This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow night in a small town. Lonesome hillwalkers take to the high reaches in pursuit of a saving embrace....

“John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip.” A novel of family, ghosts, love, music and the quest for truth, Beatlebone recounts a wild journey through the west of Ireland in 1978. At its helm is John, a maddened genius fleeing fame and seeking peace....

It\"s late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone missing, their world has come asunder - can it be put together again?...

Эта книга — репринт оригинального издания, созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания. Редкие, забытые и малоизвестные книги, изданные с петровских времен до наших дней, вновь доступны в виде печатных книг. ...

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When you help someone else…the one you help most is yourselfResidents of the Donegal Golf and Country Club are very attached to their dogs. They depend on them for companionship and love. Dogs aren’t just pets at Donegal, but cherished members of the family....

A kiss that just won\"t happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. And OAP kiddie-snatchers, and scouse real-ale enthusiasts, and occult weirdness in the backwoods......

The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are still some posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big Nothin\" that the city really lives....

A detailed study of how ironic maieusis, consubstantion, and circiminicession in chapters Nestor, Scylla and Charybdis, and Ithaca of Ulysses display the linear progression of the novel as a gradual evolution of specific epistemologies....

Due to continued growth of the Internet and theintroduction of new broadband services there is aconstant requirement for higher speed communications.It is expected the optical communications systemswill evolve towards higher capacities by increasingindividual line rates. To implement these high-speedoptical networks e.g....

\"In her new chic outfit, she looks like anything but a stewardess working. But work she does. Hard, too. And you hardly know it.\" So read the text of a 1969 newspaper advertisement for Delta Airlines featuring a picture of a brightly smiling blond stewardess striding confidently down the aisle of an airplane cabin to deliver a meal....