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We are not ourselves [sound recording] / by Thomas, Matthew,1975-; Winningham, Mare.;
Read by Mare Winningham."Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and how much alcohol has been consumed. Eileen can't help but dream of a calmer life, in a better neighborhood. When Eileen meets Ed Leary, a scientist whose bearing is nothing like those of the men she grew up with, she thinks she's found the perfect partner to deliver her to the cosmopolitan world she longs to inhabit. They marry, and Eileen quickly discovers Ed doesn't aspire to the same, ever bigger, stakes in the American Dream. Eileen encourages her husband to want more: a better job, better friends, a better house, but as years pass it becomes clear that his growing reluctance is part of a deeper psychological shift. An inescapable darkness enters their lives, and Eileen and Ed and their son Connell try desperately to hold together a semblance of the reality they have known, and to preserve, against long odds, an idea they have cherished of the future. Through the Learys, novelist Matthew Thomas charts the story of the American Century, particularly the promise of domestic bliss and economic prosperity that captured hearts and minds after WWII. The result is a powerfully affecting work of art; one that reminds us that life is more than a tally of victories and defeats, that we live to love and be loved, and that we should tell each other so before the moment slips away. Epic in scope, heroic in character, masterful in prose, We Are Not Ourselves is a testament to our greatest desires and our greatest frailties."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Audiobooks.; Irish Americans;
© p2014., Simon & Schuster Audio,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The greatest beer run ever : a memoir of friendship, loyalty, and war / by Donohue, John(Union leader),author.; Molloy, J.T.(Journalist),author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248).Soon to be a major motion picture written and directed by Peter Farrelly, 'The Greatest Beer Run Ever' is a wildly entertaining, feel-good memoir of an Irish-American New Yorker and former U.S. marine who embarked on a courageous, hare-brained scheme to deliver beer to his pals serving in Vietnam in the late 1960s.
Subjects: Donohue, John (Union leader); United States. Marine Corps; Vietnam War, 1961-1975;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Problem with People. by Cottam, Chris,film director.; Meaney, Colm,actor.; Levy, Jane,actor.; McEvoy, Lucianne,actor.; Reiser, Paul,actor.; Quiver Distribution (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Colm Meaney, Jane Levy, Lucianne McEvoy, Paul ReiserOriginally produced by Quiver Distribution in 2024.NYC native Barry gets an invitation from a cousin he never knew to come to the smallest town in Ireland to settle a generations-long feud between the American and Irish sides of their families. A comedy of errors ensues, as does an unexpected love story, and perhaps a shot at healing the world.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.; Motion pictures--Ireland.; Motion pictures--Europe.;
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Kill the Irishman. by Hensleigh, Jonathan,film director.; Walken, Christopher,actor.; Flanagan, Fionnula,actor.; Cardellini, Linda,actor.; Stevenson, Ray,actor.; Kilmer, Val,actor.; D'Onofrio, Vincent,actor.; Lionsgate (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Christopher Walken, Fionnula Flanagan, Linda Cardellini, Ray Stevenson, Val Kilmer, Vincent D'OnofrioOriginally produced by Lionsgate in 2011.In this gritty crime drama based on a true story, Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson) is a fearless Irish-American mob enforcer in 1970s Cleveland. As Greene takes on the Mafia, surviving numerous assassination attempts, he becomes a folk hero of sorts in his community. His defiance and willingness to challenge the powerful Mafia bosses spark a brutal war that shakes the city's underworld. With a stellar cast, including Christopher Walken and Vincent D'Onofrio, KILL THE IRISHMAN chronicles Greene’s violent quest for power.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Horror films.; Crime.; Organized crime.; Thrillers (Motion pictures).;
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Kill the Irishman. by Hensleigh, Jonathan,film director.; Walken, Christopher,actor.; Flanagan, Fionnula,actor.; Cardellini, Linda,actor.; Stevenson, Ray,actor.; Kilmer, Val,actor.; D'Onofrio, Vincent,actor.; Lionsgate (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Christopher Walken, Fionnula Flanagan, Linda Cardellini, Ray Stevenson, Val Kilmer, Vincent D'OnofrioOriginally produced by Lionsgate in 2011.In this gritty crime drama based on a true story, Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson) is a fearless Irish-American mob enforcer in 1970s Cleveland. As Greene takes on the Mafia, surviving numerous assassination attempts, he becomes a folk hero of sorts in his community. His defiance and willingness to challenge the powerful Mafia bosses spark a brutal war that shakes the city's underworld. With a stellar cast, including Christopher Walken and Vincent D'Onofrio, KILL THE IRISHMAN chronicles Greene’s violent quest for power.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Horror films.; Crime.; Organized crime.; Thrillers (Motion pictures).;
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Good eggs : a novel / by Hardiman, Rebecca,author.;
Three generations of a boisterous Irish family are upended by a matriarch's shoplifting activities and an upbeat American home aide whose initial support catapults the family into the worst crisis they have ever faced.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Families; Older women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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When the Irish invaded Canada : the incredible true story of the Civil War veterans who fought for Ireland's freedom / by Klein, Christopher,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The outlandish, untold story of the Irish-American revolutionaries who tried to free Ireland by invading Canada. Just over a year after Robert E. Lee relinquished his sword, a band of Union and Confederate veterans dusted off their guns. But these former foes had no intention of reigniting the Civil War. Instead, they were bound by a common goal: to seize the British province of Canada and to hold it hostage until the independence of Ireland was secured. By the time that these invasions--known together as the Fenian Raids--began in 1866, Ireland had been Britain's unwilling colony for seven hundred years. Thousands of Civil War veterans considered themselves Irishmen before they were Americans. They were those who fled rather than perish in the wake of the Great Hunger, and now they took their cue from a previous generation of successful American revolutionaries. With the tacit support of the U.S. government, the Fenian Brotherhood established a state in exile, planned prison breaks, weathered infighting, stockpiled weapons, and assassinated enemies. Defiantly, this motley group, including a one-armed war hero, an English spy infiltrating rebel forces, and a radical who staged his own funeral, managed to seize a piece of Canada--if only for three days. When the Irish Invaded Canada is the untold tale of a band of fiercely patriotic Irish-Americans and their chapter in Ireland's centuries-long fight for independence. Inspiring, lively, and often undeniably comic, this is a story of fighting for what's right in the face of impossible odds"--
Subjects: Fenians.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A Kid from Marlboro Road [electronic resource] : by Burns, Edward.aut; Burns, Edward.nrt; cloudLibrary;
An Irish-American family comes to life through the eyes of a 13-year-old boy in this debut novel by actor-filmmaker Ed Burns. Immigrants and storytellers, lilting voices and Long Island moxy are all part of this colorful Irish-Catholic community in 1970s New York.A Kid from Marlboro Road opens at a wake, as our twelve-year-old narrator, an aspiring writer, takes in the death of his beloved grandfather, Pop, a larger-than-life figure to him. The overflowing crowd includes sandhogs in their muddy work boots, old Irish biddies in black dresses and cops in uniform, along with the family in mourning. There’s an open casket, the first time he’s seen a dead person. Later, at the bar across the street, he tells a story to the assembled crowd about the day his dad proposed to his mom, and how he almost got beat up by her brothers for it, and then how Pop made him propose twice. His mom calls him “Kneenie,” and with her husband and older son Tommy lost to her, he’s the best thing she’s got. He sees her struggling with depression and is worried his parents might get divorced, but doesn’t know how to help—since like his brother and father before him he knows he’ll also abandon her soon enough.Stories cascade between the prior generation’s colorful origins in the Bronx and the softer world of the of Gibson, the town on Long Island where the family lives now. There are scenes in the Rockaways, at Belmont Race Track, and in Montauk. Out of individual struggles a collective warmth emerges, a certain kind of American story, raucous and joyous.Includes black and white photographs from the author's Irish-American New York family history.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Coming of Age; Cultural Heritage; Family Life;
© 2024., Recorded Books,
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Fayne / by MacDonald, Ann-Marie,1958-author.;
In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and Scotland, where she has been kept from the world by her adoring father, Lord Henry Bell, owing to a mysterious condition. Charlotte, strong and insatiably curious, revels in the moorlands, and has learned the treacherous and healing ways of the bog from the old hired man, Byrn, whose own origins are shrouded in mystery. Her idyllic existence is shadowed by the magnificent portrait on the landing in Fayne House which depicts her mother, a beautiful Irish-American heiress, holding Charlotte's brother, Charles Bell. Charlotte has grown up with the knowledge that her mother died in giving birth to her, and that her older brother, Charles, the long-awaited heir, died soon afterwards at the age of two. When Charlotte's appetite for learning threatens to exceed the bounds of the estate, her father breaks with tradition and hires a tutor to teach his daughter "as you would my son, had I one." But when Charlotte and her tutor's explorations of the bog turn up an unexpected artefact, her father announces he has arranged for her to be cured of her condition, and her world is upended. Charlotte's passion for knowledge and adventure will take her to the bottom of family secrets and to the heart of her own identity.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Family secrets; Identity (Psychology); Immortalism; Young women;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The story collector / by Woods, Evie,author.;
One hundred years ago, Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor translate fairy stories from Irish to English. But all is not as it seems and Anna soon finds herself at the heart of a mystery that threatens her very way of life. In present day New York, Sarah Harper boards a plane bound for the West Coast of Ireland. But once there, she finds she has unearthed dark secrets that tread the line between the everyday and the otherworldly, the seen and the unseen.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Secrecy; Tales; Women;
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