From a Low and Quiet SeaLimited edition of From a Low and Quiet Sea, the fifth publication by one of Irelands foremost literary talents. \n \n \nLonglisted for Man Booker Prize 2018. \n \nThree men. Each searching for something he has lost. Each trying to make sense of the road he has chosen. \n \nFor Farouk, family is all. He has protected his wife and daughter as best he can from the ravages of war. If they stay in Syria, they lose their freedom; if they flee, they will

portrait of bohemian social life in 1970s Dublin

literary revival

he spotted an empty bird’s nest and ‘began to smell honey in places where honey could not be’

It is a powerful testament to her enduring influence on the world of dance

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From university he joined the booming showband scene with The Federals in Belfast and The Greenbeats in Dublin

Century of Endeavour: A Biographical and Autobiographical View of the Twentieth Century in IrelandÊby Roy H

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The work ranges across the Irish countryside

uncertainty lead to the realization that this place has become – what the author had always thought was elsewhere – his home

Germany and Australia shows that this ‘growth first