Promises to KeepJohn and Geraldine Gleeson, teenage sweethearts in Carlow, had only one wish in life after they got married: to have a child. Promises to Keep is John Gleeons heartrending account of this couples quest to conceive, of the serious physical damage Geraldine suffered as a result of in vitro fertilization (IVF), and of her tragic death in the National Maternity Hospital in 1993, which led to the hospitals historic admission of negligence in the High

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her government was making a substantial offer to the prisoners

to say nothing of those who simply care about Ireland’s future

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religious devotee

I have tried to present it to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: childhood

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Taken together

I filled the space we'd made with the whine and later the voice of the violin

Romance and politics converged in her relationships with two hard men of nationalist Ireland who each met violent deaths: Michael Collins

Moriarty offers readers paradigms of co-creation and self-interrogation