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  • 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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    18,94 €

  • 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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    19,13 €

  • 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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    19,08 €

  • 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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    19,18 €

  • 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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    25,57 €

  • 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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    17,64 €

  • 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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    13,46 €

  • 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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    18,93 €