Preventing the Future: Why was Ireland so poor for so long?
By: Tom Garvin
01 Sep 2005 - Gill & McMillan
Between the years of the mid thirties through to 1960, independent Ireland suffered from economic stagnation, and also went through a period of intense cultural and psychological repression. While external circumstances ...Quick View
In an extraordinary attempt to recreate St Brendan's journey to America, Tim Severin and his crew embarked on an epic voyage across the vast North Atlantic. Brilliantly written, this is their story.It has been described ...Quick View
A Letter Marked Personal is J.P. Donleavy's last novel, completed in 2007. Set in New York, it relates the interior monologue of forty-nine-year-old Nathan Langriesh Johnson, the founder of a successful lingerie company. ...Quick View
More stories and musings from the anarchic mind of the Bagged One.Ireland's most acclaimed satirist is back with a second collection of short stories to provoke, unsettle and illuminate. Roving through the centuri ...Quick View
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