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Down All the Days

Christy Brown

hardcover. First edition, dustjacket worn

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Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1970
SKU: KTK0094148

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Double the Boys

Finola Summer

Paperback. Well-read paperback in good condition.Some shelf wear.

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Publisher: Poolbeg Press Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1995
SKU: KRF0031248
ISBN: 9781853714443

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Dooley's Delusion

Tom Mc Hale

Hardcover. 256pp Signed and inscribed

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Droke House/Hallux
Condition: Used, Very Good
SKU: KHS1003994
ISBN: 9788766707029

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Donn Byrne Bard of Armagh

Hardcover. 8vo. Original cloth . Irish Literature. Donn Byrne at Coolmain Castle Donn Byrne was born Brian Oswald Patrick Donn-Byrne on 20 November 1889. His South Armagh parents were on a business trip to the United States when Donn Byrne was born in New York. The family returned to Ireland soon after the birth. Byrne says of his family: "We were about the only one of the four big Irish families of the gap in the North to still keep our mouths, if not our heads, above water." At fourteen, he met Bulmer Hobson, founder of Irish volunteer movement. Hobson took him to an early meeting of the volunteers (1906), when he was accompanied by Robert Lynd of the London Daily News. Lynd wrote of that meeting, mentioning the singing of a little fair haired boy (Donn-Byrne). Through Hobson, he acquired a taste for Irish history and nationalism that the culture was deeply immersed in at the time. He entered local Irish festivals (Feiseanna) using the name Brian O'Beirne, and he frequently won. He was equally fluent in Irish and English, growing up in an area were Gaelic was still spoken. In 1907 he went to the University of Dublin to study Romance languages. While at the school he published in The National Student, the student magazine. At this time he also met Dorothea (Dolly) Cadogan. After graduation he moved to Paris and Leipzig to continue his studies at the Sorbonne and Leipzig University, with the hope of joining the British Foreign Office as a diplomat. He turned down his PhD. when he learned that he would have to wear evening clothes to his early morning examinations, which no true Irish gentleman would ever do.

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Sampson Low - Marston
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SKU: KEX0279150

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Donkey's Years: Memories of a Life as Story Told

Aidan Higgins

Paperback. Good clean copy with some shelf wear

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: New Island Books
Condition: Used, Very Good
SKU: KAC0003231
ISBN: 9781905494934

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Don't Wake Me at Doyles

Maura Murphy

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 26 x 128 x 192. Weight in Grams: 293. Good clean copy with some reader wear.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland
Condition: Used, Very Good
SKU: KTM0006101
ISBN: 9780755313365

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Don't Wake Me at Doyles

Maura Murphy

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 26 x 128 x 192. Weight in Grams: 293. Good clean copy with some reader wear.

Condition: Used, Very Good
Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2005
SKU: KTM0005946
ISBN: 9780755313365