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The speckled people
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Hugo Hamilton |
The memoir of Hugo Hamilton, which details his life as a young boy growing up in Dublin and his family's homesickness for a country they can call their own. |
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Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism
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Eamon Maher,Eugene O'Brien |
This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abuse in that diocese in 2011. The young people awaiting… |
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Culture shock!
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Patricia Levy |
CultureShock! Ireland cuts across the many stereotypes of Ireland and the Irish to offer enlightening insights into this fascinating land and its people. Discover a people whose lives, values and att… |
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Ireland
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Patricia Levy,Patricia Marjorie Levy,Debbie Nevins |
Explores the geography, history, culture and beliefs of Ireland and its people. |
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Surviving Ireland
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Colm Tobin |
It's exhausting. Being Irish. The weight of history. The self-doubt. The constant analysis. The wind. Why are we so hard on ourselves? Is it the post colonial hangover following centuries of oppressi… |
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Book of Untruths
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Miranda Doyle |
1 volume ; 22 cm |
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Ultimate Witnesses
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Niamh Ann Kelly |
47 pages : 28 cm |
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In My Day
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Rob Stears |
135 pages : 19 cm |
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Quiet revolutionaries
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Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh |
256 pages ; 20 cm |
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Bockety
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Desmond Ellis |
This is the story of a young boy born in 1944 who grew up on the banks of the Grand Canal on Dublin's Portobello Road. |
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Irish Folk Ways
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E. Estyn Evans |
A classic in its field, this charming work by a noted scholar explores traditional Irish customs and activities—from thatching a roof, churning butter, cultivating and harvesting crops, making pots a… |
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The big house in Ireland
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Valerie Pakenham |
The big Irish House has haunted the Irish landscape and Irish imagination for nearly 400 years. In this anthology the idiosyncratic life in the Big House is portrayed in a chronological structure, cr… |
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The falling angels
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John Walsh |
The story of rootlessnes, of a London-Irish boy who has two identities and feels at home with neither. By his mother's bedside in a Galway hospital, he starts to unpick the past, looking for clues to… |
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