Mark St. Patrick’s Day, a global celebration of Irish culture, with books and films featuring voices and places from the Emerald Isle.
Happy St. Patrick's Day, Curious George by Cynthia Platt
Today is George's lucky day--St. Patrick's Day is here! George loves a celebration, and St. Patrick's Day means plenty o' music, dancing, and feasting fun! He dresses up in his festive finest, looks for leprechauns, and learns some Irish dance steps. But can George make it to the parade without causing any trouble? Ages infant-3.
Baby's First St. Patrick's Day by Dawn Sirett and Eleanor Bates
From a St Patrick's Day parade, a lucky shamrock, and a funny leprechaun to St Patrick's Day costumes, an Irish dancing outfit, and a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, Baby's First St Patrick's Day features all the familiar favourites associated with Ireland's biggest and brightest celebration. Ages infant-2.
The Story Behind St. Patrick's Day by Jack Reader
This book is packed with fun facts about the origins of Saint Patrick's Day--Saint Patrick, for example, wasn't even Irish! Readers will also learn about past and present traditions surrounding this day of celebration. Ages 4-8.
The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer
When Artemis's mother contracts a deadly disease he discovers the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. He must travel back in time and save the lemurs, which became extinct due to a bargain Artemis himself made as a younger boy. Ages 10-14.
Two for the Road by Roddy Doyle
People meet in a pub to discuss current events, the absurdity of it all and talk about friends long since past.
Rememberings by Sinéad O'Connor
In Rememberings, O'Connor recounts her painful tale of growing up in Dublin in a dysfunctional, abusive household. Inspired by a brother's Bob Dylan records, she escaped into music. She relates her early forays with local Irish bands; we see Sinéad completing her first album while eight months pregnant, hanging with Rastas in the East Village, and soaring to unimaginable popularity with her cover of Prince's "Nothing Compares 2U."
When the Irish Invaded Canada: The Incredible True Story of the Civil War Veterans Who Fought for Ireland's Freedom by Christopher Klein
Tells the story of the patriotic Irish Americans who had fought in the American Civil War and then set out to seize the British province of Canada and hold it hostage until the independence of Ireland was achieved.
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole
It was 1958, and the Irish government—in despair, because all the young people were leaving—opened the country to foreign investment. So began a decades-long, ongoing experiment with Irish national identity. Weaving his own experiences into this account of Irish social, cultural, and economic change, O’Toole shows how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a Catholic “backwater” to an almost totally open society.
Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World by J. Philip Newell
Discusses Celtic Christianity with a focus on how Celtic spirituality can help us to rediscover the natural rhythms of life and deepen our spiritual bond with God, each other, and the earth.
Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young--but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they worry about sex and friendship and the world they live in.
A Sea of Sorrows: The Typhus Epidemic Diary of Johanna Leary by Nora McClintock
After a massive potato famine strikes Ireland, thirteen-year-old Johanna Leary flees to Canada with her family. But typhus and other illnesses plague the "coffin ships," so named for the staggering number of immigrants who died enroute. One by one Johanna loses the members of her family -- first her baby brother on the journey over, then her mother in the Grosse Isle fever sheds where sick passengers are quarantined when they reach the port of Québec, and her father soon after. Johanna has only her brother Michael left when she sets foot on Canadian soil.
Dracula by Bram Stoker
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England- an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival.
Ontario and Quebec's Irish Pioneers: Farmers, Labourers, and Lumberjacks by Lucille H. Campey
Lucille Campey takes on the victim-ridden mythology of destitute Irish immigrants fleeing the famine of the 1840s. Comprehensive and extensive research has been distilled to produce an informative and lively account of this great immigration saga, whose roots date back to the time of the British Conquest of New France in 1763.
Growing up Travelling: The Inside World of Irish Traveller Children by Jamie Johnson
Fascinated by the resilience and optimism of the children, who are proud of the culture and traditions of the Irish Travellers, Johnson's portraits aim to promote the perception and respect of children as such, far removed from the common prejudices of society.
Teaching Man: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
Teacher Man is an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and heartbreaking honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City.
Dubliners by James Joyce
The fifteen short stories included in this collection all center around the city of Dublin and its inhabitants at the beginning of the twentieth-century.
Cornucopia: The Green Cookbook : A Collection of Vegan Recipes from Dublin's Cornucopia Restaurant by Tony Keogh and Aoife Carrigy
Whether you are a vegetarian, vegan or are trying to cut down on your meat intake, this book brings you punchy flavours and unique, satisfying dishes. With a wide range of ingredients and smart culinary tips and ideas, each recipe is a delight to cook in your own home.
U2 by U2, by Bono and Neil McCormick
In 1975, four teenagers from Mount Temple School in Dublin gathered in a crowded kitchen to discuss forming a band. The drum kit just about fit into the room, the lead guitarist was playing a homemade guitar, the bassist could barely play at all and nobody wanted to sing. Over thirty years later, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. are still together, bound by intense loyalty, passionate idealism and a relentless belief in the power of rock and roll to change the world.
The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition by Oscar Wilde
The story revolves around a portrait of Dorian Gray by Basil Hallward, an artist impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfillment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade.
Collected Poems by W.B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced. His early work includes the beguiling 'When You are Old', 'The Cloths of Heaven' and 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' but, unusually for a poet, Yeats's later works, including 'Parnell's Funeral', surpass even those of his youth. All are present in this volume.
Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy
Four strangers, with nothing in common but a need to escape, meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna. From Ireland, America, Germany and England they have each left behind their homes and their old lives, when a shocking tragedy throws them unexpectedly together. Nights of Rain and Stars is the story of one summer and four people, each with a life in turmoil.
The Best Catholics in the World: The Irish, the Church and the End of a Special Relationship by Derek Scally
A compelling account of why Ireland was so very Catholic for so long, why that changed, and what remains now that the special relationship has ended.
71, directed by Yann Demange
A single night in the life of a young British soldier accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the streets of Belfast in 1971. Unable to tell friend from foe, and increasingly wary of his own comrades, he must survive the night alone and find his way to safety through a disorienting, alien and deadly landscape.
In Bruges, directed by Martin McDonagh
Two hit men have been ordered to take it easy in the storybook city of Bruges, Belgium, but find it is easier said than done.
Calvary, directed by John Michael McDonagh
Calvary's Father James is a good priest who is faced with sinister and troubling circumstances brought about by a mysterious member of his parish. Although he continues to comfort his own fragile daughter and reach out to help members of his church with their various scurrilous moral, and often comic, problems, he feels sinister and troubling forces closing in.
