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'Orpen at War' published by The Liffey Press, tells of Irish artist William Orpen (1878-1931) at the Somme as an official British war artist during WW1. Bombarded by artillery, dodging bullets, crawling through filthy trenches, he witnesses the grim reality of conflict as he paints the war.

The First Rose of Tralee published by Poolbeg.. This story is the inspiration for the annual Rose of Tralee International Festival, held each August.It tells of servant girl, Mary O'Connor (182?-1845) and her love affair with the master of the big house, set against the backdrop of Daniel O'Connell's 1800 Repeal of the Union between Ireland and Britain.

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“The air of those rooms was saturated with the fine bouquet of a silence so nourishing, so succulent, that I never went into them without a sort of greedy anticipation, particularly on those first mornings, chilly still, of the Easter holidays, when I could taste it more fully because I had only just arrived in Combray[...]”
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