The lost village of Shannon-by-the-sea


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A fantasy set in an alternate world. A world without computers, mobile phones, laptops, areoplanes, CDs, guns...




Ephemera Fair


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A collection of poems, both the doomy and the daft, the whimsical and the weird.




The Way to the Western Sea


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Originally published: New York: Harper & Row, c1988.




Town and Country


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Edited by award winning novelist and short story writer Kevin Barry, this volume will once again mix established names with previously unpublished authors, and will seek to offer fresh renditions to the Irish story - new angles, new approaches, new modes of attack.Published in 2011, New Irish Short Stories, edited by Joseph O'Connor, has sold over 10,000 copies to date and featured Kevin Barry's 'Beer Trip to Llandudno' - winner of the 2012 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize - as well as stories by William Trevor, Dermot Bolger and Roddy Doyle which went on to be Afternoon Readings on BBC Radio 4.




Whispering Sea


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The story is about a young child, Serena wandering the countryside with her father. So poor that sometimes she had to go around in barefoot. Eventually they were befriended by a kind old shop owner who gave them an old house on the beach. There they found contentment but Serena always longed to find out about her past. Mighty Ocean where have you been what wonderous things have you seen that sun kissed land with beaches white the frozen shores no sun did light Such change of mood Such depth untold what many stories could unfold We remember not its angry roar white tipped spray rising high but listen very quietly as it reaches the shore it whispering gently after its mighty journey Marie Campbell







The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be


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Foreword by Alan Ball “Elegant, respectful and refreshingly funny.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts with a signature blend of memoir, meditation, gallows humor, and poetic precision. The Depositions offers a wry and compassionate selection from Lynch’s four previous collections of nonfiction, along with new essays shaped by the press of the author’s own mortality.







Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans


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"A good read even for those who have not the least ancestral or national bias—for those who desire civilized entertainment along with brilliant narrative." —Seattle Times In thirty-five years and dozens of return trips to Ireland, Thomas Lynch has found a template for the larger world inside the small one, the planet in the local parish. Part memoir, part cultural study, Booking Passage is a brilliant, often comedic guidebook for those "fellow travelers, fellow pilgrims" making their way through the complexities of their own lives and times.




The 1931-1940: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States


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"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.