McDowell on McDowell: a memoir R. B. McDowell (The Lilliput Press, €20) ISBN 9781843511335 The wonderful French lady who owns Terroirs wine merchants in Dublin once described a wine to […]
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Read More →Remembering the Year of the French: Irish folk history and social memory Guy Beiner (University of Wisconsin Press, $49.95) ISBN 9780299218201 The Irish Folklore Commission, 1935–1970 Micheál Briody (Helsinki: Studia […]
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