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A 1950s Irish Childhood: From Catapults to Communion Medals

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1950s Ireland was the age of De Valera and John Charles McQuaid. It was the age before television, Vatican II, and home central heating. A time when motor cars and public telephones had wind-up handles, when boys wore short trousers and gir

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The Little Book of Tipperary

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The Little Book of Tipperary is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Tipperary. Here you will find out about Tipperary's industrial past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and c

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The Irish Garden: A Cultural History

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Don't leave yet. Let there be one more piece of magic to remember the place by.

Is there something especially Irish about Irish gardens? The climate, soils, availability of plants and skills of green-fingered people gene

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Murder Isn't Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie

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While other children were devouring the works of Enid Blyton and Beatrix Potter, Carla Valentine was poring through the pages of Agatha Christie novels - and that early fascination lead to her job as a pathology technician working in mortuaries an

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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic

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'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN
'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES
'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN
'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES
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Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich

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***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021***

A 2021 Book of the Year
The Times * Sunday Times * Telegraph * New Statesman * Financial Times * Irish Independent *

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Femina: The instant Sunday Times bestseller - A New History of the Middle Ages,

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE

'Revelatory' GUARDIAN

'A firecracker somehow captured between two covers' LUCY WORSLEY

An instant bestseller

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Saucerful of Secrets: Pink Floyd

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Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games

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Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world's most popular video games, including Sid Meier's Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play.

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How the Irish Became White

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'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called 'path breaking,' 'seminal,' 'essential,' a 'must read.' How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-Americ

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Art History for Dummies

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The Irish Diaspora: Tales of Emigration, Exile and Imperialism

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The Irish have always been a travelling people. In the centuries after the fall of Rome, Irish missionaries carried the word of Christianity throughout Europe, while soldiers and mariners from across the land ventured overseas in all directions. Sinc
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Ireland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered

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Why did the Romans never try to conquer Ireland? Why did the King of Spain give his name to an Irish county? And how did brandy change the course of Irish history? Turtle Bunbury explores unexpected corners of the past to offer an informative and ent
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Pilgrimage: Journeys of Meaning

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The enormous rise in popularity in recent decades of the Camino, the ancient pilgrim path that stretches from France, across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela, is part of a wider phenomenon being witnessed on other time-honoured pilgrim routes
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Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey

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Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family's history as spice traders, as well as
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The Beauty In Breaking

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Anam Cara: Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World

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When St Patrick came to Ireland in the 5th century AD, he encountered the Celtic people and a flourishing spiritual tradition that had already existed for thousands of years. He also discovered that where the Christians worshipped one God, the Cel

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The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

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A gripping account of the life and fate of the woman who almost assassinated Benito Mussolini.

7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises her old revolver and

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The Letters of John McGahern

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'Magnificent.' Irish Times
'Much to savour.' The Times
'An event in Irish culture.' TLS

The collected letters of John McGahern, 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hila

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€38.00 excluding shipping

Hitchcock

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Based on the famous series of dialogues between Francois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock from the 1960s, the book moves chronologically through Hitchcock's films to discuss his career, techniques, and effects he achieved. It changed the way Hitchcoc

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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Giffor

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**A Sunday Times top ten bestseller**
**Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023**
**Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023**

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Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found

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THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER
A GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY EXPRESS, ROUGH TRADE, MOJO, CLASH, ROLLING STONE, UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR<

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The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold W

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The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society.

'A magnificent book . . . at once touching, exquisite, devastating and extrao

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€16.50 excluding shipping

Why Patti Smith Matters

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Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. Through her poetry, her songs, her unapologetic vocal power, and her very presence as a woman fronting a rock band, she kicked open a door that c

9780571374847
€12.50 excluding shipping
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