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Former Hollywood actress who became a Benedictine nun details vocation in new book - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:52:12 PDT

By: IrishCentral Staff Writers

Mother Dolores Hart commanded a $5,000 dollar a week salary as a working screen actress in 1963. But then she did something we don't usually associate with Hollywood starlets, she gave up her movie career to become a Benedictine nun instead.

Irish Hospice Foundation appeals to the public for photos for The Gathering book (IrishCentral)

Thu, 16 May 2013 05:21:46 PDT

By: JANE WALSH

The Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) is offering the public a unique opportunity to be part of an exciting book it is producing to mark The Gathering.

A look at books: Ireland’s growing cadre of first rate thrillers and personal essays of home (IrishCentral)

Sun, 12 May 2013 04:48:41 PDT

The Last GirlBy Jane CaseyIreland's growing cadre of first rate thriller writers is already a thing to marvel at, and Jane Casey is emerging as one of its most accomplished members In 'The Last Girl' her nervy young detective Maeve Kerrigan sets out on her third (about to be bestselling) case, and this time it’s a murder at a well to do homeThe house happens to belong to defense attorney Phillip Kennford, a man who isn’t particularly beloved by the police for his tendency to get convicted criminals off the hook Casey excels at creating plot complications when you least expect them, and her characters continually throw up hooks and snares that you can’t see coming READ MORE

Waterford twins set for Guinness Book of Records – after they were born 87 days apart (IrishCentral)

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 05:03:45 PDT

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

Irish twins Amy and Katie Jones-Elliott are set for the Guinness Book of Records – after they were born 87 days apart to their proud and relieved Waterford parents.

“Language, Resistance and Revival” book to be launched in New York and Boston (IrishCentral)

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:18:13 PDT

Club Leabhar Nua Eabhrac , an Irish language book club in New York, presents the launch of Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh’s “Language, Resistance and Revival: Republican Prisoners and the Irish Language in the North of Ireland”Mac Ionnrachtaigh book tells the untold story of the truly groundbreaking linguistic and educational developments that took place among republican prisoners in Long Kesh prison from 1972-2000During a period of bitter struggle between republican prisoners and the British state, the Irish language was taught and spoken as a form of resistance during incarceration The book unearths this story for the first time and analyses the rejuvenating impact it had on the cultural revival in the nationalist community beyond the prison walls Based on unprecedented interviews, Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh explores a key period in Irish history through the original and "insider" accounts of key protagonists in the contemporary Irish language revival READ MORE

A look at books - the Magdalene Laundries, Reverend Ian Paisley and the Irish Diaspora (IrishCentral)

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 05:48:17 PDT

It Doesn’t Ring a BellBy Racer LynchIt hasn’t been two decades since the last Magdalene Laundry in Ireland closed in 1996 That’s well within the living memory of young adults The question is, what to do with all that suffering now that its come to light?Even now most would prefer to look the other way, exactly the way they used to when these unpaid gulags were in operation The Irish government had to be browbeaten for years by a group of committed former inmates and their offspring before finally offering a full apology READ MORE

Former Irish prostitute calls on men who buy sex to be named and shamed in new book (IrishCentral)

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:00:02 PDT

By: KERRY O'SHEA

Rachel Moran was only 15 years old and homeless in Dublin when she first turned to prostitution.

A look at books - photography, music, and coming of age stories (IrishCentral)

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 04:33:04 PDT

The Irish: A PhotohistoryBy Sean Sexton and Christine KinealySometimes a photograph can be a door you can walk through into the past In The Irish: A Photohistory, Sean Sexton and Christine Kinealy have assembled one of the most evocative and moving collections of the life of the Irish over the past two centuries that I have ever seenThe first Irish photographs date from 1840, six years before the unforeseen catastrophe that would come to define the tragedy of British colonialism in Ireland Many of the images contained in this collection are heart-stoppingly beautiful READ MORE

A look at books - Irish history, fiction and biography to get your teeth in to (IrishCentral)

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 04:47:45 PDT

Vengeance By Benjamin BlackBenjamin Black is the pen name of award winning Irish novelist and Booker Prize winner John Banville, which means that the prose stylings of this impressively literary whodunit (and the focus on fully realized characters) are much finer than the genre usually affordsBlack/Banville assembles a cast of upscale but sulphurous Dubliners, including one of Ireland’s most successful – and, it turns out, suicidal -- businessmen, then he exposes the corrupt and corrupting world they live in where money and sex trump all other considerations Detective Inspector Hackett and his pinstriped consultant pathologist sidekick Quirke find themselves pulled ever deeper into the mysterious case and into dangerous the orbit of Dublin’s elite What Black/Banville does with particular facility is to create a climate of suspicion and dread that turns this surprisingly sordid tale into a page-turner of the highest order READ MORE

Cu Chulainn gets Hollywood style superhero makeover in new book (IrishCentral)

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 05:34:21 PDT

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

Irish mythology hero Cu Chulainn has undergone a sexy transformation for a new book.

National Geographic and Ridley Scott to adapt Bill O’Reilly's book ‘Killing Jesus: A History’ (IrishCentral)

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:22:52 PDT

By: IrishCentral Staff Writers

Ca-ching! That's the sound of Bill O'Reilly's bank balance being replenished by yet another book in his famous murdered historical figures series.

A look at Irish books for St. Patrick’s Day - heroes, villains and other characters (IrishCentral)

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 04:32:21 PDT

The Origins of the IrishBy JP MalloryAbout 80 million people trace their origins to Ireland The question that hasn’t really been asked in nearly 80 years is how did the Irish people come into being themselves?Employing the varied disciplines of archeology, genetics, geology, linguistics and mythology, the author traces the disparate influences that shaped the Irish people and their language READ MORE

Irish Arts Center donates thousands of books in NYC for St. Patrick's Day (IrishCentral)

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:04:26 PDT

By: AMANDA DRISCOLL

New York will receive a free windfall of Irish and Irish American literature as a staggering 7,500 books are due to be given away as part of the third annual Irish Arts Center Book Day at eight locations across the five boroughs. The Give Away will begin at 7.30am this Friday, March 15, 2013.

Phoebe Prince was not bullied to death, claims author in new book - Argues her many mental problems led to suicide, not ‘bullycide’ (IrishCentral)

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:32:03 PST

Phoebe Prince (Credit:ABC)The tragic January 14, 2010 death of Irish teenager Phoebe Prince does not qualify as ‘bullycide’ according to a controversial new book on the subject by author Emily BazelonBazelon covered the Phoebe Prince trial for ‘Slate’ and she claims in an interview in the Boston Herald this week that what happened to Phoebe was “not beyond the pale” and that Phoebe had multiple personal issues that were the underlying cause of the suicideI could not disagree more with Bazelon’s conclusion which adopts a “blame the victim for having her own problems” mentalityTo recap, Prince was bullied mercilessly soon after she moved to South Hadley Massachusetts from the rural town of Fanore, County Clare in Ireland with her mother READ MORE

Whitey Bulger's arms-smuggling deal with IRA revealed in new book (IrishCentral)

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:12:00 PST

By: IrishCentral Staff Writers

The story of how Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger met with the IRA and set up the arms-smuggling deal is detailed in a new book.

Chase Away the February Blues with Luscious Cooking, Engaging Book Discussion and Mary McSweeney’s Artistry (IrishCentral)

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 03:16:51 PST

- ICC Celebrity Chef Series: Monday, February 25th, 7:30 pm Master Irish Chef Brendan Cronin from Co Mayo and author ofCheffin’: from Potatoes to Caviar prepares his delicious “Irish Coffee Cake READ MORE

Top Irish chef Rachel Allen’s new book shows that easy-to-follow recipes can bring the taste of Ireland to your table (IrishCentral)

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:31:56 PST

The Queen of the Kitchen, Rachel AllenYour Irish mother was right There are two things you need to turn a house into a home -- love and decent cooking Get those two things right and you’re well on your way to enduring happiness But you don’t just become a good cook, do you? If it was easy we’d all be Julia Child, I suppose READ MORE

Irish priests thought Elvis was 'agent of Satan' new book claims (IrishCentral)

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:22:05 PST

By: IrishCentral Staff Writers

To the Catholic Church in Ireland Elvis Presley once represented more than blue suede shoes. Could he, they wondered, be a front man for Satan?

“Killing Lincoln” brings Bill O’Reilly’s book to life in National Geographic show (IrishCentral)

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 07:44:07 PST

By: IRISHCENTRAL STAFF WRITERS

The cast of "Killing Lincoln," the National Geographic Channel's new docudrama about the events leading up to and after John Booth's assassination of President Lincoln gathered some of the tragic president's most ardent fans for a Monday night Washington D.C. premiere.

New book claims John F Kennedy released US criminals from prison to curb the Communist threat (IrishCentral)

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 06:20:46 PST

By: IRISHCENTRAL STAFF WRITERS

Many claims have been made about President John F. Kennedy over the years, with increasingly salacious stories grabbing the headlines as the years go by. But the latest explosive claims by journalist Bill Deane set a new high bar in dramatic claims about the assassinated former president.