm

Language

English

5) The Irish Americans

Author

Griffin, William D

Series

Immigrant experience

Publisher

Hugh Lauter Levin Associates

Pub. Date

[1998]

Physical Desc

240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm + 1 CD (4 3/4 in).

Language

English

6) The Irish Americans: the rise to money and power

Author

Greeley, Andrew M

Publisher

Harper & Row

Pub. Date

[1981]

Physical Desc

215 pages ; 25 cm

Language

English

7) Heart of the lonely exile

Author

Hoff, B. J

Series

Emerald ballad volume 2

Publisher

Harvest House Publishers

Pub. Date

2010.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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In Heart of the Lonely Exile, Book Two of BJ Hoff's acclaimed and bestselling Emerald Ballad series, readers will find heroine Nora Kavanagh struggling to build a new life for herself and her son Daniel in America. With help from a wealthy American family and friendship and support from a British gentleman, Nora nevertheless finds herself caught in a conflict of the heart.

Michael Burke, a strong, dedicated Irish policeman, desperately

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8) Dawn of the golden promise

Author

Hoff, B. J

Series

Emerald ballad volume 5

Publisher

Harvest House Publishers

Language

English

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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"In Dublin, Morgan Fitzgerald must adapt to his new life in a wheelchair as a result of an assailant's bullet to his spine. His wife, Finola, attempts to face the dark memories and guarded secrets of her past with courage and fortitude. In New York City, policeman Michael Burke is caught in a conflict between staying true to his faith and bringing a dangerous enemy to justice. Can he do both?"--P. [4] of cover.

9) A history of the Irish settlers in North America, from the earliest period to the census of 1850

Author

McGee, Thomas D'Arcy

Publisher

Genealogical Pub. Co

Pub. Date

1989.

Physical Desc

240 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

10) We are the Brennans

Author

Lange, Tracey

Language

English

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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"When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. But it's not easy. She deserted them all--and her high school sweetheart--five years before with little explanation, and they've got questions. Sunday is determined to rebuild her life back on the east coast, even if it does mean tiptoeing around...

11) The encyclopedia of the Irish in America

Publisher

University of Notre Dame Press

Pub. Date

[1999]

Physical Desc

xxi, 988 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference

12) Love's faithful promise

Author

Mason, Susan Anne

Series

Courage to dream volume 3

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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"When her mother suffers a stroke, medical student Deirdre O'Leary makes the difficult choice to put her career on hold to care for her. Dr. Matthew Clayborne is renowned for his amazing results with patients, but when Deirdre approaches him about helping her mother, she finds him challenging and surly. Deirdre has had enough of complicated men in her life. After her fiancé left her, she vowed never to give a man that kind of power again. Widower...

13) The Irish Americans: a history

Author

Dolan, Jay P

Publisher

Bloomsbury Press

Pub. Date

2008.

Edition

First U.S. edition.

Physical Desc

xi, 352 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

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Follows the Irish from their first arrival in the American colonies through the bleak days of the potato famine, the decades of ethnic prejudice and nativist discrimination, the rise of Irish political power, and on to the historic moment when John F. Kennedy was elected to this highest office in the land.

14) Irish relatives and friends: from "Information Wanted" ads in the Irish-American, 1850-1871

Author

DeGrazia, Laura Murphy

Publisher

Genealogical Pub

Pub. Date

[2001]

Physical Desc

464 pages ; 24 cm

Language

English

15) The stories of Mary Gordon

Author

Gordon, Mary

Publisher

Pantheon Books

Pub. Date

[2006]

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

viii, 457 pages ; 25 cm

Language

English

16) Passenger lists from Ireland

Author

Hackett, J. Dominick

Publisher

Genealogical Pub. Co

Pub. Date

1965.

Physical Desc

46 pages ; 23 cm

Language

English

17) The Irish in America

Publisher

Hyperion

Pub. Date

[1997]

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

xiii, 272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Language

English

18) Song of Erin

Author

Hoff, B. J

Publisher

Harvest House Publishers

Pub. Date

2008.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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In this tale of struggle and love and uncompromising faith, Jack Kane, the always charming but sometimes ruthless titan of New York's most powerful publishing empire, is torn between the conflict of his own heart and the grace and light of Samantha Harte, the woman he loves, whose own troubled past continues to haunt her.

19) Lilac Lane: a Chesapeake Shores novel

Author

Woods, Sherryl

Series

Chesapeake Shores novels volume 14
Chesapeake Shores novel)

Language

English

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Keira Malone raised her three children alone after her first marriage broke apart. She found love again, but when her fiancé suffered a fatal heart attack she moved from Dublin to Chesapeake Shores, Maryland. She plans to spend time with her daughter, Moira, and her new granddaughter, Kate, as well as to help her son-in-law, Luke, with his Irish pub, O'Brien's. She rents a cottage on Lilac Lane, but her neighbor is none other than Bryan Laramie,...

20) Across the ocean of promise: the Irish in Georgia

Author

Jones, Patricia K

Publisher

P. K. Jones

Pub. Date

[2004]

Physical Desc

2 volumes (1,655 pages) ; 29 cm

Language

English

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1) Angela's ashes: a memoir

2) Sorry for your trouble: stories

3) The pig did it

4) The Irish-American almanac and green pages

5) The Irish Americans

6) The Irish Americans: the rise to money and power

7) Heart of the lonely exile

8) Dawn of the golden promise

9) A history of the Irish settlers in North America, from the earliest period to the census of 1850

10) We are the Brennans

11) The encyclopedia of the Irish in America

12) Love's faithful promise

13) The Irish Americans: a history

14) Irish relatives and friends: from "Information Wanted" ads in the Irish-American, 1850-1871

15) The stories of Mary Gordon

16) Passenger lists from Ireland

17) The Irish in America

18) Song of Erin

19) Lilac Lane: a Chesapeake Shores novel

20) Across the ocean of promise: the Irish in Georgia

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