Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have writt

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The Man Booker prize-winning author's selection of the best Irish short stories of the last sixty years, following Richard Ford's bestselling Granta Book of the

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