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Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifty Browning Automatic Rifles have been stolen from a US Army base in Northern Ireland. His “uncle” Ike Eisenhower sends Billy to recover the weapons, which might be used in a German-sponsored IRA uprising. Bodies begin to accumulate as Billy finds unexpected challenges to his Boston-Irish upbringing and IRA sympathies. There are rogues on both sides, he learns.
3) Hell bent
Author
Publisher
T. Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1992.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
5) Northern spy
Author
Language
English
Description
"A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday agreement, but they never really went away, and lately, bomb threats, arms drops, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the anchor requests the public's help in locating those responsible for this latest raid - a robbery at...
Author
Series
Allie Burns volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novels have captivated readers for over three decades. In her new novel 1979, she returns to the past with the story of an investigative journalist whose work leads her into a world of corruption, terror, and murder. It's only January, and the year has already brought blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest. But for journalist Allie Burns, bad news provides an opportunity to escape...
10) The music lesson
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
178 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Melville House
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nobody robs banks in Belfast without the IRA getting a cut - not even former Provo James 'Ructions' O'Hare. But when word gets around O'Hare may be up to something, the pressure from the IRA begins. Ructions' trusts his crack squad of former paramilitary compadres, and has full confidence in his audacious plan: To literally empty the biggest bank in Belfast by kidnapping the families of two employees - known as a 'tiger' kidnapping -- in order to...
12) The narrowback
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 224 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Michael Forsythe novels volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Belfast, 1974. Two Ulstermen, two sides. On one, British Army bomb-disposal officer Marcus Richardson; on the other, Davy McCutcheon, Provisional IRA armourer who has been constructing bombs since his teens. After he is nearly killed by a car bomb, Marcus accepts an undercover mission to infiltrate the Falls Road ghetto, join the Provisional IRA, and expose their bomb-maker. When Davy sees his devices used to maim and kill innocent people rather than...
15) Cathedral
Author
Language
English
Description
St. Patrick's Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act - the seizure of Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an Irish-American police lieutenant fighting against a traitor...
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1940.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
[In this novel a young Irish] revolutionary goes to America, falls in love with the middle-aged wife of his step-brother and becomes her lover. She is complex, cultured, subtle; he gawkish, puritanical; a young provincial barbarian. Irish critics profess to lament the long American interlude, but for me, as I am sure, for most other people, it is the whole book. The author of the two brief sections dealing with Ireland seems to me the old O'Faolain...
17) Bury the living
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Rebellion has always been in the O'Reilly familys blood. So when faced with the tragic death of her brother during Northern Ireland's infamous Troubles, a teenage Nora joined the IRA to fight for her country's freedom. Now, more than a decade later, Nora is haunted by both her past and vivid dreams of a man she has never met. When she is given a relic belonging to Brigid of Kildare, patron saint of Ireland, the mystical artifact transports her back...
18) We were kings
Author
Series
The Boston saga volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1950's Boston, the Irish Republican Army is running guns and killing witnesses. Cal and Dante are committed to stopping them. When a body is discovered at the Charlestown locks--tarred, feathered and shot to death--it appears to be a gangland killing, and is almost immediately dismissed. However, Cal O'Brien's cousin, Boston PD detective Owen Lackey, recognizes the murder style as the typical retribution for IRA informers. Combined with a tip-off...
Author
Series
Clifton Chronicles volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of an IRA bombing, Harry Clifton uses his new literary station to raise awareness for his POW friend while Giles Barrington works to secure a political career and Sebastian's past threatens his engagement.
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