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Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets
'This is a history shaken by intimacy - a brave and rigorously humane book' Seán HewittHow far would you go for the missing?When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she …
Reading Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon is one of the most exciting and accomplished poets writing in English. Few authors display such mastery of the language, form and measure of poetry, while at the same …
Improprieties
This is an innovative and accessible study of contemporary Northern Irish poetry in the light of current debates about post-modernism, poetry and politics, and the figure of woman …
Reading Paul Muldoon
aul Muldoon is one of the most exciting and accomplished poets writing in English. Few authors display such mastery of the language, form and measure of poetry, while at the same …
Dublin 1916
It was taken over by the Irish Volunteers on Easter Monday 1916 and held for nearly a week. But the rebels finally surrendered the GPO to the Crown forces after heavy gun …
Dublin 1916
On Easter Monday 1916, while much of Dublin holidayed at the seaside and placed bets at the horse races, a disciplined group of Irish Volunteers seized the city's General Post …
Lovers and Strangers
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Generous and empathetic ... opens up postwar migration in all its richness' Sukhdev Sandhu, …
The Best Are Leaving
Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is an important and wide-ranging study of post-war Irish emigrant culture. Wills analyses representations of emigrants from Ireland and of Irish …
That Neutral Island
Of the countries that remained neutral during the Second World War, none was more controversial than Ireland, with accusations of betrayal and hypocrisy poisoning the media. …
Missing Persons: Or, My Grandmother's Secrets
Blending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story."Clair Wills shines a brilliant, unsparing …
THAT NEUTRAL ISLAND
When the world descended into war in 1939, few European countries remained neutral; but of those that did, none provoked more controversy than Ireland. Despite Winston Churchill's …
Lovers and Strangers
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Generous and empathetic ... opens up postwar migration in all its richness' Sukhdev Sandhu, …