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The 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, famous for introducing the character …
Eileen Brennan
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Eileen Brennan, whose low, coarse timbre was a fixture of the stage and screen …
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Buried treasure on a remote Irish island, the descendants of a 13th-century Knight and a …
Remembering Seamus Heaney.
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