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Stalking Irish madness Stalking Irish madness Patrick Tracey In this powerful, sometimes harrowing, deeply felt story, Patrick Tracey journeys to Ireland to track the origin and solve the mystery of his Irish-American family's multigenerational struggle with s… OL11903563W
Prank Prank Kathryn Lasky A teenage girl strives to escape from her dead-end existence in a tough neighborhood of East Boston and from her violent, quarrelsome family. OL121837W
The Irish in baseball The Irish in baseball David L. Fleitz "Professional baseball took root in America in the 1860s during the same years that the sons of the first wave Irish famine refugees began to reach adulthood. This is a survey of the enormous contrib… OL12255373W
The walking people The walking people Mary Beth Keane Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta discovers that i… OL13691676W
Matters of the Heart Matters of the Heart Danielle Steel In a spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, Danielle Steel tells a powerful and unusual story of one woman's journey from darkness into light, as she fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath… OL14873591W
Torchlight Torchlight Carol Otis Hurst In 1864, fifth-grader Charlotte befriends an Irish-American girl at school and tries to understand the prejudices between the Irish and the Yankees in her town of Westfield, Massachusetts. Based on h… OL15845571W
My father's gun My father's gun Brian McDonald "... powerful memoir about three generations of New York City policemen."--Dust jacket. OL15861956W
Angela's ashes Angela's ashes Frank McCourt "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable… OL16038559W
'Tis 'Tis Frank McCourt A sequel to Angela's Ashes, following on the memoirs of Frank McCourt. The story of Frank continues from when he first arrives in America. OL16050892W
Table money Table money Jimmy Breslin In 1970 Owney Morrison is back from Vietnam with a Congressional Medal of Honor, a wife, a baby, and a problem with alcohol. Owney blunders forth into a world of his own making, but a world, nonethel… OL1705221W
Maggie's Amerikay Maggie's Amerikay Barbara T. Russell In New Orleans in 1898, while her mother talks of saving to buy land and her father insists on the importance of an education, young Irish immigrant Maggie McCrary is determined to find her own way i… OL1902575W
Mick Mick Chris Lynch,Chris Lynch His friendship with two Hispanic students offers fifteen-year-old Mick an alternative to the drunken savagery of his brother and the narrow thinking of his Irish-American neighborhood in Boston. OL1921232W
The Promise of America The Promise of America Bill Stevens This gritty tale of Irish immigration follows our hero from the squalor and degradation of New York's infamous Tenderloin in the 1880s to his realization of the Promise of America. OL19667585W
Machine made Machine made Terry Golway A journalist, historian, and expert on the Irish American experience tackles the common stereotypes and presents a revisionist version of the notoriously crooked Tammany Hall, describing the crucial … OL19706741W
Walter Harper, Alaska native son Walter Harper, Alaska native son Mary F. Ehrlander xx, 196 pages ; 24 cm OL19729671W
Genealogy of the Tomlinson and Kellum families Genealogy of the Tomlinson and Kellum families Asher K. Tomlinson Descendants of William Tomlinson (b. 1749) who emigrated from Ireland with two brothers, Josiah & Samuel. William married Martha Coppeck in South Carolina (date unknown) and after the Revolutionary W… OL19800418W
Boy21 Boy21 Matthew Quick Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks… OL20980239W
Could you be startin' from somewhere else? Could you be startin' from somewhere else? Michael W. Shurgot "In his stirring, deeply reflective memoir, Michael Shurgot reveals how his childhood in a loving, multiethnic family in a predominantly working-class neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, proved surpri… OL26451825W
The Nunda Irish The Nunda Irish McDonald, Bill Mainly contains stories of the Lyons, Whalen, Harrington and Horen families. OL27716405W
Mulligan's brigade Mulligan's brigade Thomas E. Reimer U.S. Civil War, bloody battles, and the life of Lincoln as seen by Chicagoans and Mulligan's Irish Brigade. OL28953585W
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