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Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea

Star of the Sea is the ironic name of a leaking, creaking hulk of a ship that is making its last crossing of the Atlantic, with a handful of first-class passengers and a belly full of the dregs of Europe, … Continue reading

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Those troublesome Irish: Three books on Irish rebellions

If you wanted to take a short course in the history of Irish rebellion — a subject as old as a peat bog and as contemporary as today’s news — you could do much worse than to read these three … Continue reading

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