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• All Souls

  a Family Story From Southie

  MacDonald, Michael Patrick

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  In this plainly written, powerful memoir, MacDonald, now 32, details not only his own story of growing up in Southie, Boston's Irish Catholic enclave, but examines the myriad ways in which the media and law enforcement agencies exploit marginalized…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ancient Order of Hibernians

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  The Ancient Order of Hibernians is America’s oldest Irish Catholic Fraternal Organization founded in May 1836. It seeks to support Irish immigrants socially and economically, maintain a bridge between Ireland and Irish Americans, and promote Irish…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Angela's Ashes

  [a Memoir]

  McCourt, Frank

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  The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants. From our adult collection.

• Ashes of Fiery Weather

  Donohoe, Kathleen

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  A multigenerational tale about the passionate loves and losses of women in a family of firefighters. From our adult collection.

• Brooklyn

  a Novel

  Tóibín, Colm, 1955-

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  A hauntingly compelling novel--by far Tóibín's most accessible book--set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s about a young woman torn between her family in Ireland and the American who wins her heart. From our adult collection.

• Catholic Parish Registers at the National Library of Ireland

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  This website contains images from the National Library of Ireland's collection of Catholic parish register microfilms from the majority of Catholic parishes in Ireland and Northern Ireland up to 1880.

• Commanding Boston's Irish Ninth

  the Civil War Letters of Colonel Patrick R. Guiney, Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

  Guiney, Patrick R. (Patrick Robert), 1835-1877

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  These letters were written during the Civil War by Colonel Patrick R. Guiney of the Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. From our adult collection.

• Currents

  Smolik, Jane Petrlik

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  In 1854, 11-year-old Bones is a slave in Virginia who sends a bottle holding her real name and a trinket from her long-lost father down the James River where it will connect with two other girls, one of them an Irish American. From our children's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Deception's Princess

  Friesner, Esther M.

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  In Iron Age Ireland, Maeve, the fierce, willful youngest daughter of King Eochu of Connacht, is caught in a web of lies after rebelling to avoid fosterage with another highborn family and an arranged marriage. From our young adult collection.

• The Dooleys of Richmond

  An Irish Immigrant Family in the Old and New South

  Bayliss, Mary Lynn, 1942-

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  The story of an Irish Catholic immigrant family who came to Richmond, Virginia, in the 19th century and established a large hat manufacturing enterprise. From our adult collection.

• A Drinking Life

  a Memoir

  Hamill, Pete, 1935-2020

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  As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pete Hamill learned early that drinking was an essential part of being a man, inseparable from the rituals of celebration, mourning, friendship, romance, and religion. Only later did he discover its…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything That Rises Must Converge

  O'Connor, Flannery

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  This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. From our adult collection.

• The Falling in Love Montage

  Smyth, Ciara (Young adult author)

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  If happy endings were real, Saoirse's mother would still be able to remember her name and not be in a care home with early onset dementia. And if she inherits the condition, Saoirse doesn't see the point in igniting any romantic sparks when she's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fiona's Lace

  Polacco, Patricia

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  Emigrating from Ireland to America, Fiona's family settles in Chicago, where her handmade lace keeps the family together during a devastating fire. From our children's collection.

• The Gallery

  Fitzgerald, Laura Marx

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  In New York City in 1929, 12-year-old housemaid Martha O'Doyle suspects that a wealthy recluse may be trying to communicate with the outside world through the paintings on her gallery walls. From our children's collection.

• The Graves Are Walking

  the Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People

  Kelly, John, 1945-

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  A compelling new look at one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine. From our adult collection.

• Guide to Irish American Resources at the Library of Congress

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  Irish and Irish American collections held at the Library of Congress, including materials from the American Folklife Museum, blog articles, exhibitions, newspapers, and more.

• How the Irish Saved Civilization

  the Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe

  Cahill, Thomas

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  Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he also instilled an interest…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Immortal Irishman

  [the Irish Revolutionary Who Became An American Hero]

  Egan, Timothy

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  In the 1840s, Thomas Meagher led a failed uprising and the British government exiled him to a prison colony in Tasmania. However, Meagher escaped to America after a few months and was considered a hero by the Irish immigrants in New York. He built…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Irish American and Irish Collections at the John J. Burns Library at Boston College

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  A special collection of books and manuscripts about the Irish roots and Irish American experience.