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dublin (ireland)

The carnival at Bray

a novel
2014
It's 1993, and Generation X pulses to the beat of Kurt Cobain and the grunge movement, sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch is uprooted from big-city Chicago to a windswept town on the Irish Sea and wonders if she will ever find her place in this new world.

Ulysses

2008
In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, June 16, 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin.

Dubliners

2007
A collection of fifteen stories by James Joyce that cover childhood, adolescence, maturity, and the political chaos in Ireland around 1891.

The commitments

1989
A group of fame-starved, working-class Irish youths with a passion for the music of Sam Cooke and Otis Redding form a band and a plan to bring Soul to Dublin.

Heart and soul

2009
After spending a year establishing and successfully running the local clinic, Doctor Clara Casey is hesitant to walk away from her rewarding position.

The dead

2013
A married couple must face shocking secrets and betrayal at a holiday party held by the husband's two elderly aunts.

The lilac bus

stories
1992
A collection of short stories by Irish author Maeve Binchy, telling about the lives and motivations of a group of seven people who make the commute from Dublin to the Irish country town of Rathdoon every weekend on Tom Fitgerald's lilac-colored minibus; and including four dramas of life in modern Ireland.

A portrait of the artist as a young man

authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
2007
Traces the childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood of Stephen Dedalus, a character based on author James Joyce's life. Includes essays on related history and contexts, a selection of criticism, and a bibliography.

Dubliners

authoritative text, contexts, criticism
2006
Presents James Joyce's vignettes of Irish life in fifteen stories on Dublin, and includes background materials, eight interpretive essays, explanatory annotations, and other study aids.

Shining city

includes Come on over
2005
Presents the script of "Shining City," a drama about a Dublin man who seeks help from a therapist after seeing the ghost of his recently deceased wife, catching both men up in a struggle between life and death.

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