Telling Tales: The Fabulous Lives of Anita LeslieEnormously entertaining A witty, elegantly written account of the many lives of a flawed, unconventional woman. Fascinating. Marian Keyes \n \nAnita Leslie was a celebrated biographer who wrote extensively on subjects who were often her own relatives, such as her great aunt Jennie Churchill, mother of Winston, and the sculptor Clare Sheridan, a cousin. She also wrote a life of Rodin in Rodin: Immortal Peasant (1939) and the best selling Edwardians in

While Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) was above all a poet

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vivid renderings of individual experiences

a once-feted journalist/author with writer’s block

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in over twenty lively discourses

Schirmer is the author of books on Austin Clarke and William Trevor and of Out of What Began: AHistory of Irish Poetry in English

reinstituting a Birdreign in which all things live ecumenically with all things

reveal his views on art

explores the controversy around antidepressants and how little we know about them—even as she acknowledges that the medication saved her life—and sifts through the history of the hospital where her recovery began

There is an age-old saying that Cavan has ‘a lake for every day of the year’

is home to a unique style of traditional Irish music