The Family BusinessAnother first in my life: at the age of thirty one I brought a girlfriend home. Kathleen sat on the chaise longue, small legs crossed, one tiny toe resting on my mothers lime green pouffe, her petite nose wrinkling with distaste as she looked about our family den. Through her eyes I regarded the rusticated fireplace, the crenellation of photos above, the grey cloth donkey creels full of real turf crumbs from the West propped against the ormolu clock.

McCormack describes ‘Sheridan Le Fanu and Greater Chapelizod‘

\n \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n \nMADELINE KINGSTON was born in County Fermanagh and graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1967

and make a case for his continuing relevance to the vexed questions of Irish and European identities

This lavishly illustrated

Despite market dominance by Scotch in this century

including The Private Sector

and a prodigal dissenter

dramatising an intense struggle for personal and cultural identity

Certainly these qualities are well illustrated in this collection

\n \nCombing humorous but indispensable advice with hilarious cartoons from Merrily Harper

the clothes on our backs

maps and charts