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Blending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the gaping holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story.In 2015, the Irish government commissioned an investigation into the state's network of Mother and Baby Homes after the discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of up to eight hundred children prompted international outrage. The homes, which operated from the 1920s to the 1990s, were responsib...

How far would you go for the missing?When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she found out she had a cousin, Mary, who she had never met. In 1950s Ireland, Clair's uncle had got his lover Lily pregnant and gone to England, leaving her and the family farm - his inheritance - behind. Lily and Mary ended up in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, not far from her grandmother's farm where Clair spent happy childhood summers, with no idea that Mary exis...

A fascinating and unique title that explores immigrant history in post-war Britain.

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A study of representations of Irish emigrant culture and Irish immigrants in Britain.

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When the world descended into war in 1939, few European countries remained neutral, but of those that did, none provoked more controversy than Ireland. Despite Winston Churchill's best efforts to the contrary, the Irish premier Eamon de Valera stuck determinedly to Ireland's right to remain outside a conflict in which it had no enemies. Accusations of betrayal and hypocrisy poisoned the media, legends of Nazi spies roaming the country depicted...

Paul Muldoon's poetry has always been known for its complexity, its use of various forms, its allusions, as it opens up to all the contemporary and modernist forces of disorder, contingency, and confusion. For this reason critical studies of his work are most helpful, and Clair Wills's new study examines all his poetry, including his latest collection Hay. She offers close readings of many of the major poems, assesses his unmistakable style, a...