In the aftermath of the Irish Easter Rising of 1916, the Clans seek McCarthy Gold as Collin searches for his missing sister. Wicked Head Constable Boyle plots revenge on them all. Irish rebels Tadgh McCarthy and partner Morgan reunite with Peader O'Donnell to unravel riddles they hope may lead them to the McCarthy treasure. Kathy O'Donnell joins Collin in Ireland with an ultimatum to abandon his search for Claire or suffer losing his wife forever....

The Clans battle the British during the War of Independence while seeking to unravel the clues to the O'Donnell treasure crafted by their ancestors. Tadgh, Morgan, and Aidan McCarthy, and Peader O'Donnell fight on for the revolution and their lives in Cork and Donegal. To support his rebel sister, war correspondent Collin O'Donnell is dragged into the search for his Clan's ancient treasure despite his wife's objections. The Templars and Barbary pirate...

A truly remarkable account, Not Forgotten traces the growth of one family from a small Irish town to a wide network stretching across the globe. From 1820 to 1860, nearly two million Irish migrated to the United States, mostly due to the Great Irish Famine of 1845-1852. Many died crossing the ocean due to disease and dismal conditions of what became known as coffin ships. Not Forgotten is the story of love and loss, enchantment and despair, joy...

From the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth century, the story of the Israelites' liberation from bondage in Egypt served as the archetypal narrative for the birth of the Irish nation. Exodus was critical to both colonial and anticolonial conceptions of Ireland and Irishness. Although the Irish-Israelite analogy has been cited often, a thorough exploration has never before been documented. Bender successfully fills this gap with Israelites...

A vibrant collection of short plays bringing Irish history and culture alive through an extraordinary collage of documents, songs, poems, and texts. In “Nine Irish Plays for Voices”, award-winning poet Eamon Grennan delves deep into key Irish subjects-big, small, literary, historical, political, biographical-and illuminates them for today's audiences and readers. These short plays draw from original material centering on important moments in...

Lady Jane Wilde was the mother of Oscar Wilde and an accomplished folklorist. She sought to preserve Irish culture through recording their enchanting myths, rituals and beliefs. This collection contains over 100 of these enthralling tales, from fairies stealing children to leprechauns promising gold. Each showcase the strange and mystical superstitions spread by Irish peasantry in the ancient tongue. Tales include: • The Horned Women • The...

A bawdy and boisterous poem of Ireland, translated by one of its most distinguished literary sons. As a teacher and translator of Irish verse, Frank O'Connor brought to the world's attention many fine poems from his native land, few as enduring - and none as controversial - as Brian Merriman's The Midnight Court. An eighteenth-century masterpiece widely recognized as the greatest comic poem in Irish literature, The Midnight Court is a hilarious and...

Irish women dramatists have long faced an uphill challenge in getting the recognition and audience of their male counterparts. There are more female playwrights now than ever before, but they are often ignored by mainstream theatres. Kearney and Headrick strive to shift the spotlight with Irish Women Dramatists. The plays collected in this volume represent a cross-section of the excellent dramatic output of Irish women writing in the twentieth century....

In 1922, following a decade of political ferment and much bloodshed, the Irish Free State was established, became stabilised, and developed along conservative lines. During these years the prevailing impulse was to reprove the actions of republicans who had rejected the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and many significant revolutionary voices were left unheeded. One mind, more agile than most of his contemporaries, belonged to Ernie O'Malley. It was through his...

This beautiful keepsake edition of Ancient Legends of Ireland is lavishly illustrated with 22 period illustrations. While Lady Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde is probably best known for being Oscar Wilde's mother, she was a formidable writer in her own right. The people of Ireland owe Lady Wild a great debt for collecting and persevering folk-lore that might otherwise have been lost to them. The present work deals with the mythology, or the fantastic...