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A Bloomsday Postcard Paperback
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In 1904, the sending, receiving and collecting of postcards had become an essential part of life in Edwardian Dublin. In an age of few private telephones, the postcard was a popular and reliable form of communication - in Dublin there were six mail deliver...
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Bad Day In Blackrock
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Winner of the Rooney prize, 2009.
'Kevin Power is an author of magnificent control, stirring the deepest compassion with restless anger in this piercing contemporary novel.' Frank McGuinness
'It's an excellent novel, there's no two ways about that....
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Beckett In Dublin
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Ireland, and in particular Dublin, was Samuel Beckett's cradle, a place, in
Eoin O'Brien's words, he revisited 'with the same intensity that Proust
went back to Combray'. It was fitting...
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Cathal Gannon: The Life and Times of a Dublin Craftsman 1910-1999
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Cathal Gannon (1910-1999) revived the art of harpsichord making in Dublin in the early 1950s after a lull of some 150 years. His story is one not of rags to riches but of obscurity to recognition. Despite a modest start in life, he became hugely respected ...
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Champagne & Silver Buckles, The Viceregal Court at Dublin Castle 1700-1922
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Dublin Castle was the headquarters of British rule in
Ireland, both literal and symbolic. There, the Viceroy, chief representative of the Crown in Ireland, presided, a conduit and image of power. Around him gathered a privileged elite who represented the ...
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Cowslips and Chainies: A Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s
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OUT OF PRINT
Cowslips and Chainies is a poignant memoir of childhood in 1930s and early
'40s Dublin. Best-selling novelist Elaine Crowley's account of tenement
life is by turns hilari...
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Dublin Made Me
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Dublin Made Me, the first of C.S. ('Todd') Andrews' two celebrated volumes of autobiography, describes in loving detail the pre-independence Dublin in which the author grew up and provides a vivid participant's account of the War of Independence and t...
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Dublin in Rebellion: A Directory 1913 - 1923
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This comprehensive directory lists historic locations in Dublin on a street-by-street basis, describing events during the tumultuous decade from the 1913 Dublin Lockout, through the 1916 Easter Rising and Irish War of Independence, until the end of the...
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Dublin's Other Poetry
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DUBLIN' S writers rarely remain solemn for long: their wicked sense of humour has travelled the world. This is an irresistible new anthology of what used to be called 'comic and curious verse' about the city, written by some of her most entertaining poets ...
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Dubliners
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Dubliners, one of the great short-story collections in the English
language, was first published in London on 15 June 1914 by Grant Richards,
who had rejected the original set of twelve stories in September 1906; in
the interim, according to Joyce, it w...
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Faithful Departed: The Dublin of James Joyce's Ulysses
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'How many! All these here once walked around Dublin. Faithful departed'. These were the thoughts of Leopold Bloom in Joyce's Ulysses when Patrick Dignam was buried in Glasnevin Cemetary. The day was Thursday, 16 June, 1904.
In Faithful Departed, first ...
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Images of Dublin: A Time Remembered
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Children at play on the cobbled streets of Smithfield; lovers embracing in St Stephen's Green; horse-drawn milk carts on their early-morning deliveries; a night-watchman's lonely vigil; abandoned tram tracks; the bustling vitality of Moore Street trade...
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James Joyce's Dublin Houses & Nora Barnacle's Galway
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'This lively and concrete book is an illuminating guide.' - The Sunday Times
'What Ms Igoe doesn't know about the topography of literary Dublin isn't worth knowing.' - The Observer
'Extremely readable, interesting and informative ... It can be unre...
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Trinity Tales: Trinity College Dublin in the Sixties
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TCD of the sixties was an unusual, even unique institution, where a motley collection of students from England, Ireland and many other parts of the world came together at a fascinating time in the post-war period. TCD then was a remarkably small, mainly Pr...
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Ulysses - The Dublin Edition Special (101 - 1000)
€250.00
Ulysses, the summit of Joyce's achievement and of modern literature,
represents a day - 16 June 1904 - in the life of Dublin and its citizens.
This new, radically reappraised edition is published for the first time in
the city it depicts. The Dublin Edi...
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