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  • From the Great Blasket to America

    by Michael Carney, Gerald Hayes ...
    Mike Carney was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1920 in that unique, isolated Irish-speaking community. Mike left in 1937 to seek a better future in Dublin and eventually settled in Springfield, Massachusetts, with other former islanders. The death on the island of his younger brother set off a chain of events that led to its evacuation, in which Mike played a pivotal role. This is the story ... Read more

    $9.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blasket Islandman

    The Life and Legacy of Tomás Ó Criomhthain

    by Gerald Hayes ...
    Tomás Ó Criomhthain (1856–1937) is one of the giants of Irish-language literature. His best-known books, Allagar na hInise and An tOileánach, are acknowledged classics. But he was a highly unlikely author. He lived his entire life on the isolated and now-abandoned Great Blasket, in a house he built with his own hands using stones he found on the island. Likewise, he crafted a valuable literary ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Blasket King

    by Gerald Hayes, Eliza Kane ...
    The last King of the Great Blasket Island was Pádraig Ó Catháin, known as Peats Mhicí, who served for quarter of a century until his death in 1929. The King helped the islanders navigate through life and through national as well as international events, such as the 1916 Rising and the Great War. This book tells how he came to be King of the Great Blasket Island and how his personality and ... Read more

    $9.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Austrian Banks in the Period of National Socialism

    by Gerald D. Feldman ...
    Series series Publications of the German Historical Institute
    This book is the English translation of Gerald D. Feldman's contributions to the multi-author, two-volume study Österreichische Banken und Sparkassen im Nationalsozialismus und in der Nachkeriegszeit, which was originally published in German by C. H. Beck in 2006. Austrian Banks in the Period of National Socialism focuses on the activities of two major financial institutions, the Creditanstalt ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

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    Series Book 6 - Countries of the World
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  • Feis na nGleann: A Century of Gaelic Culture in the Antrim Glens

    by Eamon Phoenix, Pádraic Ó Cléireacháin, Eileen McAuley ...
    The Glens of Antrim formed one of the last Irish-speaking areas of Ulster until the early 1900s. Until the opening of the Antrim coast road in the 1850s Irish was universally spoken in the Glens and on Rathlin.The turn of the nineteenth century saw the Gaelic Revival which in the north of Ireland involved both Unionists and Nationalists in an effort to preserve Irish as a spoken language. It was ... Read more

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  • Potty, Fartwell and Knob

    by Russell Ash ...
    Russell Ash has trawled parish registers and censuses going back 900 years to compile the first ever complete book of breathtakingly unlikely-but-true British names. It features an incredible and diverse range of totally genuine names, evoking everything from body parts (Dick Brain), sex (Matilda Suckcock), illness (Barbaray Headache) and toilet functions (Peter Piddle) to food (Hazel Nutt), ... Read more

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  • Scandal at Dolphin Square

    A Notorious History

    by Simon Danczuk, Daniel Smith ...
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  • Nazi Billionaires

    The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties

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    “Eloquent, thorough, and profound, David de Jong’s brilliant debut illuminates a dark chapter of the past while also shining a stark and uncanny light onto our present, and, perhaps, our near future—showing how an insidious mix of capitalism and fascism can destroy democracy and countless lives. An absolute must-read." — Norman Ohler, New York Times bestselling author of Blitzed: Drugs in the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Nation Builders

    Barnardo Children in Canada

    by Gail H. Corbett ...
    This book unmasks one of the greatest human interest stories in Canadian history: the emigration of tens of thousands of children from Britain, from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, to become home children in Canada. Through first-hand accounts and archived materials, Corbett sensitively and accurately records the pilgrimage of the children who, against great odds, proved that Canada was the ... Read more

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  • On an Irish Island

    by Robert Kanigel ...
    On an Irish Island is a love letter to a vanished way of life, in which Robert Kanigel, the highly praised author of The Man Who Knew Infinity and The One Best Way, tells the story of the Great Blasket, a wildly beautiful island off the west coast of Ireland, renowned during the early twentieth century for the rich communal life of its residents and the unadulterated Irish they spoke. With the ... Read more

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  • Hitler: Ascent

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    by Volker Ullrich ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This landmark biography of Hitler puts an emphasis on the man himself: his personality, his temperament, and his beliefs.“[A] fascinating Shakespearean parable about how the confluence of circumstance, chance, a ruthless individual and the willful blindness of others can transform a country — and, in Hitler’s case, lead to an unimaginable nightmare for the world.” ... Read more

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