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Dalkey is een vredig, saai kustplaatsje op pakweg twintig kilometer ten zuiden van Dublin. Maar niets is wat het lijkt. Het is ook de plek waar August

The first literary phase in the brilliant and protean career of Conor Cruise O'Brien was his work as critic for Dublin literary magazine The Bell, whi

Arguably Conor Cruise O'Brien's most influential and admired book was this brilliant collection of essays - on history, literature and public affairs

When Conor Niland was 16, he got the chance to hit with Serena Williams at Nick Bollettieri's famed tennis academy. Conor, the Irish junior number one

'A spirited attack on Thomas Jefferson . But Conor Cruise O'Brien proposes - in this magisterial 1998 work - that Jefferson's own passions waned in th

Conor Cruise O'Brien's penetrative reading of Albert Camus, Nobel laureate and author of L'Etranger and La Peste, was originally published in 1970.

Written in 1972 in the wake of Bloody Sunday and direct rule, this book offers a searching analysis of contemporary Irish nationalism: part-memoir, pa

Whereas to O'Brien's mind the 'suspecting glance' was a mark of political maturity that had to be first directed at one's own opinions prior to decryi

Conor Cruise O'Brien's brilliant and hugely controversial 1965 essay on the political convictions of W. O'Brien is, moreover, a critic against all-com

In Herod: Reflections on Political Violence (first published in 1978) Conor Cruise O'Brien collects a number of essays alongside three short plays tha

July 1960: The newly independent Congo is hit by the secession of its mineral rich-province Katanga, led by Moïse Tshombe and backed by Belgium and Br

Focuses on the figure of Charles Stewart Parnell, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party and formidable proponent of Home Rule whose career was abrup

Conor Cruise O'Brien's majestic meditation on the life and writings of Burke was originally published in 1992. 'O'Brien [had] been brooding on Edmund

Focuses on the international, political, religious, social, and diplomatic forces affecting the history of the Jews who identified with Zionism and la

From the author of the classic novel 'At-Swim-Two-Birds' comes this ingenious tale which follows the mad and absurd ambitions of a scientist determine

The story of Dusty Springfield from the people who knew her, from her troubled childhood to 60s mod queen and enduring pop music icon.

The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin, drinks too much with his friends and invents stories peopled with hilarious and unlikely ch

Nadat ze wordt gevangen, ontvoerd en uitgehuwelijkt aan een lid van Boko Haram, is de jonge hoofdpersoon van deze roman onderdeel van een gemeente die

A pioneering biography re-evaluating the life and legacy of transcendent musician Karen Carpenter.