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The Projectionist: The Story of Ernest Gebler

By Carlo Gebler

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9781848404571 | New Island Books, October 20, 2015, cover price $27.99

Hanging With the Elephant

Product Description: In his new book, Hanging with the Elephant, writer Michael Harding is back in Leitrim in the north-west of Ireland. His wife has left for a six-week trip to Poland and he is alone for the first time since his illness two years earlier...read more

By Michael Harding

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9781444783131 | Hachette Books Ireland, December 1, 2014, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: In his new book, Hanging with the Elephant, writer Michael Harding is back in Leitrim in the north-west of Ireland.

Maeve Binchy: The Biography

By Piers Dudgeon

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Hardcover:

9781410472847 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 8, 2014), cover price $31.99

9781250047144 | Thomas Dunne Books, July 22, 2014, cover price $27.99

Sean O'faolain: Literature, Inheritance and the 1930s

Product Description: Sean O'Faolain was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century Irish culture. A short-story writer of international repute, he was also a leading commentator and critic, and was editor of the landmark journal The Bell. O'Faolain's work was central to the evolution of post-independence Irish writing, and his voice was one of the most prominent, and eloquent, in the fight against censorship in Ireland...read more

By Paul Delaney

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9780716532675 | Irish Academic Pr, December 31, 2014, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: Sean O'Faolain was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century Irish culture.

Celtic Dawn: A Portrait of the Irish Literary Renaissance

By Ulick O'Connor

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9781843515135 | Lilliput Pr Ltd, September 15, 2014, cover price $32.00

Something of Myself and Others

Product Description: Something of Myself and Others is a fascinating collection of articles and reflections on the public and private life of Mary Kenny, one of Irelandâs best known journalists. Detailing memorable events in her life, as well as those she has witnessed in Irelandâs recent history, Mary Kenny recalls her experiences with humor and charm...read more

By Mary Kenny

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9781907593826 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, March 1, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Something of Myself and Others is a fascinating collection of articles and reflections on the public and private life of Mary Kenny, one of Irelandâs best known journalists.

James Joyce: A New Biography

By Gordon Bowker

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Hardcover:

9780374178727 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 5, 2012, cover price $35.00

9780239002075, titled "Birds at Risk" | Olympic Marketing Corp, June 1, 1981, cover price $9.98 | also contains Birds at Risk

Paperback:

9780374533823 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 11, 2013), cover price $22.00

9780299022440, titled "Romantic Narrative Art" | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, June 1, 1960, cover price $10.95 | also contains Romantic Narrative Art

Under the Eye of the Clock: A Memoir

The author, a victim of birth injuries that left him paralyzed and unable to communicate, presents his autobiography as the story of Joseph Meehan, a disabled student who gains fame as a writer.

By Christopher Nolan

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9781611458145 | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, June 4, 2013), cover price $14.95

9781559705127 | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, March 15, 2000), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The author, a victim of birth injuries that left him paralyzed and unable to communicate, presents his autobiography as the story of Joseph Meehan, a disabled student who gains fame as a writer.

Mary Lavin

Product Description: Ever since the publication of her first collection, Tales from Bective Bridge, in 1942, Mary Lavin has been praised for admirably capturing, in intense and lucid stories, the social and psychological reality of mid-20th-century Ireland...read more

By Elke D'hoker (editor)

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9780716531784 | Irish Academic Pr, July 1, 2013, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Ever since the publication of her first collection, Tales from Bective Bridge, in 1942, Mary Lavin has been praised for admirably capturing, in intense and lucid stories, the social and psychological reality of mid-20th-century Ireland.

Paperback:

9780716531814 | Gardners Books, May 6, 2013, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Ever since the publication of her first collection, Tales from Bective Bridge, in 1942, Mary Lavin has been praised for admirably capturing, in intense and lucid stories, the social and psychological reality of mid-20th-century Ireland.

It Swings from Side to Side

By James Liddy

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9781851320233 | Arlen House, September 15, 2012, cover price $19.95

My Mule Drinks from the Ganges: A Travelogue

By Micheal O Haodha (trans) and Gabriel Rosenstock

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9781936320486 | Academica Pr Llc, June 15, 2012, cover price $29.95

Young John Mcgahern: Becoming a Novelist

Product Description: John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years. His accessible fiction won him a wide readership throughout Ireland, but the accomplishment of his craft ensured that he also became known as a writer's writer...read more

By Denis Sampson

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9780199641772 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 21, 2012, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years.

Moments

Product Description: Moments: in innocent incidents and everyday occurrences; in the words we use; in letters, text messages; in natural phenomena; in lines of poetry, anecdotes; in chance meetings; in the comings and goings of everyday life. Writer and broadcaster John Quinn's Moments is a personal collection of words and observations that console, cheer, nourish, and heal...read more

By John Quinn

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9781847303318 | Veritas Pubns, March 15, 2012, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Moments: in innocent incidents and everyday occurrences; in the words we use; in letters, text messages; in natural phenomena; in lines of poetry, anecdotes; in chance meetings; in the comings and goings of everyday life.

J. G. Farrell in His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries

By John Banville (foreword by)

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9781859184769 | Reprint edition (Cork Univ Pr, October 31, 2010), cover price $24.95

Wheels Within Wheels: The Making of a Traveller

By Dervla Murphy

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9781906011406 | Dufour Editions, March 15, 2010, cover price $32.95

Remembering How We Stood: Bohemian Dublin at Mid-century

Product Description: This classic evocation of the period 1945-55 celebrates a city and its personalities: Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh, Myles na gCopaleen (Flann O'Brien), as well as `Pope' O'Mahony, Gainor Crist the original Ginger Man, and others...read more

By John Ryan

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9781843511427 | Lilliput Pr Ltd, September 15, 2008, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This classic evocation of the period 1945-55 celebrates a city and its personalities: Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh, Myles na gCopaleen (Flann O'Brien), as well as `Pope' O'Mahony, Gainor Crist the original Ginger Man, and others.

The Coldest Eye: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'brien

Product Description: This is the first comprehensive study of the life, mind, and writings of Conor Cruise O'Brien. It is first and foremost a study of the main currents of thought in his writings, such as the centrality of religion to his conception of politics and his understanding of nationalism...read more

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9780716528654, titled "Conor Cruise O'Brien: Violent Notions" | Irish Academic Pr, June 1, 2009, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This is the first comprehensive study of the life, mind, and writings of Conor Cruise O'Brien.

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