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Making Love A MemoirWritten by Tom Inglis.In this moving memoir he recounts his life and the love he shared with Aileen, who died from breast cancer in 2005. Relentlessly honest about his feelings and his failings as a husband and a lover and touching on everything from infidelity to the loss of his child, Inglis provides a raw but authentic portrait of a man struggling to comprehend love, death and the complexities of living. |
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A June Of Ordinary MurdersWritten by Conor Brady.In the 1880s the DMP classified crime in two distinct classes. Political crimes were ‘special’, whereas theft, robbery and even murder, no matter how terrible, were ‘ordinary’. Dublin, June 1887: the mutilated bodies of a man and a child are discovered in Phoenix Park and Detective Sergeant Joe Swallow steps up to investigate. Cynical and tired, Swallow is a man living on past successes in need of a win. In the background, the city is sweltering in a long summer heatwave, a potential gangland war is simmering as the chief lieutenants of a dying crime boss size each other up and the castle administration want the celebration of Queen Victoria’s Golden jubilee to pass off without complication. Underneath it all, the growing threat of anti-British radicals is never far away. With the Land War at its height, the priority is to contain ‘special’ crime. But these murders appear to be ‘ordinary’ and thus of lesser priority. When the evidence suggests high-level involvement, and as the body count increases, Swallow must navigate the waters of foolish superiors, political directives and frayed tempers to investigate the crime, find the true murderer and deliver justice. |
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Crossfire The Battle of the Four Courts, 1916Written by Paul O’Brien.The exciting military history of one of the toughest fights of the 1916 Rising. The 1916 Rising was about much, much more than the GPO. Around the city, many volunteers and British soldiers were killed and wounded fighting in vicious urban warfare. One of the many forgotten struggles centred on North King Street and the Four Courts and, in this brilliant new book, Paul O’Brien revisits that conflict. Delving deep into the archives and the testimony of those involved, Crossfire brings to life a desperate struggle between mismatched forces, one that forced rebels to learn new ways of fighting on the cuff. |
The Adventures of the Wet SeñorWritten by Donal O'Kelly .The script of O’Kelly’s play which is based on the experiences of Spanish Armada survivor Francisco de Cuellar in the North West of Ireland. Spanish captain Francisco De Cuellar, washed ashore on Streedagh Beach in Sligo in 1588, faced a desperate struggle for survival. His odyssey from Ben Bulben to the Giant’s Causeway is Ireland’s greatest untold epic adventure story. His Irish baptism of fire propels Francisco from soldier of fortune to “gypsy among savages”, and gives this born survivor a glimpse of something more precious than Conquistadors’ gold. |
The Last DanceWritten by Paul Charles.Ostensibly the story of The Playboys of Castlemartin, a now forgotten big band from the heyday of the show band era in the 1950s, and the band members, The Last Dance is, at its core, a love story. Written in the style of a band biography that explores the rise and dramatic demise of The Playboys, The last Dance focuses on the journey of Martin Dean (McClelland) from small town boy to song writer and lead singer of the Playboys. Along the way it tells the complicated story of his love affair with Hanna Hutchinson his friend from childhood who grew to be much more. |