2009. Paperback. Bog/Paperback 142 lch. It is the Easter weekend of 1949, the date of the declaration of the Irish Republic, but in the city of ?Ballycastle?, Martin Melody, a pub-crawling university student, and his disreputable friends are too busy drinking and lusting after girls to pay much attention to this significant political development. Breand�n � hEithir, drawing upon rich personal experience of life in the west of Ireland, paints a rackety picture of sniffly landladies, crackpot academics, hectoring clergymen, bosomy barmaids, warring politicians, cute hoors of Garda sergeants, dolled-up virgins, fierce-eyed old warriors full of memories of the Civil War, and dockside down-and-outs in this, one of Ireland?s most evocative and hilarious novels of modern times. Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # 9781905560523

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Title: Lead Us Into Temptation

Publisher: CLO IAR

Publication Date: 2011

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Edition: 3rd Edition

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Set over the Easter weekend of 1949, the date of the declaration of the Irish Republic, a big day in the history of Ireland, but in the city of 'Ballycastle', Martin Melody, a pub-crawling university student, and his disreputable friends are too busy drinking and lusting after girls to pay much attention to this significant political development. Breand�n � hEithir, drawing upon his rich personal experience of life in the west of Ireland, paints a rackety picture of sniffy landladies, crackpot academics, hectoring clergymen, bosomy barmaids, warring politicians, cute hoors of Garda sergeants, dolled-up virgins, fierce-eyed old warriors full of memories of the Civil War, and dockside down-and-outs in this, one of Ireland's most evocative and hilarious novels of modern times

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A translation by Breandan O hEithir (1930-1990), author and social commentator, of his best-selling original novel Lig Sinn i gCathu, first published in 1976, and the only Irish-language novel to top Ireland's bestseller list. The book is set in a university town, a thinly disguised Galway City, in 1948, the year Ireland declared itself a republic and withdrew from the Commonwealth. But Martin Melody, a pub-crawling university student, and his disreputable friends are too busy drinking and lusting after girls to pay much attention to this significant political development.

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