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The Shielded One

By: Cormac Mcdermott

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Cormac G. McDermott loves to write humorous stories, jokes, jokes poking fun at people's names and funny, real-life poetic analogies!! He has assembled this witty collection of his writings to share with all. Here is an example of one such piece: Rumour has it that Les Reed was sacked as Charlton manager a few years back as he was planning to bring Gabrielle in as cover for Stevie Wonder in the goalkeeping position..........he said she'd been trying to catch an eye or two over the previous few years..........if you decide to tell her this, you can say from me, that for her own sake, more so than mine, instead of keeping an eye out for me, she can keep one in!!!!! I was watching a dance competition on television once when I asked the person next to me what dance the competitors were actually performing..........on hearing the response the tango, I turned around and retorted "that's about as much the tango as Last FOOTSIE In Paris!!!!!

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1426925778

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Birth of the Border

The Impact of Partition in Ireland

By: Cormac Moore

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Birth of the Border

The Impact of Partition in Ireland

By: Cormac Moore

The 1921 partition of Ireland had huge ramifications for almost all aspects of Irish life and was directly responsible for hundreds of deaths and injuries, with thousands displaced from their homes and many more forced from their jobs. Two new justice systems were created; the effects on the major religions were profound, with both jurisdictions adopting wholly different approaches; and major disruptions were caused in crossing the border, with invasive checks and stops becoming the norm. And yet, many bodies remained administered on an all-Ireland basis. The major religions remained all-Ireland bodies. Most trade unions maintained a 32-county presence, as did most sports, trade bodies, charities and other voluntary groups. Politically, however, the new jurisdictions moved further and further apart, while socially and culturally there were differences as well as links between north and south that remain to this day. Very little has been written on the actual effects of partition, the-day-to-day implications, and the complex ways that society, north and south, was truly and meaningfully affected. Birth of the Border: The Impact of Partition in Ireland is the most comprehensive account to date on the far-reaching effects of the partitioning of Ireland.

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Merrion Press

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1785372955

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9781785372957

Love a Dub Dove

By: Cormac G. McDermott BA MEconSc

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Love a Dub Dove

By: Cormac G. McDermott BA MEconSc

This book is one that everyday people will be able to relate to. It is a collection of individual scenes involving ordinary characters having lighthearted conversations. The author repeats some of the characters and uses ones from some of his previous works in order for the reader to familiarise themselves with them. It is similar to a soap opera but is not a continuous storyline and the dialogues often include humorous and witty punchlines.

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1490745718

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A Spree of Comedy

By: Cormac G. McDermott

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A Spree of Comedy

By: Cormac G. McDermott

A Spree of Comedy' is a collection of individual scenes involving ordinary Irish people in everyday circumstances akin to a soap opera but is not a continuous storyline.The author repeats the characters in order for the readers to familiarise themselves with them. These characters are fictitious people whom most people will be able to relate to. The conversations are very light-hearted and often include really funny punchlines. This book allows one to escape the stresses of modern-day living and enjoy a good laugh. It is a work of comic genius!

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Rather Fond of a Double Entendre

By: Cormac G. Mcdermott

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Rather Fond of a Double Entendre

By: Cormac G. Mcdermott

This book is a uniquely witty work through stories, jokes poking fun at people's names, anagrams, bizarrely funny non-sense, jokes and double entendres indicating comic genius. McDermott shows an ability to build his work around small stimulus levels to create punch lines that show extraordinary creativity and imagination. One can't get the impression that the author is making all of his work up as he goes along in a magician-like manner which often concludes in a hysterical fashion and adds to the comical element of the material.

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1466908467

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Cormo Schmormo

By: Cormac G. McDermott

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Cormo Schmormo

By: Cormac G. McDermott

This book is a very creative work. In it the author sets a different scene before writing a dialogue between people, which ends in a very humorous joke or punch line.

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149071409X

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The Comical Macker

By: Cormac G. McDermott Ba Meconsc

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The Comical Macker

By: Cormac G. McDermott Ba Meconsc

This book is a very varied work in which different subjects and branches of humor are employed in a creative and imaginative fashion. The work is a collection of comedy expressed in a really witty way where there is something included for nearly everybody's taste. It is written using a distinct style and indicative of comic genius in many sections that will have the reader doubling up laughing while simultaneously shedding tears hysterically!

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1466990015

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Skitsblitz

By: Cormac G. McDermott

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Skitsblitz

By: Cormac G. McDermott

This book is a series of humorous scenes involving fictitious characters having light-hearted conversations. It moves through various areas of society and often finishes with comical punchlines. It is a work that everyday people will be able to relate to.

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1490721576

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Dub Thy Neighbour

By: Cormac G. McDermott BA MEconSc.

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Dub Thy Neighbour

By: Cormac G. McDermott BA MEconSc.

Dub Thy Neighbour' is a compilation of five scenes. The dialogues are between two neighbours, one of which has been told another neighbour of theirs' is the Counsellor. One of the two men in the conversations informs the other what their neighbour has had to reveal about himself, past, current, and future world events plus his struggles with mental illness all simultaneous with there being a conspiracy against him. The conversations are lighthearted but ones that the reader will find as creative and prophetic revelation as well as humorous. This book is very relevant to the times we are living in and about to enter into. It is a work of creative, imaginative, and prophetic genius.

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1490769676

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Fond of a Double Entendre ... Obviously

By: Cormac G. McDermott

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Fond of a Double Entendre ... Obviously

By: Cormac G. McDermott

Laughs abound on every page as author Cormac G. McDermott presents this collection of jokes and double entendres with wit and verve. He builds jokes around small nuggets of information, culminating in punch lines that shock, amaze, and tickle the funny bone. From sports to music, from food to the business world, no subject is off limits. Youll never look at the English language the same way again. 'A friend said to me, I love Mars bars. ... I quipped, Public houses on the Red Planet are Mars bars also, but if you and your mates were to consume a bar or two of chocolate, it probably wouldnt lead to you ending up getting involved in a sing-song with aliens!! It makes me laugh when I hear people describing something easy as being like stealing candy from a baby. If you were to try take one of those hash lollipops they sell in Amsterdam away from Biffa Bacons Rastafarian six-month-old, it might be a totally different proposition altogether!!

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1426950489

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Lord in the Concorde

By: Cormac G. McDermott BA MEconSc.

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Lord in the Concorde

By: Cormac G. McDermott BA MEconSc.

Lord in The Concorde' is comprised of three chapters. The first is two lengthy scenes involving characters in a north Dublin pub setting. The second chapter is a series of dialogues between two Dublin friends including local colloquialisms. The third and final chapter is a compilation of short general humour snippets with hilarious observations and punchlines. 'Lord in The Concorde' is a work of really typical dry Dublin wit, and shows creative and imaginative comic genius.

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1490799443

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Scritti Is Witty

By: Cormac G. McDermott BA MEconSc

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Scritti Is Witty

By: Cormac G. McDermott BA MEconSc

This book is a compilation of individual scenes involving fictitious characters akin to a soap opera but are not a continuous storyline. They are set in very ordinary circumstances and often include humorous, witty and comical punchlines. It is a work that a lot of regular and everyday people will be able to relate to.

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Lines, Tears & Spirits

By: Cormac G. McDermott BA MEconSc.

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Lines, Tears & Spirits

By: Cormac G. McDermott BA MEconSc.

Lines, Tears & Spirits is a collection of twenty-four scenes. They are not a continuous storyline but start during spring 2015 and move chronologically throughout the rest of the year and into spring 2016. The vignettes involve ordinary people in everyday circumstances, and the author repeats most of the various characters in order for the readers to develop a friendly intimacy with them. The settings are ones that a lot of people will be able to relate to and provide a form of escapism as well as a good few laughs due to the punch lines of dry wit!

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Look!.. the Chuckle Book!

By: Cormac G McDermott

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Look!.. the Chuckle Book!

By: Cormac G McDermott

This book is an extremely witty work in which the author sees the world he lives in from his own unique viewpoint. Allow this book to captivate you as the material is both comic and real-to-life revelation in much of the content of this outstanding masterpiece. From sport, music, life in general, and throughout the various chapters, it will be obvious to the reader that this creation is truly the work of a genius!

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1466947780

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Disrupt and Deny

Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy

By: Rory Cormac

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Disrupt and Deny

Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy

By: Rory Cormac

British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in the affairs of others discreetly and deniably. Since 1945, MI6 has spread misinformation designed to divide and discredit targets from the Middle East to Eastern Europe and Northern Ireland. It has instigated whispering campaigns and planted false evidence on officials working behind the Iron Curtain, tried to foment revolution in Albania, blown up ships to prevent the passage of refugees to Israel, and secretly funnelled aid to insurgents in Afghanistan and dissidents in Poland. MI6 has launched cultural and economic warfare against Iceland and Czechoslovakia. It has tried to instigate coups in Congo, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and elsewhere. Through bribery and blackmail, Britain has rigged elections as colonies moved to independence. Britain has fought secret wars in Yemen, Indonesia, and Oman -- and discreetly used Special Forces to eliminate enemies from colonial Malaya to Libya during the Arab Spring. This is covert action: a vital, though controversial, tool of statecraft and perhaps the most sensitive of all government activity. If used wisely, it can play an important role in pursuing national interests in a dangerous world. If used poorly, it can cause political scandal -- or worse. In Disrupt and Deny, Rory Cormac tells the remarkable true story of Britain's secret scheming against its enemies, as well as its friends; of intrigue and manoeuvring within the darkest corridors of Whitehall, where officials fought to maintain control of this most sensitive and seductive work; and, above all, of Britain's attempt to use smoke and mirrors to mask decline. He reveals hitherto secret operations, the slush funds that paid for them, and the battles in Whitehall that shaped them.

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Oxford University Press

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019108753X

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9780191087530

Citizen convicts

Prisoners, politics and the vote

By: Cormac Behan

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Citizen convicts

Prisoners, politics and the vote

By: Cormac Behan

Prisoner enfranchisement remains one of the few contested electoral issues in twenty-first-century democracies. It is at the intersection of punishment and representative government. Many jurisdictions remain divided on whether or not prisoners should be allowed access to the franchise. This book investigates the experience of prisoner enfranchisement in the Republic of Ireland. It examines the issue in a comparative context, beginning by locating prisoner enfranchisement in a theoretical framework, exploring the arguments for and against allowing prisoners to vote. Drawing on global developments in jurisprudence and penal policy, it examines the background to, and wider significance of, this change in the law. Using the Irish experience to examine the issue in a wider context, this book argues that the legal position concerning the voting rights of the imprisoned reveals wider historical, political and social influences in the treatment of those confined in penal institutions.

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Manchester University Press

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1526101734

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9781526101730

The Hidden Victims

Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars

By: Cormac Ó Gráda

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The Hidden Victims

Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars

By: Cormac Ó Gráda

The two world wars were undoubtedly two of the most catastrophic events in human history, not just for those who actually fought in them, but for untold millions of civilians. And even though the wars' superlativeness is unquestioned, our understanding of exactly how bad the civilian costs were is limited. Although the numbers are better for the two wars than for most earlier wars, gaps and uncertainties remain. States went to great lengths to record military casualties, but civilian fatalities often went uncounted, and figures were often deliberately obscured. In this book, renowned economic historian Cormac O Grada aims to set the record straight, establishing a figure for civilian fatalities that reveals much about the nature of modern war. The book builds on earlier estimates of casualties from a range of causes, some reliable, some approximate at best, and warns against spurious precision when approximations are impossible. For example, while the human toll of the Jewish Holocaust is generally agreed to have been about 6 million, the tolls of two other war genocides, those of the Armenian community in Turkey during World War I and of the European Roma community during World War II, cannot be determined with any precision. (Scholarly estimates of these range from 0.6 to 1.2 million, and from "at least 130,000" to "between 250,000 and 500,000.") During World War II Chinese civilians faced both a civil war and Japanese occupation, and no estimate of the resulting civilian deaths, which range from an implausibly low 2.5 million to 20 million, is reliable. The book shows that the single biggest cause of civilian deaths during the two wars were famines, some of which are familiar and well-documented, while others have attracted research only recently, and a few await systematic analysis. The book covers these as well as genocides, particularly the Jewish Holocaust, and deaths from aerial bombing, and shows how in each of these categories the numbers have been controversial and contested. Most of the book deals with death, but it contains accounts too of the tens of millions of displaced persons and refugees and forced labourers, of civilian trauma, and of sexual violence and other atrocities. In the end O Grada argues that the two world wars cost at least 45 to 50 million civilian lives, almost double the cost in military lives. Addressing the uncertainties and inaccuracies in civilian casualties, the book shows the failings of international law and gives a vital and harrowing understanding of the true cost of war"--

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Princeton University Press

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0691258759

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9780691258751

The GAA v Douglas Hyde

By: Cormac Moore

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The GAA v Douglas Hyde

By: Cormac Moore

On 13 November 1938, just months after his inauguration, President Douglas Hyde attended a soccer match between Ireland and Poland. In a passionate reaction, the GAA declared that by attending a 'foreign game', he had broken Rule 27 – the Ban – and they removed him as patron. One of the most controversial incidents in recent GAA history, it strained relations between the GAA and Éamon de Valera's Fianna Fáil government. It also damaged the standing of the Ban and was used extensively by opponents to argue for its removal.

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Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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1848899742

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9781848899742

Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future

By: Cormac Ó Gráda

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Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future

By: Cormac Ó Gráda

New perspectives on the history of famine—and the possibility of a famine-free world Famines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by the threat of global warming. That is just one of the arguments that Cormac Ó Gráda, one of the world's leading authorities on the history and economics of famine, develops in this wide-ranging book, which provides crucial new perspectives on key questions raised by famines around the globe between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. The book begins with a taboo topic. Ó Gráda argues that cannibalism, while by no means a universal feature of famines and never responsible for more than a tiny proportion of famine deaths, has probably been more common during very severe famines than previously thought. The book goes on to offer new interpretations of two of the twentieth century’s most notorious and controversial famines, the Great Bengal Famine and the Chinese Great Leap Forward Famine. Ó Gráda questions the standard view of the Bengal Famine as a perfect example of market failure, arguing instead that the primary cause was the unwillingness of colonial rulers to divert food from their war effort. The book also addresses the role played by traders and speculators during famines more generally, invoking evidence from famines in France, Ireland, Finland, Malawi, Niger, and Somalia since the 1600s, and overturning Adam Smith’s claim that government attempts to solve food shortages always cause famines. Thought-provoking and important, this is essential reading for historians, economists, demographers, and anyone else who is interested in the history and possible future of famine.

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Princeton University Press

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0691210314

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9780691210315

Burials and Society in Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Ireland

By: Cormac McSparron

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Burials and Society in Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Ireland

By: Cormac McSparron

This book describes and analyses the increasing complexity of later Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age burial in Ireland, using burial complexity as a proxy for increasing social complexity, and as a tool for examining social structure.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1789696321

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A Spree of Comedy

By: Cormac G. McDermott

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A Spree of Comedy

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Fond of a Double Entendre ... Obviously

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Lord in the Concorde

By: Cormac G. McDermott BA MEconSc.

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Lord in the Concorde

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Lines, Tears & Spirits

By: Cormac G. McDermott BA MEconSc.

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Fond of a Double Entendre

By: Cormac G. McDermott

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Fond of a Double Entendre

By: Cormac G. McDermott

Fond of a Double Entendre is a humorous and often-risqué look at the world through jokes and double entendres. No subject is taboo, as celebrities, athletes, and politicians alike are lampooned with equal aplomb. Laughs abound on every page, as author Cormac G. McDermott imbues his collection with wit and verve. He displays an uncanny ability to build jokes around small nuggets of information, culminating in punch lines that shock, amaze, and tickle the funny bone. Sit back, relax, and prepare to laugh as you work your way through the pages of Fond of a Double Entendre. You'll never look at the English language the same way again!

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