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Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 8
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
©2005.
Language
English
Description
A troubled young man"Day" O'Sullivan blames himself for a tragic vehicular homicide he may not have committed. His entire family seems to be conspiring to pin the crime on the poor lad. Day is considered the black sheep of the family. A parish priest stumbled on the diary of Father Lonigan & found secrets.
62) Boy21
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The gang returns for their most inappropriate adventures yet in Season 9 of "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia". Once again, Paddy's Pub is the spot for clever cruelty and tasteless tomfoolery as Dee and Charlie get roped into a pyramid scheme and Dennis reveals he has super-powered erections. Season 9 also features "The Gang Saves The Day," the show's historic 100th episode. While trying to "stop" a convenience store robbery, Frank hotdogs it, Charlie...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Still working at age 95, Pritzker Prize winning Irish-American architect Kevin Roche is an enigma. He's reached the top of his profession, but has little interest in celebrity and eschews the label 'Starchitect.' Despite a lifetime of acclaimed work that includes the United Nations Plaza in Manhattan, the Ford Foundation, Oakland Museum of California, and 40 years of designing new galleries for The Metropolitan Museum in New York, he has no intention...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
In this retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, a young Irish seamstress, employed by the wealthy Wellington family in 1880s New York City, tries to make good her father's boast that she can "practically spin straw into gold" despite the heavy price she is asked to pay.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Fleeing Ireland for New York City after stealing a small fortune from the IRA, three brothers immerse themselves in the cultural and political tensions of 1939, only to find their lives falling apart when they are tracked down by a hired assassin.
70) Jimmy the gent
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
James Cagney and Bette Davis star as a less-than-scrupulous private detective and the woman he loves, who has just left him for an even less scrupulous employer. Jimmy Corrigan (Cagney) is jealous when his operative and sweetheart, Joan Martin (Davis), goes to work for his seemingly upper-crust rival Charles Wallingham (Alan Dinehart). But Corrigan discovers that Wallingham is just as crooked as Corrigan; he's just better at concealing it. Now, even...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The year is 1846. After the controversial annexation of Texas, the US Army marches south to provoke war with Mexico over the disputed Rio Grande boundary. Ximena Salomé is a gifted Mexican healer who dreams of building a family with the man she loves on the coveted land she calls home. But when Texas Rangers storm her ranch and shoot her husband dead, her dreams are burned to ashes. Vowing to honor her husband's memory and defend her country,...
72) Academy street
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A vibrant, intimate, hypnotic portrait of one woman's life, from an important new writer. Tess Lohan is the kind of woman that we meet and fail to notice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who nonetheless feels things acutely--a woman with tumultuous emotions and few people to share them with. Academy Street is Mary Costello's luminous portrait of a whole life. It follows Tess from her girlhood in western Ireland through her relocation...
73) Ashes of roses
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died.
Publisher
Shanachie Entertainment
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of the seven million Irish who emigrated to America in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries including the causes of the exodus and the immigrant experience in the United States. Uses photographs, archival footage, manuscript material and interviews with Irish immigrants to describe their experiences and the profound influence they have had on American culture.
76) Angela's ashes
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
McCourt describes his miserable childhood in the slums of Limerick, Ireland.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and how much alcohol has been consumed. When Eileen meets Ed Leary, a scientist whose bearing is nothing like those of the men she grew up with, she thinks she's found the perfect partner to deliver her to the cosmopolitan world she longs to inhabit. They...
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...
79) Irish tweed
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 12
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
While Nuala Anne and her daughter take karate classes to protect themselves from bullies, shy nanny Julie is courted by a new beau, and Dermot examines a famine refugee's memoir for clues about the mysterious fever that killed his family.
80) Irish linen
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 10
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When a young man from her Chicago neighborhood vanishes in Iraq and the U.S. government denies knowledge of his whereabouts, Nuala launches a personal investigation to uncover the truth.
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