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  • The Strangers' House

    Writing Northern Ireland

    de Alexander Poots ...
    **A penetrating study and celebration of Northern Irish literature—**telling the region’s story through the extraordinary novels and poetry produced by decades of conflict.Northern Ireland is one hundred years old. Northern Ireland does not exist. Both of these statements are true. It just depends who you ask. How do you write about a place like this? THE STRANGERS' HOUSE asks this question of the ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Audiolibro

    The Strangers' House

    Writing Northern Ireland

    de Alexander Poots ...
    Narrado por Alexander Poots, Matthew Wolfe ...

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    4 hora 43 minutos

    **A penetrating study and celebration of Northern Irish literature—**telling the region’s story through the extraordinary novels and poetry produced by decades of conflict.Northern Ireland is one hundred years old. Northern Ireland does not exist. Both of these statements are true. It just depends on who you ask. How do you write about a place like this? THE STRANGERS' HOUSE asks this question of ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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  • On an Irish Island

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    On an Irish Island is a love letter to a vanished way of life, in which Robert Kanigel, the highly praised author of The Man Who Knew Infinity and The One Best Way, tells the story of the Great Blasket, a wildly beautiful island off the west coast of Ireland, renowned during the early twentieth century for the rich communal life of its residents and the unadulterated Irish they spoke. With the ... Leer más

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  • What's in a Surname?

    A Journey from Abercrombie to Zwicker

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  • For the Love of Ireland

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