Brendan O'Carroll
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
The hilarious and remarkably honest autobiography from the star of Mrs Brown's Boys, Brendan O'Carroll
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Before he became the nation's favourite Mammy, Brendan O'Carroll was known simply as Brendan.
The youngest of ten children from a poor family in Dublin, his father died when he was just nine years old. Leaving school at the mere 12 years of age, Brendan began what would become a long and varied working life; he would
2) The mammy
Author
Series
Agnes Browne novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Agnes Browne faces the hardships and rewards of raising seven children on her own in a 1960s working-class Dublin neighborhood.
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Series
Language
English
Description
This first pictorial history of the LRDG "covers all aspects of [its] work and the vehicles and weapons they used in their devastating raids" (Beating Tsundoku).
The Long Range Desert Group has a strong claim to the first Special Forces unit in the British Army. This superb illustrated history follows the LRDG from its July 1940 formation as the Long Range Patrol in North Africa, tasked with intelligence gathering, mapping and reconnaissance deep...
Author
Language
English
Description
A history of the British Army unit's deployment to and defense of a group of islands between Greece and Turkey during World War II.
Shortly after the invasion of Sicily, in order to distract German attention from the Italian campaign, Churchill ordered the occupation of the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean.
The Long Range Desert Group, retraining in Lebanon, were now part of Raiding Forces, Middle East, along with the Special Boat Service and No...
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Language
English
Description
Formed in 1940 the Long Range Desert Group was the first Allied Special Forces unit established to operate behind German and Italian lines in North Africa. Its officers and men were volunteers recruited from British and Commonwealth units. Merlyn Craw was serving with the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force when he joined the LRDG in 1941. He took part in numerous missions in the desert. The navigational driving and fighting skills of the LRDG were...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
TV's funniest and proudest mother, Agnes Brown, is back with the second season of her hit BBC comedy show. Mrs. Brown, the loveable Dublin matriarch, continues her quest to meddle and interfere in the lives of her long-suffering six children, with even more shocking and hilarious consequences.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Join the mother of all comedy, Agnes Brown, as she indulges in her favourite pastime - meddling in the lives of her six children! Whether she's tackling love, life, death or dealing with the in-laws, Mrs. Brown is the domineering but loveable mother hen that you wouldn't mess with! Prepare for a riot of bad behavior - it's a little bit rude, a little bit crude and hysterical fun for everyone.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The third season sees Agnes and her family feeling the effects of the recession. Rory and Dino can't afford a place to live, Mark and Betty may be forced to emigrate to Australia and Agnes' kitchen is falling to pieces. But never one to let life get her down, Agnes handles all these problems in her own inimitable and hilarious way. And anyway, as she often says - everything always turns out the way it's supposed to.