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I’d like these books for Christmas (if I didn’t have them already)

Dec 4, 2010 |

This is my half-dozen list of  books from Ireland or by Irish writers that I think would make great Christmas gifts.  And not a whiff of misery writing about the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger or the sorry IMF/ECB bailout. Emma Donoghue’s Room  was my book of the year before it won the Hughes & Hughes…

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Best Book Club Reads: a half-dozen selection

Sep 20, 2010 |

To pick our Best Book Club Reads out of fifty books and five years of reading from an opinionated group can be daunting. We stuck to the task, made lists, noted votes, talked, changed our minds, remembered a great read that we’d omitted, voted again and came to our decision, exhausted and only slightly happy because of the…

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