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""The dance of language, of knowing and not knowing that death is near, of sharing and hiding, of anger and tenderness, make Monica Corish's poems worthy additions to the canon of grief poetry."" - from the Foreword by Sharon Foley, CEO Irish Hospice Foundation ""A beautiful and intensely moving account of the author's experience of nursing her terminally ill mother."" - Jane Clarke ""Unflinchingly honest about the actuality of terminal illness, while simultaneously remaining tender, lyrical and deeply humane"" - Dermot Bolger ""She has hammered out her language on the hardest anvil of all, and reached an utterance surprising in its clarity, stark in detail, universal in its accessibility while deeply personal."" - Greagoir O Duill 50% of profits go to the Irish Hospice Foundation and to local Hospices
Poetry inspired by the Leitrim Observer, with prose and poetry from Leitrim writing groups, plus Brian Leyden, DBC Pierre, Alice Lyons, Vincent Woods, Belinda McKeon, Owen Gallagher, Angela McCabe and Tom Sigafoos.
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County Donegal, Ireland. 1884. Your island home is threatened with evictions. What would you be willing to do to stop them?
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From crime to verdict, award-winning journalist Gene Kerrigan tells the brutal stories of some of Ireland's most notorious murders, kidnappings and violent attacks Hard Cases is a collection of startling stories about the reality of crime and court cases in Ireland. In these stories, there are no crime bosses with quaint nicknames; the police don't collect convenient clues that tell them whodunnit. Instead, it contains cases both famous and obscure in which the outcome is sometimes just, sometimes unsettling and always complicated, in which there are no easy answers and no simple victims. In Hard Cases, you will delve into the criminal underworld of Ireland, starting with the tale of Dessie ...
Still In Her Teenage Years, Nazneen Finds Herself In An Arranged Marriage With A Disappointed Man Who Is Twenty Years Older. Away From The Mud And Heat Of Her Bangladeshi Village, Home Is Now A Cramped Flat In A High-Rise Block In London S East End. Nazneen Knows Not A Word Of English, And Is Forced To Depend On Her Husband. But Unlike Him She Is Practical And Wise, And Befriends A Fellow Asian Girl Razia, Who Helps Her Understand The Strange Ways Of Her Adopted New British Home. Nazneen Keeps In Touch With Her Sister Hasina Back In The Village. But The Rebellious Hasina Has Kicked Against Cultural Tradition And Run Off In A Love Marriage With The Man Of Her Dreams. When He Suddenly Turns Vi...
A study of the mysterious stone carvings of naked females exposing their genitals on medieval churches all over the British Isles.