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Death on the Hill
'Death on the Hill has everything - sex, lies, a former Bond girl in Celine Cawley, and money.'
Evening Echo
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The Blasket Islands
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Next Parish America
Joan Stagles
A beautifully illustrated and compelling history of the life, traditions and customs of an isolated community that has now disappeared.
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A Dublin Documentary
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Thomas Kinsella
A beautiful collection of poems, family reminiscences and stunning photography brings Thomas Kinsella's Dublin to life. Here, Kinsella's poems are shaped around personal recollections of the people and places closest to his heart.
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Fond Memory
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Consoling Words from the Irish Tradition
Ide Ní Laoghaire
Verses and readings for times of sorrow and remembrance or to be read at funerals.
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Great Irish Writing
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The Best from The Bell
Sean McMahon
The Bell literary journal was founded by Sean O'Faolain and Peadar O'Donnell in 1940, and edited by O'Faolain until 1946, then by O'Donnell to 1954. Its index of writers reads like a dictionary of famous authors.
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Green English
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Irish Influence on the English Language
Loreto Todd
An exploration of the evolution of a nation and a language: English was grafted onto a Gaelic stem and was the language of wealth in Ireland for centuries. Paperback
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Irish Love Poems
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A. Norman Jeffares
An abundant harvest of poems, ballads and lovesongs from throughout Ireland's history - from anonymous ballads to the work of Yeats and Heaney.
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An Leabhar Mòr
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The Great Book of Gaelic
Theo Dorgan & Malcolm Maclean
A major artwork which renews the connection between Gaelic Scotland and Ireland and celebrates the diverse strands of contemporary Celtic culture. Includes the earliest Gaelic poetry in existence.
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The Midnight Court
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Brian Merriman
Award-winning edition of this outstanding translation of Brian Merriman's eighteenth-century erotic masterpiece.
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Oliver StJohn Gogarty
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A Poet and His Times
Ulick O'Connor
An insightful biography of one of Ireland's most exuberent characters: the inspiration for buck Mulligan in Ulysses, a senator, playwright, champion athlete and surgeon, Gogarty was called 'one of the greatest lyric poets of the age' by Yeats.
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Tumbling In The Hay
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Oliver St John Gogarty
The young Gogarty, medical student, amateur cyclist, philosopher and lover of good conversation, enjoyed a rowdy, exuberant lifestyle in Dublin in the early 1900s. In this lightly disguised autobiography he gives an intriguing account of his adventures.
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