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2022.
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"A celebrated Irish writer's magisterial, brilliantly insightful chronicle of the wrenching transformations that dragged his homeland into the modern world. Fintan O'Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government?in despair, because all the young people were leaving?opened the country to foreign investment and popular culture. So began a decades-long, ongoing experiment with Irish national identity. In We Don't...
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Tracing Ireland's history from pre-Christan times to the present day troubles, Roy Foster's team of distinguished scholars have produced a stimulating and challenging assessment of over two thousand years of Irish history, lavishly illustrated with more than 200 pictures, many of them in color.
3) Ireland
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Presents region-by-region information for travelers to Ireland, including details on its history, landscape, sites to see, lodging, and restaurants, and provides color photos, maps, and cutaways throughout.
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"Now more than ever, you can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Ireland. From rustic towns and emerald valleys to lively cities and moss-draped ruins, experience it all with Rick Steves! Inside Rick Steves Ireland you'll find: Fully updated, comprehensive coverage for planning a multi-week trip through Ireland ; Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most of your time and money, with rankings of...
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"In this book, Rick fits his favorite destinations into a two-week trip: Dublin, Kilkenny, Kinsale, Kenmare and the Ring of Kerry, Dingle Town and Peninsula, County Clare, Galway, Aran Islands, Belfast, Portrush and the Antrim Coast. Learn how much time to spend in each place, how to travel smoothly between them, and which side-trips are worth adding. Focus on the top sights, explore the most characteristic neighborhoods, dine on the best local cuisine,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 31
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Ireland travels through the centuries, interweaving Ronan's quest fo the Storyteller with a richly evocative unfolding of the great moments in Irish history, ranging from the savage grip of the Ice Age to the green and troubled land of tourist brochures and political unrest.
8) Ireland
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"Engaging images accompany information about Ireland. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
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"New Yorker Tara Meehan's first trip to Galway may be her last ... Tara never imagined her introduction to Ireland like this - carrying her mam's ashes to honor her final request: Tell Johnny I'm sorry ... Take me home. She's never met her mam's estranged brother, Johnny Meehan, who owns an architectural salvage business in Galway. Although Tara is immediately charmed by the medieval city, the locals seem wary of strangers and a gypsy warns her that...
10) Ireland
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Discusses the history, religions, resources, infrastructure, and provides a timeline of major events, a fact file, and glossary of terms.
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Deverill chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
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In the green hills of West Cork, Ireland, Castle Deverill has burned to the ground. But young Celia Deverill is determined to see her ruined ancestral home restored to its former glory -- to the years when Celia ran through its vast halls with her cousin Kitty and their childhood friend Bridie Doyle. Kitty herself is raising a young family, but she longs for Jack O'Leary -- the long-ago sweetheart she cannot have. And soon Kitty must make a heartbreaking...
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Pub. Date
2011
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While on an assignment with British Intelligence in Morocco, the widowed Julia Probyn Jamieson, journalist, amateur sleuth and occasional spy, loses her heart to Gerald O'Brien, a kind and unassuming lawyer. Together with her five-year-old son, Julia travels to Gerald's family home in Ireland to see if the country life could be for her. Julia's quiet vacation is interrupted when she stumbles upon a plot by a cunning landowner. It is down to Julia...
15) The whisper
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It was meant to be an adventure, a night alone on a remote Irish island. Archaeologist Sophie Malone never expected to find Celtic treasure or to end up in a fight for her life in a dark, desolate cave. Now, a year later, she's convinced answers to the mysteries of that night lie in Boston. Who has the priceless gold artifacts that disappeared from the cave...and who is responsible for the whispers she heard in the dark? Nearly killed in an explosion...
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Dublin saga volume 1
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Through the interlocking stories of a memorable cast of characters (druids and chieftains, monks and smugglers, noblewomen and farmwives, merchants and mercenaries, rebels and cowards) we see Ireland through the lens of its greatest city.
19) Ireland
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[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Introduces Ireland, describing its history, geography, cities, plants and animals, resources, and culture.