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The bloody red hand: a journey through truth, myth and terror in Northern Ireland
By Derek Lundy. 2006
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Canadian fictionHistorical biography, Religious biography, Family biography, History, European history
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Author Derek Lundy, bearing in mind that the name "Lundy" is synonymous with traitor in Ulster, delves into the lives…
of ancestors Robert Lundy, Protestant governor of Derry in 1688, William Steel Dickson, a Protestant preacher of the early 19th century who advocated resisting the English, and Billy Lundy, born in 1890 and the embodiment of what the Ulster Protestants became - a tribe united in their hostility to Catholics and to the prospect of an independent Ireland. 2006.Slipstream: a daughter remembers
By Rachel Manley. 2000
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Canadian fictionBiography, Politics and government biography, Family biography
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Michael Manley, three-term prime minister of Jamaica, had stood at the heart of a decade of radical social reform in…
the 70s. From the vantage point of her father's bedside during his last six months of life, Rachel Manley searches the shadows that he cast on her as a child and as a woman. She explores how the enduring bonds that held them were tested time and again, not only by the ordinary conflicts of family life but by the heavy demands of the political arena and by a succession of five marriages. 2000.The storyteller: memory, secrets, magic and lies
By Anna Porter. 2000
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Canadian fictionBiography, Historical biography, Family biography, Journals and memoirs, European history, World War II
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In this memoir, the author shares stories told by her grandfather while she was growing up in Budapest, describing how…
these tales of heroes, strife and survival give her a sense of personal history. She also tells of her own experiences, from hiding Jews in her basement during World War II, through the advent of the Communist era, the 1956 Revolution in Hungary, and the family's exile to New Zealand. c2000.The Russian album
By Michael Ignatieff. 1987
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Award winning fiction, Canadian fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Family biography, European history
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Through the use of his grandparents' diaries, the author recreates his family history. The Ignatieffs, firmly entrenched in the Russian…
nobility, served in the tsarist government. In late 1917, the events of the Revolution overtook the family and they chose exile in the West. 1987 Governor General's Award winner. 1987.