Author: Mogue Doyle
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448110688
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Rural Ireland in the 1960s: if you were a boy, you listened to Luxembourg on the wireless, went to the pictures, went hurling up the fields with your best friend, thought about what the big boys got up to with the girls, and in particular what your brother did with his girlfriend, Minnie. Your mam ruled the house and you watched out for your father - the old lad - who was liable to fly into rages and give you a right ringer when you weren't expecting it. Most of all, you knew everything about the village where you lived, and everyone there. And Tony did; he was one smart boy, ready for anything - at least he thought he was until the day he saw his father with Mrs Rourke and was involved in an accident that changed everything. Dancing with Minnie the Twig is Tony's story. It is a haunting and very special novel as, on the day of his funeral, he watches his family, friends and the rest of the community arrive at the church and prepare for the service to mark the end of his short life. In terms of its rural setting and its focus on a small community that, even in Ireland, has long since ceased to exist, the book has real echoes of Dancing at Lughnasa. It's Irish in the best sense of the word; the characters step out of the pages to meet you, and although Tony is dead, his narrative voice blazes with life. Very funny in parts, the novel is overlaid with a melancholy for times past that lingers long after the final page has been turned.
Author: Sandra Dinter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000692051
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Since the 1980s novels about childhood for adults have been a booming genre within the contemporary British literary market. Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel offers the first comprehensive study of this literary trend. Assembling analyses of key works by Ian McEwan, Doris Lessing, P. D. James, Nick Hornby, Sarah Moss and Stephen Kelman and situating them in their cultural and political contexts, Sandra Dinter uncovers both the reasons for the current popularity of such fiction and the theoretical shift that distinguishes it from earlier literary epochs. The book’s central argument is that the contemporary English novel draws on the constructivist paradigm shift that revolutionised the academic study of childhood several decades ago. Contemporary works of fiction, Dinter argues, depart from the notion of childhood as a naturally given phase of life and examine the agents, interests and conflicts involved in its cultural production. Dinter also considers the limits of this new theoretical impetus, observing that authors and scholars alike, even when they claim to conceive of childhood as a construct, do not always give up on the idea of its ‘natural’ core. Accordingly, this book reconstructs how the English novel between the 1980s and the 2010s oscillates between an acknowledgment of constructivism and an endorsement of childhood as the last irrevocable quintessence of humanity. In doing so, it successfully extends the literary and cultural history of childhood to the immediate present.
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Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Author: Mogue Doyle
Publisher: Black Swan Books, Limited
ISBN: 9780552771979
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Set in Wexford, Ireland in 1920, during the Irish struggle for independence: Jim Rowe is the newly appointed captain of a company of volunteers set up to combat the arrival of a battalion of Black and Tans under orders to quell any notions of independence among the local population. "From the Hardcover edition.
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
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Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.
Author: Celestine Rafferty
Publisher: Wexford County
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Author: Arthur James Wells
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 2248
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Author: Eve Morton
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
ISBN: 1685505694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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Jesse Potter still hates Halloween. But he loves his boyfriend Patrick, and plans to spend the last week of April inside Patrick's large house getting acquainted after months apart. But Patrick's sister Kayla is staying with him, and she's nine months pregnant, and so the house may as well be haunted. Then the corn dolls start to appear everywhere. Kayla claims there are demons in her bed. And Jesse becomes haunted by two fairy creatures who won't leave him alone. When a time-slip six months into the future gives Patrick and Jesse a chance to heal everyone they've come across, will they take it? Or will they distrust the fae who say they are here to help, simply because it's now -- once again -- Halloween night?
Author: C.S. Guild
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752383178
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
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Reproduction of the original: Minnie by C.S. Guild
Author: Caroline Snowden Guild
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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