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Category Archives: 2007

For the poor and beaten down – David Caddy’s Man in Black

October 24, 2012

Perhaps the little black dress epitomises haute couture because black is the perfect foil for a dirty great swag of …

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No Gypsy Wedding – David Morley’s The Invisible Kings

September 9, 2012

Donkeys were still hitched to lamp-posts in County Limerick in the ’80s and our village was the sort of place …

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The Nightmare of History – Paul Durcan’s The Laughter of Mothers

August 19, 2012

Buy The Laughter of Mothers from Harvill Secker As the car turned off Bachelors Walk and onto O’Connell Street, my …

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