epub |eng | | Author:Constance Emmett [Emmett, Constance]

Sitting in the stands that lined the Queen’s University bathhouse, Meg continued to peel off her outdoor garments in the stifling heat, hotter even than the Tropical Ravine at the ...

epub |eng | 2022-10-11 | Author:Paul M. Duffy

Chapter 16 The Spectre of the Earl We jumped out of the boat as it passed alongside the stone pillar at the mouth of the Steyne. We battled to the ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jean Reinhardt

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Mary smiled as the sound of a baby’s laughter filled the house. She was preparing a rare meal of cooked chicken and the children were stuck indoors on ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jean Reinhardt

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Paddy Mac was shorthanded and when that happened on a busy night everyone knew to order two drinks at a time, which made him work twice as hard ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jean Reinhardt

CHAPTER SIXTEEN As Martin Butler’s five young children left the table, they each grabbed one more slice of bread and laughed while their father pretended to admonish them for their ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey Walker [Walker, Jeffrey K.]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Sean There was clean hay, unlike places Sean had slept during his first Eastertide with the IRA. He’d bedded down on floors or in doorways during those horrible ...

epub |eng | 2022-08-26 | Author:James Carroll

5 “I know who you are.” “I can’t imagine that you do.” “You’re her friend. So am I. I’m Ruth Koch. Nice to meet you, Mr. Brady.” “Are you her ...

epub |eng | 2015-06-09 | Author:Ralph Williams [Williams, Ralph]

CHAPTER TEN Afew days later when Harry was hunting for cock-a-bullies in the deep drain outside the tent he was surprised to see a great black car pull up. It ...

epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:David Fennell

Chapter 8 The Office at Puddle Dock Starling stands on the deck watching the sun rise over east London as Eoin steers The Outcast along the Thames and towards a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Joanne C. Parsons

Months passed. No benefactor appeared. Paddy confided his disappointment to his wife, “I can’t believe it. Not one man has stepped up. I thought we’d have the money in hand ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jean Reinhardt

Chapter Eighteen The failed uprising of the Young Irelanders in 1848 saw some of them going to America and others to France. James Stephens, John O’Mahoney and Michael Doheny, among ...

epub |eng | | Author:Katrina Nowak [Nowak, Katrina]

26 August 1, 1914: Road to County Wicklow, Ireland Colin at last broke his gaze with Nora. It’s me country too. The words echoed in his mind. She had a ...

epub |eng | 2016-07-23 | Author:Jean Grainger [Grainger, Jean]

The days that followed went as funerals always do, in a blur, while simultaneously seeming interminable. Hugo came from Greyrock, and the three friends spent a lot of time together ...

epub |eng | | Author:Orna Ross [Ross, Orna]

* * * Christmas dinner at the Yeats house has descended into argument. It began harmless enough, with JB starting a Christmas speech on the state of the family, of ...

epub |eng | 2022-06-28 | Author:Steve Sem-Sandberg

IV. The Candlemaker Conversely, however, the bodily life, which is received into the consciousness and which cannot be experienced without it, is susceptible to attack by every human sickness (if, ...