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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The speckled people The speckled people Hugo Hamilton The memoir of Hugo Hamilton, which details his life as a young boy growing up in Dublin and his family's homesickness for a country they can call their own. OL16546039W
Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism Eamon Maher,Eugene O'Brien This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abuse in that diocese in 2011. The young people awaiting… OL19907545W
Culture shock! Culture shock! Patricia Levy CultureShock! Ireland cuts across the many stereotypes of Ireland and the Irish to offer enlightening insights into this fascinating land and its people. Discover a people whose lives, values and att… OL1994990W
Ireland Ireland Patricia Levy,Patricia Marjorie Levy,Debbie Nevins Explores the geography, history, culture and beliefs of Ireland and its people. OL1995002W
Surviving Ireland Surviving Ireland Colm Tobin It's exhausting. Being Irish. The weight of history. The self-doubt. The constant analysis. The wind. Why are we so hard on ourselves? Is it the post colonial hangover following centuries of oppressi… OL20040646W
Book of Untruths Book of Untruths Miranda Doyle 1 volume ; 22 cm OL21160261W
Ultimate Witnesses Ultimate Witnesses Niamh Ann Kelly 47 pages : 28 cm OL21609151W
In My Day In My Day Rob Stears 135 pages : 19 cm OL21614360W
Quiet revolutionaries Quiet revolutionaries Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh 256 pages ; 20 cm OL22612308W
Bockety Bockety Desmond Ellis This is the story of a young boy born in 1944 who grew up on the banks of the Grand Canal on Dublin's Portobello Road. OL2400481W
Irish Folk Ways Irish Folk Ways E. Estyn Evans A classic in its field, this charming work by a noted scholar explores traditional Irish customs and activities—from thatching a roof, churning butter, cultivating and harvesting crops, making pots a… OL2458522W
The big house in Ireland The big house in Ireland Valerie Pakenham The big Irish House has haunted the Irish landscape and Irish imagination for nearly 400 years. In this anthology the idiosyncratic life in the Big House is portrayed in a chronological structure, cr… OL28767310W
The falling angels The falling angels John Walsh The story of rootlessnes, of a London-Irish boy who has two identities and feels at home with neither. By his mother's bedside in a Galway hospital, he starts to unpick the past, looking for clues to… OL6057460W