View Poll Results: Which Irish book would you like to read in March?

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  • The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker*

    3 9.68%
  • The Dead School by Patrick McCabe

    1 3.23%
  • Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde*

    2 6.45%
  • Dubliners by James Joyce*

    10 32.26%
  • Watt by Samuel Beckett

    3 9.68%
  • The Master by Colm Tóibín

    0 0%
  • Father’s Music by Dermot Bolger

    1 3.23%
  • The Tain as translated by Cairan Carson

    7 22.58%
  • The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor

    1 3.23%
  • The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

    3 9.68%
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    Dont worry about it! (gives evil eye) I'm not a fan of the dubliners.... just thought it would be nice to get everyone familiar with our legend.
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    I know a great Irish legend ... Samuel Beckett! Is no one curious about Watt?

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    Not another Dubliners vote. I'd been kind of hoping people would steer from the safe and go for the new when it came to Ireland. we have so much more to offer than Joyce and Wilde.... Okay rant over...
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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    That is why I suggested William Trevor.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    Not another Dubliners vote. I'd been kind of hoping people would steer from the safe and go for the new when it came to Ireland. we have so much more to offer than Joyce and Wilde.... Okay rant over...

    Good point... I'd have had LOADS of other suggestions that didn't make the final list...If only I'd found this site earlier! Maybe I should've voted for the Tain

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    ney bother Cailin! and yes you should have discovered this site earlier!
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    Not another Dubliners vote. I'd been kind of hoping people would steer from the safe and go for the new when it came to Ireland. we have so much more to offer than Joyce and Wilde.... Okay rant over...
    I've ordered The Tain, I'd really like to read it regardless.
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    I don't want to read either. What do I do?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    I don't want to read either. What do I do?

    you still have time for a "Trouser Campaign"


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    I think I will read more than just the winner for Ireland.
    But I haven't read anything by Joyce, so that's why I wouldn't mind to read The Dubliners.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    I don't want to read either. What do I do?
    Get all your buddies together and make them Vote The Tain!...I mean...Trouser.....
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
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    I think we should read Joyce. I've been wanting to for awhile now and I'll be glad to have the excuse to take a break from class reading to do it.

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    looks like i'm going to have to find my copy then... although i think i gave it to a charity shop....
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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    Oh well, I guess I got to find my copy too.
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    yeay Aimus!!!!
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
    Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer


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