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2020., Random House, Inc. Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: Man Booker Prize-winner and bestselling author Anne Enright's latest—a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. This is the story of Irish theatre legend, Katherine O'Dell, as written by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London's West End. Katherine's life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings. But this romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherine's past, or the world's damage. As Norah uncovers her mother's secrets, she acquires a few of her own. Then, fame turns to infamy when Katherine decides to commit a bizarre crime. Actress is about a daughter's search for the truth: the dark secret in the bright star, and what drove Katherine finally mad. Brilliantly capturing the glamour of post-war America and the shabbiness of 1970s Dublin, Actress is an intensely moving, disturbing novel about mothers and daughters and the men in their lives. A scintillating examination of the corrosive nature of celebrity, it is also a sad and triumphant tale of freedom from bad love, and from the avid gaze of the crowd.
![Actress [eBook] : a novel.](/Library/images/~imageCT101063.JPG "Actress [eBook] : a novel.")
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c2006., HarperCollins Call No: SC Fic Hyl Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Eleven-year-old John Egan knows he has a special gift: he can tell when people are lying. Their untruths set his eyes stinging and his stomach heaving. John thinks that one day his gift will make him famous and guarantee entry into the the Guinness Book of World Records. Until then, he has to navigate his father's anger and his mother's abrupt and confusing changes between treating him like a little boy and a then like a man. When the family is forced from their rural cottage into the council-flat slums of Dublin, John discovers that the lies that make him sick are also shielding him from the truth that threatens to destroy his family. A portrait of a boy who is a contradiction between aching vulnerability and a menacing anger fuelled by pain, Carry Me Down is a raw, beautiful read, another intensely profound and powerful story from a writer to watch."--HarperCollins.ca.
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Melville House Pub. Call No: Fic Joy Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Art of the novellaSummary Note: He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's elegant story details a New Year's Eve gathering in Dublin that is so evocative and beautiful that it prompts the protagonist's wife to make a shocking revelation to her husband--closing the story with an emotionally powerful epiphany that is unsurpassed in modern literature.
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2011., W. W. Norton & Co. Call No: Fic Enr Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2022., Grove Press Call No: Fic Kee Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An international bestseller and one of The Times's "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love, now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US. It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household-where everything is so well tended to-and this summer must soon come to an end. Winner of the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award and published in an abridged version in the New Yorker, this internationally bestselling contemporary classic is now available for the first time in the US in a full, standalone edition. A story of astonishing emotional depth, Foster showcases Claire Keegan's great talent and secures her reputation as one of our most important storytellers"--
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c2015., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic Enr Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The children of Rosaleen Madigan grow up in the West of Ireland, in a world that is about to change. When her oldest brother, Dan, announces he will enter the priesthood, young Hanna watches her mother retreat in sorrow to her bed. In the years that follow, three of the children leave home for lives they could never have imagined. Dan for the frenzy of New York under the shadow of AIDS; Emmet for the backlands of Mali where he learns the fragility of love and order; actress Hanna for modern-day Dublin and the trials of motherhood. In her early old age, their difficult, wonderful mother, Rosaleen, decides to sell the family home, the house she was born in and where she raised her own family, with all its ghosts and memories. Her adult children visit for Christmas, carrying with them the complications of their present lives and the old needs of childhood as they are brought face to face with their mother's ageing and the effects her decision will have on them all.
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2010., General, Viking Call No: Fic Kar Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Father Tim novels Volume: 2Summary Note: "Vacation. The very word has been foreign to Episcopal priest Tim Kavanagh, who has traveled across the Pond but twice. As an unreformed workaholic, he's used every excuse out there to stay put and tend his erstwhile flock in the village of Mitford. Now retired, he's making good on an old promise to show his wife, Cynthia, the land of his Irish ancestors. Arriving at a Lough Arrow guest lodge in the midst of a torrential downpour, he soon counts this trip the reason he's loath to leave home. An intruder startles Cynthia, resulting in painful damage to her recently fractured ankle. A valuable and cherished painting vanishes without a trace. And the shocking wound at the center of a bitterly estranged Irish family is exposed. As three generations struggle to find deliverance from the crucifying power of secrets, Tim and Cynthia discover a journal written more than a century ago by a Philadelphia-trained Irish physician. Who knew that faded ink could be the key to unlocking a crime and revealing the truth? Or that a country parson from the States would be chosen to enter the devouring conflict between Broughadoon and Cathair Mohr? "--Back cover.
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2013., Tinder Press Call No: NEW Fic O'Fa Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: London, July 1976. It hasn't rained for months, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn't come back. The search for Robert brings Gretta's children - two estranged sisters and a brother on the brink of divorce - back home, each with different ideas as to where their father might have gone. None of them suspects that their mother might have an explanation that even now she cannot share.
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2012., Troubador Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: A moving saga that takes the reader to the very heart of a close-knit, fiery, loving family perfect for fans of Mary Larkin, Pam Weaver and Maggie Craig.
![Martha's girls [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT76541.JPG "Martha's girls [eBook]")
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2014., Adult, McClelland and Stewart Call No: Fic Toi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Set in Wexford, Ireland, and in breathtaking Ballyconnigar by the sea, Colm Toibin's tour de force 8th novel introduces the formidable, memorable Nora Webster. Widowed at 40, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world she was born into. Wounded and self-centred from grief and the need to provide for her family, she struggles to be attentive to her children's needs and their own difficult loss. Toibin has given us a vivid portrait of a time and an intricately woven tapestry of lives in a small town."--Publisher.
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2014., Adult, Audioworks Call No: CD Fic Toi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Set in Wexford, Ireland, and in breathtaking Ballyconnigar by the sea, Colm Toibin's tour de force 8th novel introduces the formidable, memorable Nora Webster. Widowed at 40, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world she was born into. Wounded and self-centred from grief and the need to provide for her family, she struggles to be attentive to her children's needs and their own difficult loss. Toibin has given us a vivid portrait of a time and an intricately woven tapestry of lives in a small town."--Publisher.
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2023., Atlantic Monthly Press Call No: NEW Fic Lyn Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning toward tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new, unraveling country. How far will she go to save her family? And what--or who--is she willing to leave behind?
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2023., Adult, Viking Call No: Fic Rya Edition: First American edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "You'll never truly understand love until you've read Donal Ryan: a searing, jubilant story about four generations of women and the fierce devotion that binds them together The Aylward women of Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, are mad about each other, but you wouldn't always think it. You'd have to know them to know that-in spite of what the neighbors might say about raised voices and dramatic scenes-their house is a place of peace, filled with love, a refuge from the sadness and cruelty of the world. Their story begins at an end and ends at a beginning. It involves wives and widows, gunrunners and gougers, sinners and saints. It's a story of terrible betrayals and fierce loyalties, of isolation and togetherness, of transgression, forgiveness, desire, and love. Of all the things family can be and all the things it sometimes isn't. The Queen of Dirt Island is an uplifting celebration of fierce, loyal love and the powerful stories that bind generations together"--
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2021., Grove Press Call No: Fic Kee Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.
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2017., Adult, Soho Press Call No: Fic Mcc Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Solar Bones is a masterwork that builds its own style and language one broken line at a time; the result is a visionary accounting of the now. A vital, tender, death-haunted work by one of Ireland's most important contemporary writers, Solar Bones is a celebration of the unexpected beauty of life and of language, and our inescapable nearness to our last end. It is All Souls Day, and the spirit of Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen table and remembers. In flowing, relentless prose, Conway recalls his life in rural Ireland: as a boy and man, father, husband, citizen. His ruminations move from childhood memories of his father's deftness with machines to his own work as a civil engineer, from transformations in the local economy to the tidal wave of global financial collapse. Conway's thoughts go still further, outward to the vast systems of time and history that hold us all. He stares down through the vortex of his being,surveying all the linked circumstances that combined to bring him into this single moment, and he makes us feel, if only for an instant, all the terror and gratitude that existence inspires."--Jacket.
