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They Call Me Killer

Tales from Junior Hockey's Legendary Hall-of-Fame Coach

by Brian Kilrea, James Duthie
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

An intimate, humorous look at Brian Kilrea's 60-year career in junior hockey. With more wins than any coach in junior hockey history, and a personality as large as his winning record, Brian Kilrea is more than a hockey legend, he's one of the most beloved figures in the game. With veteran sportswriter,...
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Hockey Dad

True Confessions Of A (Crazy?) Hockey Parent

by Bob McKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013

A revealing look at the good, the bad, and the ugly of minor hockey culture Known as TSN's "Hockey Insider," Canada's Bob McKenzie is synonymous with the sport and one of its most respected analysts. In Hockey Dad, McKenzie describes firsthand the joys and heartbreak of raising two sons,...
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by Vincent McDonnell
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007

The sinking of the Titanic is the world’s most famous sea tragedy, with over 1,500 lives lost on that cold April night in 1912. The ship has since held a special mystery and fascination for young and old. This new account for children looks at why the ship was built and the dreams of those who built...
Cover of When Bobby Met Christy: The Story of Bobby Beasley and a Wayward Horse
by Declan Colley
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2010

Bobby Beasley was a champion jockey. By 26, he had won a Cheltenham Gold Cup, a Champion Hurdle and a Grand National. But when he was 24, Bobby took his first drink and soon succumbed to alcoholism. He turned a corner after his friend, Nicky Rackard, urged him to attend Alcoholics Anonymous. Five...
Cover of Upstart – Friends, Foes and Founding a University
by Ed Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011

Ed Walsh returned to Ireland in 1970 to blunder into setting up an institute of education. He found a decaying mansion on a riverside site, gathered talented young people and secured funding from the World Bank and European Investment Bank to build what became the University of Limerick. Along the...
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by Bryce Evans
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011

Seán Lemass enjoys unrivalled acclaim as the ‘Architect of Modern Ireland’. Yet there remain great gaps in our knowledge of this mythic figure and his golden age. Up to now Lemass, a colossus of twentieth-century Irish history, was airbrushed to fit a narrative of national progress. Today, this...
Cover of A Doctor's Sword: How an Irish Doctor Survived War, Captivity and the Atomic Bomb
by Bob Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

‘There followed a blue flash accompanied by a ver y bright magnesium-type flare … Then came a frighteningly loud but rather flat explosion, which was followed by a blast of hot air … All this was followed by eerie silence.’ This was Cork doctor Aidan MacCarthy’s description of the...
Cover of The Arctic Fox: Francis Leopold McClintock: Discoverer of the fate of Franklin
by David Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004

The Shackleton of his day, Leopold McClintock from Dundalk was the leading Arctic explorer of the Victorian era. First to bring definite information on the lost Franklin party, he rose to admiral and advised Scott before the 'Discovery' expedition in 1901. This fascinating tale starts when he enlisted...
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The Best Of Down Goes Brown

Greatest Hits and Brand New Classics-to-Be from Hockey's Most Hilarious Blog

by Sean Mcindoe
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014

Hundreds of thousands of hockey fans around the world are addicted to Down Goes Brown, and with good reason: Sean McIndoe is the funniest writer in hockey. His often insightful, always entertaining posts have made the site one of the top hockey blogs in the world—and definitely the most amusing....
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Writing Screenplays That Sell, New Twentieth Anniversary Edition

The Complete Guide to Turning Story Concepts into Movie and Television Deals

by Michael Hauge
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013

For more than twenty years, Writing Screenplays That Sell has been hailed as the most complete guide available on the art, craft, and business of writing for movies and television. Now fully revised and updated to reflect the latest trends and scripts, Hollywood story expert and script consultant...
Cover of Forgotten Patriot: Douglas Hyde and the Foundation of the Irish Presidency
by Brian Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

It had been a busy few days for Adolf Hitler, but Douglas Hyde had not slipped his mind … On 25 June 1938, Douglas Hyde became the first President of Ireland. His values stood in stark contrast to those of the continental dictator. As a Protestant nationalist and a leading figure in the language...
Cover of Black Cat in the Window: A Family Album with Much Love and Squalor
by Liam Ó Murchú
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1999

There is a large floor of broken boards, covered here and there with bit and pieces of broken linoleum. I cannot see the walls or what's above them, but there is a woman at a fire who keeps looking at me, and a man on a chair reading a paper, who keeps looking at me.' Born in a fourth-floor tenement,...
Cover of Courage and Conflict: Forgotten Stories of the Irish at War
by Ian Kenneally
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010

Dispossessed and oppressed for so long, it is no surprise that many Irish ended up fighting in other people's wars. For many, a career as a soldier was the last hope for a better life. Courage and Conflict is based around extraordinary people and events, revolutionaries, inventors, soldiers, sailors...
Cover of Scenic Walks in Killarney – A Walking Guide
by Jim Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012

Nowhere in Ireland is there such a rich diversity of walks as Killarney. Thousands visit every year to walk in the beautiful landscape for which Killarney is renowned, and until now there has been no guidebook for these walks. Jim Ryan has compiled eighteen of Killarney’s most interesting low level...
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