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E. Somerville, Martin Ross All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches

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Ages 18 and up
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Martin was born at Ross House in Connemara, County Galway, the youngest of sixteen children of James Martin of Ross (1804–1872).[1] The Martin family, a branch of the Martyn family - one of the Tribes of Galway - had settled at Ross by the early 17th century, having previously inhabited the town of Galway for some three hundred years. Her father, James, was a Protestant, his grandfather having converted from the Catholic faith in order to retain the family estates under the Penal Laws. Nevertheless, each child of the family was secretly 'baptised' by the family servants, a practise James Martin winked at. [more]

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E. Somerville, Martin Ross All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches

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Martin was born at Ross House in Connemara, County Galway, the youngest of sixteen children of James Martin [more]

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Margaret Wolfe Hungerford Only an Irish Girl

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Emily Walton My Irish Roots

Romance
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Ages 16 and up
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All she wanted was to go to school. That’s it! Go to school, get her PhD in hotel management and then take over for her grandmother, who Co- owned the biggest hotel chain in the world with her grandfather, and had already promised to make her CEO. She was the first in line for the deal, after all. Her parents where dead and according to her grandfather, who’d passed when she was 18, her fathers illegitimate son- who was a few years older then her- wouldn’t be getting the job. She literally had it in her hands as soon as she finished out college, or sooner if her grandmothers hints where to be believed. That all changes after the horrible house fire. It destroyed their original home, the mansion in Denmark Ireland. It also kills her eighty year old grandmother. At 20, Willow (Jane) Rose is expecting to have to take over the family business, is preparing for the stress of being the sudden CEO of a muilti-trillion dollar company. She also prepares to deal with Temperamental cousins and Aunts and Uncles expecting the job themselves. Oh boy is she in for a surprise. [more]

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St John D Seymour True Irish Ghost Stories

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Ages 18 and up
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Of all species of ghostly phenomena, that commonly known as "haunted houses" appeals most to the ordinary person. There is something very eerie in being shut up within the four walls of a house with a ghost. The poor human being is placed at such a disadvantage. If we know that a gateway, or road, or field has the reputation of being haunted, we can in nearly every case make a detour, and so avoid the unpleasant locality. But the presence of a ghost in a house creates a very different state of affairs. It appears and disappears at its own sweet will, with a total disregard for our feelings: it seems to be as much part and parcel of the domicile as the staircase or the hall door, and, consequently, nothing short of leaving the house or of pulling it down (both of these solutions are not always practicable) will free us absolutely from the unwelcome presence. There is also something so natural, and at the same time so unnatural, in seeing a door open when we know that no human hand rests on the knob, or in hearing the sound of footsteps, light or heavy, and feeling that it cannot be attributed to the feet of mortal man or woman. Or perhaps a form appears in a room, standing, sitting, or walking--in fact, situated in its three dimensions apparently as an ordinary being of flesh and blood, until it proves its unearthly nature by vanishing before our astonished eyes. Or perhaps we are asleep in bed. The room is shrouded in darkness, and our recumbent attitude, together with the weight of bed-clothes, hampers our movements and probably makes us more cowardly. A man will meet pain or danger boldly if he be standing upright--occupying that erect position which is his as Lord of Creation; but his courage does not well so high if he be supine. We are awakened suddenly by the feel that some superhuman Presence is in the room. We are transfixed with terror, we cannot find either the bell-rope or the matches, while we _dare_ not leap out of bed and make a rush for the door lest we should encounter we know not what. In an agony of fear, we feel it moving towards us; it approaches closer, and yet closer, to the bed, and--for what may or may not then happen we must refer our readers to the pages of this book. But the sceptical reader will say: "This is all very well, but--there are _no_ haunted houses. All these alleged strange happenings are due to a vivid imagination, or else to rats and mice." (The question of deliberate and conscious fraud may be rejected in almost every instance.) This simple solution has been put forward so often that it should infallibly have solved the problem long ago. But will such a reader explain how it is that the noise made by rats and mice can resemble slow, heavy footsteps, or else take the form of a human being seen by several persons; or how our imagination can cause doors to open and shut, or else create a conglomeration of noises which, physically, would be beyond the power of ordinary individuals to reproduce? [more]

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ST JOHN D SEYMOUR TRUE IRISH GHOST STORIES

Horror
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Ages 18 and up
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Sir John Seymour of Wulfhall in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire, Knight banneret (c. 1474[2][3] – 21 December 1536.[4]) was [more]

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KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN PENELOPE'S IRISH EXPERIENCES

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Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 – August 24, 1923) was an American educator and author of children's [more]

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GRAHAM JONES IRISH GHOST, ENGLISH ACCENT

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Graham Jones (born 1956) is an English lecturer and business owner. Graham Jones is an author speaker and writer. [more]

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CORNELIUS WEYGANDT IRISH PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS

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There are so many who have helped me with this book that I cannot begin to thank them [more]

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KUNO MEYER Ancient Irish Poetry

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Kuno Meyer (20 December 1858 – 11 October 1919) was a German scholar, distinguished in the field of [more]

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