Michael Hoey's Books

Lexical Priming in Spoken English Usage

By: Michael Pace-Sigge

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Lexical Priming in Spoken English Usage

By: Michael Pace-Sigge

This book shows that over forty years of psychological laboratory-based research support the claims of the Lexical Priming Theory. It examines how Lexical Priming applies to the use of spoken English as the book provides evidence that Lexical Priming is found in everyday spoken conversations.

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Springer

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1137331909

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Narrative Progression in the Short Story

A corpus stylistic approach

By: Michael Toolan

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Narrative Progression in the Short Story

A corpus stylistic approach

By: Michael Toolan

One of our most valuable capacities is our ability partly to predict what will come next in a text. But linguistic understanding of this remains very limited, especially in genres such as the short story where there is a staging of the clash between predictability and unpredictability. This book proposes that a matrix of narrativity-furthering textual features is crucial to the reader’s forming of expectations about how a literary story will continue to its close. Toolan uses corpus linguistic software and methods, and stylistic and narratological theory, in the course of delineating the matrix of eight parameters that he sees as crucial to creating narrative progression and expectation. The book will be of interest to stylisticians, narratologists, corpus linguists, and short story scholars.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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902729061X

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9789027290618

Making Sense of Narrative Text

Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories

By: Michael Toolan

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Making Sense of Narrative Text

Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories

By: Michael Toolan

This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The book is a study of the texture of narrative fiction, using stylistics, corpus linguistic principles (especially Hoey’s work on lexical patterning), narratological ideas, and cognitive stylistic work by Werth, Emmott, and others. Michael Toolan explores the textual/grammatical nature of fictional narratives, critically re-examining foundational ideas about the role of lexical patterning in narrative texts, and also engages the cognitive or psychological processes at play in literary reading. The study grows out of the theoretical questions that stylistic analyses of extended fictional texts raise, concerning the nature of narrative comprehension and the reader’s experience in the course of reading narratives, and particularly concerning the role of language in that comprehension and experience. The ideas of situation, repetition and picturing are all central to the book’s argument about how readers process story, and Toolan also considers the ethical and emotional involvement of the reader, developing hypotheses about the text-linguistic characteristics of the most ethically and emotionally involving portions of the stories examined. This book makes an important contribution to the study of narrative text and is in dialogue with recent work in corpus stylistics, cognitive stylistics, and literary text and texture.

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Routledge

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1317224582

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Lightwalker

Book One: California & the Plains of Japral

By: Michael Ashton

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Lightwalker

Book One: California & the Plains of Japral

By: Michael Ashton

Two worlds, light years apart, both on the brink of destruction. From California to the Plains of Japral two groups of friends make choices for the destiny of worlds they inhabit. Lightwalker is a journey of mind, body and spirit to a distant star system and back again. A totally unique book! Your novel is like an ingenious transcendental documentary that helps the reader de-identify from the delusional material reality and re-identify with the actual transcendental reality governing the world. You might just have invented a new form of writing; a science nonfiction novel. - Andris Heks BA Hons, BSS

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Balboa Press

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1452526028

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Special Ops Heroes

By: Michael Ashcroft

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Special Ops Heroes

By: Michael Ashcroft

Special Ops Heroes tells the extraordinary stories behind Lord Ashcroft's collection of SAS and other Special Forces medals - the largest of its kind in the world. The action-packed stories span some sixty years from the exploits of the newly-formed SAS early in the Second World War to the end of the twentieth century. It features several remarkable groups of medals for some of the most audacious escapades of the Second World War as well as more recent medals awarded for bravery in Northern Ireland, Darfur and at the Iranian Embassy Seige in London.

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1472223977

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Patterns of Repetition, Structure, and Meaning in the Book of Hebrews

By: Michael C. Clark

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Patterns of Repetition, Structure, and Meaning in the Book of Hebrews

By: Michael C. Clark

While many have recognized unusual patterns of repetition within the book of Hebrews, which seem to play a range of important functions within the text, the consistency of this patterning has not been fully appreciated and its function has been largely unexamined. This study investigates the location and function of what we have termed “link clusters” within Hebrews from the perspective of discourse analysis, to gain fresh insight into the language, structure, and genre of Hebrews; into the book’s relationship to the Old Testament; and into the book’s authorship and meaning. This work proposes, first, that Hebrews uses repetition to establish formal connections between words and phrases marked as significant by their location and context with respect to other similarly connected words and phrases; second, that link clusters serve to structure the book of Hebrews by uniting the text into a series of overlapping, concentric, and coherent units; and, third, that link clusters also serve an important topical function, clarifying and amplifying intended meaning as pairs of matching topic sentences that respectively introduce and conclude each section and subsection of the discourse by summarizing its content.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666783374

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The Innocent and the Criminal Justice System

A Sociological Analysis of Miscarriages of Justice

By: Michael Naughton

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The Innocent and the Criminal Justice System

A Sociological Analysis of Miscarriages of Justice

By: Michael Naughton

The Innocent and the Criminal Justice System examines competing perspectives on, and definitions of, miscarriages of justice to tackle these questions and more in this critical sociological examination of innocence and wrongful conviction. This book: - Is the first book of its kind to cover wrong convictions, from definition and causation to the limits of redress - Provides a wealth of case studies and statistics to apply theoretical discussions of the criminal justice system to real-life situations - Discusses ideas and challenges that are highly relevant to current political and social debates Elegantly written by a leading expert in the field, this book is essential reading for students of criminology, criminal justice and law, looking to understand the workings of the criminal justice system and how it can fail the innocent.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137341157

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Spreading Activation, Lexical Priming and the Semantic Web

Early Psycholinguistic Theories, Corpus Linguistics and AI Applications

By: Michael Pace-Sigge

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Spreading Activation, Lexical Priming and the Semantic Web

Early Psycholinguistic Theories, Corpus Linguistics and AI Applications

By: Michael Pace-Sigge

This book explores the interconnections between linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, their mutually influential theories and developments, and the areas where these two groups can still learn from each other. It begins with a brief history of artificial intelligence theories focusing on figures including Alan Turing and M. Ross Quillian and the key concepts of priming, spread-activation and the semantic web. The author details the origins of the theory of lexical priming in early AI research and how it can be used to explain structures of language that corpus linguists have uncovered. He explores how the idea of mirroring the mind’s language processing has been adopted to create machines that can be taught to listen and understand human speech in a way that goes beyond a fixed set of commands. In doing so, he reveals how the latest research into the semantic web and Natural Language Processing has developed from its early roots. The book moves on to describe how the technology has evolved with the adoption of inference concepts, probabilistic grammar models, and deep neural networks in order to fine-tune the latest language-processing and translation tools. This engaging book offers thought-provoking insights to corpus linguists, computational linguists and those working in AI and NLP.

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Springer

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3319907190

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Cincinnatus and the Citizen-Servant Ideal

The Roman Legend's Life, Times, and Legacy

By: Michael J. Hillyard

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Cincinnatus and the Citizen-Servant Ideal

The Roman Legend's Life, Times, and Legacy

By: Michael J. Hillyard

A compilation of the recorded life, times, and influence of a Roman legend, Cincinnatus and the Citizen-Servant Ideal captures the essence of human virtue as it was embodied in the Roman Republic?s earliest days. Describing Cincinnatus?s recorded life and times, Hillyard traces the legend?s major interpretations from its origin amidst early Roman culture through contemporary times. In its impact on some of the world?s leading thinkers and leaders, such as Livy, George Washington, Henry Knox, Harry Truman, and others, the Cincinnatus legend is described in the many interesting forms it has taken over two millennia. Carried throughout the narrative is the timeless nature of the Cincinnatus ideal?the central issues of the role of citizen and leader in society.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1401011268

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The Function and Use of TO and OF in Multi-Word Units

By: Michael Pace-Sigge

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The Function and Use of TO and OF in Multi-Word Units

By: Michael Pace-Sigge

The highly frequent word items TO and OF are often conceived merely as prepositions, carrying little meaning in themselves. This book disputes that notion by analysing the usage patterns found for OF and TO in different sets of text corpora.

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1137470313

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Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity

Porphyry of Tyre and the Pagan-Christian Debate

By: Archbishop Michael Bland Simmons

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Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity

Porphyry of Tyre and the Pagan-Christian Debate

By: Archbishop Michael Bland Simmons

This study offers an in-depth examination of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre, whose significance for late antique thought is immense. Porphyry's concept of salvation is important for an understanding of those cataclysmic forces, not always theological, that helped convert the Roman Empire from paganism to Christianity. Porphyry, a disciple of Plotinus, was the last and greatest anti-Christian writer to vehemently attack the Church before the Constantinian revolution. His contribution to the pagan-Christian debate on universalism can thus shed light on the failure of paganism and the triumph of Christianity in late antiquity. In a broader historical and cultural context this study will address some of the issues central to the debate on universalism, in which Porphyry was passionately involved and which was becoming increasingly significant during the unprecedented series of economic, cultural, political, and military crises of the third century. As the author will argue, Porphyry may have failed to find one way of salvation for all humanity, he nonetheless arrived a hierarchical soteriology, something natural for a Neoplatonist, which resulted in an integrative religious and philosophical system. His system is examined in the context of other developing ideologies of universalism, during a period of unprecedented imperial crises, which were used by the emperors as an agent of political and religious unification. Christianity finally triumphed over its competitors owing to its being perceived to be the only universal salvation cult that was capable of bringing about this unification. In short, it won due to its unique universalist soteriology. By examining a rival to Christianity's concept of universal salvation, this book will be valuable to students and scholars of ancient philosophy, patristics, church history, and late antiquity.

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Oxford University Press

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0190202408

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Michael Collins's Intelligence War

The Struggle Between the British and the IRA 1919-1921

By: Michael Foy

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Michael Collins's Intelligence War

The Struggle Between the British and the IRA 1919-1921

By: Michael Foy

Michael Collins is often thought of as Ireland's lost leader: a man born into a revolutionary environment who became a skilled statesman and military leader. This book looks in at Collins' key role in the Anglo Irish War using primary sources which have not previously been available.

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The History Press

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0752495909

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A Survey of Modern English

By: Stephan Gramley,Michael Pátzold

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A Survey of Modern English

By: Stephan Gramley,Michael Pátzold

A comprehensive, scholarly and systematic review of modern English in one volume. It presents a description of both the linguistic structure of present-day English and its geographical, social, gender and ethnic variations.

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Routledge

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1134944268

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9781134944262

Discourse and the Non-Native English Speaker

By: Michael Cribb

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Discourse and the Non-Native English Speaker

By: Michael Cribb

Resource added for the Communication 108011 courses.

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Cambria Press

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1604976578

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9781604976571

We Told You So

Comics as Art

By: Tom Spurgeon,Michael Dean

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We Told You So

Comics as Art

By: Tom Spurgeon,Michael Dean

In 1976, a fledgling magazine held forth the the idea that comics could be art. In 2016, comics intended for an adult readership are reviewed favorably in the New York Times, enjoy panels devoted to them at Book Expo America, and sell in bookstores comparable to prose efforts of similar weight and intent. We Told You So: Comics as Art is an oral history about Fantagraphics Books’ key role in helping build and shape an art movement around a discredited, ignored and fading expression of Americana. It includes appearances by Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Harlan Ellison, Stan Lee, Daniel Clowes, Frank Miller, and more.

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Fantagraphics Books

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1606999338

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A Rose for Mrs. Miniver

The Life of Greer Garson

By: Michael Troyan

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A Rose for Mrs. Miniver

The Life of Greer Garson

By: Michael Troyan

In this first-ever biography of Greer Garson, Michael Troyan sweeps away the many myths that even today veil her life. The true origins of her birth, her fairy-tale discovery in Hollywood, and her career struggles at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are revealed for the first time. Garson combined an everywoman quality with grace, charm, and refinement. She won the Academy Award in 1941 for her role in Mrs. Miniver, and for the next decade she reigned as the queen of MGM. Co-star Christopher Plummer remembered, "Here was a siren who had depth, strength, dignity, and humor who could inspire great trust, suggest deep intellect and whose misty languorous eyes melted your heart away!" Garson earned a total of seven Academy Award nominations for Best Actress, and fourteen of her films premiered at Radio City Music Hall, playing for a total of eighty-four weeks--a record never equaled by any other actress. She was a central figure in the golden age of the studios, working with legendary performers Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Errol Flynn, Joan Crawford, Robert Mitchum, Debbie Reynolds, and Walter Pidgeon. Garson's experiences offer a fascinating glimpse at the studio system in the years when stars were closely linked to a particular studio and moguls such as L.B. Mayer broke or made careers. With the benefit of exclusive access to studio production files, personal letters and diaries, and the cooperation of her family, Troyan explores the triumphs and tragedies of her personal life, a story more colorful than any role she played on screen.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813137349

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From Charity to Enterprise

The Development of American Social Work in a Market Economy

By: Stanley Wenocur,Michael Reisch

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From Charity to Enterprise

The Development of American Social Work in a Market Economy

By: Stanley Wenocur,Michael Reisch

Addresses the question of how aspiring occupations became professions and, in particular, examines how social workers historically went about this profession-building process and with what consequences. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Illinois Press

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0252070739

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9780252070730

Language as Discourse

Perspectives for Language Teaching

By: Michael Mccarthy,Ronald Carter

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Language as Discourse

Perspectives for Language Teaching

By: Michael Mccarthy,Ronald Carter

In this book Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter describe the discoursal properties of language and demonstrate what insights this approach can offer to the student and teacher of language. The authors examine the relationship between complete texts, both spoken and written, and the social and cultural contexts in which they function. They argue that the functions of language are often best understood in a discoursal environment and that exploring language in context compels us to revise commonly-held understandings about the forms and meanings of language. In so doing, the authors argue the need for language teachers, syllabus planners and curriculum organisers to give greater attention to language as discourse.

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Routledge

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1317896726

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9781317896722

Elvis Memories

The real Elvis Presley - by those who knew him

By: Michael Freedland

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Elvis Memories

The real Elvis Presley - by those who knew him

By: Michael Freedland

The man, the music, the mythology - everyone knows Elvis, right? From the swinging hips and tempestuous love life to the peanut butter and banana sandwiches. But how do the iconic snapshots and the snippets of rumour match up with the truth about the man behind the legend? Michael Freedland's Elvis Memories sets out to answer precisely that question - and succeeds in grand style, giving us a rare and privileged glimpse into the intimate recollections of the people who really knew him. On a journey that spans the United States, Freedland introduces us to Presley's friends, family and followers, taking in the kids who competed against him in childhood talent shows, the members of the 'Memphis Mafia' who went everywhere with him and the maid who prepared those infamous sandwiches and watched him line up the girls he wanted to take to his bed. Thirty-five years after the death of the man we still call 'The King', Elvis Memories offers a unique chance to see the real Elvis Presley through the eyes of those who shared his life.

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Biteback Publishing

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1849545642

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Language and Creativity at Work

A Corpus-Assisted Model of Creative Workplace Discourse

By: Michael Handford,Almut Koester

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Language and Creativity at Work

A Corpus-Assisted Model of Creative Workplace Discourse

By: Michael Handford,Almut Koester

Language and Creativity at Work: A Corpus-Assisted Model of Creative Workplace Discourse explores linguistic creativity at work as well as the role of language in creative processes in the workplace. Using a mixed-methods approach involving corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, this book: Provides a critical comparison of previous studies in language and creativity in a linguistic context as well as in the context of businesses and entrepreneurship, and considers the insights that can be gained from both approaches Argues the case for workplace creativity as a linguistic and discursive phenomenon in addition to a cognitive or relational one Presents a model of creative workplace discourse that integrates creative language, the creative actions involving language, and alignment between speakers Employs spoken corpus data from a range of workplace contexts recorded over a 20-year period; Examines professional practice and creativity in two different professional contexts: a residential care home and a small start-up company, and explores the roles of constraints, leadership and alignment in these contexts Critically interrogates the notion of creativity as an inherently positive phenomenon and analyses instances of problematic creativity in the workplace Demonstrates how corpora can be used to underscore assessments of creativity and its realisations in real dialogic contexts. This book fills an important gap in the literature on creativity within both language and organisational studies, and as such will be key reading for students and researchers of English language, applied linguistics, communication studies and business management.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003862489

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9781003862482

The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes

By: Michael Newton

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The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes

By: Michael Newton

Over 800 entries examine the facts, evidence, and leading theories of a variety of unsolved murders, robberies, kidnappings, serial killings, disappearances, and other crimes.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438119143

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9781438119144

The Book of Irish Families, Great & Small

By: Michael C. O'Laughlin

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The Book of Irish Families, Great & Small

By: Michael C. O'Laughlin

This is the master volume to the 28 book set on Irish Family History from the Irish Genealogical Foundation. The largest and most comprehensive of the series, this volume includes family histories from every county in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It also has, for the first time, the complete surname index for the entire series. The 27 other books which are indexed in this volume will provide additional information on even more families.

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Irish Roots Cafe

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0940134098

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