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LitStephanie
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Damning account of how the English government suppressed Ireland's economy for centuries, then victim blamed them when the famine happened and mostly refused to help. Lots of quotes from respected English officials expressing anti-Irish and anti-Catholic bigotry and occasionally coming right out and publicly stating the famine was a fortuitous way to bring down the unsustainable population. Good but long and repetitive.

TheBookHippie I have this on my list to read. 2w
LitStephanie @TheBookHippie I listened to the audio but would have preferred print to be able to skip ahead on repetitive parts. 2w
Texreader I read another book about this and it just infuriated me!! I‘ll have to stack this one too. 2w
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TheBookHippie @LitStephanie I can‘t do audio -so it‘ll be print! 2w
LitStephanie @Texreader which one did you read? 3d
LitStephanie @TheBookHippie that should be better. 3d
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bibliothecarivs
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Random book from our home library:

📖 The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution by Frank O'Connor

2010 review: ★★★★★

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Cuilin
HEART, BE AT PEACE. | DONAL. RYAN
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#CampLitsy25

@squirrelbrain @Megabooks @BarbaraBB

My nominations for camp Litsy. There were so many to choose from!!

Suet624 These look great!!! 3mo
squirrelbrain Great choices! ❤️ 3mo
Amiable I‘m reading “Dream Count” right now —love Adichie! 3mo
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Cuilin @Amiable I love Adichie too. 3mo
BarbaraBB A new Ryan, I had no idea! And Allende, wow!
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Deblovestoread Great choices! 3mo
Megabooks That Deviants cover is drawing me in. Love some good queer lit! 3mo
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MeJeMiller
The Lost Letters of Aisling | Cynthia Ellingsen
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I liked 98% of this book. Didn‘t like Rainey‘s “romance” cause it felt Hallmark-y and unnecessary and her open ended ending. I hated how there was so much left open in the modern timeline. I loved how the dual timelines were handled, the friendships and love. There are parts of this where I wish some things were fleshed out at the end. But generally liked it

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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick
Culture Smart! Ireland | John Scotney
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Being in a reading slump means I'm still "in Ireland" for #foodandlit but since my guy is playing pickleball, the pup is content to lounge with me, and today's scrolling doesn't feel so doom-y, I'm going to finish my Ireland Overview with some Irish Pub ambiance on the screen.

Catsandbooks Enjoy at your own pace! 💚 3mo
TheBookHippie 💚 3mo
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bibliothecarivs
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Recent acquisition:

📖 Sun Dancing: A Vision of Medieval Ireland by Geoffrey Moorhouse

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bibliothecarivs
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★★★★★

? Through Irish Eyes: A Visual Companion to Angela McCourt"s Ireland by David Pritchard, forward by Malachy McCourt

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JenlovesJT47
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I chose these for Jace and I to read together for #foodandlit this month. The alphabet book was cute although kind of grim for a kid‘s book. Let‘s See Ireland was not my cup of tea. Does anyone have any good recs for children‘s books set in Ireland? 🇮🇪

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#Ireland
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GingerAntics Well, Ireland can be kind of grim. They‘ve been dealing with some stuff for like 900 years, thanks to the bloody English. I have a couple books of Irish fairytales I could recommend, but again they can be slightly darker than we usually think of when we think of fairytales. 4mo
TheBookHippie Pete The Cat, Bernstein Bears, Curious George all have St Patrick‘s Day books this one is more history 4mo
TheBookHippie There is more I‘ll get back to you. 🙃 4mo
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TheBookHippie My favorite with my grandson 4mo
GingerAntics I haven‘t read this one yet, but I have a copy. Maybe it‘s time to read it. 4mo
JenlovesJT47 @GingerAntics @TheBookHippie thank you so much!! 🤗💚🍀 4mo
TheBookHippie @JenlovesJT47 I always say I should be posting my picture books I rotate in my bag for my readers and I never do 🤦🏻‍♀️ 4mo
JenlovesJT47 @TheBookHippie you should! Always happy for kids book recommendations. 🤗 4mo
GingerAntics @JenlovesJT47 I feel like we over whelmed you with all these books. lol 4mo
JenlovesJT47 @GingerAntics lol not at all! The more the merrier 🤗 4mo
Catsandbooks 👍🏼🇮🇪 4mo
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Texreader
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Almost the entire Irish village of Baltimore was taken captive by pirates in the early 1600s and sold as slaves in #Algeria. With little records about their lives as slaves, the author relies on a number of accounts by other slaves to try to describe what their lives could have been like. The author also posits a hypothesis that the taking was an elaborate plan of an evil mastermind who wanted to rid the coastal town of its inhabitants for his ⬇️

Texreader own reasons—and the hypothesis seems to make sense! I had heard about this historical event but I‘d never realized how many “northerners” from England, Iceland, etc were captured as slaves by Barbary pirates and not just sailors from captured boats, but hundreds of women and children. I also learned how the women may have had a better life as slaves than in the cold northern climes. Islam treated women more equally! A very interesting read for ⬇️ 4mo
Catsandbooks 👍🏼🇮🇪 4mo
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Teresereading We visited Baltimore in 2016, it‘s a fascinating story and one I hadn‘t heard before. Thanks for sharing. 4mo
Butterfinger So interesting. 4mo
tpixie Wow! Interesting part of history! 4mo
Cuilin One of my favorite places. I grew up near there. #🩷Cork 4mo
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