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... singer/actress known for the song Stormy Weather (4) 5. Tourist island in the Bay of Naples (5) 6. 'The Agents, novel by Joseph Conrad 7. Prophet of the Bth century B.C. whose writings form one book of the Old Testament (4) 9. Name given to a hypothetical ...

Published: Thursday 29 June 2006
Newspaper: Kerryman
County: Kerry, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 318 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

NOW AND THEN

... co-founder of the Wells- Fargo Express service; 1916 Sir Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (executed for treason); 1924 Joseph Conrad, novelist; 1529 Emile Berliner, inventor of the flat phonograph record; 1954 Colette, writer; 1966 Lenny Bruce, comedian; ...

Published: Thursday 03 August 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 367 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Internet offers lots of cool choices

... novel to devour? Then this is the site for you. There's an amazing range of books to read from the likes of Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy. As already mentioned, reading a whole book on a PC screen is not ideal but, if you're looking for a way ...

Published: Wednesday 14 March 2001
Newspaper: Enniscorthy Guardian
County: Wexford, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 399 | Page: 91 | Tags: none

Internet offers lots of cool choices

... novel to devour? Then this is the site for you. There's an amazing range of books to read from the likes of Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy. As already mentioned, reading a whole book on a PC screen is not ideal but, if you're looking for a way ...

Published: Wednesday 14 March 2001
Newspaper: New Ross Standard
County: Wexford, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 414 | Page: 75 | Tags: none

In Casement, Ireland has one true hero

... he waved to Casement in the dock the prisoner simply smiled back at him as if to say What's all this nonsense about? Joseph Conrad, the famous novelist, thought there was a touch of the conquistador in Casement. I have seen him often walk into the ...

Published: Sunday 23 July 2006
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 436 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

ber how Mr Clarke brought Animal Farm alive and even sang the Beasts of England song for us to the

... that sends certain unfortunate people into a state of apoplexy. Foe me, the literary torture came courtesy of Thphoon by Joseph Conrad. This was an excruciating experience and one that turned me off Conrad and related works forever. This makes me seem c ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 2009
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 417 | Page: 75 | Tags: none

WAITING IN THE WINGS Pope's homeland reaches EU criteria

... them anglicised their names so you may not have realised it. There's Nobel Prize Winner Marie Curie, Frederic Chopin, Joseph Conrad, film-maker Roman Polanski and, more recently, Liverpool goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek. Some of those with Polish roots who changed ...

Published: Monday 14 October 2002
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 417 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TREAT

... have a memorable evening there. Whitbysteads is a glorious, unfussy, family home with a library of books from Balzac to Joseph Conrad, collected by Thomas's legendary late mother, the Hon Lavinia Lowther. She would sit at the dining table with drink and ...

Published: Thursday 19 October 2006
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 565 | Page: 131 | Tags: none

Internet offers lots of cool choices

... novel to devour? Then this is the site for you. There's an amazing range of books to read from the likes of Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy. As already mentioned, reading a whole book on a PC screen is not ideal but, if you're looking for a way ...

Published: Wednesday 14 March 2001
Newspaper: Wexford People
County: Wexford, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 420 | Page: 87 | Tags: none

AS WE KNOW FROM

... book ever convinced me that the Apocalypse was so close. Favourite book? Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad. Favourite film? In the week of his death, Ingmar Bergman's Persona, The Seventh Ceal and the extraordinary Scenes From ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 2007
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 401 | Page: 68 | Tags: none

Sunday short story competition in 1999. He now has a publishing deal, and his first novel Coralena, is out this

... Glasgow — but now lives in north London. What's currently on your bookshelf? Disgrace by J M Coetzee, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, and 7he Magician of Lublin by saac Bashevis Singer. ; What books are on your bedside table? The pile includes Aunt Julia ...

Published: Sunday 07 April 2002
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 408 | Page: 68 | Tags: none

George Kerevan says the current defence plan cannot be funded on present estimates -- so something is going to ..

... east of Suez again. Said George: “We must now be prepared togo to the crisis, rather than have the crisis come to us.” Joseph Conrad and john Buchan could be heard-cheering from their graves. . The centrepiece of the new strategy consists of two new fleet ...

Published: Friday 08 June 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 440 | Page: 24 | Tags: none