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A tale inspired by the great 1601 naval battle between England and Spain depicts a vengeful General Juan del ℓguila, who would seize control of a bridgehead in Elizabeth I's England, while strategist Charles Blount works to escape treason charges and insurgent Hugh O'Neill struggles to free Ireland from English control.
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Time pieces : a Dublin memoir
by John Banville
The award-winning author of the Benjamin Black series presents a vibrant, evocative memoir of his life near Dublin, a city that inspired his imagination and literary life and served as a backdrop for the dissatisfactions of adult years shaped by Dublin's cultural, political, architectural and social history.
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The story of Ireland : a history of the Irish people
by Neil Hegarty
A comprehensive history about how Ireland has been shaped by outside influences throughout the past 2,500 years challenges popular beliefs while discussing such topics as Europe's 16th-century religious wars, the French and American revolutions and Ireland's World War II neutrality. 20,000 first printing.
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James Joyce : portrait of a Dubliner
by Alfonso Zapico
"A dazzling, prize-winning graphic biography of one of the world's most revered writers. Winner of Spain's National Comics Prize and published to acclaim in Ireland, here is an extraordinary graphic biography of James Joyce that offers a fresh take on his tumultuous life. With evocative anecdotes and hundreds of ink-wash drawings, Alfonso Zapico invites the reader to share Joyce's journey, from his earliest days in Dublin to his life with his great love, Nora Barnacle, and their children, and his struggles and triumphs as an artist. Joyce experienced poverty, rejection, censorship, charges of blasphemy and obscenity, war, and crippling ill-health. A rebel and nonconformist in Dublin and a harsh critic of Irish society, he left Ireland in self-imposed exile with Nora, moving to Paris, Trieste, Rome, London, and finally Zurich. He overcame monumental challenges in creating and publishing Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. Along the way, he encountered a colorful cast of characters, from the Irish nationalists Charles Parnell and Michael Collins to literary greats Yeats, Proust, Hemingway, and Beckett, and the likes of Carl Jung and Vladimir Lenin. "
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