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    Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life

    Fintan O'Toole

    The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage…

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    We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958

    Fintan O'Toole

    Fintan O'Toole’s history of Ireland in his own time. Ireland has changed almost out of recognition during the decades since O'Toole’s birth in 1958, and this is his very personal…

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    Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger

    Fintan O'Toole

    The definitive, blistering polemic on the near-total extinction of the Celtic Tiger, held up as a model for small nations everywhere in the boom.

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    The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism

    Fintan O'Toole

    From one of the most perceptive observers of the English today comes a brilliantly insightful, mordantly funny account of their seemingly irrational embrace of nationalism.

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    Whatever It Takes

    Richie Hogan

    Richie Hogan is one of the all-time greats of hurling, winner of seven All-Ireland senior hurling medals and multiple individual awards. His epic career brought him both immense joy and…

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    Three Years In Hell: The Brexit Chronicles

    Fintan O'Toole

    Three years in the troubled British Isles, leading up to the election of Boris Johnson.

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    The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities

    Fintan O'Toole

    A book on the state of Ireland at the end of the century.

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    A History of Ireland in 100 Objects

    Fintan O'Toole

    The Irish Times literary editor Fintan O'Toole selects 100 objects to narrate a history of Ireland.

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    White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America

    Fintan O'Toole

    Brings an original perspective to Johnson’s life, and suggests various ways of thinking about Johnson’s part in creating a nation he did not live to see.

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    Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

    Fintan O'Toole

    A mordantly funny and perceptive book about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit. A great democratic country tears itself apart, and engages in the dangerous pleasures of national…

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    We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

    Fintan O'Toole (Princeton University)

    Fintan O'Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government-in despair, because all the young people were leaving-opened the country to foreign investment…

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    We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

    Fintan O'Toole (Princeton University)

    A celebrated Irish writer’s magisterial, brilliantly insightful chronicle of the wrenching transformations that dragged his homeland into the modern world.

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    Only True History Of Lizzie Finn

    Sebastian Barry

    This volume contains the three most recent plays by the playwright credited with bringing poetic drama back to the Irish stage. The plays are White Woman Street , Steward of…

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    Murphy Plays: 3: The Morning After Optimism; The Sanctuary Lamp; The Gigli Concert

    Tom Murphy

    The Morning After Optimism borrows patterns from European fairytale to explore the relationship between reality and illusion. The Sanctuary Lamp is a play about spritual refugees, and The Gigli Concert…

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    Martin Parr: From the Pope to a Flat White: Ireland 1979-2019

    Martin Parr

    Martin Parr has been taking photographs in Ireland for 40 years. His work covers many of the most significant moments in Ireland’s recent history, encompassing the Pope’s visit in 1979…

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    Bolger Plays: 1: The Lament for Arthur Cleary; In High Germany; Holy Ground; Blinded by the Light

    Dermot Bolger

    This is the first collection of the plays of Dermot Bolger, seen as at the cutting edge of Irish writing as a playwright, novelist, poet and editor.

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    Martin Parr: From the Pope to a Flat White (Limited edition): Ireland 1979-2019

    Martin Parr

    This special edition limited to 70 copies includes the book and one gelatin silver print signed and numbered by Parr. The picture is titled Glenbeigh Races, County Kerry, 1983. The…

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    The Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising

    Shane Hegarty,Fintan O'Toole

    This bestselling book recreates the actual course of events during that tumultuous week, based on contemporary witnesses, memoirs and later recollections. It adds up to the most comprehensive and accessible…

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    Strumpet City

    James Plunkett

    Strumpet City, is, simply, one of the best Irish novels of the twentieth century and an enduring and popular classic.

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    Whatever It Takes

    Richie Hogan

    A frank account of what it takes to reach the top from one of hurling's all-time greats.

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    Ireland: The Emigrant Nursery and the World Economies

    Jim Mac Laughlin

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    Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic

    Fintan O'Toole,Laurence Mackin,Laurence Mackin,Kathy Sheridan

    That brief burst of good fortune was destroyed by a corrupt political class which encouraged a wild property boom, leaving the country almost bankrupt. What Ireland needs now is a…

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    Up the Republic!: Towards a New Ireland

    Fintan O'Toole,Kathy Sheridan,Laurence Mackin,Kathy Sheridan

    From the number one bestselling author of Enough is Enough and Ship of Fools

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    The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable

    Joseph Valente,Margot Gayle Backus

    The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature refines the debates on why so many Irish children were lost by offering insight into the lived experience of both the children…

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    The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable

    Joseph Valente,Margot Gayle Backus

    The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature refines the debates on why so many Irish children were lost by offering insight into the lived experience of both the children…

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    Down These Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century

    Michael Connelly,Ian Ross

    The contributors list includes a number of distinguished and internationally renowned crime writers, such as John Connolly, Tana French, John Banville and Alex Barclay, featuring rare and unpublished pieces. Is…

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