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2) Airman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"A masterful history of Ireland's Easter Rising told through the lives of ordinary people who forged a revolutionary generation. On Easter Monday, 1916, Irish rebels poured into Dublin's streets to proclaim an independent republic. Ireland's long struggle for self-government had suddenly become a radical and bloody fight for independence from Great Britain. Irish nationalists mounted a week-long insurrection, occupying public buildings and creating...
6) Ratlines
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating the murders of three German nationals, Lieutenant Albert Ryan, Directorate of Intelligence in 1963 Ireland, finds his loyalties tested after being ordered by the Minister of Justice to hide the truth about the victims' Nazi pasts
Author
Series
Sister Fidelma mysteries volume 13
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
9) Ellis Island
Author
Series
Ellis Island novels (Kate Kerrigan) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1920s New York, a young Irish woman must choose between her new life and her husband back home in Ireland"--Provided by publisher
Author
Series
Deverill chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
International bestselling author Santa Montefiore continues the story of the Deverill family in the third book in her beautiful and moving Deverill Chronicles trilogy-perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Beatriz Williams.
"Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore. Everything she writes, she writes from the heart." -Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You
1939: Peace has flourished since the Great War ended, but...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
One man's tour of Ireland on tap; a rollicking travelogue in the tradition of Round Ireland with a Fridge and McCarthy's Bar.
"Regret" is the word that best describes Evan McHugh's first taste of Guinness. For an Australian raised on Vegemite, Ireland's black brew is very much an acquired taste. But the travel-writer is committed to acquiring it. Determined to discover exactly what makes a pint of Guinness so legendary, he crosses the Emerald Isle...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ireland, 1845. To Briana Walsh, no place on earth is more beautiful than Carrowteige, County Mayo, with its sloping fields and rocky cliffs perched above the wild Atlantic. The small farms that surround the centuries-old Lear House are managed by her father, agent to the wealthy, reckless Sir Thomas Blakely. Tenant farmers sell the oats and rye they grow to pay rent to Sir Thomas, surviving on the potatoes that flourish in the remaining scraps of...
16) The yellow house
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The story of a fiery young woman fighting to reunite her family and reclaim their ancestral home during the war for Irish Independence"--Provided by publisher
17) Nory Ryan's song
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive
18) You wouldn't want to sail on an Irish famine ship!: a trip across the Atlantic you'd rather not make
Author
Series
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A look at Irish immigrants who came to the United States to escape the potato famine
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This compelling new look at one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--provides fresh material and analysis on the role that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestantism played in shaping British policies and on Britain's attempt to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character
Author
Series
Sister Fidelma mysteries volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999, c1997
Language
English
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