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Ireland's Welcome to the Stranger is the compelling account of an American widow's journey through Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine. Her object was to determine the condition of the poor and discover why so many were emigrating to America. Eschewing fancy hotels and fine carriages, she travelled a good deal on foot and rested at common lodging-houses and even in the rudimentary cabins of the very poorest. This provided a unique opportunity to...
2) Alice Grand Duchess of Hesse, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland Biographical Sketch and Letters
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A memoir, by Dr. K. Sell, with a translation of the letters of the princess to her mother, was published anonymously in German, Darmstadt, 1883. The letters are here given in the original, with a translation by Princess Christian, of the memoir.-Print ed.
The life of a princess is not always as glamorous as it seems. The tragic yet inspiring story of Alice, the third child of Queen Victoria is recounted in her own words through her letters. Overcoming...
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This is a fascinating biography of Richard III, the infamous King of England who reigned for just two years in the late 15th century. The author, Caroline Amelia Halsted, provides a detailed and nuanced portrait of Richard III, examining his life, his reign, and his legacy. Halsted offers a fresh perspective on the king, challenging many of the common assumptions and myths that have surrounded him over the centuries. This is an engaging and thought-provoking...
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This is a fascinating biography of Richard III, the infamous King of England who reigned for just two years in the late 15th century. The author, Caroline Amelia Halsted, provides a detailed and nuanced portrait of Richard III, examining his life, his reign, and his legacy. Halsted offers a fresh perspective on the king, challenging many of the common assumptions and myths that have surrounded him over the centuries. This is an engaging and thought-provoking...
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Writing under the pseudonym of 'Nimrod', this is Captain Apperley's famous "half-true, half-fictitious story descriptive of a country gentleman, of large fortune and highly connected, having two sons and two daughters the hero of my tale is the younger son, who, differing in tastes from his brother, enters into the sports of the field at a very early age, and becomes a thorough sportsman, in the legitimate sense of that, often wrongly applied, term."...
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"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
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"A lovely writer, far superior to the average memoirist. . . . A curious mind, a perceptive observer with an artist's eye, a seeker of truth and beauty." -Irish Independent
From the moment I crossed the mountain, I fell in love with the place, which was more beautiful than any I'd ever seen. And with a way of looking at life that was deeper, richer and wiser than any I'd known before. . . . From the first day I came here I always knew I'd...
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Embark on a chilling journey into the shadowy realms of the Emerald Isle with this collection of captivating Irish ghost stories, featuring first-hand tales of paranormal sightings.
Faithfully recorded from real newspaper accounts, interviews, and personal letters, St. John Seymour and Harry Neligan eagerly recount the eery and enigmatic ghost-sightings of the Irish people. In these masterfully arranged pages you will find stories of haunted houses,...
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Music Box Films
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2024.
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Howard is a widowed sailor living alone on the coast of Ireland. His daughter, Grace, hires Annie, a lovely older woman to help around the house. Initially resistant to this support, Howard is soon charmed by Annie's gentle care, and the two fall in love. This new romance illuminates the hurt within Howard's relationship with Grace, tearing at Howard and Annie's seaside love story.
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The Powerscourt volume Book 2
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Eoin Dempsey
Pub. Date
2024
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Ireland/England 1880 On the run from the authorities after escaping from jail in Ireland, Joseph meets a stranger on the boat to England. With little money to his name and in need of help, Joseph follows his new friend to Manchester, where he falls in with a crowd of Irish nationalists, eager to make a stir. Soon, he will find his life spiraling out of control, and Joseph will have to decide which is more important: his loyalty to the cause or his...
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Blackstone Publishing
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2024.
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"Rozlyn ©ØO Conch©Øuir is used to waiting--waiting for the king, her father, to relent and allow her to leave the solitude of her tower; waiting for the dreaded and mysterious beast of Connacht to at last be defeated; waiting for the arrival of the man destined to win her heart and break the terrible curse placed on her and her land. So when she meets Jamie--a charming and compelling suitor--she allows herself to hope that her days of solitude...