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Desi's Diary Archive

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Archive
12/1997- My Real Teachers
01/1998- A Magic Hour At Christmas
02/1998- 18th Century Memoirs, New Irish Poetry
03/1998- Irish History
04/1998- Literary Journals
05/1998- Good Cop, Bad Cop!
06/1998- Tracing Family Roots
07/1998- The Land Of Opportunity
08/1998- When Will They Ever Learn, When Will We
09/1998- Irish Writing - The Gems Within
10/1998- I Survived The Foire De Caen
11/1998- From Macau To Tully Cross
12/1998- The West's A-Book-Wake
01/1999- Freedom Is A Mountain Called Everest
02/1999- Back To The Valleys
03/1999- And These Our Exiles
04/1999- From Hors-La To Literary Pubs
05/1999- Comme Les Autres Nous Voient
06/1999- Bloomsday Edna Style
07/1999- New York, New York
08/1999- Books For Siblings
09/1999- The Changeling And The Head Of George
11/1999- A Minor Classic
12/1999- Some Book Thoughts For The Millennium
01/2000- Joy To The World
02/2000- The Library
03/2000- International Woman's Day 2000
04/2000- In Defence Of The Short Story
05/2000- In Defence Of The Hardback
06/2000- Half-Way There
07/2000- Goin' To A Baffle
08/2000- Of Libraries And Horses
09/2000- An Island Exodus
10/2000- Cameos Of History
11/2000- The Unique Christmas Gift
12/2000- Shift Fada
01/2001- Renvyle Reconnaissance
02/2001- Ulster Fry
03/2001- Fair Play to Him
04/2001- Tales Of A Salesman
05/2001- The Sinews Of Our History
06/2001- Faces
07/2001- A Lazy Summer Afternoon's Reading
08/2001- All History Is Local
09/2001- Speaking Of Roots
12/09/2001- To Our American Friends
10/2001- Tales From A Clare Seanchaí
11/2001- This Month To The Day
12/2001- The Haunted Mind
01/2002- The Old And The New
02/2002- Down The Island
03/2002- Stair Díolachan Leabhar Gaeilge i Kennys
04/2002- South Of The Pole
05/2002- Poetry - The Mind's Elixir!
06/2002- Le Pressing - Est En Vacance!
07/2002- On Reading Books In Pubs
08/2002- A Big Grey Gander It Was
10/2002- Nature Of The Beast
12/2002- It'll Never Catch On In Arigna
01/2003- This Has Nothing To Do With Books
02/2003- In Defence Of Snoring - Tale Of Two Books
04/2003- A Tale Of Two Authors
05/2003- These Our Exiles
06/2003- Revisiting Old Friends
07/2003- On The Importance Of Literary Magazines
08/2003- The Changing Face Of Bookselling
09/2003- Of Two Books And A Pamphlet
10/2003- A Bookman's Holiday
11/2003- The Cinderella Of Literature
12/2003- The Reality Of Beauty
01/2004- The Craft Of Writing
02/2004- Stories Of Stinky And Stoney Brennan
03/2004- Torrents Of Joyce
05/2004- Oh! Most Censorious Of Nations!
06/2004- With Skehana - The Sky's The Limit
07/2004- Time For A Laugh
09/2004- The American Dream
10/2004- History - A Democratic Science?
11/2004- The Really Good Book
12/2004 - The Tale Of Our Town
01/2005 - The Irish In Khaki
02/2005 - The Enigma Of Dylan
03/2005 - "You Gotta Have Collateral, Des"
04/2005 - The Power of Land
05/2005 - The Changing Face of Bookselling
06/200 5- The McCormackan Footnote
07/2005 - A Wild Swan's Revenge
08/2005 - The Classic Replay
09/2005 - The Book Nasi-Goreng
10/2005 - Pieces Of Eight, Pieces Of Eight
11/2005 - A Labyrinth Of The Mind
12/2005 - The Shakespearean Riddle
01/2006 - Brave New Book World
02/2006 - An Irish Narcissism
03/2006 - Collins The Man
04/2006 - Introducing Mr Browne
05/2006 - In Search of Folk
06/2006 - The Readers Test
07/2006 - War A La Fisk
08/2006 - Ireland's Cultural Volcano
09/2006 - A Change of Gears
10/2006 - Ex Libris
11/2006 - The Reality of Wonder
12/2006 - These Limitless Skies