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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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In an Irish graveyard, the corpses are distracted by local jealousies and petty disputes assuming global importance. Their banter is full of news of above-ground happenings, received from the recently arrived. As we listen in on the gossip, rumors, backbiting, complaining, and obsessing of the local community, we learn that in the afterlife the same old life goes on beneath the sod.-- Source other than library of Congress.
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Publisher
National Trust for Scotland
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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A survey of the graveyard in Village Bay, Hirta, St Kilda was undertaken by the first St Kilda Archaeologist, Lorna Johnstone, in 1996. This included a physical plan, photographic and written record and a discussion of the available written and oral sources of information. The current report is intended as an update of the 1996 survey, detailing changes to the graveyard and its current condition, through written descriptions and photographic record...
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English
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When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still looking for him - after all, he is the last remaining member of the family. A stunningly original novel deftly constructed...
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Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning journalist Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of graveyards. Who are London's outcast dead and why is David Bowie their guardian angel? How did a thousand skulls come to be stacked beneath a church in Kent? Why is the music hall star who sang 'I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside' buried on a hillside in Glasgow far from the sound of the silvery sea? All of these sorrowful...
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