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Ernest Blythe (1889-1975) a controversial politician, wrote three volumes of reminiscences covering his life up to the year 1919. Trasna na Bóinne (1957), Slán le hUltaibh (1970) and Gaeil á Muscailt (1973). To read them is to walk through the unfolding pages of the birth of a nation.
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Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (1919-1962), an accomplished writer in Irish and English - poet, playwright, critic, translator, editor - was able to put his time as a commissioned officer during the Emergency to good use much later in those novels of his which had a military...
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The first thirty years of twentieth-century Ireland are inextricably linked with the giant figure of de Valera, revolutionary turned politician. The author was clearly a fan: ‘Triúr polaiteoir den chéad scoth a bhí sa tír seo le trí chéad bliain anall, Dónall Ó Conaill, Charles Stewart...
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Easter 1916 commemorated in rhetorical verse. A patriotic paean in twelve parts. Written in 1966 during the 50th anniversary commemoration of the Easter Rising.
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Tomás Bairéad (1893-1973) was a professional journalist from the Moycullen area of County Galway and an accomplished short-story writer. These unconnected essays are still very readable today. In one of his stories Bairéad, who worked for the Irish Independent gives us a memorable insight into...
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