A wandering spirit brings an expectancy of change to the residents of a Dublin town house, including forty-year-old public relations representative Katie, who has just dumped her commitment-phobic boyfriend; Lydia, a sassy cab driver having a casual affair while trying to figure out what to do about her mother's advancing dementia; Jemima, an aging psychic invaded by her hunky foster son--just cast in a television show; and a struggling newlywed couple.
Life as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old Irish boy, Patrick Clarke, is a poignant voyage through a bewildering, ever-changing world of family, friends, dreams, and growing up.
In the aftermath of a brutal attack that left a woman in intensive care and her husband and young children dead, brash cop Scorcher Kennedy and his rookie partner, Richie, struggle with perplexing clues and Scorcher's haunting memories of a shattering incident from his childhood.
Contains seventeen essays in which the authors analyze various aspects of James Joyce's early-twentieth-century work "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.".
Ned Halloran, orphaned by the death of his parents and left alone after his sister moves to America, enrolls at St. Edna's in Dublin, a school governed by scholar and rebel Patrick Pearse, and soon becomes involved in Ireland's fight for freedom--a battle that is supported by his sister and other Irish patriots across the sea.
When freakish weather grips the Arctic regions and moves southward, an Irish girl and her strange companion save the world from disaster through their ability to switch into animal forms.
After being forced to move in with relatives after her house is destroyed during World War II, Grace Ryan meets Barry Malone, who has been sent to Ireland to escape the war in England.
