Paul Daly

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Paul is Currently Reading

Paul Daly is currently reading

Murder as a Fine Art (Thomas De Quincey, #1)

by David Morrell (Goodreads Author)

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May 23, 2026 05:44PM

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The Lady from Zagreb (Bernie Gunther, #10)

by Philip Kerr

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May 02, 2026 10:34AM

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Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape

by Manchán Magan

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Paul’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Inventing Ireland: The Literature of a Modern Nation

Inventing Ireland: The Literature of a Modern Nation by Declan Kiberd

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“Imperialism” in this text is a term used to describe the seizure of land from its owners and their consequent subjugation by military force and cultural programming: the latter involves the description, mapping and ecological ...more

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Paul’s Quotes

“Even when you were completely wrong about something, the journey into your wrongness was always fucking interesting.”
― Adrian McKinty, I Hear the Sirens in the Street

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“Nuns didn’t age in human years,”
― Caimh McDonnell, Dead Man's Sins

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“You grew up in Dublin in the seventies and eighties. It was as white as white could be. Sure, we’ve diversified now, but back then, if it snowed we couldn’t feckin’ find each other.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Quiet Man

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“Is neamhbhuan cogadh na gcarad; má bhíonn sé crua, ní bhíonn sé fada,”
― Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground

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“My point is, I’m a fan of music, but jazz isn’t music. Jazz is some cockwomble in a beret, wanking himself off with a saxophone.”“Sax-a-phobic, are we?”“Don’t come that with me, Clarence from the E Street Band is a legend, but he’s not doing a twenty-minute atonal arse-clenching solo that sounds like someone sodomising a goose.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Angels in the Moonlight

tags: jazz

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