Author : Fachtna Ó Drisceoil
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 24,57 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1856356930
Postman Larry Griffin vanished during his rounds in Stradbally on Christmas Day 1929 but what really happened to Griffin? Fachtna Ó Drisceoil weaves the pieces of this mystery together, using new evidence which paints a sordid portrait of lies, half-truths, conspiracy, intimidation and Garda brutality in the 1920s.
Author : Fachtna Ó Drisceoil
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 2011-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1856358887
Postman Larry Griffin vanishes during his rounds in Stradbally on Christmas Day 1929. The only clue to what happened was an abandoned bicycle on a deserted country road. The story of the Missing Postman as it became known, made the headlines nationally and overseas, when ten prominent local people were arrested and charged with his murder. The defendants included such pillars of the community as two local Civic Guards, the school teacher, the local publican, his wife and two of their children. &newpara;For eighty years the doors of Stradbally and the Garda files on the case remained firmly shut against anyone trying to investigate the story. Numerous successful libel actions taken by the former defendants further discouraged media interest. However all those involved have passed on. Government files, which cast new light on the case, have recently become available, and in this extraordinary new book, Ó Drisceoil weaves the pieces of the puzzle togther, and reveals the shocking answer to the question - What really happened to Larry Griffin?
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Page : pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 1997
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Author : Mark Wallington
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 1993
Category :
ISBN : 9780751500875
Clive has been a postman for 28 years but now, at the age of 52, he is to be replaced by a machine. His wife is unconcerned: she's too wrapped up in her DIY obsession, forever remodelling their house. But Clive doesn't want early retirement, however comfortable - he just wants to be a postman.
Author : David Brin
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307575012
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • “A moving experience . . . a powerful cautionary tale.”—Whitley Strieber He was a survivor—a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. Fate touches him one chill winter’s day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold. The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery. This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. A timeless novel as urgently compelling as War Day or Alas, Babylon, David Brin’s The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science fiction. “The Postman will keep you engrossed until you’ve finished the last page.”—Chicago Tribune
Author : M. Wallington
Publisher : Orbit Books
Page : pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 1993-01-28
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ISBN : 9780751597097
Author : Neil Postman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.
Author : Tom O'Brien
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 2017-04-23
Category :
ISBN : 9781521137895
The Missing Postman is a journey into the world of Zeb and Zoe and their quest to avenge their unhappy childhoods. A world where the become 'Bonnie and Clyde'. They have even aped their heros and held up several stores in small-town Ireland, and are now holed up in a remote remote farmhouse, with, Martin, the local hermit for company. All is not as it seems however, and the more the story unfolds, the more we learn about Zeb's invalid mother, Lucy. Was she Martin's lover? Or Harry's, one of their robbery victims? There is also the mysterious disappearance of Martin's brother many years ago. What connection did he have with the one-time vivacious Lucy?
Author : James M. Cain
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 2010-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307772942
The bestselling sensation—and one of the most outstanding crime novels of the 20th century—that was banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, and acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger. The basis for the acclaimed 1946 film. An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution—a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. First published in 1934, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger.
Author : Tom O'Brien
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 2013-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781494463816
A book of quirky short stories about life in modern Ireland - mostly from those who have left its shores and who are no longer sure where 'home' is.
