NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 13, 2012
"A mesmerizing interplay of lives and socio-historical contexts."
A richly detailed biographical study of a group of early-20th-century intellectuals whose shared love for a dying insular culture helped save it from extinction.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2012
"Recommended for general readers seeking a thorough, nonpartisan guide to the tragic history of this most distressful country."
A balanced overview of the history of Ireland, written to accompany a BBC television series.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2011
"Delaney keeps all of the incipient tragedy beautifully and heartbreakingly balanced through artful plotting and an unadorned but graceful prose style."
Broken Irish Americans from South Boston, that is—and there's plenty of brokenness to go around at the turn of the 21st century.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 17, 2011
"A penetrating, droll embrace of an Ireland in the midst of tumult."
A sometimes happy, sometimes blue story of how a transplanted American family experienced Ireland during the past decade.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 2, 2008
"A sincere memoir of grief and hope that honors Irish folklore while giving modern medicine its due."
Irish-American journalist Tracey explores the perplexing disease that has plagued at least four generations of his family.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 6, 2007
"For those with a terrible thirst for foamy Hibernian whimsy."
A jolly journalist takes a junket from Down Under to the Emerald Isle in order to acquire a taste for the beverage he describes as "liquid coal."
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