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Ten fascinating fictions featuring Joyce, Swift, O'Casey, Lady Gregory, Behan, and others
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Poet, travel writer, teacher, film-extra in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, quiz-show panellist -Kildare Dobbs has played many parts, been many places, met... Læs mere
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This new selected edition of Kearney's writings on Ireland supplants his seminal text and extends Transitions: Narratives in Modern Irish Culture to which eight... Læs mere
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This collection of essays has been specially commissioned in order to mark the quite exceptional contribution that Louis Cullen has made to historical... Læs mere
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In south Kilkenny, where Duiske stream joins the river Barrow at Graiguenamanagh, lies one of Ireland's many Norman-Cistercian abbeys. Song of Duiske is a novella set amongst this monastic community in the year 1304, a century after the abbey's foundation.
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By bringing the reader around the house as it was, drawing the eye to detail upwards, along its unique metal walkway and into the smaller treasure, the orchid house; to look at the... Læs mere
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The Sway of Winter tells the story of Birgit, a young Scandinavian woman who has moved to recover from a suffocating relationship. She visits Africa in a quest to decide her future in working among the deprived, but finds there only a mirror of an inner poverty.
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In Winter Bayou, Grace journeys through the past, from the heady rush of teenage love to a marriage 'ripped apart too ... shredded and pushed beyond our boundaries' - her meditations forming a perfectly poised novella as lyrically tender as it is viscerally sensuous.
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The girl of this story is a clairvoyant. To the other children in the local National School, she is an 'imbissil', a creature of the margins. But she is a lightning-conductor for all that... Læs mere
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PEGGY O’BRIEN grew up in western Massachusetts, where she now lives with her husband. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Set in post-Flight of the Earls, pre-Cromwellian Ireland of 1641, this novel tells the gripping story of a struggle between two opposing cultures that set the scene for the rebellion sealing the fate of Gaelic Ireland.
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Words, Words, Words probes lexicography, dialect, sexual practices, sport and social history to create a humorous and informative guide to... Læs mere