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Archive review (Nov/Dec 2016 issue no. 370)- Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan
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Archive 1997 – Birth of the Irish American Book Company
Delving into the archives of Books Ireland to February 1997, Issue no. 201 A lot of people have been making a lot of money out of Michael…
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Rick O’Shea on reading 100 books in 2014
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Remembering Robert Dunbar
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Archive Online – A tribute to Lar Cassidy by Seamus Heaney, Nov. 1997.
Archive: November 1997, Issue no. 208, p.305 Lar Cassidy died last month at the age of 47 after an illness that became apparent only a…
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Archive Online – Obama, Irish American. Summer 2010
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Archive Online – New Island, May 1996.
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Archive Online – Parsons’ bookshop. September 1979
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Canticle
by Liz McSkeane
A historical detective story based on the life and turbulent time of the 16th century poet and mystic, San Juan de la Cruz (Saint John of the Cross).
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Canticle by Liz McSkeane
ISBN: 978-0-9957916-3-3
Publisher: Turas Press
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