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Heart and Soul
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Maeve Binchy
Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters Adi and Linda were no problem at all during the usually turbulent teens. Now in their twenties, Adi is always fighting for or against something: the environment or the whale or battery farming; while Linda lurches from one unsatisfactory relationship to the next. As if this wasn't enough ...
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Ulysses
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James Joyce
The novel takes place in the course of one day (June 16, 1904) in the life of the city of Dublin, and follows the course of several interacting characters who embody a series of parallels to Homer's epic. The three main characters are Leopold Bloom, his faithless wife Molly, and Stephen Dedalus of PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN. The novel ...
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The Gathering
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Anne Enright
The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. His sister, Veronica was there then, as she is now: keeping the dead man company, ...
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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James Joyce
Joyce's celebrated short-story sequence provides a vivid and disturbing picture of early 20th-century Dublin and its inhabitants, whom Joyce saw as trapped in a repressed and stultifying environment. The stories are divided into five types: childhood, adolescence, marriage, maturity, and various aspects of public life, including politics. They ...
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The Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Saga
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Edward Rutherfurd
In this sweeping follow-up to the widely praised and popular "The Princes of Ireland," Rutherfurd spins the saga of Ireland's 400-year path to independence in all its drama, tragedy, and glory through the stories of people from all strata of society.
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Dubliners
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James Joyce
Joyce's celebrated short-story sequence provides a vivid and disturbing picture of early 20th-century Dublin and its inhabitants, whom Joyce saw as trapped in a repressed and stultifying environment. The stories are divided into five types: childhood, adolescence, marriage, maturity, and various aspects of public life, including politics. They ...
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Sushi for beginners
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Marian Keyes
A nervous breakdown seems like a great idea: all that lying in bed and watching daytime TV. But who's going to have it? Will it be housewife Clodagh, who spends her days microwaving pasta for her demanding toddlers and waiting for her beautiful husband Dylan to come home? Or Lisa, hard, brittle and shiny as an M&M, reeling from the shock of a ...
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In the Woods
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Tana French
When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened. Twenty years on, Rob Ryan -- the child who ...
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The Dead
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James Joyce
From Joyce's DUBLINERS, this is probably his most well-known story: a sad tale, set at Christmastime, about marriage and loss.
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The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin
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Bernard Meehan
This edition reproduces the most important of the fully decorated pages plus a series of enlargements showing the almost unbelievable minuteness of the detail; spiral and interlaced patterns, human and animal ornament - a combination of high seriousness and humour. Accompanying the illustrations is a new text by Bernard Meehan, the Keeper of ...
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Finnegans Wake
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James Joyce
Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night. It is also a book that participates in the re-reading of Irish history that was part of the revival of the early 20th century. The author also wrote "Ulysses", "Dubliners" and "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man".
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Quentins
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Maeve Binchy
Quentins is a Dublin restaurant, and when filmmaker Ella Brady arrives to do a documentary on the place, she finds out more than she bargained for. Maeve Binchy brings back some of her old characters and creates many new ones to tell the story of a restaurant and the people behind it.
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The Chisellers
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Brendan O'Carroll
In this sequel to THE MAMMY, set in 1973, Agnes Browne is a widow trying to raise her seven children (the "chisellers" of the title) in public housing. She has an immigrant boyfriend (a pizza maker named Pierre), one son who's about to lose his job as an apprentice to a furniture maker, and another who's a skinhead and becomes involved in an ...
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Granny
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Brendan O'Carroll
Agnes Browne returns for her final, heartwarming adventure in O'Carroll's acclaimed trilogy of working-class Dublin life. The members of the family split up to make it in the world on their own until a tragedy brings the brood back together--and love keeps them that way forever.
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Circle of friends
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Maeve Binchy
The narrative centers on the growing pains of Benny, an Irish woman with more problems than her weight. From her shy, reclusive childhood, Benny grows into a woman struggling with the challenges of finding true love, though, surrounded at all times by a warm and loving "circle of friends."
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Scarlet Feather
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Maeve Binchy
Two platonic friends, Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather, open a swanky catering business in contemporary Dublin. Cathy has problems with the class differences between her husband, altruistic lawyer Neil, and her own blue-collar parents. Tom is frustrated because his lovely girlfriend is more interested in her modelling career than in committing to him ...
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The Young WAN
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Brendan O'Carroll
The fourth in O'Carroll's series of novels about Agnes Browne goes back in time to Agnes's childhood in the 1940s, when she was growing up--and getting into trouble--on the streets of Dublin.
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Rachel's Holiday
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Marian Keyes
This long, detailed novel humorously but vividly delineates the life of a drug addict, beginning as she is recovering from an overdose and ending as she faces her problem and sees a possibility of a new life.
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
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Roddy Doyle
In Roddy Doyle's novel witty and poignant novel of working-class life in Dublin, 10-year-old Paddy copes with his parents' fights, his earthy neighborhood, and the trials of his little brother Sinbad. PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA was the winner of the Booker Prize in 1993.
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The Barrytown Trilogy
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Roddy Doyle
Together in one volume, this book contains Roddy Doyle's trilogy about the Rabbitte family of Barrytown, north Dublin. "The Commitments" was a major film of 1991, "The Snapper" is currently being filmed and "The Van" was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize.
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Ginger Man
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James Patrick Donleavy
Donleavy's famously bawdy comic novel is about a man who lives for booze and woman and who discards all the restricting conventions of polite society. Donleavy was unable to find a publisher for a novel considered scatological, blasphemous, and generally offensive. It was finally published in Paris by the Olympia Press. This memoir chronicles the ...
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The Lilac Bus: Stories
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Maeve Binchy
Seven people travel from Dublin to Rathdoon each weekend aboard Ron Fitzgerald's small lilac-colored bus. Some make the journey for love, some out of duty, but all the reasons are compelling in this richly textured novel.
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Dublin 4
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Maeve Binchy
A society hostess entertains her husband's mistress to dinner; a country girl savours the delights of city life; a student faces the dilemma of unmarried pregnancy; and a drink-ridden photographer tries to relaunch a shattered career...This vintage collection of stories from the bestselling author of "Light a Penny Candle" and "Circle of Friends" ...
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Dubliners: Text and Criticism; Revised Edition
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James Joyce, Professor Robert Scholes (Editor), A Walton Litz (Editor)
In these masterful stories, steeped in realism, Joyce creates an exacting portrait of his native city, showing how it reflects the general decline of Irish culture and civilization. Joyce compels attention by the power of its unique vision of the world, its controlling sense of the truths of human experience.
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The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin
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Maeve Brennan
Twenty-one stories by a long-time New Yorker writer, with a moving and insightful introduction by William Maxwell. Some of the stories are autobiographical, and many of them are about two perennially troubled Irish families: the Derdons and the Bagots. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
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