E-raamat: Little Republics

Provides gentle questions about major unexplored assumptions about modern Irish society evoke[ s] the spare storytelling of the late John McGahern builds a layered story that provides the backdrop to so much that became magical moments in modern Irish literature and drama important, thoughtful and insightful.  Conor Skehan, Sunday Independent terrific Duncan brings a poet-engineers eye to the houses and fleshes out the fascinating socio-economic background, the circumstances which gave rise to the bungalow boom. Michael Moynihan, Irish Examiner A beautiful book to read something so hopeful about housing was a real joy  Donal Fallon and Gavan Reilly on Newstalk He is equally sensitive to the psychical as to the physical properties of space Little Republics shows the Irish people's expressed desire to choose the form and manner of their own habitation, a fact too often ignored in the current discourse around housing  Diarmuid McGreal, Totally Dublin Exberliner Berlin Author of the Year 2022 Duncan includes enough practical detail here to satisfy the technically enquiring reader, but this is also a memoir of Duncan's childhood (his father was an engineer) and a look at Ireland hauling itself into the 20th century, even if only in its final couple of decades. The writing is, of course, a thing of beauty as Duncan's writing persistently is. This book will undoubtedly find its place in our important history annals to come.  Anne Cunningham, Meath Chronicle