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Who are the Irish writers working today who will be read in one hundr ed year's time? That was the question that RTE put to a panel of scholars, editors and others. The result is a list of writers, each of whom will have a dialogue with Mike Murphy for a forthcoming television and radio series reading the future.
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Murphy's War Stories spans two wars and is the story of a young man who drops out of high school and joins the US Army to become a paratrooper after the 1968 TET offensive in Vietnam. He completes airborne training and is sent to the famous 82nd Airborne Division. Later, he becomes the enlisted aide to the Commandant of Cadets at West Point where he associates with several US Army Generals. Afterwards, he is sent to Vietnam where he completes a tour fighting the North Vietnamese. While in Vietnam he receives the Silver Star. While a member of the Army Reserve, he is later activated for the Iraq War. During his time in Iraqi he compares and contrasts his two wars and the differences between the old army the new army in Iraq.
The Original San Francisco Giants is a nostalgic look at the team that brought Major League Baseball to San Francisco, the 1958 Giants. Author Steve Bitker, who attended his first big-league game in 1958 at age five at a charming little downtown ballpark called Seals Stadium, traveled as far as the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands to interview virtually every surviving member of the team.
Hired to track down a runaway from an aristocratic Dublin family, Molly Murphy also goes undercover to investigate a case of industrial espionage in the garment business in this latest title of the Agatha Award-winning series. Martin's Press.
Follow Detective Murphy on his journey as a skilled detective, as he is faced with unusual homicides to be solved in his town and surrounding areas. Every case will need to be approached differently and every outcome will have a surprising twist. He will need to follow the clues, some of which are not clear for the eye to see; however, if you listen closely, you might find the final piece of the puzzle in an unexpected response or reaction from a potential suspect. He will have to revisit some crime scenes and interview witnesses several times to ensure that he gets the right person the first time. Reviewing the coroner’s reports will always give him the edge in the investigation and his instinct is what helps him decide in which direction to go. Using all the methods available to him as an officer of the law and seasoned detective, he needs to solve these mysteries to keep his town and his family safe. These case files will have you wondering and intrigued until the end.