Little Republics: The Story of Bungalow Bliss
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‘Provides gentle questions about major unexplored assumptions about modern Irish society … evoke[s] the spare storytelling of the late John McGahern … builds a layered story that provides the backdrop to so much that became magical moments in modern Irish literature and drama … important, thoughtful and insightful.’ – Conor Skehan, Sunday Independent
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781843518488
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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‘Provides gentle questions about major unexplored assumptions about modern Irish society … evoke[s] the spare storytelling of the late John McGahern … builds a layered story that provides the backdrop to so much that became magical moments in modern Irish literature and drama … important, thoughtful and insightful.’ – Conor Skehan, Sunday Independent
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‘terrific … Duncan brings a poet-engineer’s eye to the houses and fleshes out the fascinating socio-economic background, the circumstances which gave rise to the bungalow boom.’ – Michael Moynihan, Irish Examiner
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‘A beautiful book … to read something so hopeful about housing was a real joy’ – Donal Fallon and Gavan Reilly on Newstalk
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‘He is equally sensitive to the psychical as to the physical properties of space … Little Republics shows the Irish people's expressed desire to choose the form and manner of their own habitation, a fact too often ignored in the current discourse around housing’ – Diarmuid McGreal, Totally Dublin
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Exberliner Berlin Author of the Year 2022
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‘Duncan includes enough practical detail here to satisfy the technically enquiring reader, but this is also a memoir of Duncan's childhood (his father was an engineer) and a look at Ireland hauling itself into the 20th century, even if only in its final couple of decades. The writing is, of course, a thing of beauty as Duncan's writing persistently is. This book will undoubtedly find its place in our important history annals to come.’ – Anne Cunningham, Meath Chronicle
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