Title:
Monday's Warriors
Author:
Maurice Shadbolt
Genre:
Fiction
Publisher:
David R. Godine Publisher
Release Date:
1990
Pages:
308
Taking a Yankee, putting him into the British army and throwing him into the middle of the Maori Land Wars of the 1860s could almost be seen as over-egging the pudding yet Kimball Bent of the State of Maine in the USA, Maurice Shadbolt’s anti-hero in Monday’s Warriors, is based on a real man. Sometimes life is, indeed, stranger than fiction
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Title:
A Paradiso Year
Author:
Denis Cotter
Genre:
Cooking
Publisher:
Attic Press
Release Date:
2006-02-01
Pages:
148
To my sorrow I must admit that I have only once eaten in Denis Cotter’s award-winning Café Paradiso restaurant in Cork. But that one time, nearly ten years ago now, was mostly memorable for my first taste of polenta. My sociologist student friend felt it was deeply ironic that I should be writing my thesis on the Irish Famine at the time and
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Title:
Rachel's Favourite Food for Friends
Author:
Rachel Allen
Genre:
Cooking
Publisher:
Gill & Macmillan
Release Date:
2005
Pages:
224
First there was Myrtle Allen who was responsible for singlehandedly raising the profile and quality of Irish food through her work abroad and in her country house hotel at Ballymaloe. Daughter-in-law Darina backed her up, beginning the Ballymaloe Cookery School and, with her Simply Delicious television series and books, started pushing the message
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Title:
At Home At Play
Author:
Penny Oliver
Genre:
Cookery
Penny Oliver, the New Zealand author of Beach, Bach, Boat, Barbeque, has returned to outdoor pursuits for her latest book At Home, At Play. With fabulous photographs of rivers, cooking over outdoor fires, mountains, camping with frost on tents, kayaking and heavy snowfalls, she intersperses her recipes – divided into chapters called Eat Up
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Title:
The Dancer
Author:
Christine Dwyer Hickey
Genre:
Dublin
Publisher:
New Island Books
Release Date:
2005-04-01
Pages:
351
Many readers first discovered Christine Dwyer Hickey through her acclaimed novel Tatty. This story of dysfunctional family life, longlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize, was not Dwyer Hickey’s first publication. Tatty had been preceded by her Dublin Trilogy – The Dancer, The Gambler and The Gatemaker – and these books are now being
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Title:
100 Best Restaurants in Ireland 2006
Author:
John McKenna, Portfolio Books Limited, Sally McKenna,
Release Date:
2006-12
Pages:
143
With 15 years of eating and sleeping the length and breadth of the country in a tireless quest for the best of the best, John and Sally McKenna have it down to a fine art. This year’s editions of The Bridgestone 100 Best Restaurants and The Bridgestone 100 Best Places to Stay are as wonderfully opinionated and idiosyncratic as ever. And also
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Title:
Atlas of Cork City
Author:
edited by John Crowley, Robert Devoy, Denis Linehan and Patrick O'Flanagan
Genre:
Geography
With UCC as my alma mater and the Historian as my Bibliofemme name, it was to be expected that the Atlas of Cork City, published by Cork University Press, would appeal. This tome – there are nearly 500 lavishly illustrated pages – boasts contributions from more than 60 experts, concentrating particularly on the areas of history, geography
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