Rutherfurd, Edward.
Summary: "Edward Rutherfurd's stirring account of Irish history, the Dublin Saga, concludes in this magisterial work of historical fiction. Beginning where the first volume, The Princes of Ireland, left off, The Rebels of Ireland takes us into a world transformed by the English practice of "plantation," which represented the final step in the centuries-long British conquest of Ireland. Once again...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUTAlexander, V. S..
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEKelly, Mary Pat.
Summary: "In the bestselling tradition of Frank Delaney, Colleen McCullough, and Maeve Binchy comes a poignant historical family saga set against Ireland's Great Starvation and the building of Chicago."--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELLynch, Paul
Summary: Early one October morning, Grace's mother snatches her from sleep and brutally cuts off her hair, declaring, "You are the strong one now." With winter close at hand and Ireland already suffering, Grace is no longer safe at home. And so her mother outfits her in men's clothing and casts her out. When her younger brother Colly follows after her, the two set off on a remarkable odyssey in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOGiff, Patricia Reilly.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GIFAnbinder, Tyler
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 ANBSummary: The sons of the Phelan family - two farmers, a schoolteacher, and a priest - are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. Real-life brothers Joe, Mark, Paul, and Stephen McGann star as the Phelans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2005