'Vivid, memorable and beautifully crafted’ - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater It is a vivid, even eccentric collection, filled with life and Joycean spirit. The Book About Everything counters the perception of Ulysses as the sole preserve of academics and instead showcases readers' responses to the book. Irish obstetrician Rhona Mahony responds to Oxen and the Sun, set in a maternity hospital, journalist Lara Marlowe examines the Aeolus episode, which takes place in a newspaper office, and Irish philosopher Richard Kearney reflects on the erudite musings of Stephen Dedalus as he walks along Sandymount strand. Joseph O'Connor considers the music-saturated Sirens episode and David McWilliams writes about the bigotry and violence of nationalism on display in Cyclops. Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects treated in the novel, but what brings them together is a common love of Ulysses. To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text. Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber is both the page-turning biography of a remarkable woman and a groundbreaking account of the inner workings of a terrorist organization. Sean O'Driscoll's Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber tells the astonishing story of Rose Dugdale, who went on to become a committed terrorist, participating in a major art heist and a bombing raid on a police and army barracks who kept a pregnancy secret for nine months in prison and gave birth there and who ended up at the heart of the IRA's bomb-making operation during its deadly final spasms in the 1990s.
In 1972, the deadliest year of the Northern Irish Troubles, she travelled to Ireland and joined the IRA. At thirty, she commenced giving her inheritance away to the poor. She trained at Oxford as an academic economist and had a love affair with a female professor (who was on the rebound from Iris Murdoch). She was presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace as a debutante in 1958. The astonishing story of the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRA She grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate.
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