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This intriguing story follows Quinn Parker as he searches his family roots and discovers letters, written in Irish Gaelic, that reveal a long hidden family scandal. As Quinn travels to Ireland to find out more, his journey becomes very interesting -- and then tragic. Buy it here!
The definitive history of the Wild Geese including the Revolutionary War, the French Revolution, and Napoleon's Irish Legion.
For centuries dragons have protected Ireland, their existence kept secret with the help of earth magic and their human riders. Now that secret is threatened with the murdered bodies of four riders found at sacred Irish sites. Buy the Book! 
SynopsisIn Klondike House, John Dwyer recounts his memories of growing up on the remote but beautiful Beara Peninsula in West Cork, Ireland. Buy eBook Here Buy Book Here
This is a fictional story, of a family living in the West of Ireland, in
the late 1920s through to the 50s. It shows the journey, of part of the
life of the grandparents, right down to the great grandchildren, and
how they progress. Buy Book Here
‘A bittersweet, quietly brilliant novel that will make you cry, laugh and cry all over again.’ – Female First
Savour the excitement of the fifties and sixties- an era
when radio was king. In the countryside it was usual for communities to come
together to celebrate important events and wireless sat comfortably with this
tradition.
"... a delightful tale of a young girl feeling
torn between being All-American, or clinging to the lighter parts of her
Irish heritage..."
From writer and performer of the stage play, "Asking For It"!
A new book from A Taste of-Ireland.com, with all proceeds going to Twist Soup Kitchens!
Growing
up amidst family secrets and lost dreams, Rose Donovan, a TV reporter from Chicago,
wants to discover her own dream. Buy the Book
This collection of essays in Lessons from the Northern Ireland Peace Process fills a void by
articulating the lessons learned and how—or whether—the peace processes can be
applied to other regional conflicts.
A 1960s American folk music legend weaves stories of a
girlhood on “the singing streets” of Ireland, marriage in Scotland, and arrival in America buy the book!
FOR ANYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT, “DAMN! THEY’RE ALL GOING TO GET AWAY WITH IT!”
THE BOOK IS PART LOVE STORY PART POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HAND
GRENADE. Buy the Book!
Osaka Heat Wins Romance and Multicultural Fiction Book Awards
Synopsis1951, is the iconic "Happy Days" TV show colliding with small-town college football on the Great American Plains. More specifically, it is focused on:
SynopsisErin Go Kill is the first book in the four-book Gordy Tyler murder-mystery/thriller series.“Your beautiful county that is Donegal. This Atlas will showcase
what’s best in the county: the scenery, beauty and most important it’s
people” Buy the Book!
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The Chicago Cubs last won the World Series in 1908, only the fifth World Series ever played. Going into this 2013 season, it will be at least 105 years before the Cubs win their next World Series. Buy the Book!
Young Mikey Flynn leaves the tiny Tipperary village of Gortalocca to pursue his calling to the priesthood. But 18th century Ireland is a dangerous place
SynopsisThe untold story of Diarmuid Lynch, one of the key architects of the 1916 Rising and the last man to leave the GPO. Buy the Book!
SynopsisSean South achieved apotheosis on his death in 1957 in an attack on a police station in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Little was known of him during his life, yet Ireland came to a standstill for his burial.
SynopsisWill our history always define us? What does it take to move on from the tragedies of our past? These are questions Laura has been avoiding since that day ten years ago when her mother took her own life, when Laura was just a teenager. Until she meets Miguel, a Colombian lawyer investigating a bombing that took place days before her mother’s death, towards the end of the Northern Irish “Troubles”. Buy the Book!
SynopsisThe ancient laws of Ireland provide one of the most comprehensive mirrors of society in Ireland in the early middle ages. The law with its emphasis on honor, truth, fairness and equity and its complex procedures demonstrates a very high level of social maturity and sophistication. Buy the Book!
Terence Casey's novel The Tenant's Tale is a fascinating
chronicle of rural Ireland during the nineteenth century as seen through
the eyes of his Great Grandfather, Patrick Casey, who was born in 1806
and died in 1894. Buy the Book!
Inspired by a true crime, Someone Has Taken My Place is an epic account of identity thefts and multiple insurance fraud. Irish private investigator Andy Stone is on the trail of the international con man known only as the Cowboy. Expert in the forensics of financial fraud investigations, Stone is obsessed with obtaining justice for the dead Irish babies whose identity was stolen by the serial fraudster. Buy the Book!
SynopsisEchoes In The Gangway: A Catholic Boy's Trek Through The Fifties Memories Of My Family And St. Leo Parish
The Fifties brought good times to Auburn Gresham on Chicago’s South Side. The thriving business district around 79th & Halsted pulsed with activity. Enter the Murphy family, eight strong and growing. Off go four kids to St. Leo Catholic grammar school, where the Sisters of Providence teach them Religion from the Baltimore Catechism. Buy the Book!
New York City, 1999. Manhattan was undergoing a momentous transformation, with crime at record lows, the city awash in dot-com buzz, and young professionals taking over the city’s sketchier precincts – and pushing their longtime residents further to the fringes. Yet some things stayed the same. Declan Coulter, raised by his fiery Belfast-born mother in an Alphabet City tenement, is a holdout to an earlier era. Buy the Book!
The Forgiveness Fairy is a modern Fairytale about the act of forgiveness. It gently leads the reader through the journey of forgiving. Buy the book HERE!
Hot Under the Collar is an account of true events set against the hostile and dangerous background of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and written by English school teacher, Andrew Rowley. Buy the Book
Relive the trip to the Emerald Isle that started the Notre Dame Fighting Irish’s 2012 winning football season.
Born in a Dublin tenement in the middle of the 20th Century, this dead-poor, curious Irish girl escaped to Paris when she was 17 with the help of a nun, a Hollywood actor, and a kind stranger. There she was accepted into the émigré community blacklisted in the McCarthy era. Buy Book Here!
This is the story of Willie Dwyer and his ten-year journey to redemption—it is 1919 and a decade-old nightmare haunts the Boston “Copper” and Irish immigrant, a legacy of his entanglement in Ireland’s struggle for independence.
Towards A United Ireland contains the personal, the
controversial and the practical: I do not shirk from the challenging
issues therefore I am not afraid to challenge others.
The
book opens with some information on my background covering my early life
and interest in all politics, international and Irish. I give insights
to the evolution from the unionist background into which I was born to
becoming a ‘very contented Irishman’ desiring Irish unity.
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City Life is a coming of age tale set in the neighborhoods and streets of Chicago, one of Americas most dynamic cities. It's the 1970's and Chicago's Southside is changing along with the rest of America.
Joe Henry and his wife Susan began their roller-coaster ride through life despite the objections of both sets of parents. Add their mismatched social and religious differences into the mix and you have A Recipe for Disaster. Buy Book Here!
The Fourth Paradise is an evocative and almost mystical collection of poems that pays tribute to family, to Ireland, and to myth. 
Set in modern day Dún Chaoin, Ireland Time and Distance is a refreshing and marvelously readable novel about journeys.
In ancient Ireland, Ciara of Tir Maic is living a lie. She's an imposter. Ciara secretly doubts the very gods she is to serve – a secret that means certain death if it's discovered.
The time is April 1916 and Timothy Michael O’Brien has promised to wed Maire Kelly, a young woman, who works for the publican Reilly. Two weeks before their nuptials Tim goes off looking for adventure so as to have stories to tell his children in old age.
SynopsisSevoflurane is the amazing story of the dedicated team that brought Sevoflurane, the most used global inhalation anesthetic to the world, despite the odds.
Know more about the entwined histories of Ireland, Mexico, and the United States as the people from these different places find their lives crossing paths – and destinies – in Mike Fallaw’s Just Like Me. Buy the Book!
In April 1924, the Carmania set sail from Cobh, Co. Cork bound for Philadelphia. Catherine Brennan was one of many passengers on board who hoped to make her fortune. Her life story unfolds at the age of 22. Meeting the bold Maurice Fitzgerald on board ship - her 6 years in Philadelphia living with the rich and returning to the west of Ireland, to seek a husband through a matchmaker.
A famous poet is murdered. The only clue is a £5 note with the words “IT’LL GET VERSE” written on it. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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In Irish Echo editor O'Hanlon's first novel, a shaky assassination thriller, tabloid reporter Nick Bailey gets a tip about the police discovery of a dead priest found hanging off London's Blackfriars Bridge, where Roberto Calvi, a banker implicated in a Vatican financial scandal, died similarly in 1982. Buy the Book!
SynopsisThe third and climactic entry in Joseph Caldwell’s charmingly boisterous Pig Trilogy, one might well repeat the most famous words of the great non-Irish wordsmith and baseball catcher Yogi Berra, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” Buy the Book!
SynopsisBack to his familiar mischief is the obstreperous creature that romped so riotously through The Pig Did It, the bestselling first novel in Joseph Caldwell’s Pig Trilogy. Buy the Book!
Following our very successful fundraising and the kind donation made by Mary Golden, the Midfield Development Association has published a folklore book called "A Story Told to Us Last Night”, using a selection of local stories from the 1937/38 National Folklore Collection, plus stories written by the children of 2010 from Midfield National School (22 students took part in 2010).
By combining her love of writing with a life-long fascination with history, she creates historical fiction that both entertains and educates. Buy the Book!
Few countries have been as dramatically transformed in recent years as Ireland. Once a culturally repressed land shadowed by terrorism and on the brink of economic collapse, Ireland finally emerged in the late 1990s as the fastest-growing country in Europe, with the typical citizen enjoying a higher standard of living than the average Brit. Buy This Book!
Gene Tunney, the world heavyweight-boxing champion from 1926 to 1928, seemed an unusual companion for George Bernard Shaw, but Shaw, a world-famous playwright, found the Irish-American athlete to be "among the very few for whom I have established a warm affection." The Prizefighter and the Playwright chronicles the legendary -- but rarely documented -- relationship that formed between this celebrated odd couple.
This book is a sweeping and revealing insider look at court history and the life of William J. Brennan Jr., widely considered the most influential Supreme Court justice of the twentieth century. Buy This Book!
The Wizards of Spin, America's Favorite News Stars is a compilation of satirical fiction based on real news and the news and talk show celebrities who deliver that information to America each day. There are stories based on Oprah Winfrey, Matt Lauer, Diane Sawyer, Chris Matthews, David Letterman, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Katie Couric, Dennis Miller, Conan O'Brien and many others.
"I wanted to bring one of my heroes, arguably the greatest soldier Scotland has ever produced, to a new generation. Known as James the Good in Scotland, and the Black Douglas in England, this book was a joy to write. His is an extra-ordinary story. His relationship with Robert the Bruce began at the Arrickstane at the head of Annandale in southern Scotland in 1306, and ended in Andulucia in southern Spain in 1330, and is a story writers of fiction would find hard to emulate."
Kathleen Hill s finely wrought novel tells the story of four generations of an Irish-American family that has lived in the same house for almost a century. Grieving the death of her mother and the imminent sale of the house, the narrator sets out to re-create the hidden, intimate lives of those who came before. Through a series of vignettes she conjures a family devastated in each generation by the loss of a child.
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A Salty Tale of a Young Man's Musical Dreams and Struggles in 1970's Ireland
By Chris Hill and Colin McCadden
Colm Smyth and I was a survivor of the Loughinisland Massacre in 1994 which took place during the USA World Cup. 
The real story of how Wild Bill Hickok was killed. 
SynopsisOverland adventurer John Dwyer has less than three months to travel through China, Tibet, Nepal and India and he has a to-do list: 
SynopsisGhosts That I Have Known is about 60 years of paranormal surprises that prove (at least to me) that we will have some kind of a life after death. Although a goodly number of strange things happened to me after age 6, 
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SAFE HOME – Book 2 of The Tipperary Trilogy
THE JOURNEYMAN is an Irish historical romance, a compelling tale of
intrigue, danger and romance, set against the backdrop of a perilously
unpredictable 18th century Ireland.
d Time...Don't We? Maeve Higgins, comedian and lady, smashes the brittle veneer on the creme brulee of life and hands around spoons, so we can all taste the delicious absurdity that lies beneath.
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SynopsisA fresh contemporary edition of one of the most dramatic accounts of the Irish War of Independence ever written. 
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SynopsisElvis and Ireland is the “Irish Biography” of Elvis Presley. It is the detailed story of Elvis Presley’s life and career, combined with a timeline of events in Irish popular culture and the social changes brought on by his unique brand of rock ‘n’ roll. 
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Veteran Irish American Entertainment critic and JC Heights Native Mike Farragher turns a critical eye on himself and releases 
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SynopsisAn ancient gold rush, and loyalty faces off against greed. Circa 2200 BCE: Changes rocking the Continent reach Eire with the dawning Bronze Age. Marauders invade the island seeking copper and gold.
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SynopsisOther people’s families aren’t as perfect as they seem. 
SynopsisWhat the pig did—in Joseph Caldwell’s charmingly romantic tale of an American in contemporary Ireland—is create a ruckus, a rumpus, a disturbance . . . utter pandemonium.
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SynopsisMachine politics is a tough business, filled with people who put far more value on power and money than on honor, friendship, or the lives of those who challenge them. 
