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Freedom of the City
By Brian Friels

The Troubles (background to the troubles in Northern Ireland)
"The Troubles refers to the period of violent conflict in Northern Ireland beginning with the Civil Rights marches in the late 1960s to the political resolution enshrined in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. During that time more than 3,000 people were killed, most of them civilians. Explore the history of the period through articles, video footage, audio clips and photographs."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/troubles/

CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet): Northern Ireland Conflict 1968 to the present
"This site contains information and source material on 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present. There is also information on politics in the region and Northern Ireland society. New material is added regularly to the site..."

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/

Behind the Mask: The IRA & Sinn Fein
Companion to a 1997 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Frontline program on the Northern Ireland conflicts, the Irish Republican Army (IRA), and the IRA's political wing, Sinn Fein. Provides a timeline of Northern Ireland politics, expert commentary, interviews, a map, readings, poetry and songs, and related information.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ira/

Irish political parties & significant political organisations
http://larkspirit.com/general/parties.html

Overview of Ireland's troubled history from the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/nireland/overview.htm

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon

Powell's Books : author interviews
http://www.powells.com/authors/haddon.html

Asperger's Disorder Homepage
http://www.aspergers.com/

Kid's Health : Asperger's Syndrome
http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=287&id=2339

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Doggedly tackling life ; VCE EXPRESS - TEXT TALK - THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME; Avril Moore - Avril Moore lectures in text and culture at Holmesglen Institute
The Age (Melbourne) 10-15-2007

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte

The Literature Network
http://www.online-literature.com/brontec/

The Victorian Web : Charlotte Bronte
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/bronte/cbronte/bronteov.html

The Brontes
http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/brontes/charlotte/charlotte.asp

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Go To: Blooms Literary Reference Online

Jane Eyre e-Book
http://www.literature.org/authors/bronte-charlotte/jane-eyre/

The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini

Interview: Khaled Hosseini discusses his childhood in Afghanistan and his novel "The Kite Runner".
Ghosts of the Past.

A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemmingway

The Hemmingway Resources Centre
http://www.lostgeneration.com/

Hemmingway as his own Fable by Alfred Kazin.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/64jun/6406kazin.htm

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The Outsider
by Albert Camus

The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare

Collected Stories
by Peter Carey

The Hamilton Case

Honour

Much Ado About Nothing

A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove

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