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St. Patrick's Day Book List
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Ulysses
by James Joyce
This stream of consciousness account of several lower class citizens of Dublin describes their activities and tells what some of them were thinking one day in 1904.
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The picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
The handsome appearance of dissolute, young Dorian Gray remains unchanged while the features in his portrait become distorted as his degeneration progresses.
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Tristram Shandy
by Laurence Sterne
A witty eighteenth-century gentleman recounts his life and the comic adventures of his English country family.
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The third policeman
by Flann O'Brien
Presents an alternate reality in which people can become bicycles, dimensions shift unexpectedly, and having a wooden leg is advantageous.
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Strumpet City
by James Plunkett
Set in Dublin during the Lockout of 1913, this is a panoramic novel of city life. It embraces a range of social milieux, from the miseries of the tenements to the cultivated, bourgeois Bradshaws. It introduces a memorable cast of characters such as: the main protagonist, Fitz, a model of the hard-working, loyal and abused trade unionist.
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The new Oxford book of Irish verse
by Thomas Kinsella
A new collection of Irish verse treats the tradition as a unified whole, ranging from the pre-Christian era to the 1980s, and includes new translations of important poems originally written in Irish.
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The Country Girls
by Edna O'Brien
After being expelled from an Irish convent, two young Irish country girls--Kate, an incurable romantic, and Baba, a reckless individualist--choose husbands in London and find married life more difficult than they had imagined.
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The commitments
by Roddy Doyle
.Tells of the rise and fall of a British band, its members' lives and loves, and the tensions that led to their breakup.
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Transatlantic
by Colum McCann
A tale spanning one hundred fifty years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell, World War I airmen John Alcock, and Teddy Brown through the experiences of four generations of women.
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Trinity
by Leon Uris
Recounts the interrelationships, clashes, and common concerns of the Catholic, hill-farming Larkins of Donegal, the aristocratic and British Hubbles, and the Scottish-Presbyterian MacLeods of Belfast during the years from the 1840s famine to the 1916 Easter Rising.
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The heather blazing : a novel
by Colm Tóibín
Eamon Redmond is a judge in the Irish High Court, a man who has been focusing for years on the letter and the spirit of the law, but gradually his focus shifts to his past, and to the past of his country.
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Ireland : a history
by Thomas Bartlett
"Ireland has rarely been out of the news during the past thirty years. Whether as a war zone in which Catholic nationalists and Protestant Unionists struggled for supremacy, a case study in conflict resolution or an economy that for a time promised to make the Irish among the wealthiest people on the planet, the two Irelands have truly captured the world's imagination. Yet single-volume histories of Ireland are rare. Here, Thomas Bartlett, one of the country's leading historians, sets out a fascinating new history that ranges from prehistory to the present. Integrating politics, society and culture, he offers an authoritative historical road map that shows exactly how--and why--Ireland, north and south, arrived at where it is today. This is an indispensable guide both to the legacies of the past for Ireland's present and to the problems confronting north and south in the contemporary world"--Provided by publisher
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Angela's ashes : a memoir
by Frank McCourt
The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies.
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Everybody matters : my life giving voice
by Mary Robinson
A personal account by Ireland's first female president and the former United Nations High Commissioner traces her childhood in a deeply Catholic family, her landmark wins as an activist lawyer and her struggles to advocate on behalf of human rights throughout the world.
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The Irish in America
by Michael Coffey
The companion volume to a PBS television series, a compendium of essays, photographs, and illustrations explores the social, cultural, and political history of Irish Americans through contributions by Pete Hamill, Frank McCourt, Peggy Noonan, and others.
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The Irish way : becoming American in the multiethnic city
by James R. Barrett
A lively history of turn-of-the-20th-century urban life in major cities as experienced and influenced by Irish Americans makes a case that urban culture was largely shaped by people with a distinctly Hibernian heritage, explaining that the descendants of Irish immigrants imposed their own values, beliefs and prejudices on subsequent newcomers. By the author of The Tragedy of American Radicalism.
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The story of Ireland : a history of the Irish people
by Neil Hegarty
A comprehensive history about how Ireland has been shaped by outside influences throughout the past 2,500 years challenges popular beliefs while discussing such topics as Europe's 16th-century religious wars, the French and American revolutions and Ireland's World War II neutrality.
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