Irish Biography

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    • The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
    • By: Timothy Egan
    • Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,411 ratings
    • The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man....

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    • The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
    • By: T. J. English
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 589 ratings
    • In Paddy Whacked, best-selling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsterism....

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    • A Life
    • By: Claire Tomalin
    • Narrated by: Alex Jennings
    • Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • Charles Dickens: A Life gives full measure to Dickens's heroic stature - his huge virtues both as a writer and as a human being - while observing his failings in both respects....

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    • Eddie McGrath and the West Side Waterfront
    • By: Neil G. Clark
    • Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Dock Boss: Eddie McGrath and the West Side Waterfront is the fascinating account of one gangster's ascension from altar boy to the leader of New York City's violent Irish Mob....

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    • Shakespeare in 1606
    • By: James Shapiro
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • In the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed....

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    • By: Brittanee Nicole
    • Narrated by: Joe Arden, Maxine Mitchell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 674 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: Sinéad O'Connor
    • Narrated by: Sinéad O'Connor
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,131 ratings
    • From the acclaimed, controversial singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor comes a revelatory memoir of her fraught childhood, musical triumphs, fearless activism, and of the enduring power of song....

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    • By: Johnny Sexton
    • Narrated by: Sam O'Mahoney, Johnny Sexton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • No Irish rugby player has ever achieved more, or been a source of more inspiration to teammates and fans alike, than Johnny Sexton. All of this would have seemed highly unlikely as late as May 2009, when – aged 24 – he was nowhere near first choice at Leinster, and still uncapped by Ireland.

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    • A Biography
    • By: Philip Freeman
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • Ireland's patron saint has long been shrouded in legend....

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    • A Year in an Irish Garden
    • By: Niall Williams, Christine Breen
    • Narrated by: Niall Williams, Christine Breen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Thirty-five years ago, when they were in their 20s, Niall Williams and Christine Breen made the impulsive decision to leave their lives in New York City and move to Christine’s ancestral home in the town of Kiltumper in rural Ireland....

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    • By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
    • Narrated by: Siobhán McSweeney
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • On discovering her murdered husband's body, an 18th-century Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament. Eibhlin Dubh Ni Chonaill's poem travels through the centuries, finding its way to a new mother who has narrowly avoided her own fatal tragedy....

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    • Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England
    • By: Julie Kavanagh
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin....

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    • The True Story of a Former US Marine in the Irish Republican Army
    • By: John Crawley
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • 1975: A young Irish-American man joins an elite US Marine unit to get the most intensive military training possible—then joins the Irish Republican Army, during the days of some of the bloodiest fighting ever in the Irish-British conflict....

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    • Essays
    • By: Colm Toibin
    • Narrated by: Colm Toibin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the History of Ireland
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Did you know that a poet named William Drennan was the first to name Ireland the “Emerald Island”? He was referring to the green hills of Ireland’s countryside in his poem “When Erin first rose”....

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    • My Life as an Enforcer for Whitey Bulger and the Boston Irish Mob
    • By: Edward MacKenzie Jr., Phyllis Karas
    • Narrated by: Matthias N Bossi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • For decades the FBI let James ''Whitey'' Bulger get away with murder, allowing him continued control of his criminal enterprise in exchange for information....

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    • Inside New York's Irish Mob
    • By: T. J. English
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 813 ratings
    • It's men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell's Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York's Irish mob....

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    • The Life of Grace O'Malley
    • By: Judith Cook
    • Narrated by: Katherine Anderson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Grace O'Malley, daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She soon had a fleet of galleys under her commander, but her three decades of plundering, kidnapping, murder and mayhem came to a close in 1586....

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    • By: Patricia Hampl
    • Narrated by: Patricia Hampl
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude. Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who made repose a goal, even an art form....

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    • A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood
    • By: Tom Phelan
    • Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • In the tradition of Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes and Alice Taylor’s To School Through the Fields, Tom Phelan’s We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It is a heartfelt and masterfully written memoir of growing up in Ireland in the 1940s....

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