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Sebastian Barry
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born
July 05, 1955
in Dublin, Ireland
gender
male
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The Secret Scripture
   3.69 avg rating — 4,252 ratings
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2008
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33 editions
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A Long Long Way
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2005
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On Canaan's Side
3.83 avg rating — 893 ratings
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2011
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The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
3.93 avg rating — 315 ratings
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published
1998
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Annie Dunne
3.73 avg rating — 282 ratings
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2002
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The Steward of Christendom
3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
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1995
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Our Lady of Sligo
3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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1998
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Pride Of Parnell Street
3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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2008
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The Only True History of Lizzie Finn/the Steward of Christendom/White Woman Street: Three Plays
by Sebastian Barry, Fintan O'Toole 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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1996
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Tales Of Ballycumber
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“After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.”
― Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
― Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
“Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.”
― Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
― Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
“And all those boys of Europe born in those times, and thereabouts those times, Russian, French, Belgian, Serbian, Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, Italian, Prussian, German, Austrian, Turkish – and Canadian, Australian, American, Zulu, Gurkha, Cossack, and all the rest – their fate was written in a ferocious chapter in the book of life, certainly. Those millions of mothers and their million gallons of mother’s milk, millions of instances of small talk and baby talk, beatings and kisses, ganseys and shoes, piled up in history in great ruined heaps, with a loud and broken music, human stories told for nothing, for ashes, for death’s amusement, flung on the mighty scrapheap of souls, all those million boys in all their humours to be milled by the millstones of a coming war.”
― Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way
― Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way
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