On a little glass shelf above the chimp, the lacy bones of a tiny white-handed gibbon's upright and humanlike skeleton presided, like a fanged angel with arms that reached its ankles. The suspension of the human skeleton gave visible ...
... of Roddy Doyle's novels. It was the city's central artery, the Liffey, that held my attention, though, and I found a version of it in stone on the walls of the Custom House. Enormously long, gleamingly white, and heavily adorned ...
The author describes her experiences traveling in Ireland, and shares her impressions of the countryside
Recounts the author's travels in Ireland, with reflections on the microcosm of Irish history, with its invasions, colonization, emigration, nomadism, and tourism
A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism.