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The story of Michael Dwyer - the Wicklow Chief - a revolutionary idealist, an inspirational guerrilla leader, and a violent alcoholic.
From his humble beginnings as a Wicklow farmer, the story of Dwyer's life takes him from Ireland to Australia, from poverty to wealth, and from incarceration to freedom - from everybody but himself.
This gripping and moving account of Dwyer's life will stay with you long after you have turned the final page.
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The last roundup (Roddy Doyle) volume 3
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After being saved from death by none other than Henry Fonda and engaging in a brief but ill-fated collaboration with legendary director John Ford, Irish rebel Henry Smart ends up settling into a quiet life in a village north of Dublin, where he finds work as a caretaker for a boys' school and takes up with a widow O'Kelly (who may be his long-disappeared wife). But a political bombing in Dublin in 1974 puts him in the spotlight, and suddenly the secret...
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The last roundup (Roddy Doyle) volume 1
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Roddy Doyle’s acclaimed novel about an intrepid Irishman’s years of reckless heroism and adventure – “An extraordinarily entertaining epic.” (The Washington Post)
Born at the beginning of the twentieth century, Henry Smart lives through the evolution of modern Ireland, and in this extraordinary novel he brilliantly tells his story. From his own birth and childhood on the streets of Dublin to his role...
Born at the beginning of the twentieth century, Henry Smart lives through the evolution of modern Ireland, and in this extraordinary novel he brilliantly tells his story. From his own birth and childhood on the streets of Dublin to his role...
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