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 3,408 ratings
    • The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man....

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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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    • In Her Own Words
    • By: Maeve Binchy
    • Narrated by: Kate Binchy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Maeve's Times gives us wonderful insight into a changing Ireland as it celebrates the work of one of our best-loved writers in all its diversity-revealing her characteristic directness, laugh-out-loud humor....

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    • The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America
    • By: Mark Bailey
    • Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins, Alan Smyth
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In the spirit of David McCullough's Brave Companions, this anthology of popular American history presents the stories of nine incredible Irish immigrants as written by nine contemporary Irish-Americans....

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    • Calving Season on a Family Farm
    • By: John Connell
    • Narrated by: Alan Smyth
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • For fans of The Shepherd's Life, a poignant memoir - and number-one Irish best seller - about a wayward son's return home to his family's farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world....

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    • A Hilarious Tale of an English Couple and Their Unruly Dogs, Searching for a New Life in Rural Ireland
    • By: Nick Albert
    • Narrated by: Paul Douglass
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • For many years, Nick and Lesley Albert had shared a dream of living far away from the stress of modern life, and when the opportunity arose, they jumped in with both feet....

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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 812 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 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 586 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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    • The Downs and Ups of a Biracial, Half-Irish, British War Baby
    • By: Pauline Nevins
    • Narrated by: Pauline Nevins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • "Fudge" is the kindest nickname given to a half-Black child born smack in the middle of a family of eight children who were not only White, they were Irish. This memoir shares experiences of one of more than 1,000 mixed-race children....

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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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    • Days and Nights in the GAA
    • By: Ciarán Murphy
    • Narrated by: Ciarán Murphy
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The GAA is Ireland's largest civil society organisation, woven into the fabric of families and communities - and yet most books about Gaelic games focus on the greatest players and inter-county teams. This is the Life takes a witty and provocative look at grassroots GAA....

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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 232 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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    • 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 665 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: 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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    • 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 1,128 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 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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    • 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 28 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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