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The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately verse in a vivid, contemporary idiom.

Like Emily Wilson’s celebrated translations of Homer, this new Aen…

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The Road to Wigan Pier

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The Invincibles: The Phoenix Park Assassinations and the Conspiracy that Shook an Empire

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Ulysses

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety…

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The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus

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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania

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A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

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Three Castles Burning: A History of Dublin in Twelve Streets

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The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People

A magisterial account of one of the worst disasters to strike humankind—the Great Irish Potato Famine—conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great Mortality

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In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocida…

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Harrier 809: The Epic Story of How a Small Band of Heroes Won Victory in the Air Against Impossible Odds

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Translations

The action of this play takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag - an Irish speaking community in County Donegal. The 'scholars' are a cross-section of the local…

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The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World

In The Great Shame, Thomas Keneally--the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's List--combines the authority of a brilliant historian and the narrative grace of a great novelist to pr…

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