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Dead Interesting (Glasnevin Trust)
Shane Macthomais
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Description for Dead Interesting (Glasnevin Trust)
Paperback. Dead Interesting recounts the stories of famous, infamous, and just plain interesting Irish people interred in Glasnevin and other Dublin cemeteries. Series: Glasnevin Trust. Num Pages: 192 pages, 84 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
From the simplest slab of weathered stone to the most imposing monument, every marker in Glasnevin cemetery bears witness to a life that, in ways small or large, helped shape the history and culture of the Irish state. Shane MacThomais offers a fascinating insight into some of these lives in this book. Within its pages, you'll meet not only the heroes of the Irish fight for freedom, like Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera, but also lesser-known Irish men and women who made important contributions to the state in the arts, sports, military service, politics and other areas of Irish ... Read more
From the simplest slab of weathered stone to the most imposing monument, every marker in Glasnevin cemetery bears witness to a life that, in ways small or large, helped shape the history and culture of the Irish state. Shane MacThomais offers a fascinating insight into some of these lives in this book. Within its pages, you'll meet not only the heroes of the Irish fight for freedom, like Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera, but also lesser-known Irish men and women who made important contributions to the state in the arts, sports, military service, politics and other areas of Irish ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Mercier Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Glasnevin Trust
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781856358057
SKU
V9781856358057
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Ref
99-83
About Shane Macthomais
Shane MacThomais has been the resident historian and tour guide at Glasnevin Cemetery for over twelve years. A second-generation historian, Shane has been involved in the Dublin historical and literary fields for over 15 years. As well as being a television and radio pundit, Shane worked in the James Joyce Centre as its librarian and archivist and was a key ... Read more
Reviews for Dead Interesting (Glasnevin Trust)
MacThomais [...] has a great knowledge of graveyards and a great knack for storytelling
Colm Farren our cemeteries are a treasure trove of the fascinating, the tragic, and the unexplainable.
Colm Farren our cemeteries are a treasure trove of the fascinating, the tragic, and the unexplainable.