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A Hymn of the Dawn
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A Hymn of the Dawn tells of the life of the poet Padraic Fallon (1905-1974), his wife Don and their six sons during an idyllic summer in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s. At Prospect, a Georgian house with a small farm, the poet writes his poems, new...
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All Valiant Dust: An Irishman Abroad
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For many of its participants, the Second World War was the most intense period of their lives -
with horizons widened by grief, strangeness and excitement.
Peter Ross, graduated from Tr...
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All for Hecuba: An Irish Theatrical Biography
€70.00
From his days as a child actor in London, sharing the stage with Noel Coward, to founding the Gate Theatre in Dublin with his partner Hilton Edwards, and undertaking ambitious tours to pre-war Europe, Micheall MacLiammoir. All For Hecuba combines autobiogr...
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An Aran Keening
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'McNeillie's prose can be as pristine and effervescent as the sea's edge on a summer beach. Sometimes it is loaded with biblical and Shakespearean fragments like Aran's winter tides glinting with torn bits of seaweed. So there is no end to the making of bo...
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An Irish Sporting Life
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'It is a long time since I have read a book of reminiscences as engaging'
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'Amusing, sometimes hilarious ... all the stories are told with g...
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Boss Croker
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In 1846 the Crokers, a Presbyterian landlord family, flee famine-stricken West Cork aboard the Henry Clay, survive shipwreck and land in New York. There they are confronted with the grim realities of the teeming city - poverty, prostitution, and street gan...
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Boss Croker
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In 1846 the Crokers, a Presbyterian landlord family, flee famine-stricken West Cork aboard the Henry Clay, survive shipwreck and land in New York. There they are confronted with the grim realities of the teeming city - poverty, prostitution, and street gan...
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Breakfast the Night Before
Recollections of an Irish Horse Dealer
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This sparkling memoir gives a personal view of Irish rural life from the
Economic War of the 1930s to the farming boom and recession of the 1970s.
It describes the upbringing of a
Protestant only child on a farm near Nenagh in north Tipperary-an idyl...
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Bright Bewildering Green
€12.00
'A story remarkable because commonplace in rural Ireland - the surplus
child, the tragedy of the extra mouth.'
- from the Foreword by John Stalker
'A heartening, eloquent but dispassionate testimony to the triumph of
determination over adve...
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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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Come Dance With Me - A Memoir 1898-1956
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Ninette de Valois, the world-famous prima ballerina, was born Edris Stannus
in 1898 and raised at Baltiboys in County Wicklow. In this autobiography,
first published in 1957 and now app...
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Confessions of a Poacher
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In 1889 Jim Connell wrote 'The Red Flag', which became the anthem of the international Labour movement. He was born near Kilskyre, County Meath, and in his teens moved with his family to Birr, County Offaly, where his family worked as a groom for the Earl ...
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Conversations with James Joyce
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'In the Dublin of my day there was the kind of desperate freedom which
comes from a lack of responsibility, for the English were in governance
then, so everyone said what he liked. Now ...
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Cowslips and Chainies: A Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s
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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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Dead as Doornails
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'A classic; of his mastery of language there can be no doubt'
- Anthony
Burgess
This paperback reissue of Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976,
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Denis Johnston: A Life
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'This excellent biography will undoubtedly stimulate further interest in the work while providing fitting tribute to a remarkable Irishman.' - P.J. Mathews, Irish Times
'Bernard Adams has produced a terrific biography of a truculent maverick.' - Neil D...
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Diary of a Teddy Boy
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'Captures that hinge moment when everything changed form grey to colour.' - Marianne Faithfull
London, 1950s. Mr Tobias, the Fulham tailor, makes young Emilio Scala a
fingertip drape and he fills it, a Teddy boy extraordinaire. By day he
still serve...
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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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Gander at the Gate
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"The poet W.B. yeats desired to produce written work that, while it had been
arduously crafted, would appear as immediate and spontaneous as the ordinary
spoken words of people. It is a testament to the achievment of Rory O'Connor
that he has accomplish...
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Hazel: A Life of Lady Lavery
€50.00
Until now Lady Lavery has been remembered for the numerous portraits by her husband, the painter John Lavery, celebrated in "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited' by W.B. Yeats, This first biography of Hazel tells the story the pictures cannot: ow a girl from...
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Hugh Lane 1875-1915
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This is the first full life of the art dealer and patron Hugh Lane since the rather adoring 1920 biography by his aunt Lady Gregory. Robert O'Byrne makes use of the vast quantities of archival material that have come to light in recent decades to construct...
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Humanity Dick Martin 'King of Connemara' 1754-1834
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This finely detailed and amply illustrated biography recreates the life and
times of one of Ireland's earliest environmentalists, founder of the world
movement for the protection o...
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In Ruin Reconciled
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In Ruin Reconciled, A Memoir of Anglo-Ireland 1913-1959 (t'hat country of the mind'), tells the story of an orphan girl adopted by Anglo-Irish parents and brought to live in the Big House of Curragh Chase, Adare, Co. Limerick. Her solitary childhood a...
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Irish Eccentrics: A Selection
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Ireland's history has long been illuminated, and enlivened, by bizarre,
colourful, extravagant, unfettered individuals: ripe country-house
eccentrics, saints, scholars, bucks and hell-r...
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Lives Less Ordinary: Thirty-Two Irish Portraits
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The people who talk about their lives in this book represent a creative,
dissident Ireland. They are artists, writers, map-makers, weavers,
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Man of No Property
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'In the spring of 1924 I was released from internment where I had been held for a year since the end of the Civil War in what was then the Irish Free State. I was a little over twenty-two years of age.'
So begins this extraordinary memoir, in which C....
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McDowell on McDowell: A Memoir
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Between clubs, dining halls, libraries, institutions and good addresses in the country, R.B. McDowell, born in September 1913, had led the charmed and energized existence of a distinguished bachelor don, embellishing the lives of generations of students - ...
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Memoirs of a Wild Goose
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Highly personal memoirs by Irish diplomats are rare, and those with the quality of fictional autobiography by George Moore, Brendan Behan and Francis Stuart are rarer still. These remarkable reminisces of a man who served his country in Germany and It...
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Mirror, Mirror: Confessions of a Plastic Surgery Addict
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Terry Prone once thought plastic surgery was for the vain, the self-regarding and the rich. She thought herself the person least likely to submit to the plastic surgeon's scalpel.
But this was before a traumatic car crash in which the steering wheel ca...
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Oliver MacDonagh 1924-2002
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This book is a selection of historian Oliver MacDonagh's writings edited and introduced by his former student, Tom Dunne, who contibutes an account of MacDonagh's career and a bibliography. It brings together a series of childhood memories of a bank manage...
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Parnell: A Memoir
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Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91), the greatest Irish politican of the late nineteenth century, forfeited leadership of the Irish Party in Westminster because of a divorce scandal, after a decade in which he had placed the Irish Question at the centre ...
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Promises to Keep
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John and Geraldine Gleeson, teenage sweethearts in Carlow, had only one wish in life after they got married: to have a child.
Promises to Keep is John Gleeon's heartrending account of this couple's quest to conceive, of the serious physical dama...
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Remembering How We Stood
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With a foreword by J.P. Donleavy
The best book about literary Dublin ever written' - FRANK DELANEY
Edna O'Brien chose John Ryan's memoirs as her Observer Book of the Year in 1975, describing it as a fine and loving account of literary Dublin in the...
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Running the Rapids: A Writer's Life
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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 many people. His life's journey, marked by frequent detours and diversions, from Asia to old Europe, Afri...
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Shane Leslie: Sublime Failure
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Shane Leslie (1885-1971) - diplomat; man of letters (novelist, biographer, poet, historian, pamphleteer); Irish, Anglo-Irish and half-American aristocrat; religious devotee; first cousin of Winston Churchill, Irish nationalist, British subject. Using n...
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Signe Toksvig's Irish Diaries 1926-1937
€50.00
'Superb - These diaries are a challenging blend of lyricism, loneliness and
the telling detail. Toksvig emerges as a passionate, generous and gifted
writer.'
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Skelligs Calling
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'Michael Kirby is a man who understands the true value of life. He shows us in this marvellous book that everything that lives is connected ... his is the view of the wise man: we have much to learn from him.' - Jane Urquhart
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Skelligs Sunset
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'A man who understands the true value of life ... he shows us that everything that lives is connected.' - Jane Urquhart
'He writes charmingly with colour, fun and a flair few others have ever bettered.' - Sunday Tribune
Skelligs Sunset, a posthumou...
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Skelligside
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This is the remarkable folk autobiography of a small famer, fisherman and poet from from the South Iveragh peninsula of Co. Kerry, part of Ireland's western sea-board, a region bounded by mountains and unique inits cultural inheritance.
Kirby's writi...
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Swift: An Illustrated Life 1667-1745
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Who was Jonathan Swift? Bruce Arnold's provocative book examines this
enigmatic figure in the light of his relationships - with his lover Esther
Vanhomrigh ('Vanessa'), his ward Esther Johnston ('Stella'), and his many
great male friends: Congreve, Temp...
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Technical Virgins
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In her best-selling first volume of autobiography, Cowslips and Chainies,
Elaine Crowley remembered her childhood in 1930s Dublin with great warmth
and poignance. In this delightful se...
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The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement
€24.99 - now €12.50
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"He could tell you things! Things I've tried to forget; thing I never did know." Joseph Conrad
"...his was a heroic nature. I should like to write upon him subtly, so that his enemies would think I was with them till they finished my book ...
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The Beat: Life on the Streets
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Who are the women who walk the beat in Dublin's red-light districts?
How did they get there?
Why do they stay?
What happens when they try to leave?
What are their lives really like?
The Beat: Life on the Streets in a fascinating, di...
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The Burning of Brinsley MacNamara
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The Valley of the Squinting Windows (1918), Brinsley MacNamara's first
published novel, so enraged the Westmeath community in which he lived that
the book was publicly burned, its autho...
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The Early Years of Brian O'Nolan
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Ciaran O Nuallain's memoir of his brother Brian O'Nolan (1991-66), the only major source on the early life of the man who later achieved literary fame as Flann O'Brien and Mylan na gCopaleen, appears here for the first time in English.
First publ...
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The Elephant and the Polish Question
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'Our finest living essayist. Maurice Craig's exquisite collection... is at
once literary, erudite and mechanical: poppet-valves and cams, Yeats's
inability to spell, bookbindings and mo...
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The Family Business
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'Another first in my life: at the age of thirty-one I brought a girlfriend
home. Kathleen sat on the chaise longue, small legs crossed, one tiny toe
resting on my mother's lime-green po...
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The Fun Palace: An Autobiography
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Agnes Bernelle, one of Ireland's best-loved stage performers, was born
Agnes Bernauer in Berlin in 1923, the daughter of a renowned
Jewish-Hungarian theatre impresario. In this sparkling, intimate memoir she
recounts her early years in Germany, her fami...
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The Irish Donkey
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The donkey is an integral part of the Irish landscape and tradition. This new, enlarged edition of a book originally published in 1969 traces the evolution of the species from its origins in Africa and central Asia to its arrival in Ireland in the early me...
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The Junior Dean RB McDowell
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Dr RB McDowell is a legend. To graduates of Trinity College, Dublin, he is a symbol of their years at university, the enduring source of endless amusing anecdotes and memories.
Now, for the first time, reminiscences by graduates and friends, recording ...
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The Memoirs of Mrs Leeson, Madam 1727-1797
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'The charm of this book lies in its peep-show perspective on Dublin public
life in the latter part of the 18th century.'
- David Nokes, The Sunday
Times
'A vastly entertaini...
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The Singing-Masters
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'Fascinating... a delight not to be missed. It's a rare treat indeed to find
such an honest, penetrating, wise and thoughtful autobiobiography.'
- Eilís
Dillon, The Irish Times
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The Songman
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'With a Fenian fiddle in one ear and an Orange drum in the other', singer Tommy Sands was reared in the foothills of the Mourne mountains, where he still lives.
As a child, he was immersed in folk music - his father played the fiddle, his mother the accord...
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The Village of Longing
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'Page after page, he splits the atom of detail so that autobiography and cultural history flare up in one long pleasurable chain-reaction.'-Seamus Heaney, Observer
The Village of Longing, George O'Brien's narrative of his childhood in the somnolent riv...
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The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904 -1920
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Winner of the Premio Commisso in Italy for Best Biography 2004.
Since the publication of Richard Ellmann's James Joyce in 1959, Joyce has
received remarkably little biographical attenti...
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Throttle Full Open: A Life of Lady Bailey, Irish Aviatrix
€30.00
'I have felt the need for a change of scene and interest lately.'
-Lady Bailey on the eve of her London-Cape Town flight, March 1928.
Mary Westenra, born in 1890, was the daughter of Derry Westenra, the fifth
Baron Rossmore of Rossmore Cast...
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Voices from a Journal
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Foreword by Brendan Kennelly
This is a writer's journal of his friendships, encounters and observations
during the 1950s and 60s, describing relationships with Cork author Frank
O'Connor, Patrick Kavanagh, Charles Cape (onetime governor of Strange...
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W.E.H. Lecky, Historian & Politician 1838 - 1903
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Readership: Irish history, politics, biography, Victorian studies
This is the long-awaited biography of the great humanist historian of
eighteenth-century Ireland. Carlow landlord, w...
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Watching the Door: A Memoir 1971-1978
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As an Irish Catholic raised in Leicester, fresh from University College Dublin with a first in History, Kevin Myers is sent north to work for the Belfast bureau of RTE News. There he covers the increasingly vicious conflict erupting in the city as the ...
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Wicked Little Joe
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In the summer of 1939, as a two-year-old in London, I was given away by my parents to a Chelsea friend and taken on the Irish Mail to Dublin.
Thus begins this extraordinary memoir by travel writer and novelist Joseph Hone, one of eight children far...
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William Francis Butler: A Life
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'Martin Ryan's splendid biography of Butler shows how the rapidly expanding empire offered men of a certain class unprecedented opportunities for adventure, travel and intrigue ... If Emerson is right in his observation that "there is no history, only biog...
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William Watts: A Memoir
€30.00
It is surprising that this is the first autobiography by a former Provost of Trinity College Dublin since it was founded in 1592. William Watts was elected Provost in 1981 and served his ten year term until 1991.
This was a period of extraordinary dev...
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