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15 produkter
My Father’s Watch
The Story of a Child Prisoner in 70s Britain
Av Patrick Maguire, Carlo Gébler
Häftad, 2009
164 kr
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The intensely moving memoir of Patrick Maguire, one of the ‘Maguire Seven’, wrongly imprisoned as a teenager for making bombs for the IRA.On the night of October 5 1974, an IRA unit left bombs in two Guildford pubs: five people were killed. On the night of December 3 1974, on the strength of …
My Father’s Watch
The Story of a Child Prisoner in 70s Britain
Av Patrick Maguire, Carlo Gébler
E-bok, 2008
96 kr
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The intensely moving memoir of Patrick Maguire, one of the `Maguire Seven’ wrongly imprisoned as a teenager for making bombs for the IRA.On the night of October 5 1974, an IRA unit left bombs in two Guildford pubs: five people were killed. On the night of December 3 1974, on the strength of …
Father And I
A Memoir
Av Carlo Gebler
Häftad, 2001
307 kr
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The story spans nearly a hundred years. In Carlo Gebler's early childhood, his relationship with his father, Ernest, was a disaster. A man of the left, Ernest's politics had been 'hammered out in the nineteen thirties'. His early life as the son of a Jewish immigrant was spent working as a rat …
Siege Of Derry
A History
Av Carlo Gebler
Häftad, 2006
283 kr
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THE SIEGE OF DERRY is one of the key flash points in the troubled history of Ireland and Britain. In 1688 William of Orange had claimed the English throne, forcing the catholic James II to flee to Ireland. From there he hoped to mount his comeback. In December of that year James' troops attempted …
W9 and Other Lives
Stories
Av Carlo Gebler
Inbunden, 2000
225 kr
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Stories in an international setting by an Irish writer. The title story describes the effect on parents of a son's suicide, in Telephone Sex a woman wrongly accuses her man of infidelity, and in Four Pesos a tourist betrays a Cuban maid to the authorities.A collection of shorts stories features a …
Siege Of Derry
A History
Av Carlo Gebler
E-bok, 2008
45 kr
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THE SIEGE OF DERRY is one of the key flash points in the troubled history of Ireland and Britain. In 1688 William of Orange had claimed the English throne, forcing the catholic James II to flee to Ireland. From there he hoped to mount his comeback. In December of that year James'' troops attempted …
Father And I
A Memoir
Av Carlo Gebler
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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The story spans nearly a hundred years. In Carlo Gebler''s early childhood, his relationship with his father, Ernest, was a disaster. A man of the left, Ernest''s politics had been ''hammered out in the nineteen thirties''. His early life as the son of a Jewish immigrant was spent working as a rat …
Bull Raid
Av Carlo Gebler
E-bok, 2013, 9-12 år
62 kr
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The proud queen of Connacht demands to own the Brown Bull of Ulster, and attacks on the first day of winter, knowing an ancient curse will cripple all the men of Ulster until the first day of spring.Only Cuchulainn, a half-immortal, is immune and takes on the Connacht army on his own, killing …
Black Dreams
Strange Stories from Northern Ireland
Av Ian Sansom, Jo Baker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
219 kr
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I don’t recall if I saw my first gunman in my childhood nightmares or on my childhood streets.There were plenty in both and they looked very much like each other.So begins Reggie Chamberlain-King’s introduction to The Black Dreams, a thrilling and compelling collection of specially commissioned …
Aesop's Fables
The Cruelty of the Gods
Av Carlo Gébler
E-bok, 2019
138 kr
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A witty, scatological illustrated version of the world's most celebrated fables, allegedly written by a slave in the 5th century BC. A book for our times: as Gébler notes, Aesop has two subjects – the exercise of power and the experience of the powerless, who endure life and all that it inflicts on …
NO ONE TELLS YOU
The Last Years of Edna O'Brien
Av Carlo Gébler
Inbunden, 2026
221 kr
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As Ireland’s iconic Edna O’Brien confronts the brutal realities of old age – pain, confusion, hospitals, carers, the battle to keep writing – the world she built through language begins to contract. Her son Carlo tracks every flicker of resilience and every devastating loss, from the comic to the …
Dead Eight
Av Carlo Gebler
E-bok, 2011
106 kr
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A stunning and critically praised novel by acclaimed Irish writer Carlo Gébler, this book addresses the miscarriages of justice endemic in the Irish judicial system. On a wet November morning in 1940, Harry Gleeson discovered the body of Moll McCarthy in a field near the village of New Inn, Co. …
I, Antigone
Av Carlo Gébler
Inbunden, 2021
175 kr
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After her father’s death in exile, Antigone returns to Thebes determined to set the record straight and restore her father’s reputation. Tracing the histories of Oedipus and his parents Laius and Jocasta, as well as the peripheral characters of the plays who had a central role in him fulfilling his …
A Cold Eye
Notes from a Shared Island, 1989–2024
Av Carlo Gébler
Häftad, 2024
194 kr
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If the past is another country – what happens when we revisit it, one day a year?Carlo Gébler has done just that. Here is the story of Ireland – from the tail end of the Troubles to the Good Friday agreement, to the glory days of the Celtic Tiger to the recession to Brexit and on to the present, …
I, Antigone
Av Carlo Gébler
Ljudbok, 2022
213 kr
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'I, Antigone, have closed my eyes. My voice is deep and quiet, dark and slow, like a river moving over rocks, never stopping, never ceasing, endless. He was wholly at fault, and he was entirely innocent. This is true of us all if we only knew it. His fate is everyone’s. I, Antigone, have opened my …
