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1) Dark witch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
An American searches for her Irish ancestors to learn more about her powers and break an ancient curse.
2) Born in fire
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Series
Language
English
Description
Attempting to escape her past, reclusive glassmaker Maggie Concannon devotes her life to her art, until gallery owner Rogan Sweeney recognizes her talent and offers to help her build a lucrative career.
3) Shadow spell
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English
Description
"With the legends and lore of Ireland running through his blood, falconer Connor O'Dwyer is proud to call County Mayo home. It's where his sister, Branna, lives and works, where his cousin, Iona, has found true love, and where his childhood friends form a circle that can't be broken... A circle that is about to be stretched out of shape--by a long-awaited kiss. Meara Quinn is Branna's best friend, a sister in all but blood. Her and Connor's paths...
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English
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"A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory in Northern Ireland, while tensions rise both inside and outside the factory walls. It's the summer of 1994, and all smart-mouthed Maeve Murray wants are good final exam results so she can earn her ticket out of the wee Northern Irish town she has grown up in during the Troubles. She hopes she will soon be in London studying journalism--away from her...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Trinity College, Dublin, 1978. Aspiring actress Maeve meets pottery student Murtagh Moone. As their relationship progresses, marriage and motherhood come in quick succession. But for Maeve, with the joy of children also comes the struggle to hold on to the truest parts of herself. Decades later, on a small Irish island, the Moone family are poised for celebration but instead are struck by tragedy. Each family member must find solace in their own separate...
Author
Series
Irish Country books volume 7
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Resolving to handle his usual round of eccentric patients before marrying his sweetheart, Dr. O'Reilly helps clear the name of a pigeon-hunting cat and encourages a promising student while his assistant, Barry, considers a romance with a politically outspoken teacher.
Author
Publisher
Dell Publishing
Pub. Date
1993, c1992
Language
English
Description
In the Irish town of Schancarrig, the young carve their initials--and those of their loves-into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarrig's closed doors, or Dr. Jims, the village doctor, who knows all the rest, realizes that not everything in the placid village is what it seems.
10) Finnegans wake
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Presents an experimental novel depicting a dream of world history, with characters from literature and history appearing and disappearing, written in a dream language that is a comical mixture of all the languages of Europe.
11) Blood magick
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Series
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English
Description
"County Mayo is rich in the traditions of Ireland, legends that Branna O'Dwyer fully embraces in her life and in her work as the proprietor of The Dark Witch shop, which carries soaps, lotions, and candles for tourists, made with Branna's special touch. Branna's strength and selflessness hold together a close circle of friends and family--along with their horses and hawks and her beloved hound. But there's a single missing link in the chain of her...
12) Ulysses
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Language
English
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Description
Serialized first in the Little Review in 1918 and published first in Paris in 1922, although its censorship for obscenity in America and England were not lifted until the mid-1930sIn terms of its story it defies abridgement or explanation except that it all takes place on one day, 16 June 1904, or Bloomsday, which was the anniversary of Joyces first walk with his beloved Nora Barnacle. It (very) loosely follows the episodes of Ulysses from the Odyssey...
Author
Series
Deverill chronicles volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Kitty Deverill, the daughter of a wealthy Anglo-Irish family, enjoys a life of privilege in Ireland's wild countryside at the side of an increasingly resentful best friend and the vet's son she loves, until the Irish rebellion threatens her beloved home.
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Series
Irish castle mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Rodeo Drive bridalwear designer Rayne McGrath expected her thirtieth birthday to start with a power lunch and end with champagne, lobster, and a diamond engagement ring from her fiancé. Instead, flat-broke and busted, she's on a plane to Ireland, where she discovers that she's inherited a run-down family castle. Uncle Nevin's will contains a few caveats--for example, if Rayne doesn't turn McGrath Castle around within a year, the entire village will...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensingtomn Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Siobhán is now Garda O'Sullivan, and her five siblings couldn't be prouder. When the local priest summons her to the church cemetery, it seems there's a dead man in the graveyard-- aboveground. He lies shot on a blanket of freshly fallen snow. Is he the American tourist in town searching for his Irish ancestor? Detective sergeant Macdara Flannery is dispatched from Dublin, and they learn the victim was from Dublin-- Ohio, that is. As long-buried...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Language
English
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Description
Vivian doesn't feel like she fits in - and never has. As a child, she was so whimsical that her parents told her she was "left by fairies." Now, living alone in Dublin, the neighbors treat her like she's crazy, her older sister condescends to her, social workers seem to have registered her as troubled, and she hasn't a friend in the world. So, she decides it's time to change her life: She begins by advertising for a friend. Not just any friend. She...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Long before Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly came to the Irish village of Ballybucklebo, he was a young M.B. planning to marry midwife Dierdre Mawhinney. Until the outbreak of World War II. Surgeon Lieutenant O'Reilly soon found himself face-to-face with the hardships of war, tending to the HMS Warspite's crew of 1,200 as well as to the many casualties brought aboard. But over two decades later, O'Reilly and still has plenty of challenges.
19) Lucky Leap Day
Author
Series
Hashtag holidays volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
During a whirlwind trip to Ireland, after one too many whiskeys, fledgling screenwriter Cara Kennedy gets caught up in the Irish tradition of women proposing on Leap Day. She wakes up the next morning with a hot guy in her bed and a tin foil ring. With a flight back to LA in four hours, the best thing they can do is figure things out along the way. In LA Finn Maguire spends the nights charming his new bride-- and his days going on auditions. Is their...
Author
Series
Finfarran Peninsula volume 1
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"As she drives her mobile library van between villages of Ireland's West Coast, Hanna Casey tries not to think about a lot of things. Like the sophisticated lifestyle she abandoned after finding her English barrister husband in bed with another woman. Or that she's back in Lissbeg, the rural Irish town she walked away from in her teens, living in the back bedroom of her overbearing mother's retirement bungalow. Or, worse yet, her nagging fear that,...
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