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Mícheál McCann
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Private Revolutions: Brilliant, often tragic tales of life for women in modern China
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Barbara Kingsolver: ‘The first time I set foot in Ireland I felt so at home. Something about the language, the culture’
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A Great Disorder by Richard Slotkin: Ambitious mapping of America’s past to its present via myth
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Sarah Gilmartin
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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence by Shami Chakrabarti – An ideal introduction to the subject
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New poetry: Rapture’s Road; And Then the Hare; Landscape of the Body; All the Good Things You Deserve
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Martina Evans
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Paschal Donohoe
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Martin Doyle
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Patrick Freyne
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