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Table of Contents
PART ONE
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
PART TWO
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
PART THREE
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
PART FOUR
Chapter 12
The Commitments
The Snapper
The Van
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
A Star Called Henry
Oh, Play That Thing
Paula Spencer
The Deportees
Brownbread
War
Guess Who’s Coming For Dinner
The Giggler Treatment
Rover Saves Christmas
The Meanwhile Adventures
Wilderness
Her Mother’s Face
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Doyle, Roddy, 1958-
The dead republic / Roddy Doyle. p. cm.
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Young men—Ireland—Fiction. 2.Revolutionaries—Ireland—Fiction. 3. Ireland—Fiction. I. Title.
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