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All you'll need and more!

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...It was around four months ago that I was introduced to the work of Eva Gore-Booth. Sister of Constance Markievicz, Gore-Booth moved away from her aristocratic heritage in Ireland to live in Manchester at the end of the nineteenth-century. It was there tha ...

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Review of Eva Gore-Booth: An Image of Such Politics - Sonja Tiernan

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"The shamrock is growing on the grave of James Connolly..."

Advantages: informative, engaging, a lot of information!
Disadvantages: Not the easiest to read for an introduction to Connolly!

..."There are no flowers blooming but the shamrock is growing on the grave of James Connolly, the Irish Rebel." - The Ballad of James Connolly It was inevitable that my studying of the Easter Rising was going to allow James Connolly to be introduced into my ...

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Review of The Life and Times of James Connolly - Charles Desmond Greaves

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Read, Enjoy but Don't Assume it's Always this Way

Advantages: It's possibly the only easy read on thyroid cancer that you can find
Disadvantages: It's too over the top and you need to remember it's just ONE person's experience

The Battle with the Butterfly If you'd asked me a year ago where my thyroid was or what it did I'd have had to plead ignorance but I'm now all too familiar with the little butterfly shaped organ that controls metabolism and sits at the base of your n ...

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Review of Dirty Bombshell: From Thyroid Cancer Back to Fabulous - Lorna J Brunelle

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Awesome book

Advantages: Great read
Disadvantages: Be prepared to shed a few tears

Hello all First let me say that I am not a writer, so please forgive any errors in my grammer. Want folks to know Lorna's book is a great read. You do not have to be a survivor to enjoy. Both my husband and i who are healty thought it was gre ...

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Review of Dirty Bombshell: From Thyroid Cancer Back to Fabulous - Lorna J Brunelle

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"Film has gone from Citizen Cane to Candy Cane" - Orsen Wells!

Advantages: Interesting stuff
Disadvantages: Not saucy enough

Mike Medevoy was and is a very famous movie producer form the early 1970s, 80s and 90s, still dabbling a bit now, but not quite the power he was, hence the tell all book on his life. He rose to power through Universal Studios, going from mail room boy to ...

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Review of You're Only as Good as Your Next One: 100 Great Films, 100 Good Films and 100 for Which I Should be Shot - Mike Medevoy

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