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Dinosaurs on Other Planets
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Donal Ryan didn’t set out to write a recession novel or chronicle his times, but he ended up doing both in?
The Spinning Heart?(2; Doubleday Ireland), a prizewinning debut told from the viewpoints of 21 people struggling to get by in contemporary south-west Ireland.
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Colum McCann, Dublin-born and now resident in New York, has a talent for animating period and place through the minutiae of his characters' lives. In?
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Catching up
Start with brisk histories that were written to accompany TV series:
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Excuse yourself from Ulysses on the grounds that 900 pages will tip you over the Ryanair luggage allowance, and enter the Ireland of James Joyce through?
Dubliners7; Penguin Modern Classics). Alternatively, sample the work of many of the biggest names of modern Irish writing in?
The New Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction (
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Brushing up
Luck and the Irish9) by R F Foster (Penguin) covers the transformation of 1970 to 2000 – when, as the novelist Colm Toíbín put it,http://siemprelucenacf.es/index.php/component/user/?option=com_content&view=article&id=115cheapjordanshoesfreeshipping.com/bolg,
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Winding down
There’s no better or funnier guide to working-class Dublin than Roddy Doyle in?
The Barrytown Trilogy11; Vintage).
On rural Ireland, few have a surer touch than that master of the short story William Trevor (though he has lived for years in Devon). Many of the characters in his collection?
Cheating at Canasta12; Penguin) are struggling to face reality after a dramatic change in circumstances – as his countrymen as a whole have been doing in recent years. Colm Toíbín,
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The Star Factory14; by Ciaran Carson (Granta) or?
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