A Genealogists Guide to Discovering Your Irish Ancestors : How to Find and Record Your Unique Heritage
by Dwight A. Radford, Kyle J. Betit

Interested in researching your family lineage? This best selling guide exposes you to every conceivable genealogy resource and shows you how to use seemingly insignificant data to discover intimate family details. Beginning with basic research strategies, the book discusses how a family name can be traced to determine an Irish ancestor's place of origin. To uncover the history of multiple generations, several chapters explore how to locate Irish immigrants in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and the British West Indies. Methods of deriving useful information from Irish sources such as civil registrations, emigration lists, tax forms, estate records, land registries, military records, social directories, cemetery archives, census data and church registries are also provided. How to best use the Internet and its myriad of genealogy web sites is discussed at length. Finally, when you think you've tapped every available resource, the authors conclude this compendium with an appendix of additional archives and libraries. Unlike many genealogy books, this guide repeatedly receives 5 star ratings because it provides not only Irish and non-Irish resources, but also presents the best methods for using them.

A Book of Irish American Blessings & Prayers
by Andrew M. Greeley

This is a wonderful collection of earnest devotions and humble prayers that offer thanks to God and render appeals for special intentions. While some of the writings commemorate important events such as weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, graduations, and funerals, others honor beloved people and places. Written by Father Andrew Greeley, the well known author of mystery fiction and guides for the Catholic laity, these private conversations with God joyously celebrate spirituality and faith.

Anam Cara : A Book of Celtic Wisdom
by John O'Donohue

Anam Cara, the Gaelic equivalent for "soul friend," is a fitting title for this award-winning and international bestseller. Using the title as both an archetype and a symbol, O'Donohue draws on the wisdom of the ancient Celts to discuss his belief that every human's body is a solitary spiritual world. As an archetype, a "soul friend" is the tangible human body that protectively shelters a nurturing ethereal force within. As a symbol, the "soul friend" is O'Donohue himself acting as each reader's spiritual guide. Throughout the journey, O'Donohue explores the inextricable links between the human condition, nature and the divine. By drawing on the ancient teachings, stories, and blessings of the Celts, he provides readers with profound insights on friendship, solitude, work, love, and death. As both an Irish poet drawn to the mythical, pagan powers of nature and a Catholic scholar entrenched in the tenets of an orthodox Christian religion, O'Donohue has been aptly described as "a poetic priest with the soul of a pagan."

Beginner's Irish
by Gabriel Rosenstock

Today Irish Gaelic is spoken by almost one million people and remains the first language for nearly 30,000. This guide introduces the history of the language and teaches the basics of structure, vocabulary, and grammar in 10 comprehensive lessons. Cultural information is also provided which explains Irish traditions and situations common to daily life. For those interested in finding a basic primer of the Gaelic language, this guide is an excellent resource written by a notable Irish/English translator. Having translated over 80 books, Gabriel Rosenstock is also a poet and a writer. Currently, he is an Assistant Editor at An Gum, the publication branch of the Department of Education and Science, in Dublin.