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Introduction © Éamonn Keane


The pen drawing by Jack B. Yeats is reproduced by kind permission of Anne and Michael Yeats.


ISBN: 978 0 85342 406 2

Epub ISBN: 978 1 78117 510 1

Mobi ISBN: 978 1 78117 511 8


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