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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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2002
"Corny, trite, and delightful: tales sure to delight anyone who has ever cried over a good rendition of "Danny Boy"--or passed out at a Pogues concert."
Enough Christmas stories--52 in all--to last the whole year long, each one generously laced with classic Keane blarney (
An Irish Christmas, 2000, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: July 3, 2001
"Good pointless fun, in the tradition of Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth and every other bohemian romp you've ever read."
A comic trilogy that tacks one new episode onto two reruns, Wimmer's collection—Irish Wine (1988), Boyne's Lassie (1998), and Hagar's Dream—follows the misadventures of wild-man Seamus Boyne (Irish scourge of the British art world) and his timid friend Gene Hagar (a Long Island exterminator with literary ambitions).
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ADULT
Released: May 1, 2000
"The poems in this volume do indeed reflect a national history, messy and complex, strident and joyful in the most tragic of circumstances."
Mc Cormack, a professor of literary history at the University of London, has woven together a fascinating and problematic anthology.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2000
"Toibin's introduction will generate a fair amount of controversy, but it would be hard to fault him as an editor."
Any anthology that weighs in at over 1,000 pages is aiming for broad appeal, and any 1,000-page anthology of Irish fiction will probably achieve it.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 9, 1996
"An extraordinary work in every way. McCourt magically retrieves love, dignity, and humor from a childhood of hunger, loss and pain."
A powerful, exquisitely written debut, a recollection of the author's miserable childhood in the slums of Limerick, Ireland, during the Depression and World War II.
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FICTION
Released: April 7, 1994
"A nasty little war with even nastier consequences, deftly described with enough details to satisfy those who prefer their history lightly spritzed with fiction."
Award-winning novelist of Irish history Thomas Flanagan (The Tenants of Time, 1988, etc.) sets his new novel, as densely packed and relentlessly thorough as usual, in the turbulent 1920's, an era whose legacy lingers today in strife-ridden Northern Ireland.
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