I gaze as I write at two photographs, presented to me by their subjects’ grandchildren: one of Seán O’Casey’s sister Isabella (the ‘Ella’ of his semi-fictionalised autobiographies), and the other […]
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Read More →Darren McGettigan Four Courts Press £17.50 ISBN 9781846823848 This is an example of an expert book written by a self-confessed non-expert—and it is a resounding success. Darren McGettigan’s previous work […]
Read More →Seán Duffy Gill and Macmillan £24.99 ISBN 9780717157785 Forty-two years have passed since Gill and Macmillan, in what became a celebrated series of history books, enabled Donnchadh Ó Corráin to […]
Read More →Richard McElligott (Collins Press, €17.99) ISBN 9781848891777 By the time the GAA was two decades old, Kerry had won just a solitary All-Ireland title—and that was in hurling. It was […]
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