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Biographies
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Ceremonies of Bravery: Oscar Wilde, Carlos Blacker, and the Dreyfus AffairSpecial Price €39.99 Regular Price €49.99
The book traces the course of what Oscar Wilde called his ‘ancient friendship’ with Carlos Blacker, ‘always the truest of friends and most sympathetic of companions’, from its beginning in the early 1880s to their tragic breakup in 1898.
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Your Children are not your Children: The Story Of Headfort School€35.00
Headfort School has always been an idiosyncratic place. Beginning as an ‘outpost of Empire’ at a time when that empire was locally destitute and internationally disintegrating, it prepared the sons of the landed classes for the ‘great public schools’.
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Grattan: A Life€34.99
’Grattan’s Parliament’ has a permanent place in Irish historical lore, but who was Henry Grattan? R.B. McDowell’s biography traces the varied career of this elusive figure whose political fortunes were as tempestuous as his own character.
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Pihkal€31.99
I Have Known And Loved) is a unique book written by renowned psychopharmacologist Alexander Shulgin and his wife Ann Shulgin.
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