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Books
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Come Sit Awhile (Hardback)€19.99
We all need to sit and rest from time to time. To think, ponder, hope, pray.
Over the years, Alice Taylor has written down many of these moments of contemplation so she can revisit them over and over again, and now she is sharing them with her dear readers.
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Courting : Tractor Dates, Macra Babies and Swiping Right in Rural Ireland (Paperback)€16.95
Looking for love – the most human quest of them all – has been transformed in recent years, with new technology removing the need to be in ‘the right place at the right time’.
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Shannon Country€15.00
In August 1939 the Irish travel writer Richard Hayward set out on a road trip to explore the Shannon region just two weeks before the Second World War broke out.
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Still Life (Hardback)€18.50
Following Ciaran Carson's diagnosis with incurable lung cancer in March of this year Still Life stares mortality in the face. A book of uncommon bravery, it is a hymn to art and to the ordinary beauties of a blessed life.
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Olympia and the Internet (Hardback)€18.99
The volume includes ‘Rubbish Theory’, reflections on refuse in contemporary culture, and ‘The Rain Bridge’, a story for children. ‘School Photo and Early Reading’ remembers his young days in North Belfast; as does ‘Olympia and the Internet’, in praise of typewriters and dis-praise of information technology.
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Strong, My Love (Hardback)€18.99
At the heart of Strong, My Love, Peter Fallon’s first collection in seven years, is a series of prayers for his daughter and son and for their generation. Though time and its tolls pervade the book (‘When my old friend / falters on a stair / or founders on a word or name.’) the author would ‘wake and want to give / the ordinary day / its due’.
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Selected Prose: Derek Mahon€16.99
Derek Mahon, best known as a poet, has also published a considerable body of prose. Previous work in this line, much of it journalism (feature articles, book reviews), appeared in Journalism (Gallery, 1996) and some is reprinted here, often in extended form; but most is new.