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Past-Forward: A Three-Decade and Three-Thousand-Mile Journey Home    by Maureen Wlodarczyk
Price: $2.99 USD. 45970 words. Published on November 15, 2011. .

"Past-Forward" is the non-fiction account of the thirty-year search for the author's Irish ancestral roots. The book, written in the form of a letter to the author's grandmother Kate, tells both the story of the thirty-year search itself along with the discovered tale of Kate’s Irish ancestors,and their flight to America during the Great Famine and life as new Americans in the 19th century.
A Handbook of Irish Home Rule with full original text by William Gladstone and others    by Rupert Matthews
Price: $0.99 USD. 96760 words. Published by Bretwalda Books  on January 13, 2012. .

This book was written in 1887 at a critical time for the debate on Irish Home Rule and for Gladstone. Its influence on events proved to be great. This edition has an introduction by historian Rupert Matthews that puts this classic work into its historical and political context.
Gunny Malone    by Janie Downey Maxwell
Price: $4.95 USD. 234320 words. Published on January 19, 2012. .

Gunny Malone had no more chance of finding happiness than any other poor Irish girl raised on the west coast of Ireland in the early 1800s. She finds love, but tragedy soon follows and she is left to rebuild her life on the remote Blasket Islands. When famine strikes, Gunny’s world is once again tipped toward disaster. Only in the end does she find the truth that may finally set her free.
Hunger    by Aonghus Fallon
Price: Free! 5620 words. Published on March 16, 2012. .

Short story. The Italian philosopher Signore Bonfigliotti investigates a curious case of cannibalism in a remote Irish village...
The Third Horseman    by Gerard O'Keeffe
Price: $5.99 USD. 105590 words. Published on May 9, 2012. .

Based on a true story: At the height of the Irish Famine in the 1840s, an Irish aristocrat watches in horror as economic injustice and political failures result in the deaths of masses and despair for millions. But hope comes from an unlikely quarter: the unprepossessing racehorse Coranna and the sacrifice of the Butler family of peasants in the West of Ireland.