Cadenus & Swift's Most Valuable FriendThese books are being reissued as they appeared in the first Dolmen Press editions in one composite volume, with an invaluable, contextual introduction by eighteenth century Swift scholar Andrew Carpenter. He assesses the reaction of Swifts serious biographers and commentators to the original publications: two remarkable books, driven by sympathetic and intuitive enquiry, which made an important contribution to Swift studies when they appeared in the

when she finds her home is infested with fleas

And a blind woman only truly realizes her blindness when forced to abandon her home

loyalists or tories in the American colonies

a young Irishman working as an art critic in Paris

and the glitter and rarity of a Faberge egg

a noted arranger of Irish music

near Kilmaine

Building on modern research

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where they were both living

Irish Names reveals the cultural depth and historical resonance behind traditional Irish names

the Hennessys of Cognac