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 The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones

The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones by Rich Cohen

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Keith laughed quietly—dull wheeze, muted hack—grabbed his doctor’s bag, stood. Time to rehearse. But before he left, he paid me a compliment that’s carried me through many hardships: “I’ll tell you what. Charlie likes you. He really likes ...more

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Paul’s Quotes

“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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“She was her mother’s favorite saying come to life. The cure for everything is salt water: tears, sweat, or the sea.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

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“In Bunny’s opinion, good pubs weren’t built, they were carefully grown over time. No two were the same, and if they were, then they weren’t proper pubs to begin with.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Disaster Inc

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“Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.”
― Adrian McKinty

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