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  • Sive
    John B. Keane
    Large Text Format: Featuring new notes written by English teacher and daughter of John B. Keane, Joanna Keane O’Flynn. Suitable for both Senior and Junior cycle classes.Sive is a young and beautiful orphan who lives with her uncle Mike, his wife Mena and his mother Nanna. A local matchmaker, Thomasheen Sean Rua, wants Sive to marry an old man called Sean Dóta. Thomasheen convin...
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    22,87 €

  • The Buds of Ballybunion
    John B. Keane
    From the author of internationally renowned author of Sive. The Buds come to Ballybunion for their yearly break before the snows of winter whiten the hills. (Bud is an abbreviation of the Gaelic word, Bodaire, meaning a sort of rough, country person). They bring with them their own eggs, bacon, bread, butter, jam, cabbage, spuds, etcetera. They pay for their lodgings and the la...
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    18,81 €

  • Letters of a Civic Guard
    John B. Keane
    Leo Molair is a member of the guards and here we find him writing to his nephew who is also a guard but of a mere two years standing. Guard Molair is a mine of information about his people and knows more about them than they know themselves. After all he has been their guardian day and night for twenty-five years. Since his job has been created by the follies and weaknesses of ...
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    18,81 €

  • Strong Tea
    John B. Keane
    John B. Keane was born in Listowel in 1928. Educated at St. Michael’s College he has worked as a chemist’s assistant, assistant to a fowl-buyer, furnace-operator and clerk. Son of a widely respected teacher W. B. Keane, John B. started to write seriously when he returned from England in 1953. He owns and runs a public house in Listowel, is married and has three sons. He has wri...
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    28,26 €

  • The Chastitute
    John B. Keane
    ’A Chastitute is a person without holy orders who has never lain down with a woman . . . a rustic celibate by force of circumstance peculiar to countrysides where the Catholic tradition of long-life sexual abstemiousness is encouraged and . . . free-range sex is absolutely taboo . . .’ John Bosco, who hasn’t the ’makings of a dacent sin in him’, is a bachelor farmer and all is ...
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    16,70 €

  • The Highest House on The Mountain
    John B. Keane
    The Highest House on the Mountain examines the tension between brothers, fathers and sons. When Mikey’s son Patrick comes to visit with his new wife, he is quickly followed by his brother Connie, a scheming ne’er-do-well who sets out to destroy Patrick’s marriage and Mikey’s bond with his brother Sonny. The only escape from the final tragedy is to the highest house on the mount...
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    20,06 €

  • The Little Book of John B. Keane
    John B. Keane
    The best and most humorous lines in all John B. Keane’s writings, selected by himself and presented in convenient small format. The book includes the classics:’A play about sex in Ireland is always ahead of its time.'He thought felo de se was a chap from Ballybunion.'The secret of sex is not to take it seriously.'Marriage is a long, difficult confrontation with short outbreaks ...
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    14,07 €

  • Christmas Stories
    John B. Keane / John BKeane
    According to the irrepressible John B Keane, 'When Christmas came to our street it came with a loud laugh and an expansive humour that healed old wounds and lifted the hearts of young and old.'In this collection of Christmas tales, he gives us stories of romance, love, fairies and wise men from the East to entertain and enlighten during the festive season. In these accounts of ...
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    18,69 €

  • The Rain at the End of the Summer
    John B. Keane / John BKeane
    An unplanned pregnancy brings disorder to the otherwise amicable O’Brien household and the various characters are torn apart by their beliefs in the best way to deal with the pregnancy.Keen but never unkind, the attention of Ireland’s best-loved writer falls on human vanities and frailties of all kinds. ...
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    18,89 €

  • Many Young Men of Twenty
    John B. Keane / John BKeane
    Many Young Men of Twenty, a musical play, deals with emigration and the lack of jobs at home that forced people to leave their native Ireland for England. It describes the emigrants ’longing for home - ’Everyone is lonesome leaving home’ - their annual homecomings and their return to jobs and places they disliked - ’back to their night shifts, an’ filthy digs ... with their lon...
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    18,83 €

  • Big Maggie
    John B. Keane
    The story of Big Maggie Polpin and her attempts to keep her family together after the death of her husband is an enduring theatre favourite. The dialogue crackles with hilarious, caustic putdowns as the indomitable Maggie deals with her feckless family and unwanted suitors. Everyone wants a part of Big Maggie and her property, but she has other ideas. John B. Keane’s wonderful ...
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    18,94 €

  • The Short Stories of John B. Keane
    John B Keane
    All human life is here, and Keane tells its story in an astonishing procession of remarkable characters and in rare humorous glimpses of his own career. There are more shades to John B. Keane’s humour than there are colours in the rainbow. Compassion, shrewdness and a glorious sense of fun and roguery are evident in this collection, which brings together John B. Keane’s tales. ...
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    20,98 €

  • Sive
    John B. Keane / John BKeane
    Featuring new notes written by English teacher and daughter of John B. Keane, Joanna Keane O’Flynn. Suitable for both Senior and Junior cycle classes.Sive is a young and beautiful orphan who lives with her uncle Mike, his wife Mena and his mother Nanna. A local matchmaker, Thomasheen Sean Rua, wants Sive to marry an old man called Sean Dóta. Thomasheen convinces Mike and Mena t...
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    18,94 €

  • The Street
    John B Keane / John B. Keane
    John B. Keane was a spirited, charismatic and generous man who will forever occupy a special niche in the hearts and minds of Irish people everywhere. This is a fascinating collection of many well-known John B. Keane poems and, for the first time, his songs, selected and edited by his daughter Joanna Keane-O'Flynn. It includes; The Street, My Father, The Sive Song, Sweet Li...
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    17,47 €

  • The Best Of John B Keane
    John B. Keane / John BKeane
    John B. Keane is known nationally and internationally as a successful playwright, handling tragedy and comedy with equal art, and as a prose fiction writer of great invention and skill. Yet an equal claim to fame is made by the hundreds of short pieces which have been published in more than a dozen highly popular collections, their titles ranging from the polemical to the surre...
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    28,88 €

  • Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane Vol. 1
    John B Keane / John B. Keane
    Tull MacAdoo TD is kept busy procuring jobs and IRA pensions for deserving voters and keeping his spendthrift son under control. Somehow he must also contest an election and save his reputation while holding fast to his personal philosophy and forage between honesty and crookedness and do the best you can’. Martin O’Mora, the Parish Priest of Lochnanane dispenses justice in his...
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    26,26 €

  • High Meadow
    John B Keane
    A High Meadow is full of comedy, tragedy and melodrama, all centred around the village of Ballybobawn and Eddie Drannaghy, the Ram of God (a former trainee priest who was cynically seduced by the American wife of his cousin, fathered a child and was forced to leave the seminary), and his brothers Murt and Will.John B. Keane weaves an inimitable tapestry of rural life: people go...
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    28,59 €

  • Sharon’s Grave
    John B Keane / John B. Keane
    Sharon's Grave is a play that deals with a man's ruthless lust for land, which overrides all family loyalties, and can ultimately lead to tragedy. The action takes place in a small farmhouse on an isolated headland on the south-western seaboard of Ireland. ...
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    18,83 €

  • Contractors
    John B Keane
    This is the story of Dan Murray, who emigrated to England in 1952. He finds work as a building labourer and in time he becomes a building contractor. John B. Keane captures the turbulent, bawdy, anarchic life of Irish contractors and labourers as they try to make it big in England. Told in his usual hilarious and bulls-eye accurate style. ...
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    25,78 €

  • Durango
    John B Keane / John B. Keane
    Durango is an adventure story about the great October cattle drive of Tubberlick. Set in rural Ireland during the Second World War, this novel features the themes of love, sex, money and betrayal. Durango has been made into a film starring Brenda Fricker, Patrick Bergin and Pat Laffin. ...
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    24,71 €

  • Moll
    John B. Keane / John BKeane
    Moll is a hilarious and highly successful comedy about life in an Irish country presbytery.’When a presbytery gets a new housekeeper it becomes like a country that gets a change of government, or like a family that gets a new stepmother’. Moll Kettle would work for no less than a canon for, in her own words, ’Tis hard to come back to the plain black and white when one is used t...
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    17,40 €

  • The Field
    John B. Keane / John BKeane
    The Field is John B. Keane’s fierce and tender study of the love a man can have for the land and the lengths of ruthlessness he will go to in order to obtain the object of his desire. It is dominated by the Bull McCabe, one of the most famous characters in Irish writing today.  An Oscar-nominated adaptation of The Field proved highly successful and popular worldwide, and starre...
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    18,88 €

  • Big Maggie
    John B. Keane / John BKeane
    The story of Big Maggie Polpin and her attempts to keep her family together after the death of her husband is an enduring theatre favourite. The dialogue crackles with hilarious, caustic putdowns as the indomitable Maggie deals with her feckless family and unwanted suitors. Everyone wants a part of Big Maggie and her property but she has other ideas. ...
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    18,68 €