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1) Belfast
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A poignant story of love, laughter, and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s." --
Author
Language
English
Description
International sensation Santa Montefiore presents the first book in a trilogy that follows three Irish women through the decades of the twentieth century--perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Hazel Gaynor. Born on the ninth day of the ninth month in the year 1900, Kitty Deverill is special as her grandmother has always told her. Built on the stunning green hills of West Cork, Ireland, Castle Deverill is Kitty's beloved home, where many generations...
Author
Language
English
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. Eileen can't help but dream of a calmer life, in a better neighborhood. 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...
4) Snow
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a County Wexford priest in 1957, Detective Inspector St. John Strafford navigates harsh winter weather and the community's culture of silence to expose an aristocratic family's dangerous secrets. --
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A powerful debut set in Belfast and London in the latter years of the twentieth century. The Troubles turned Northern Ireland into a ghost factory: as the manufacturing industry withered, the death business boomed. In trying to come to terms with his father's sudden death, and the attack on his harmless best friend Titch, Jacky is forced to face the bullies who still menace a city scarred by conflict. After he himself is attacked, he flees to London...
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins his brother, Teddy in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom. As the Irish freedom fighters bold tactics bring the British to a breaking point, both sides finally agree to a treaty to end the bloodshed. But, despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts and families who fought side by side, find themselves pitted against one another,...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Recreation of the events of "Bloody Sunday", Jan. 30, 1972, when British troops fired on unarmed protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland. By the end of the day, 13 civilians were dead and 14 more wounded in the tumult and tragedy of Norther Ireland's darkest day.
8) Belfast
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Follows the story of a boy growing up in the late 1960s in Belfast whose family must decide whether to stay or leave amid the social tumult."--
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Oxford handbook of modern Irish theatre' provides the single most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single volume. Drawing on more than forty contributors from around the world, the book addresses a full range of topics relating to modern Irish theatre from the late nineteenth-century theatre to the most recent works of postdramatic devised theatre. Ireland has long had an importance in the world of theatre out of all proportion...
Author
Publisher
The Macmillan Company
Pub. Date
1926.
Language
English
Description
The play examines the powerful force of political idealism and the lives of those swept up in its tide. It is the final play in Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy.
he play is set in Dublin during the Easter Rising of 1916, and its premiere at the Abbey Theatre sparked rioting by nationalists who felt that it defamed Irish patriots. Among the characters who fight to keep their lives intact despite the war's destruction are Nora and Jack Clitheroe. Although...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The real stories, lives and dramas behind the smash hit BBC series Call the Midwife which premieres on PBS September 30, 2012.
The official companion to seasons one and two, The Life and Times of Call the Midwife, gives fans a deeper insight into the period, the stories and the characters, and how Call the Midwife, based on the bestselling memoirs by Jennifer Worth, was brought to the screen.
With never before
...16) Irish writers
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[between 1980 and 1989?]
Language
English
Description
"This documentary gives brief biographies of some of Ireland's most celebrated writers, while visually touring locations that influenced and inspired them." --
17) Ireland's national theaters: political performance and the origins of the Irish dramatic movement
Author
Series
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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