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A brilliant night of stars and ice

2022
"Just after midnight on April 15, 1912, the passenger steamship Carpathia receives a distress signal from the RMS Titanic, which is on its maiden voyage. Captain Arthur Rostron is awakened to an enormous maritime emergency with little information to guide his actions in answering the call for help. Is the dire threat to the unsinkable Titanic accurate? His ship is more than four hours away; will Carpathia hold together if pushed to never-before-tested speeds? . . . With the freezing temperatures, will there be any survivors by the time the Carpathia arrives? Kate Connolly is excited to join her sister in America and proud to be traveling on the grand Titanic . . . As a passenger in third-class accommodations, she is among the last to receive instruction and help after Titanic hits an iceberg. . . . With the help of several men, also from Ireland, Kate finally reaches the upper decks and feels lucky to board Lifeboat 13, although no one knows if or when a rescue ship will come. She fears the icy water and wonders if they'll all freeze to death"--Provided by publisher.

Becky Lynch

"'The Man' Becky Lynch has taken over the WWE women's division-and she's not giving it back. Becky Lynch is a multiple title holder, an outspoken TV character, and one of the best women's wrestlers in the world. She began training as a wrestler as a teenager and traveled away from her native Ireland to pursue her dream in the ring"--Provided by publisher.

Brida

2009
While on a quest for knowledge, Brida, a young Irish girl, encounters two individuals who teach her about magic; a forest hermit, who helps her to realize the goodness in the world, and a woman who teaches her how to dance and pray to the moon; but while this knowledge soaks in Brida struggles to balance her priorities.

Break your chains

"Choose your own destiny and step into the shoes of an Irish girl making her way from London to Australia in 1825 in this exciting interactive series. To find freedom, you must leave behind everything you've ever known. It is 1825. You and Ma have survived on the streets of London ever since the soldiers took Da away and you fled Ireland. Now, with Ma gone too, you find yourself facing life-and-death choices at every turn. Can you carry a secret treasure across the ocean and finally be reunited with Da? You'll be asked to betray your friends, survive storms at sea and attacks by bushrangers, and trust thieves. At every turn, the choice is yours. How far will you go for freedom?"--OCLC.
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The temporary gentleman

2014
"Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"--an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957,he's writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary events that he has seen. A lifetime of war and world travel--as a soldier in World War II, an engineer, a UN observer--has brought him to this point. But the memory that weighs heaviest on his heart is that of the beautiful Mai Kirwan, and their tempestuous, heartbreaking marriage. Mai was once the great beauty of Sligo, a magnetic yet unstable woman who, after sharing a life with Jack, gradually slipped from his grasp"--Provided by publisher.

The graves are walking

the great famine and the saga of the Irish people
2013
Chronicles the tragedy of the nineteenth century Irish famine, analyzing the potato famine itself from agricultural science through the English politics and policy decisions that made it worse, to the impact of the Irish immigration in America.

How Irish immigrants made America home

Written by a descendent of Irish immigrants, this book tells the tale of how Irish-born immigrants functioned as the largest immigrant group during the first two hundred years of the British Colonies. Readers will discover how they forged frontier societies and expanded the geographic boundaries of colonial settlements. This volume will divulge how Irish immigrants suffered severe prejudice and lost much of their original culture and language, though their eventual assimilation provided a blueprint for the acceptance of other immigrant groups.

Boston Jacky

being an account of the further adventures of Jacky Faber, taking care of business
The irrepressible Jacky Faber, recently arrived in Boston, finds herself at odds with the Women's Temperance Union and local residents angry at the arrival of hundreds of Irish immigrants on a ship owned by Faber Shipping Worldwide.

How Irish immigrants made America home

2019
Discusses why the Irish immigrated to the United States, including how they suffered, how they contributed in the government, and more.
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Projekt 1065

It is 1943, and thirteen-year-old Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany in Berlin, is also a spy for the British Secret Service, so he has joined the Hitler Youth, and pretending that he agrees with their violence and book-burning is hard enough--but when he is asked to find out more about "Projekt 1065" both his and his parents' lives get a lot more dangerous.
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