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"In 1845, a fungus began to destroy Ireland's potato crop, triggering a famine that would kill one million Irish men, women, and children--and drive over one million more to flee for America. Ten years later, the United States had been transformed by this stupendous migration, nowhere more than New York: by 1855, roughly a third of all adults living in Manhattan were immigrants who had escaped the hunger in Ireland. These so-called “Famine Irish”...
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In this rollicking Shakespeare comedy, two women come up with a hilarious plan to teach their would-be seducer the error of his ways, while their husbands draw their own conclusions. This production from the Stratford Festival is set in the 1950s in a town not unlike Stratford, bringing the story close to home.
7) Henry VIII
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The Stratford Festival presents Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, a searing drama about one of the most fascinating, romantic, yet brutal periods in history. When England’s King Henry falls for the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn, he must somehow remove his beloved Queen Katherine from his life. As church and state collide, the King’s closest advisor, Cardinal Wolsey, suffers calamitous consequences and ultimately the course of history is changed forever....
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Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the 1990s are going to be better for him and the people of Northern Ireland. As a Catholic cop in the mainly Protestant RUC, he still has a target on his back, and with a steady girlfriend and a child, the stakes couldn't be higher. After handling a mercurial triple agent and surviving the riots and bombings and assassination attempts, all Duffy wants to...
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"It's 1849 on the west coast of Ireland. Resilient Honora O'Donoghue is accustomed to fending for herself and to reading the language of the natural world. It was always said she'd been marked for something different, but it's not until she suffers devastating losses in a country gripped by the Famine that Honora begins to understand how that difference will save her. With the hope of a better life in America calling, Honora keeps moving toward her...
11) Irish secrets
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Irish Rose - Burke Logan came to Ireland looking for horses, not for Erin McKinnon. But unable to get her out of his mind, Burke offers her a bookkeeping position back in America. Erin jumps at the chance to leave her small town and get to know her handsome employer. Their initial attraction grows stronger, but Burke is keeping Erin at arm’s length―to protect her from a secret that could destroy their love. Skin Deep - Chantel O’Hurley...
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Damned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett's chosen biographer and a leading authority on Beckett, vividly re-creates Beckett's life from his birth in a rural suburb of Dublin in 1906 to his death in Paris in 1989, revealing the real man behind the literary giant. Scrupulously researched and...
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"This book began as a political history of the 60s and 70s, with a particular focus on why Americans have let our nation decline in almost every measurable way since then, and sometimes even cheered on those who engineered that decline. I wanted to tell it the way I saw it growing up, watching many of my working-class Irish relatives forsake the Democrats, a party they saw as forsaking them. But my family's story, and that of the Democratic Party,...