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Looking For Recommendations

thecleverone · 2007-12-06 08:55:17

Hi everyone Just wondering if anyone could recommend a book to me. Its going to be an xmas present for an 85 year old man. I was thinking of maybe getting a book on Ireland in the last 100 years or something. Either Irish History or Irish Lifestyle. Anyone any suggestions? Thanks

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06-12-2007 9:55am

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thecleverone

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Hi everyone

Just wondering if anyone could recommend a book to me. Its going to be an xmas present for an 85 year old man. I was thinking of maybe getting a book on Ireland in the last 100 years or something. Either Irish History or Irish Lifestyle.

Anyone any suggestions?
Thanks

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#2 06-12-2007 11:02am
padraig_f

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History isn't my strong subject but I was listening to the Tubridy show recently and he was raving about this new book Judging Dev. I had a look through it in Easons and it looks nicely produced alright with a lot of photos and scans of original documents and letters. Maybe worth a look.

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#3 06-12-2007 1:38pm
Valmont

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how about American Psycho?;)

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#4 06-12-2007 3:50pm
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he may have already read it but sebastian barry's 'a long, long way' is a great historical fiction book about irish soldiers in the great war. (that is great in the pejorative sense, not meaning good but large or immense.:))

marky

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