The History of Magpies Book cover type:Hardcover and the tobacco-growing ‘Sinn Fein

and the tobacco-growing ‘Sinn Fein Countess’ tempered a life of privilege with work for Horace Plunkett’s Co-operative Societies and the United Irishwomen

from The Dancing Waiters to Duck Soup in the Black Sea

battling with itself for itself

From the Shannon Pot in Cavan

He died agonizingly from dysentery in a military hospital in the south of England

The History of Magpies Book cover type:Hardcover and the tobacco-growing ‘Sinn FeinHere are twelve scintillating fresh tales by one Desmond Hogan, of Irelands leading writers, who has extended and redefined the tradition of the Irish short story with inimitable verbal force. Embedded in Hogans uniquely glancing poetic style, they form capsule character studies and micro histories of societys underbelly, variously located in the streets and back alleys of Edinburgh, London, Zagreb, Cork, Dublin, and in the small rural townscape