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"I was interested in reading this. Then I read the back and discovered the author passed away in 1974. Ok, not the most recent, but the past informs the present. Then started running into numerous statements along the lines of "a return to ..."
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A history of Ireland from 1600 through 1972, examining its social, cultural, economic, and political factors.
Fegan has been a "hard man," an IRA killer in northern Ireland. Now that peace has come, he is being haunted day and night by twelve ghosts: a mother and infant, a schoolboy, a butcher, an RUC constable, and seven other of his innocent...
The Oxford Book of Ireland
Book - 1998
"Ireland! Ireland! Ireland! The word falls on the ear with the gentle persistence of rain on the shores of Kerry," said Honor Tracy. "The Irishman," said Robert Lynd, "is one of the world's greatest puzzles." Just what is the true essence of...