The Ballymaloe Cookbook
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First published in 1977, The Ballymaloe Cookbook espouses a food philosophy rare for its time, but...
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Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist
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John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years. His accessible fiction...
Down the Crooked Road: My Autobiography
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For the last thirty years, singer Mary Black has been a dominant presence on the Irish music scene,...
Rockne and Jones: Notre Dame, USC, and the Greatest Rivalry of the Roaring Twenties
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Notre Dame's rallying cry was once "Win one for the Gipper." e football series with Army that...
The Shelbourne Ultimatum
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After his brush with death Ross O'Carroll-Kelly - schools rugby legend, award-winning author and...
Alison Pink (7 KP) rated Deadly in Books
Jan 15, 2018
The main character, Pruedence, is a 17 year old girl who leaves school to accept a job with the Dept of Health & Sanitation. It is written as a series of journal writings she makes & tells the story through her musings. She gets swept into the case & it ignites in her a passion for medicine & figuring out how the body works. Prudence makes the story. Without her character struggles this book would be forgettable. It's redeeming quality is the fact that you want to see her reach her dream.
Ross (3284 KP) rated Deadpool Classic Volume 1 in Books
Aug 20, 2018
The final issue is the start of Joe Kelly's tenure as Deadpool writer. Here the banter and 4th wall breaking is turned up a notch and Deadpool starts to feel better defined, albeit still in dire need of a decent enemy to face. However the artwork doesn't quite sit right with me, its all a bit too quirky and cartoony (big hands and faces and every other character has a cigar between his teeth). And adding this one issue into this collection just seems odd, as Deadpool as a character is very different to the previous stories, has a completely different setup and technology and just doesn't fit in at all.
David McK (3475 KP) rated Nightlife (Cal Leandros #1) in Books
Jan 28, 2019
<edit in 2018>
I've just re-read this again, and can fill in a bit more now than my previous 'review' (above).
This falls firmly into the Urban Fantasy genre, mainly told in the first person, with Cal(iban) Leandros the main narrator of the story, and with the Grendels (or Auphe, or Elf!) the main antagonists: the main, but not the only. In this world (or New York), there's also a Boggle in the park, Trolls (at least one) in the underground, Werewolves, Vampires and other associated mythological creatures, including one who takes a prominent role: that of Darkling (whose sisters are the Banshees of Irish myth). Caliban definitely undergoes quite a bit throughout this story with a major transformation in his character taking place roughly about halfway through: read it, and you'll see what I mean!
David McK (3475 KP) rated Trapped (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #5) in Books
Jan 30, 2019
In this, Atticus's apprentice Granuaille has finally nearly finished her training, with a large part of the story dealing with Atticus's attempts to get some peace in order to do so: a peace that keeps getting interrupted by the gods and goddesses of various pantheons, a lot of whom bear a grudge against him for various reasons (with the end of the novel having Atticus trying to make amends for previous actions - personally, I felt this was a bit 'tacked on' - against the Norse pantheon)
Comic relief, as always, is provided by his Irish Wolfhound Oberon (who Atticus can mentally communicate with), providing a much needed dose of lightening to the proceedings.