Bring on the Craic

Bring on the Craic PDF Author: Brett Bennett
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504945018
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 133

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Book Description
Bring on the Craic is a very funny and well-written read about Australian-born musician Brett Bennett, portraying his take on various occurrences and circumstances that he encountered on the initial European gigs that he played interwoven with some hilarious happenings in his native island, Tasmania. The stories go way beyond just the musical facets of the gigs as he comically packages together everything unimaginable that happened before, during, and after the gig as well!

Bring on the Craic

Bring on the Craic PDF Author: Brett Bennett
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504945018
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 133

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Book Description
Bring on the Craic is a very funny and well-written read about Australian-born musician Brett Bennett, portraying his take on various occurrences and circumstances that he encountered on the initial European gigs that he played interwoven with some hilarious happenings in his native island, Tasmania. The stories go way beyond just the musical facets of the gigs as he comically packages together everything unimaginable that happened before, during, and after the gig as well!

The Outside Boy

The Outside Boy PDF Author: Jeanine Cummins
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101429674
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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A poignant, coming of age novel about an Irish gypsy boy’s childhood in the 1950’s from the national bestselling author of A Rip in Heaven and American Dirt. Ireland, 1959: Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother’s death in childbirth. The wandering life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes. His father decides to settle briefly, in a town, where Christy and his cousin can receive proper schooling and prepare for their first communions. But still, always, they are treated as outsiders. As Christy struggles to find his way amid the more conventional lives of his new classmates, he starts to question who he is and where he belongs. But then the discovery of an old newspaper photograph, and a long-buried secret from his mother’s mysterious past, changes his life forever....

In Search of the Craic

In Search of the Craic PDF Author: Colin Irwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780233002941
Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
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The Middler

The Middler PDF Author: Kirsty Applebaum
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250317347
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Beyond the mysterious boundary of eleven-year-old Maggie’s town, the Quiet War rages and the dirty, dangerous wanderers roam--a gripping debut for fans of The Giver, Pax, and Orphan Island “The Middler held one marvelous surprise after another every time I turned a page, leading to a most unexpected ending! Readers are going to love this book!” —Jennifer A. Nielsen, New York Times–bestselling author of The False Prince and A Night Divided Maggie lives in orderly Fennis Wick, protected from the outside world by a boundary. Her brother Jed is an eldest, revered and special, a hero who will soon go off to fight in the war. But Maggie’s just a middle child, a middler, often invisible and ignored, even by her own family. When she chances upon a wanderer girl in hiding, she decides she wants to be a hero like her brother and sets out to capture the intruder. But once Maggie peeks past the hedges of the boundary for the first time, suddenly everything she’s ever known about her isolated town gets turned on its head. . . In her debut novel for young readers, Kirsty Applebaum crafts a gripping story of resistance, forbidden friendship, loyalty, and betrayal. "I thought I'd almost reached my fill of dystopian novels, but Kirsty Applebaum has rebooted the genre. The plot pulls you along . . . [and] there is a touch of Harper Lee's Scout [in Maggie]." —The Times

The Craic and Life in the Mountains

The Craic and Life in the Mountains PDF Author: John O’Dwyer
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398415340
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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Book Description
A nine-year-old boy hooks a twine-held bundle of hay over his shoulder and climbs the harsh steep mountain on a winter morning, with his brother Pat. They trundle upwards against the harsh terrain and elements to fodder the cattle on the hill top. Some 30 years later, Sligo, his adopted town, is in crisis as development tax incentives have expired and three government ministers are refusing to extend those incentives. That young boy emerges in his elder self, strident and resolute, and fights another uphill battle. Another 20 years on, now in Derry, the calling from the mountains of his birth surface within him, urging him to return to regain lost fragments of his soul. His return regenerates and reignites the lost spirit within as voices forgotten in a busy life emerge from the shadowy vibrations of the past to soothe, heal and repair his soul. The journey sees a re-emergence of the people, characters, events and places that formed his character in a rich tapestry of recall.

Last Chance Saloon

Last Chance Saloon PDF Author: Deborah Reinact
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1805148184
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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Hannah, a woman in her sixties, thought she had found her last chance at love with Joe. But everything changes when Eamonn, an actor more than twenty years her junior, moves to their village, leaving behind his Hollywood lifestyle and a toxic marriage. Eamonn has returned to Ireland to be closer to his terminally ill father and is in search of inner tranquillity. He finds this with Hannah, who can offer him the peace and security that he needs. Despite Eamonn being smitten with Hannah, she resists him, feeling a little suspicious of his advances and questioning his motives. As well as having loyalty to Joe, she also carries the memory of a past trauma that has prevented her from enjoying her life to the full. Can Hannah forget her fears and suspicions and finally allow herself to be happy with Eamonn? A heart-warming story of love, healing and second chances set in Ireland.

The Days

The Days PDF Author: Sean McCabe
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105370852
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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Fifteen year old Eoin Grady spikes his hair and dons a pair of doc marten boots, thereby launching his punkrocker's rebellion against his conservative minded parents. With his 'mod' friend Bozo, Eoin wanders the streets of his home town of Baile every night, looking for adventure. He finds plenty of adventure when he lands a job as a DJ in the local pirate radio station. His rebellion leads him to the discovery of a darker, more sinister side to life in Baile...and when one of his new friends attempts a murder, he has second thoughts about his 'new direction' in life www.seanmccabe.eu 'McCabe's gentle recollections spring eternal'-Cahir O Doherty, Irish Voice, New York.

Road Racer

Road Racer PDF Author: Michael Dunlop
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1782438017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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Book Description
Michael Dunlop has a reputation for being the wild man of TT - often mercurial and outright dangerous. However,Road Racer reveals his emotional, human journey, taking the reader beyond the story of the sporting career of this aggressive and tenacious competitor.

Legacy

Legacy PDF Author: Michael Gillard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448217733
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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'Reveals criminal corruption on a scale that the Kray twins would never have dreamt of' John Pearson, Profession of Violence, The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins 'Gillard's detailed investigation makes for a stunning and shocking read' Barry Keeffe, The Long Good Friday 'Legacy illustrates the sordid links between business, politics and organised crime' Ioan Grillo, El Narco and Gangster Warlords When billions poured into the neglected east London borough hosting the 2012 Olympics, a turf war broke out between crime families for control of a now valuable strip of land. Using violence, guile and corruption, one gangster, the Long Fella, emerged as a true untouchable. A team of local detectives made it their business to take him on until Scotland Yard threw them under the bus and the business of putting on 'the greatest show on earth' won the day. Protecting the Olympic legacy by covering up a scandal of suspicious deaths and corruption seemed more important than protecting Londoners from the predatory Long Fella and his friends in suits. For others at Scotland Yard, the crime lord was simply too big and too dangerous to take on. Award-winning journalist Michael Gillard took up where they left off to expose the tangled web of chief executives, big banks, politicians and dirty money where innocent lives are destroyed and the guilty flourish. Gillard's efforts culminated in a landmark court case, which finally put a spotlight on the Long Fella and his friends and exposed London's real Olympic legacy.

Of Other Days

Of Other Days PDF Author: Anthony Holten
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291851453
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Book Description
""Of Other Days"" is an account of a rural childhood spent in post World War II Ireland during the 1940's and 1950's. Portrayed against the backdrop of Tara, Navan, and The Boyne Valley, the author relates his recollections of growing up in County Meath, Ireland during an age of relative innocence and simplicity. Comprised of 85 tales of varying lengths, the many different aspects of life in the Irish countryside during these years are explored in detail, reflecting an Ireland which now, just over half a century later in the new millennium, has well and truly vanished. Originally available locally and launched in County Meath in a limited signed numbered edition of 200 copies, ""Of Other Days"" is now also available in this second edition. Written by Anthony Holten, edited and designed by John A. Holten.