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1) The boxer
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Danny Flynn returns to his Belfast neighborhood after 14 years in prison, all he wants is to find peace, resume his career, and reclaim the love of the woman who has remained etched in his mind. As they slowly embrace the possibilities of renewed romance, they realize cultural taboos stand in the way and fighting for love could cost them their lives.
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"A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday agreement, but they never really went away, and lately, bomb threats, arms drops, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the anchor requests the public's help in locating those responsible for this latest raid - a robbery at...
Author
Series
Ructions O'Hare volume 1
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Description
Written by a former IRA operative, this debut novel follows James “Ructions” O'Hare as he tries to keep his plan to rob the biggest bank in Belfast from the IRA, which will require all of his cunning and skill.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Kerry O'Shea, an Irish-American medical student who finds himself involved in the Irish Rebellion. When his buddy is shot, Dr. Lenihan, Kerry's professor, is called in, and it is then that Kerry learns of Lenihan's secret life as leader of a group of Irish guerillas. Torn between his contempt for war and his loyalty to his heritage, he soon must decide to join the fight or return to America.
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Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Description
His days as an intelligence agent behind him, former CIA analyst Jack Ryan has traveled to London to vacation with his wife and daughter. Meeting them outside Buckingham Palace, Ryan is caught in the middle of a terrorist attack on a member of the Royal Family. But Ryan's courageous act marks him as a target in the sights of the terrorists.
9) Odd man out
Series
Criterion collection volume 754
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Description
Over the course of one night, an Irish revolutionary evades police after a failed robbery attempt, as the woman he loves searches the city for him.
10) Evil for evil
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Autumn, 1943: Fifty Browning Automatic Rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition have been stolen from a US Army base in Northern Ireland. A few miles from the depot, the body of a known IRA man has been found with a bullet in the head and a pound note in his hand-the mark of an informer. Fearing a German-sponsored IRA uprising, General Eisenhower, Billy's uncle by marriage, sends him to recover the weapons before more damage is done. Billy searched...
12) Hunger
Series
Criterion collection volume 504
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
Description
In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. A transcedent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the Grand Hotel in the coastal town of Brighton, England. Rooms were obliterated, dozens of people wounded, five killed. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in her suite when the explosion occurred; had she been just a few feet in another direction, flying tiles and masonry would have sliced her to ribbons....
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