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Blogs in January 1970

Better Together 1st January 1970

When high-flying journalist Sheridan Gray loses her job, her boyfriend and her flat, she knows she must pick herself up and make a new start. But how will she adjust to small-town living and local reporting? Meanwhile, home-loving Nina...

Connemara: Listening to the Wind (1) 1st January 1970

In its landscape, history and folklore, Connemara is a singular region: ill-defined geographically, and yet unmistakably a place apart from the rest of Ireland. Tim Robinson, who established himself as Ireland’s most brilliant living non-fiction writer with the two-volume...

Dublin Noir 1st January 1970

An anthology of stories, erring toward the noir set in Dublin, under the editorship of Ken Bruen

The Mammy 1st January 1970

The first book in the Agnes Browne trilogy: the basis for Brendan’s BAFTA-nominated ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’ TV series, and ‘Agnew Browne’, a film starring Anjelica Huston and Tom Jones. ‘And what was the cause of death?’ ‘A Hunter’, Agnes...

Brooklyn 1st January 1970

Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman’s terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities...