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Divided Kingdom : Ireland, 1630-1800
A Brief History Of Ireland
Of Irish Descent : Origin Stories, Genealogy, & The Politics Of Belonging

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Catherine NashPublication Details
Book1st edSyracuse University Press2008Description
Examining tensions between ideas of plurality and commonality, difference and connection that run through the culture and science of ancestral origins, Of Irish Descent is an original and timely exploration of new configurations of nation and diaspora as communities of shared descent. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) CS484 .N37 2008 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
Brooklyn : A Novel

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Colm TóibínPublication Details
Book1st Scribner hardcover edScribner2009Links
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Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tibn’s sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn to sponsor Eilis in America — to live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood “just like Ireland” — she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) PR6070.O455 B76 2009 AVAILABLE
Creature Of The Night

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Kate ThompsonPublication Details
BookFirst American edRoaring Brook Press2009Description
Bobby lives a reckless life smoking, drinking, and stealing cars in Dublin. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 T662c AVAILABLE
The King With Horse’s Ears And Other Irish Folktales

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retold by Batt Burns ; illustrated by Igor OleynikovPublication Details
BookSterling Pub. Co2009Links
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Storytelling is one of Ireland?s oldest and grandest traditions, and these vivid tales of far-off days will introduce young readers to the country?s irresistible folklore. Contents include: The King with Horse?s Ears The Greedy Barber Oisn in the Land of the Ever Young Back from the Fairies Paying the Rent A Clever Leprechaun The Lost Island of Lonesome Seals And many more! (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 398.2 B967k AVAILABLE
Irish Freedom : The History Of Nationalism In Ireland

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Richard EnglishPublication Details
BookPan Books2007Description
Richard English’s brilliant new book is a compelling narrative history of Irish nationalism, in which events are not merely recounted but analyzed. Full of rich detail, drawn from years of original research and also from the extensive specialist literature on the subject, it offers explanations of why Irish nationalists have believed and acted as they have, why their ideas and strategies have changed over time, and what effect Irish nationalism has had in shaping modern Ireland. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DA910 .E56 2007 AVAILABLE
Archipelagic English : Literature, History, And Politics, 1603-1707

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John KerriganPublication Details
BookOxford University Press2008Description
Seventeenth-century “English Literature” has long been thought about in narrowly English terms. Archipelagic English corrects this by devolving anglophone writing, showing how much remarkable work was produced in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and how preoccupied such English authors as Shakespeare, Milton, and Marvell were with the often fraught interactions between ethnic, religious, and national groups around the British-Irish archipelago. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR438.P65 K47 2008 AVAILABLE
Contested Island : Ireland 1460-1630

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S.J. ConnollyPublication Details
BookOxford University Press2007Links
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At the same time the great religious divide of the Reformation had introduced a further source of conflict to Ireland, dividing the population into two hostile camps, while at the same time giving it a new and dangerous role in the conflict between England and its continental enemies. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DA935 .C66 2007 AVAILABLE
Bog Child

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Siobhan DowdPublication Details
Book1st American edDavid Fickling Books2008Description
DIGGING FOR PEAT in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she?s been murdered. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 D745b AVAILABLE
Ireland : The Politics Of Enmity, 1789-2006

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Paul BewPublication Details
BookOxford University Press2007Description
Britain’s failure to achieve this objective, dramatised by the horrifying tragedy of the Irish famine of 1846-50, in which a million Irish died, set the context for the emergence of a popular mass nationalism, expressed in the Fenian, Parnell, and Sinn Fein movements, which eventually expelled Britain from the greater part of the island. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DA47.9.I73 B49 2007 AVAILABLE
Ireland’s Fairy Lore,
Muraqqa’ Imperial Mughal Albums From The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin

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by Elaine Wright ; with contributions by Susan Stronge … [et al.]Publication Details
BookArt Services International2008Description
The paintings in the albums include formal (often symbolic) portraits of the emperors themselves, depictions of members of the royal family in relaxed private settings, portraits of courtiers, Sufi saints and mystics, genre scenes, and natural history subjects. This lavishly-illustrated, color catalogue, contains essays by Elaine Wright, Curator of the Islamic Collections, Chester Beatty Library, Wheeler Thackston, Lecturer, Harvard University, Susan Stronge, Curator Asia Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Steven Cohen, Textile Specialist, Independent Scholar and Author, London. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ND3247 .W75 2008 AVAILABLE
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