A General Theory of Oblivion
Daniel Hahn and Jose Eduardo Agualusa
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Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2017. A finalist for the Man Booker...
Two More Pints
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Two men meet for a pint - or two - in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights,...
With Our Blessing
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THE TOP TEN IRISH BESTSELLER. Shortlisted for the 2015 Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller...
Freckles
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Sometimes the people who have the power to change your life are the ones who have been there all...
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Caffeinated Fae (464 KP) rated Down London Road (On Dublin Street, #2) in Books
Jul 12, 2018
I loved seeing the struggle between the characters. I loved that this novel was realistic on the emotional front. We all have the insecurities that Jo felt or that Cam felt. I think that Samantha Young did an amazing job at making us care about the characters in her book.
I didn't think that she could write another novel as spectacular as "On Dublin Street" but I was wrong.
Travels with Tom Crean: Antarctic Explorer: 2016
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In 2001, actor Aidan Dooley wrote a play about a Kerryman called Tom Crean who stood shoulder to...
Con Colbert: 16lives
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Con Colbert was one of the lesser-known leaders of the 1916 Rising. From a comfortable background in...
Mama Tina: The Christina Noble Story Continues
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In 1989, driven by a dream and the memory of her own past, Christina Noble travelled 6,000 miles to...
CHILLFILTR (46 KP) rated Bottle It In by Kurt Vile in Music
Jun 5, 2019 (Updated Jun 5, 2019)
If you haven't heard of Kurt Vile yet, you are missing out. His sound more or less defines modern lo-fi folk rock, and his live shows are a staple of music festivals around the world: you might hear him (with support from The Violators) at the Take Root Festival this October in Groningen, Netherlands, or Dublin, or Brooklyn, this November. It's a roots band backing this bardic guru of young seekers everywhere.
Some interesting guitar lines through a vocoder, lyrics which feel half sung and half spoken, and a sense that this is the sound of something different, something creative; it's water in this desert of sameness that our pop landscape has become. And there is this feeling that the music here is just a bit raw, very human, and unadorned; it's not exactly alt-folk, it's not exactly anything, it's Kurt Vile.