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Shift your attention to modern-day Dublin, the focus of the next several lessons. Here, you will consider the vestiges of the city's medieval roots, including the wood quay that marks the site of the Viking invasion and St. Audoen's Gate, a relic of the old walled city. Then, take a tour of Dublin Castle and Trinity College.
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Dublin today is one of the most dynamic, cosmopolitan, and exciting cities in all of Europe, and the beauty of Dublin is that it remains a walker's city. Join Professor Conner for a walking tour of Dublin, from St. Stephen's Green to the Liffey River and O'Connell Bridge to the Abby Theatre, and more.
4) Ulysses
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A day in the life of Leopold Bloom, whose odyssey through the streets of turn-of-the-century Dublin leads him through trials that parallel those of Ulysses on his epic journey home.
5) In the woods
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Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 1
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English
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Detective Rob Ryan and his partner, Cassie Maddox, investigate the murder of a 12-year-old girl near a Dublin suburb. The case resonates with similarities to a murder committed twenty years before that involved two children and the young Ryan.
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Agnes Browne novels volume 2
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Plume
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[2000]
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English
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Agnes, the lovable and determined heroine of "The Mammy, " returns with her seven children--whom she affectionately calls "the chisellers"--all struggling to make their way in Dublin with varying degrees of success. Like all good Irish stories, "The Chisellers" includes a wedding and a funeral, much laughter, and some tears. This title is part of an unnamed trilogy that includes "The Granny" and "The Mammy".
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After a scandal breaks out involving a famous Irish Nationalist politician, Stephen Dedalus finds his family being torn apart over their differing opinions of the matter. Shaken by all the fighting and animosity, Stephen begins to wonder where he can place his faith. Questioning the Irish and Catholic ideology that he was raised on, Stephen begins to rebel against expectations as he departs for college. While he excels in his studies, Stephen struggles...
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Quirke mysteries volume 6
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English
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In 1950s Ireland, newspapers are censored, social conventions are strictly defined, and appalling crimes are hushed up. Why? Because the Catholic Church controls the lives of nearly everyone. But when the body of his daughter Phoebe's closest friend is brought to his autopsy table, Quirke can no longer play by the Church's rules. Along with Inspector Hackett, his sometime partner, Quirke investigates Jimmy's death and learns just how far the Church...
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Return to the beloved town of Chesapeake Shores for the holiday season in this classic tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods-and watch the new series Chesapeake Shores on Hallmark Channel! Dating Matthew O'Brien-a playboy and a younger man-cost Laila Riley her career and her parents' respect. A high price, even for love-and when Laila decides it was just a fling, she breaks it off, despite Matthew's objections. But the O'Brien...
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Maggie D'Arcy novels volume 1
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English
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Twenty-three years ago, Maggie D'arcy's family received a call from the Dublin police. Her cousin Erin has been missing for several days. Maggie herself spent weeks in Ireland, trying to track Erin's movements, working beside the police. But no trace of Erin was ever found. The experience inspired Maggie to become a cop. Now, back on Long Island, Maggie is a detective and a divorced mother of a teenager. The Gardaí call to say that Erin's scarf has...
12) Faithful Place
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Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 3
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English
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"Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping his family's cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show. Frank took it for granted that she'd given him the brush-off--probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Then,...
13) Broken Harbor
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Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 4
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English
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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.
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The Shelbourne Hotel volume series 1
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Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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For the first time ever RTE cameras were given access to the landmark Shelbourne Hotel for a new six-part documentary series.
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2020
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English
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"In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an extra set of hands. At first, this Bridie seems unschooled...
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Agnes Browne novels volume Prequel
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Plume
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2004, ©2003
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English
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Agnes Browne spends her youth in working-class Dublin in the 1940s, and survives Catholic school, births of siblings, days in factories, and nights in the dance halls, until she walks up the aisle wondering if the priest will turn her away because of the secret everyone has been gossiping about.
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Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 6
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English
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Being on the murder squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she's there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she's getting close to the breaking point. Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers' quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty, groomed...
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The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets. "The thing about books,’ she said ‘is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of." On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found... For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its...
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