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But it is the book's centerpiece, "Station Island," that is most likely to find its way into anthologies. Set on Ireland's noted isle of pilgrimage in Lough Derg, Donegal, the long poem describes two journeys, one a pilgrimage of prayer, the other a search for self. That quest...
Thus began what jubilant I.R.A. supporters quickly dubbed the "Great Escape." The 38 men-convicted killers, bomb experts and kidnapers from the I.R.A.'s militant Provisional wing-had broken out of the compound considered until then to be perhaps the most escape proof in Europe. The biggest prison break...
So begins this loopy yarn, set in the misty, myth-ridden hills and bogs of County Donegal, northwest Ireland. Once his victim is buried deep in the peat, Roarty begins to receive demanding notes from "Bogmailer."The mystery meanders with Irish indirection to a surprising last-minute plot twist, employing...
Stewart Mcllroy may or may not have been born around 1915 in County Donegal, Ireland. Other facts of his life are equally vague. But to two London doctors who spent four years investigating hospital records in the British Isles, one thing about Mcllroy is certain: he is an incurable hospital...
It was a brilliantly sunny, almost windless day at the little fishing village of Mullaghmore overlooking Donegal Bay on Ireland's northwest coast. Lord Louis Mountbatten, 79, the distinguished war hero, diplomat and elder statesman of Britain's royal family, was summering as usual at his turreted stone...