Irish Born, Paperback

Reducere. The IRA has been a much richer, more complexly layered, and more protean organization than is frequently recognized. It is also more open to balanc...

Reducere. Martin McDonagh's plays have been produced in Galway, Dublin, London and New York. They have created excitement and have won numerous awards. In in...

Reducere. 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 North...

DescriptionNever before has there been a single-volume anthology of modern Irish poetry so significant and groundbreaking as An Anthology of Modern...

Reducere. All families have stories. All families have history reaching back across time to the ones who came before.In the ninth century, an Irish healer re...

Reducere. This is the first-ever biography of Emmet Dalton - an American-born Dubliner, Home Ruler, and later Republican - whose extraordinary military caree...

Harry Clarke was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1889, he studied stained-glass at the Dublin Metro...

Reducere. "Richly detailed, vividly depicted, and sweeping in scope, Island Queen is historical fiction at its absolute finest. A stunning must-read!"--Chane...

Reducere. William Johnston, an Irish-born Jesuit and a famous pioneer of East-West dialogue, tells his fascinating story of spiritual adventure. After his up...

Reducere. Kevin O'Hara recreates his boyhood with these wonderful stories of growing up in Massachusetts in the 1950s and 60s as one of eight children. His p...

Reducere. Straight from the streets of the mid-1960s Bronx comes a book about one of the borough's most feared gangs - The Ducky Boys. While their unusual na...

Reducere. DescriptionHe's the Duke no one expected. She's the Lady he's been looking for. Can their love overcome the dark storm gathering over the House of ...

Reducere. DescriptionSigns, superstitions, remedies and cures. The first book in Lynn Coffey's five-book series about Virginia's Appalachian culture, Backroa...

Reducere. Since 2010 Tim Foley has been the driving force of a campaign to honour a man with a remarkable story. Tom Crean, the subject of the new book 'Crea...

Reducere. Pidgin Eye features thirty-five years of poetry by acclaimed author Joe Balaz. Writing in Pidgin (Hawaiʻi Creole English), he honors the beauty, st...

In 1989 Edna Longley remarked that if Catholics were born Irish, Protestants had to 'work their passage to Irishness'. With eighteen essays by scho...

Reducere. Just as WASPs, Irish-Catholics and Our Crowd Jews once made the ascent from immigrants to powerbrokers, it is now the Indian-American's turn. Citig...

Reducere. Since 2010 Tim Foley has been the driving force of a campaign to honour a man with a remarkable story. Tom Crean, the subject of the new book 'Crea...

Myles Walter Keogh was born to be a soldier. He had a passion in his blood and a love for the thrill of battle, which led him to fight in the Papal...

Reducere. A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR SCIENCE FICTION The continuing saga of the Five Dragons, Ian McDonald's fast-paced, intricately plotted space opera pitc...

Reducere. For ten years Kevin Toolis investigated the lives of the IRA soldiers who wage a secret battle against the British State. His journeys took him fro...

Reducere. Susie Doheny, an Irish Catholic, and Peder Holm, a Norwegian Lutheran, fall in love and marry in South Dakota in the 1890s. Soon their marriage is ...

Reducere. DescriptionPromoted from the rank of Acting Temporary Captain in a Royal Flying Corps training squadron to that of very temporary Lieutenant-Colone...

Reducere. Ireland, home of legendary poets and storytellers, has been wracked by bloody sectarian violence over the last quarter century. Bombs and guns were...

Reducere. In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien's A Fanatic Heart pulls the reader into a woman's experience. Her sto...

DescriptionThe combined events of the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the first transcontinental railroad opening in 1869, and the financial...

Reducere. Maud Gonne, the legendary woman known as the Irish Joan of Arc, left her mark on everyone she met. She famously won the devotion of one of the grea...

Reducere. Out of the rich culture of India and the brutal drama of the 1947 Partition comes this lush and eloquent debut novel about two women married to the...

Reducere. A fascinating journey through the lesser known details of Irish historyPacked full of myths, legends, inventions, and adventures, I Never Knew That...

Reducere. An electrifying novel of blood, vengeance, and international intrigue from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed. As a high...

Reducere. "Electrifying." --Booklist (starred) Willie Sutton was born in the Irish slums of Brooklyn in 1901, and he came of age at a time when banks were ou...

DescriptionA little over a century ago, the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of ...

DescriptionThe Pacific Crest Trail runs 2660 miles, from California's border with Mexico to Washington's border with Canada. To walk it is to under...

Reducere. When author and historian Bob Royalty fulfilled his dream to walk the Roman ruins of Hadrian's Wall, across northern England from the North Sea to ...

Reducere. Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830 is a historical study examining the religious culture of Irish immigrants in...

Reducere. About the AuthorJoshua Gillingham is a Canadian author from the scenic city of Nanaimo, BC. There he enjoys life with his adventurous spouse and th...

Reducere. Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she becam...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Ireland, we have a wealth of old myths, legends, fairy tales and folk stories, which are presented here in an easy to read, authentic...

Reducere. Father William Doyle was an exceptional Jesuit priest, whose scholarly writings and promise were tragically cut short by his death while serving in...

Reducere. "Ka is a beautiful, often dreamlike late masterpiece." --Los Angeles Times "One of our country's absolutely finest novelists." --Peter Straub, New ...

Reducere. DescriptionViolet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 2...

Reducere. Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, William Butler Yeats discovered early in his literary career a fascination with Irish folklore and the occult...

Elizabeth Bowen's first novel brilliantly captures the inflammatory mixture of passion and repression among well-heeled British tourists on the Ita...

Reducere. Translation of poems by Yuri Zhivago, the main character of the Nobel Prize winner Boris Pasternak's world- famous novel "Doctor Zhivago, " which w...

Reducere. Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, ha...

Reducere. The Druids were the mystics, philosophers, and magicians of the ancient Celtic world. Their spirituality was borne from their near-worship of poetr...

Reducere. The World's Fair has introduced many new ideas to Chicago society--but can two individuals from very different backgrounds find love together?It's ...

Reducere. More than any other book of the period, On Another Man's Wound captures the feel of Ireland--the way people lived, their attitudes and beliefs--and...

Reducere. A Farmboy's Upper Peninsula Memoirs: Thirty days after the Great War ended, Clifton Nixon was born. It was a time of migration as people were takin...

Reducere. DescriptionSpring has come to Ireland, where Thorgrim Night Wolf, new-made Lord of V k-l , and the three hundred Viking warriors under his command ...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter the treachery and slaughter they met during the raid on Glendalough, Thorgrim Night Wolf and his small band of surviving Northmen ...

Reducere. A brutally honest but charming look at the pain of childhood and the alienation and anxiety of early adulthood. In his memoir, we are invited to wa...

"This involving novel puts you inside the mind of Molly Allgood, an elderly actress wandering around the brilliantly evoked 1950s London of crumbli...

Reducere. Meet the Women of the WISE Enquiries Agency. The first in a new series. Henry Twyst, eighteenth Duke of Chellingworth, is convinced his mother is l...

Long before there was a peace process in Ireland, Van Morrison unwittingly did his bit to unite a nation divided. Born in the heart of East Belfast...

A renowned Irish poet, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain has published 7 collections of poetry. Born in Cork City in 1942, her collections include Acts and Mo...

Reducere. Last Night's Fun's is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired jumble...

Reducere. "Haunting . . . Heart-pounding suspenseful."--PeopleNow available with a contemporary look for a new generation, New York Times bestselling author ...

A New York Times Bestseller "Love, longing, and rich scenes of daily life.... What could be sweeter than a trip to an Irish village packed with rob...

Reducere. Not All Saints are born with Halos...One was born with Claws...16th Century Ireland.You've heard the tale of St. Patrick driving the serpents out o...

Reducere. As a gifted healer, Fiona O'Brien has led a magickal life, though most certainly not an easy one. Born and raised in the small town of Grace's Cove...

Reducere. Be prepared for scenes of great action & heroics"I had a word with Sergeant Nolan, so I did, and said you weren't entirely bad unless you were cros...

Reducere. In 9th century Denmark, a child born to a slave is also a slave, and the property of his mother's master. Halfdan, the son of an Irish noblewoman a...

Reducere. First to fly the Atlantic-the navigator's story in his own wordsBrown was a Scottish aviator, born in Glasgow in 1886. Although he was initially co...

This powerful and immensely nostalgic story centres around Olympic hopeful Chloe, whose promising career as a swimmer is devastatingly shut down at...

When Ragini Krishnan becomes pregnant for the second time, she thinks she's finally going to give her husband the son they both desperately want. H...

The extraordinary life and crimes of heiress-turned-revolutionary Rose Dugdale, who in 1974 became the only woman to pull off a major art heist. In...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Terry BarberMaria Tallchief is specifically written to meet the needs of adolescents and adults who are reluctant readers. ...

Reducere. On the tough streets of Boston, justice requires a detective who isn't afraid to break the rules."Brian Shea is the real deal. A veteran detective ...

Reducere. DescriptionMary G. Harris Jones (baptized 1837; died 1930), known as Mother Jones, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who beca...