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1) Ireland
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Presents the history, culture, economy, and government of Ireland, and describes major cities, landscape, people, holidays and festivals, and its place in the European Union.
2) Airman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In the 1890s on an island off the Irish coast, Conor Broekhart is falsely imprisoned and passes the solitary months by scratching designs of flying machines into the walls, including one for a glider with which he dreams of escape.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sibert Award Winner: This true story of five years of starvation in Ireland is “a fascinating account of a terrible time” (Kirkus Reviews).
In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people. Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again. These...
In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people. Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again. These...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie travel back to nineteenth-century Ireland to inspire a young Augusta Gregory to share her love of Irish legends and folktales with the world.
7) 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
Series
Language
English
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Description
Award-winning author Juliet Marillier “weaves magic, mythology, and folklore into every sentence on the page” (The Book Smugglers). Now she presents the first novel in an enchanting series that will transport readers to a magical vision of ancient Ireland....
In exchange for help escaping her long and wrongful imprisonment, embittered magical healer Blackthorn has vowed to set aside her bid for vengeance against the...
In exchange for help escaping her long and wrongful imprisonment, embittered magical healer Blackthorn has vowed to set aside her bid for vengeance against the...
Author
Series
Daughters of Boston novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Graced with physical beauty, though shallow of heart, Charity O'Connor is a woman who knows what she wants. She sets her sights on the cantankerous Mitch Dennehy, editor at the Irish Times, who has unwittingly stolen her heart. And although the sparks are there, Mitch refuses to fan the coals of a potential relationship with his ex-fiancée's sister. But Charity has a plan to turn up the heat and she always gets what she wants--one way or another....
Author
Series
Reverend Mother mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Reverend Mother Aquinas of Saint Mary's of the Isle in Cork, Ireland, finds the body of a young woman in an evening gown one morning in 1923, she becomes involved with a police sergeant, a doctor, and rebels in resolving the case.
12) Knife edge
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In his sixth adventure, something sinister is afoot in the house in the west of Ireland in which young Sherlock is staying.
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reveals the pivotal role played by the monks and scribes of Ireland in the development of Western culture and history.
14) Haven
Author
Language
English
Description
"In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks--young Trian and old Cormac--he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean?"--
Author
Series
Emerald ballad volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
In Heart of the Lonely Exile, Book Two of BJ Hoff's acclaimed and bestselling Emerald Ballad series, readers will find heroine, Nora Kavanagh struggling to build a new life for herself and her son Daniel in America. With help from a wealthy American family and friendship and support from a British gentleman, Nora nevertheless finds herself caught in a conflict of the heart.
Michael Burke, a strong, dedicated Irish policeman, desperately wants to keep...
Author
Series
Burren mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
Mara, Brehon of the Burren, must battle superstitious beliefs and fears as she sets out to solve a brutal murder. When a woman's body is discovered, strangled and bound with rope to the stone torso of Fár Breige, the ancient stone god which stands sentinel above the haunted caves and ancient fortifications of the Atlantic cliffs, the locals believe it was the god who killed her. In life, Clodagh O'Lochlainn had been a disgrace to her clan, tormenting...
Author
Series
Emerald ballad volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
©1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In Book Three of BJ Hoff's bestselling Emerald Ballad saga set near the middle of the 19th century, Irish patriot Morgan Fitzgerald, felled by a gunman's bullet, strives to restore his life and reclaim his future. But even as he takes steps to provide a home for Belfast orphan Annie Delaney and nurture his love for the beautiful, mute Finola, he finds himself again locked in a fierce battle with the powers of darkness.
In America, Morgan's friends...
19) Country
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Northern Ireland, 1996.
After 25 years of conflict, the IRA and the British have agreed to an uneasy ceasefire, as a first step towards lasting peace. But if decades of savage violence are leading only to smiles and handshakes, those on the ground in the border country will start to question what exactly they have been fighting for.
When an IRA man's wife turns informer, he and his brother gather their old comrades for an assault on the local...
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...
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