This is the Life: Days and Nights in the GAA
By: Ciarán Murphy
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
The GAA is Ireland's largest civil society organisation, woven into the fabric of families and comm…
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4. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
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5. The Heart in Winter
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4.61
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13. The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin
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3.82
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14. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
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15. Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War
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16. This is the Life: Days and Nights in the GAA
By: Ciarán Murphy
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
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4.38
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19. The Grass Ceiling
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4.33
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20. A Hundred to One: 100 convictions. 1 Million Euro. The devastating true story of a compulsive gambler
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