I R E L A N D
& the Irish:

A CELEBRATION



EMERALD ISLE

I'll Know it When I See it: A Daughter's Search for "Home" in Ireland
Alice Carey. Clarkson Potter, 2002. [305.48 Carey C]

The Land of Ireland
Brian de Breffny. Abrams, 1979. [941.5 Debreffny]

The Intelligent Traveller's Guide to Historic Ireland
Philip A. Crowl. Contemporay, 1990. [914.1504 Crowl]

The Isles: A History
Norman Davies. OUP, 1999. [941 Davies]

The Irish Way: A Walk Through Ireland's Past & Present
Robert Emmett Ginna. RH, 2003. [947.7 Ginna]

Irish Counties: A Journey into the History, Culture, and Tradition of Ireland
Salamander Books, 1997. [941.5 Irish]

Ireland: Standing Stones to Stormont
Tom Quinn Kumpf. Devenish, 2004. 914.15 Kumpf]

McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in the West of Ireland
Pete McCarthy. St. martin's, 2000. [914.1504 McCarthy]

Round Ireland in Low Gear
Eric Newby. Viking, 1988, 1987. [914.7 Newby]

Ireland People & Places-- A Celebration of Ireland's Cultural Heritage
Daithi O'Hogain. Salamander, 2003. [941.5 O'Hogain]

The Ex-isle of Erin
Fintan O'Toole. New Island Books, 1996. [941.5082 O'Toole]

Quench the Lamp
Alice Taylor. St. M., 1991, 1990
Followed by: Country Days (1995) [941.5082 Taylor]

J.P. Donleavy's Ireland: In All Her Sins and In Some of Her Graces
J. P. Donleavy. Viking, 1986. [B Donleavy]

O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare.
Niall Williams and Christine Breen. Soho, 1987. [941.93 Williams]
Followed by: When Summer's in the Meadow (1989); The Pipes are Calling (1990); The Luck of the Irish (1995)

IRISH HISTORY

Ireland and the Irish: Portrait of a Changing Society
John Ardagh. Hamish Hamilton, 1994. [941.67 Ardach]

Ireland and the Irish : A Short History
Karl S. Bottigheimer. Columbia Univ., 1982. [941.4 Bottingheimer]

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
Thomas Cahill. Doubleday, 1995. [941.501 Cahill]

The Catholics of Ulster
Marianne Elliott. Basic, 2001. [282.416 Elliott]

The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland
R.F. Foster (ed.) OUP, 1989. [941.5 Oxford]

Ireland of One Hundred Years Ago
David Harkness. Sutton, 1999. [941.5081 Harkness]

Ireland: A History
Robert Kee. LB, 1982. [941.5 Kee]

Twentieth-century Ireland: Nation and State
Dermot Keogh. St. M., 1994. [941.5082 Keogh]

Rebels & Informers: Stirrings of Irish Independence
Oliver Knox. St. M., 1997. [941.507 Knox]

Danny Boy: The Beloved Irish Ballad
Malachy McCourt. Running Press, 2002. [782.43 McCourt]

Wars of the Irish Kings: A Thousand Years of Struggle from the Age of Myth through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
David Willis McCullough (ed.) Crown, 2000. [941.5 McCullough]

Ancient Ireland: From Prehistory to the Middle Ages
Jacqueline O'Brien and Peter Harbison. OUP, 1996. [941.5 O'Brien]

A Short History of Ireland
John O'Beirne Ranelagh. CUP, 1983. [941.5 Ranelagh]

Heritage of Ireland: A History of Ireland & Its People
Nathaniel Harris. Checkmark Books, 1998. [941.5 Harris]

The Voice of the Irish: The Story of Christian Ireland
Michael Staunton. HiddenSpring, 2003. [274.15 Staunton]


THE GREAT FAMINE

Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
Susan Campbell Bartoletti. HM, 2001. [YA 363.809415 Bartoletti]

The Great Irish Potato Famine
James S. Donnelly, Jr. Sutton, 2001. [941.5081 Donnelly]

Paddy's Lament: Ireland 1846-1847--Prelude to Hatred
Thomas Gallagher. HBJ, 1982. [941.5081 Gallagher]

The Irish Famine
Peter Gray. Abrams, 1995. [YA 929.3089 Gray]

The Irish Hunger: Personal Reflections on the Legacy of the Famine
Tom Hayden (ed.). Rinehart, 1997. [941.508 Irish]

This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine, 1845-52
Christine Kinealy. Rinehart, 1995. [363.809415 Kinealy]

The Irish Famine: An Illustrated History
Helen Litton. Irish Books and Media, 1994. [363.809415 Litton]

The Irish Potato Famine
Don Nardo. Lucent, 1990. [YA 363.809415 Nardo]

Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory
Cormac O Grada. Princeton Univ., 1999. [941.508 O'Grada]

The Great Famine: Ireland's Potato Famine, 1845-1851
John Percival. Viewer, 1995. [363.809415 Percival]

The Great Irish Famine
Carol Poirteir (ed.) Mercier, 1995. [941.5081 Great]

The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849
Cecil Woodham-Smith. Penguin, 1991, 1962. [941.58 Woodham]


THE TROUBLES

Free Ireland: Towards a Lasting Peace
Gerry Adams. Rinehart, 1994. [941.60824 Adams]

The Irish Troubles: A Generation of Political Violence, 1967–1992
J. Bowyer Bell. St. M., 1993. [941.60824 Bell]

Killing Rage
Eamon Collins, with Mick McGovern. Granta, 1997. [941.6 Collins]

The IRA: A History
Tim Pat Coogan. Rinehart, 1993. [941.59 Coogan]

The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966–1996 and the Search for Peace
Tim Pat Coogan. Rinehart, 1996. [941.6 Coogan]

The Far Side of Revenge: Making Peace in Northern Ireland
Deaglan De Breadun. Collins, 2001. [941.60824 DeBreadun]

God and the Gun: The Church and Irish Terrorism
Martin Dillon. Routledge, 1998, 1997. [941.60824 Dillon]

The Irish War: The Hidden Conflict between the IRA and British Intelligence
Tony Geraghty. Johns Hopkins, 2000, 1998. [941.60824 Geraghty]

A History of Northern Ireland, 1920–1996
Thomas Hennessey. St. M., 1997. [941.60824 Hennessey]

A New Ireland: Politics, Peace and Reconciliation
John Hume. Rinehart, 1996. [941.60824 Hume]

Blood on the Shamrock: An American Bishop Ponders Northern Ireland, 1968–1989
Mark J. Hurley. Lang, 1990. [941.60824 Hurley]

Through the Minefield
David McKittrick. Blackstaff, 1999. [941.60824 McKittrick]

Bloody Sunday: Massacre in Northern Ireland, the Eyewitness Accounts
Don Mullan & John Scally (comp.) Rinehart, 1997. [941.621 Bloody]

Daring Diplomacy: Clinton's Secret Search for Peace in Ireland
Conor O'Clery. Rinehart, 1997. [327.17209416 O'Cleary]

May the Lord in His Mercy be Kind to Belfast
Tony Parker. Holt, 1994. [941.67 Parker]

Those Are Real Bullets: Bloody Sunday, Derry, 1972
Peter Pringle & Philip Jacobson. Grove, 2000. [941.621 Pringle]

This Troubled Land: Voices from Northern Ireland on the Front Lines of Peace
Patrick Michael Rucker. Ballantine, 2002. [941.6 Rucker]

I Am of Ireland: Women of the North Speak Out
Elizabeth McNelly Shannon. LB, 1989. [305.409416 S]

We Wrecked the Place: Contemplating an End to the Northern Irish Troubles
Jonathan Stevenson. Free Press, 1996. [320.9416 Stevenson]

Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA's Soul
Kevin Toolis. St. M., 1996, 1995. [941.Toolis]

IRISH BIOGRAPHY


THE IRISH IN AMERICA

Irish Immigrants in New York City, 1945–1995
Linda Dowling Almeida. Indiana Univ., 2001. [974.7 Almeida]

The Big Book of American Irish Culture
Bob Callahan (ed.) Viking, 1987. [973.0491 B]

The Irish in America
Michael Coffey (ed.), with text by Terry Golway. Hyperion, 1997. [973.049162 Irish]

Irish America: Coming into Clover–The Evolution of a People and a Culture
Maureen Dezell. Doubleday, 2000. [973.049162 Dezell]

Irish Americans: Identity & Assimilation
Marjorie R. Fallows. P-H, 1979. [973.04916 Fallow]

Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America
Tom Hayden. Verso, 2001. [305.891 Hayden]

Making the Irish America: History & Heritage of the Irish in the United States
J. J. Lee & Marion R. casey (eds.) NYUP, 2006. [973.049162 Making]

Booking Passage: We Irish & Americans
Thomas Lynch. Norton, 2005. [305.89162073 Lynch]

All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
Michael Patrick MacDonald. Beacon, 1999. [974.46104 MacDonald]

Textures of Irish America
Lawrence J. McCaffrey. Syracuse Univ., 1992. [973.049162 McCaffrey]

Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class, and Ethnic Identity in a New England City, 1880–1928
Timothy J. Meagher. Univ. of Notre Dame, 2001. [305.891620 Meagher]

Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America
Kerby A. Miller. OUP, 1985. [325.2415 Miller]

Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America
Kerby Miller & Paul Wagner. E&C, 1994, [973.049162 Miller]

Hollywood Irish: In Their Own Words
Aine O'Connor (ed.) Rinehart, 1997. [791.43028 Hollywood]

From the Ward to the White House: The Irish in American Politics
George E. Reedy. C. Scribner, 1991. [973.04916 Reedy]

The American Irish
William Vincent Shannon. Macmillan, 1963. [301.45 Shannon]

Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family's Past
Richard White. H&W, 1998. [973.049162 White]

 

IRISH AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY

Young Hickory: The Making of Andrew Jackson
Hendrik Boordaen. Taylor Trade, 2001. [973.56092 Jackson B]

Eugene O'Neill
Olivia Coolidge. Scribner's Sons, 1966. [B O'neill C]

The Frontiersman: The Real Life & Many Legends of Davy Crockett
Mark Derr. Morrow, 1993. [976.404 Derr]

Alfred E. Smith: The Happy Warrior
Christopher M. Finan. H&W, 2002. [973.915092 Smith F]

Gregory Peck: A Biography
Gary Fishgall. Scribners, 2002. [791.43092 Peck F]

Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams–The Early Years, 1903–1940
Gary Giddins. LB, 2001. [B Crosby G]

Flannery O'Connor: In Celebration of Genius
Sarah Gordon (ed.) Hill St., 2000. [813.54 O'Connor F]

Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
Elliott J. Gorn. H&W, 2001. [331.88092 Jones G]

The Hustons
Lawrence Grobel. Scribners, 1989. B Huston G]

A Drinking Life
Pete Hamill. LB, 1994. [B Hamill H]

My Life in Three Acts
Helen Hayes, with Katherine Hatch. HBJ, 1990. [B Hayes H]

The Great One: The Life & Legend of Jackie Gleason
William A. Henry. Doubleday, 1992. {B Gleason H]

Gene Kelly: A Biography
Clive Hirschhorn. Regnery, 1975. [B Kelly H]

O'Keeffe: The Life of an American Legend
Jeffrey Hogrefe. Bantam, 1992. [B O'Keeffe H]

Matthew Brady: Historian with a Camera
James David Horan. Crown, 1955. [973.7 Horan]

The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded
Ronald Kessler. Warner, 1996. [B Kennedy K]

Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist
Brooke Kroeger. Times, 1994. [070.92 Bly K]

Grace (Grace Kelly)
Robert Lacey. Putnam's Sons, 1994. [B Grace L]

Searching for John Ford: A Life
Joseph McBride. St. M., 2001. [791.430233 Ford M]

The Life of John O'Hara
Frank MacShane. Dutton, 1980. [B O'Hara M]

The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings
Thomas Maier. Basic, 2003. [B Kennedy Family M]

Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase
Marion Meade. HarCol, 1995. [791.43028092 Keaton M]

Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography
Jeffrey Meyers. HarCol, 1994. [B Fitzgerald M]

Dorothy Day: A Biography
William D. Miller. H&R, 1982. [B Day M]

Sheridan: The Life & Wars of Gen. Phil Sheridan
Roy Morris, Jr. Crown, 1992. [B Sheridan M]

The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
David Nasaw. HM, 2000. [070.5092 Hearst N]

Jack: A Life Like No Other
Geoffrey Perret. RH, 2001. [B Kennedy P]

Edward R. Murrow: An American Original
Joseph E. Persico. MH, 1988. [B Murrow]

George Meany and His Times: A Biography
Archie Robinson. S&S, 1981. [B Meany R]

A Song for Mary: An Irish-American Memory
Dennis Smith. Warner, 1999. [813.54 Smtih]

Stonewall of the West : Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War
Craig L. Symonds. Univ. Press of Kansas, 1997. [973.742092 Cleburne S]

James Cagney: The Authorized Biography
Doug Warren, with James Cagney. St. M., 1983. [B Cagney W]

The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century
Steven Watts. RH, 2005. [338.7629092 Ford W]


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