Surviving The Evacuation, Book 3: Family
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The undead rose. Nations collapsed. Some people survived. Three months after escaping from London,...
The Mersey Girls
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Spring 1913, and seventeen-year-old Evie Murphy is leaving her native Ireland for the city of...
Freckles
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Sometimes the people who have the power to change your life are the ones who have been there all...
Irish Literature
Brigid is the daughter of a slave and a chieftain, and she narrowly escapes marriage to a man she doesn’t want, when a goddess hears her prayers. She helps her from this point on, and this is where the blurring between goddess/ paganism and catholicism starts - in a good way.
Brigid builds her sisterhood, cloaks it in religion and makes a safe haven for women in what would have been a brutal time for them. One of my favourite themes, found family, is prominent in this, along with sisterhood and religious politics.
I’m off to find The Morrigan, and I’m hoping that Kim Curran will continue to introduce us to the Irish folklore that I know far too little about.
David McK (3721 KP) rated Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Hellboy 2) (2008) in Movies
Feb 15, 2026
This time around, Hellboy and his comrades from the BPRD find themselves facing off against a ruthless prince (played by Luke Goss), who wishes to awaken the Golden Army of the title in order to destroy mankind.
This comes across as more 'fairy-tale'y than I remember the last film as being, perhaps because of the larger array of creatures here, and in the heavy-lifting of the exposition (which, I've only recently learned, Neil Gaiman was involved in) at the front.
It's also about the only film I can think of that ends near the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland! (although the stereotypical Irish accent annoys)
This is a funny, engaging book (a bit cringy during the sex scenes, but I suspect that might just be the convent-school educated girl in me ??♀️ ). The story was very enjoyable, although I did feel that she jumped into another relationship rather quickly (ahem, convent school...). But after listening further, it does make sense. She hadn’t been happy for a while, it seems. I loved the teenaged girls in the family - I think she wrote them realistically. I loved the family members too, and you get a real feel for an Irish family, and family dynamics generally. A great, fun book, with a few rather teary moments. Lots of feels, people!
The Parkhurst Years: My Time Locked Up with Britain's Most Notorious Criminals
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'The next stage meant that there was no going back. An Irish prisoner stepped forward and slipped a...
Wellington
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The archetype of the stern, silent Englishman dedicated to his duty, the Duke of Wellington had all...
A Guide to Britain and Ireland
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Britain and Ireland form a group of small but fascinating countries, teeming with ancient history,...