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We don't know ourselves : a personal history of modern Ireland / by O'Toole, Fintan,1958-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A celebrated Irish writer's magisterial, brilliantly insightful chronicle of the wrenching transformations that dragged his homeland into the modern world. Fintan O'Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government?in despair, because all the young people were leaving?opened the country to foreign investment and popular culture. So began a decades-long, ongoing experiment with Irish national identity. In We Don't Know Ourselves, O'Toole, one of the Anglophone world's most consummate stylists, weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary "backwater" to an almost totally open society-perhaps the most astonishing national transformation in modern history. Born to a working-class family in the Dublin suburbs, O'Toole served as an altar boy and attended a Christian Brothers school, much as his forebears did. He was enthralled by American Westerns suddenly appearing on Irish television, which were not that far from his own experience, given that Ireland's main export was beef and it was still not unknown for herds of cattle to clatter down Dublin's streets. Yet the Westerns were a sign of what was to come. O'Toole narrates the once unthinkable collapse of the all-powerful Catholic Church, brought down by scandal and by the activism of ordinary Irish, women in particular. He relates the horrific violence of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, which led most Irish to reject violent nationalism. In O'Toole's telling, America became a lodestar, from John F. Kennedy's 1963 visit, when the soon-to-be martyred American president was welcomed as a native son, to the emergence of the Irish technology sector in the late 1990s, driven by American corporations, which set Ireland on the path toward particular disaster during the 2008 financial crisis. A remarkably compassionate yet exacting observer, O'Toole in coruscating prose captures the peculiar Irish habit of "deliberate unknowing," which allowed myths of national greatness to persist even as the foundations were crumbling. Forty years in the making, We Don't Know Ourselves is a landmark work, a memoir and a national history that ultimately reveals how the two modes are entwined for all of us"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; O'Toole, Fintan, 1958-;
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The wedding banquet [videorecording] / by Ahn, Andrew,film director,screenwriter.; Atebe, Camille,actor.; Brisson, Geraud,editor of moving image work.; Chen, Joan,1961-actor.; Clark, Caroline(Producer),film producer.; Gladstone, Lily,actor.; Gou, Anita,film producer.; Han, Ki-ch'an,1998-actor.; Kim, Ki Jin,director of photography.; Le, Bobo,actor.; Pirro, Joe,film producer.; Royer, Charlotte,production designer.; Schamus, James,1959-screenwriter,film producer.; Tran, Kelly Marie,actor.; Wadley, Jay,composer (expression); Yang, Bowen,actor.; Yun, Yŏ-jŏng,1947-actor.; Bleecker Street (Firm),presenter.; Videoville Showtime,publisher.; Kindred Spirit (Firm),production company.; ShivHans Pictures,presenter.; Symbolic Exchange (Firm),production company.;
Director of photography, Ki Jin Kim ; production designer, Charlotte Royer ; edited by Geraud Brisson ; original music by Jay Wadley.Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-chan, Bobo Le, Camille Atebe, Joan Chen, Youn Yuh-jung.Angela and her partner Lee have been unlucky with their IVF treatments but can't afford to pay for another round. Meanwhile their friend Min, the closeted scion of a multinational corporate empire, has plenty of family money but a soon-to-expire student visa. When his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris rejects his proposal, Min makes the offer to Angela instead: a green card marriage in exchange for funding Lee's IVF. But their plans to quietly elope are upended when Min's skeptical grandmother flies in from Korea unannounced, insisting on an all-out wedding extravaganza.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Comedy films.; Romantic comedy films.; Feature films.; Queer films.; Families; Fertility; Gay couples; Gay men; Interethnic dating; Koreans; Lesbian couples; Lesbians; Noncitizens; Parent and adult child; Weddings; Marriage;
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A hitch in time : reflections ready for reconsideration / by Hitchens, Christopher,author.; Wolcott, James,1952-writer of introduction.;
"Christopher Hitchens was invariably a star writer everywhere he wrote, and the same was true of the London Review of Books, to which he contributed sixty pieces over two decades. Anthologised here for the first time, this selection of his finest LRB reviews, diaries and essays (along with a smattering of ferocious letters) finds Hitchens at his very best. Familiar betes noires-Kennedy, Nixon, Kissinger, Clinton-rub shoulders with lesser-known preoccupations: P.G. Wodehouse, Princess Margaret and, magisterially, Isaiah Berlin. Here is Hitchens on the (first) Gulf War and the 'Salman Rushdie Acid Test', on being spanked by Mrs Thatcher in the House of Lords and taking his son to the Oscars, on America's homegrown Nazis and 'Acts of Violence in Grosvenor Square' in 1968. Edited by the London Review of Books, with an introduction by James Wolcott, this collection recaptures, ten years after his death, 'a Hitch in time': barnstorming, cauterising, but ultimately uncontainable"--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Biographies.; Essays.; Personal narratives.; Hitchens, Christopher.; Hitchens, Christopher; Hitchens, Christopher; Books; Journalism.; Literature;
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You be mommy / by Clark, Karla.; Persico, Zoe,1993-;
A tired mother lets her rambunctious toddler have a turn being the parent at bedtime.LSC
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Humorous fiction.; Mother and child; Bedtime;
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Mrs. Doubtfire [videorecording] / by Brosnan, Pierce.; Columbus, Chris.; Dixon, Leslie.; Field, Sally.; Fierstein, Harvey,1954-; Fine, Anne.Alias Madame Doubtfire.Videorecording.; Prosky, Robert,1930-2008.; Radcliffe, Mark,1952-; Shore, Howard.; Singer, Randi Mayem.; Williams, Marsha Garces.; Williams, Robin,1951 July 21-; Blue Wolf Productions.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.;
Edited by Raja Gosnell ; music by Howard Shore.Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein, Robert Prosky.Daniel Hillard is no ordinary father, so when he learns his ex-wife needs a housekeeper, he applies for the job. With the perfect wig, a little makeup and a dress for all occasions, he becomes Mrs. Doubtfire, a devoted British housekeeper who is hired on the spot. Free to be the "woman" he never knew he could be, the disguised Daniel creates a whole new life with his entire family.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Fine, Anne.; Comedy films.; Divorce; Divorced fathers; Feature films.; Female impersonators; Housekeepers; Man-woman relationships; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c1999., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,
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Garfield and friends. [videorecording] / by Davis, Vincent,director.; Music, Lorenzo,voice actor.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),production company.; Public Media Distribution,distributor.;
Lorenzo Music.Join everyone's favorite fat cat Garfield, along with his pal Odie and owner Jon Arbuckle, for twenty hilarious adventures from the classic Saturday morning animated series! Garfield lives to sleep and eat - especially when lasagna is on the menu. Tag along with Garfield and friends as they re-imagine his favorite fairy tales, bring history to life, solve crimes big and small, and much more.G.DVD; Widescreen (16x9) presentation; Stereo.
Subjects: Animated television programs.; Children's television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Garfield (Fictitious character); Cats; Human-animal relationships;
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Echo Park [electronic resource] : by Connelly, Michael.aut; cloudLibrary;
In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the twenty-two-year-old was never found. Now, more than a decade later, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney. A man accused of two heinous murders is willing to come clean about several others, including the killing of Marie Gesto. Taking the confession of the man he has sought-and hated-for thirteen years is bad enough. Discovering that he missed a clue back in 1993 that could have stopped nine other murders may just be the straw that breaks Harry Bosch.General adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Crime; Police Procedural; Suspense;
© 2006., Little, Brown and Company,
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Together we drum, our hearts beat as one / by Poll, Willie.; Chief Lady Bird,1993-;
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Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; First Nations women; Native children; Indigenous children;
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No one left to come looking for you : a novel / by Lipsyte, Sam,1968-author.;
In Manhattan's East Village in 1993, a young New Jersey rock musician searches for his bandmate who made off with his prized bass to feed his drug habit and encounters a colorful cast of characters as he uncovers a series of crimes tied to local real estate barons looking to remake NYC.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Humorous fiction.; Novels.; Missing persons; Rock musicians;
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When a butterfly goes to school / by Salas, Laura Purdie.; Niclas, Chloe,1993-;
"This poetic board book relates a school day from the perspective of a migrating butterfly whose own routine mirrors that of a child's"--
Subjects: Board books.; Butterflies;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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