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41) Back Then
Author
Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"If you grew up in the seventies or before, or know someone who did, then buy this book! It's designed to put a smile on the face of the reader, to send them on a journey back in time where sweets were sold in jars, cars had three wheels... and the loo was outside!!"--
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"More than seventy amazing Irish pub recipes, from the classic favorites you love to the contemporary specialties sure to delight. Talk about the luck of the Irish! One of the most beloved of Irish institutions (there are more than one thousand in Dublin alone), the traditional pub has served generations as the venue for local gossip, sporting news, a ceilidh or two, literary soirees, real estate deals, political debates, revolutionary plots, and,...
Author
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In These Days of Prohibition is Caroline Bird's fifth Carcanet collection. As always, she is a poet of dark hilarity and telling social comment. Shifting between poetic and vulgar registers, the surreal imagery of her early work is re-deployed to venture into the badlands of the human psyche. Her poems hold their subjects in an unflinching grip, addressing faces behind the veneer, asking what it is that keeps us alive. These days of prohibition are...
44) Lyric Poems
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"One of the greatest English poets, John Keats (1795 -- 1821) created an astonishing body of work before his early death from tuberculosis at the age of 26. Much of his poetry consists of deeply felt lyrical meditations on a variety of themes -- love, death, the transience of joy, the impermanence of youth and beauty, the immortality of art, and other topics -- expressed in verse of exquisite delicacy, originality, and sensuous richness. This collection...
45) Plugged
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times–bestselling author: "Outrageous characters, uproariously funny plot twists, and brutal, nonstop action . . . a sure-fire winner." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Daniel McEvoy has a problem. Well, really, he has several, but for this Irish ex-pat bouncer at a seedy, small-time casino, the fact that his girlfriend was just murdered in the parking lot is uppermost in his mind. That is until lots of people around him...
46) Brida: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
While on a quest for knowledge, Brida, a young Irish girl, encounters two individuals who teach her about magic; a forest hermit, who helps to realize the goodness in the world, and a woman who teaches her how to dance and pray to the moon; but while this knowledge soaks in Brida struggles to balance her priorities.
47) The blessings
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When John Blessing dies and leaves behind two small children, the loss reverberates across his extended family for years to come.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched--asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who...
Author
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Growing up on the Isle of Lewis, Iain Crichton Smith spoke only Gaelic until he was five. But at school in Bayble and then Stornoway, everything had to be in English. Like many islanders before and since, his culture is divided: two languages, two histories entailing exile, a central theme of his poetry. His divided perspective sharply delineates the tyranny of history and religion, of the cramped life of small communities; it gives him a tender...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Memoir of the author's miserable childhood growing up in the perpetually damp country of Ireland, with the sterotypically long-suffering mother and drunken father who nurtures in his son an appetite for stories.
Author
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The 'Acts of Oblivion' were a series of seventeenth-century laws enacted by both Parliamentarian and Royalist factions. Whatever their ends -- pardoning revolutionary deeds, or expunging revolutionary speech from the record -- they forced the people to forget. Against such injunctions, Paul Batchelor's poems rebel. This long-awaited second collection, The Acts of Oblivion, listens in on some of England's lost futures, such as those offered by radical...
Author
Publisher
The Lilliput Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Dublin's writers rarely remain solemn for long: their wicked sense of humour has travelled the world. This is an irresistible new anthology of what used to be called 'comic and curious verse' about the city, written by some of her most entertaining poets and songwriters. Fashions in verse come and go. Too often we forget -- paradoxically -- the most memorable works of wit, sarcasm or absurdity. The ones gathered here were written over four centuries,...
Author
Publisher
Birlinn Limited
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of poetry from "the patron saint of literary street urchins" ( The New York Times ). The Dead Queen of Bohemia is a journey through a life lived on the edge. With a poetic style influenced by Gertrude Stein and William Burroughs, this collection is woven with surrealistic imagery that is both unflinching and dislocating. Jenni Fagan's poetry is raw and tough yet beautiful and tender, and with themes of loss and recovery, hope and defiance,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With impressive skill, irrepressible spirit, and more than a touch of class, the 2000-01 Notre Dame women's basketball team reached the pinnacle of college basketball and forever secured a place in the storied sports history of the university and in the hearts of thousands of fans. The senior leadership of Naismith Award winner Ruth Riley, Niele Ivey, and Kelley Siemon combined with the exciting and capable play of underclassmen such as Alicia Ratay...
58) The Commitments
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Story of a young rebel soul band from the Dublin ghetto, and their struggle to make it in the music business.
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On the eve of the American Civil War 1.6 million Irish-born people were living in the United States. The majority had emigrated to the major industrialized cities of the North; New York alone was home to more than 200,000 Irish, one in four of the total population. The research for this book has its origins in the pension records of the Civil War, which included birth and baptismal certs, medical records, and letters and private correspondence between...
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