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With green eyes and an easy smile, Frank McCabe stole me away from the nightmares that awaited me at home. But the son of the Irish Mob would never be mine. I belonged to the Italians. And the moment my mother sold me to the head of the Italian Mafia, I became the one the people of Boston were warned about. The only person more feared than me in our city is the Irish Ghost. When I finally flee my marital prison with my sons and my sister in tow, I unwittingly run straight into the ghost of the Irishman who died in a fiery explosion years ago.

DCI Lesley Clarke’s team is still reeling from the fallout of the Mudeford Spit case and the loss of a much-loved colleague. But there’s no time to adjust. On the very day that they’re commemorating their friend, a new case comes in – a homeless man found dead at Shaftesbury’s iconic Gold Hill.

Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the beginning of Ireland’s modern period and continues through to virtually the present day, offering an integrated overview of the island nation’s cultural, political, and socioeconomic history. This succinct, scholarly study covers important historical events, including the Cromwellian conquest and settlement, the Great Famine, and the struggle for Irish independence.

Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas from English and Irish Literature. Here is the legendary Laurence Olivier starring in ‘The Canterville Ghost’, adapted from the original tale by Oscar Wilde and Laurence Olivier starring in 'Lord Arthur Savill's Crime' adapted from the original tale by Oscar Wilde.Theatre Royal is a unique series of classic radio dramas produced in the 1950's by the late Harry Alan Towers.

1939: When tragedy strikes in the East End of London, thirteen-year-old Ivy Connell and her little brother Fred find themselves orphaned. Holding Fred’s small hand, she knows she must keep him safe. So Ivy decides to leave the bombed-out streets of the city in search of the Irish village her Daddy used to tell her so many stories about. Somehow, she’s going to get them both to Ireland…

He has a fiancée. But I’m carrying his secret. I’ve been in love with Declan McCarthy for years. He’s dangerous. Forbidden. Already promised to another woman. Every instinct told me to run the night he kissed me. I stayed anyway. Now I’m carrying his baby and he doesn’t know it. Declan’s sense of duty keeps him blind to the one person who’s loved him all along. I’ve spent years pining for a man who can't chose me. Except now I can't hide this secret anymore.

Readers of Patrick Taylor's books know Mrs. Kinky Kincaid as the unflappable housekeeper who looks after two frequently frazzled doctors in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. She is a trusted fixture in the lives of those around her, and it often seems as though Kinky has always been...

I’m the reaper my enemies never see coming. Then I go home to an empty flat where the silence has turned deafening. That changes when my beautiful, neurodivergent neighbor, who’s decided I’m her boyfriend, starts breaking into my home. And leaving me plants. It’s harmless. She’s harmless. Until the night she’s in the wrong place at the wrong time. Fallon Nova should’ve run when she saw me kill a man. Instead, she stayed and patched me up. Now she’s a witness. And witnesses don’t live long in my world.

Welcome to the Village of Ballybucklebo. Come and say hello to Dr. O'Reilly's odd-as-two-left feet patients, his housekeeper, Mrs. "Kinky" Kinkaid, and O'Reilly's pets, Arthur Guinness, the beer-swilling black Lab and Lady MacBeth, the demonically possessed white cat. And of course, to young Dr...

In An Irish Country Christmas, the third book in Patrick Taylor's Irish Country Books, Barry Laverty, M.B., is looking forward to his first Christmas in the cozy village of Ballybucklebo, at least until he learns that his sweetheart, Patricia, might not be coming home for the holidays. That...

Ophelia Peters is a military veteran, a thrill seeker, and aspiring clothing designer living in NYC. Niall Gallagher is the marketing director for his family's Irish Whiskey brand. He needs a date for his brother's wedding back in Ireland and nothing would irritate them all more than if he brought home an American beauty. Ophelia isn't afraid of taking a trip to Ireland and acting like Niall's girlfriend for a weekend. She is afraid of how easy the Irishman seems to fit into her heart. It could just be the suit, but the man wears it well.

A fake wedding between a billionaire and an executive assistant in need of financial help sounds like the perfect fix, but what happens when feelings get involved? 

In this illuminating exploration, Saint Patrick delves into the man behind the legend. From his dramatic early years as a Roman Briton enslaved by Irish raiders to his calling as a missionary in the land of his captivity, Patrick’s story is one of transformation, faith, and unwavering devotion.

San Francisco, 1893: When Maggie O’Halloran steps off the train in California, she knows she must be brave for her friend Brendan and her brother Danny. Having fled both New York and Chicago, they all have broken spirits and fear having to start again. Can Maggie find courage and strength for them all?

KiaraI’ve only ever wanted the two things I can’t have —love and freedom. Instead, I’m a prisoner. Forced to create art for the De Lucas to exploit. Until my father is murdered. Now my monstrous cousin is the new don, and life as I know it is about to end. Instead of just selling my paintings, he's planning to auction me off to the highest bidder. So I run. Right into the hottest guy I’ve ever seen, who pins me to the wall and kisses me until my body lights up inside like a Christmas tree, before helping me escape. But he’s no savior.

In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, Natalie's Bistro has always been warm and welcoming. Nowadays twenty-two-year-old Siobhan O'Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother, along with her five siblings, after the death of their parents in a car crash almost a year ago. It's been a rough year for the O'Sullivans, but it's about to get rougher.

The Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded them as the lowest form of humanity. In the new country–a land of opportunity–they found a very different form of social hierarchy, one that was based on the color of a person’s skin. Noel Ignatiev’s 1995 book–the first published work of one of America’s leading and most controversial historians–tells the story of how the oppressed became the oppressors.

It's been a rough year for twenty-six-year-old Mags Murray. First she learns that her dad isn't her biological father, a secret her mother took to her grave. Then her beloved Irish grandmother passes away at Christmas while Mags is visiting her from the States. Now Mags must host her grandmother's wake and sell her cottage. A cottage Mags inherited but her odd jobs won't enable her to keep.

When New York-born Marianne’s grandmother Collie passes away at home in rural Ireland, no one expects Marianne to be the one to inherit everything. Surely beautiful Kilteelagh House, with its avenue of trees, its acres of wildflowers, and its mysteriously locked front door should have gone to Marianne’s aunt–who’d nursed Collie in her dying days?

Janessa: I’ve been in love with Seamus since the day I met him, even though I’d been fourteen at the time. Now that I’m an adult, I’m ready to go claim my man. Maybe I was stupid thinking he’d wait for me, or maybe I just really wanted a fairytale ending. Seeing another woman in his arms hurt like hell, so I ran…straight into trouble.