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  • Weird Belfast: A Miscellany, Almanack and Companion

    by Reggie Chamberlain-King ...
    Did you know that Herr Dobler, Wizard of the World, appeared at the Victoria Hall in Belfast in 1883? Did your granny ever try Dobbin’s Blood Purifier, only available at Dobbin’s Chemist, North Street? And did you hear about the arrest of Jack the Ripper in Memel Street in Belfast in 1888?Welcome to Weird Belfast, a miscellany that revels in the strange, miraculous, superstitious and uncanny side ... Read more

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  • The Black Dreams: Strange stories from Northern Ireland

    by Reggie Chamberlain-King, Ian Sansom, Jo Baker, Moyra Donaldson, Bernie McGill, Jan Carson, Ian McDonald, Sam Thompson, Michelle Gallen, Carlo Gébler0, John Patrick Higgins1, Gerard McKeown2, Aislínn Clarke3, Emma Devlin4 ...
    I don’t recall if I saw my first gunman in my childhood nightmares or on my childhood streets.There were plenty in both and they looked very much like each other.So begins Reggie Chamberlain-King’s introduction to The Black Dreams, a thrilling and compelling collection of specially commissioned stories that explore the emotional geography of growing up and living in Northern Ireland.The fourteen ... Read more

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  • Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times, Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, And The Age of Chivalry

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  • Dublin Pub Life and Lore – An Oral History of Dublin's Traditional Irish Pubs

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  • St. Patrick of Ireland

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  • The Little Green Book of Blarney

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  • Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf

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  • Voices from the Great Houses of Ireland: Life in the Big House

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  • The Liberties

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    Following the murder of Thomas á Becket, King Henry II came to Ireland. He decreed that an abbey be founded close to the present-day St Catherine's church, Thomas Street, Dublin, in Becket's memory, and the monks that founded it were to be free from city taxes and rates. This 'Liberty' expanded and took in the part of Dublin which today is known as the Liberties, one of Dublin's oldest and most ... Read more

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