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      <title>Off the Shelf 6th February 2010.  Presenter:  Andy O'Mahony.  Producer:  Bernadette Comerford	</title>
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      <description>Harold Macmillan by Charles Williams discussed by Ronan Fanning and Charles Lysaght.</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>Harold Macmillan by Charles Williams discussed by Ronan Fanning and Charles Lysaght.</itunes:subtitle>
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      <description>Eamonn McCann, Máirin de Burca and John A. Murphy discuss The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers Party by Brian Hanley and Scott Millar. </description>
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      <title>Off the Shelf 16 January 2010.  Presenter:  Andy O'Mahony.  Producer:  Bernadette Comerford	</title>
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      <description>Judging Lemass by Tom Garvin discussed by Mary E. Daly, John Horgan, and Ronan Fanning.  </description>
      <itunes:subtitle>Judging Lemass by Tom Garvin discussed by Mary E. Daly, John Horgan, and Ronan Fanning.  </itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>Off the Shelf 9th January 2010. Presenter: Andy O'Mahony. Producer: Bernadette Comerford  	</title>
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      <description>The Morbid Age: Britain Between the Wars by Richard Overy (Penguin) discussed by Selina Guinness and James Downey. </description>
      <itunes:subtitle>The Morbid Age: Britain Between the Wars by Richard Overy (Penguin) discussed by Selina Guinness and James Downey. </itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>Off the Shelf 2nd January 2010.  Presenter:  Andy O'Mahony.  Producer:  Bernadette Comerford 	</title>
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      <description>Ita Daly and John Boland discuss short stories by James Lasdun and Kazuo Ishiguro.</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>Ita Daly and John Boland discuss short stories by James Lasdun and Kazuo Ishiguro.</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>Off the Shelf 19th December 2009.  Presenter:  Andy O'Mahony.  Producer:  Bernadette Comerford	</title>
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      <description>When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World by Martin Jacques discussed by Margaret Ward and Paul Gillespie.</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World by Martin Jacques discussed by Margaret Ward and Paul Gillespie.</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>Off the Shelf 12 December 2009.  Presented by Andy O'Mahony.  Produced by Bernadette Comerford	</title>
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      <description>The Sense of Creation: Experience and the God Beyond (Ashgate Philosophy of Religion Series) by Patrick Masterson discussed by Gina Menzies, James Mackey and Dermot Moran.  </description>
      <itunes:subtitle>The Sense of Creation: Experience and the God Beyond (Ashgate Philosophy of Religion Series) by Patrick Masterson discussed by Gina Menzies, James Mackey and Dermot Moran.  </itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>Off the Shelf 5th December 2009.  Presenter:  Andy O'Mahony.  Producer:  Bernadette Comerford	</title>
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      <description>The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life Of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt (Allen Lane) discussed by Helena Sheehan and Fintan O'Toole. </description>
      <itunes:subtitle>The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life Of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt (Allen Lane) discussed by Helena Sheehan and Fintan O'Toole. </itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>Off the Shelf 28 November 2009.  Presenter:  Andy O'Mahony.  Producer:  Bernadette Comerford	</title>
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      <description>What Happened at Vatican II by John W. O’Malley (Harvard University Press) discussed by Finola Kennedy and Patsy McGarry.</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>What Happened at Vatican II by John W. O’Malley (Harvard University Press) discussed by Finola Kennedy and Patsy McGarry.</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>Off the Shelf 21st November 2009	</title>
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      <description>The Dream that Died:  The Rise and Fall of ITV by Ray Fitzwalter discussed by Betty Purcell and John Kelleher</description>
      <itunes:subtitle>The Dream that Died:  The Rise and Fall of ITV by Ray Fitzwalter discussed by Betty Purcell and John Kelleher</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Off the Shelf 14 November 2009.  Presenter:  Andy O'Mahony.  Producer:  Bernadette Comerford	</title>
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      <description>Julia Carlson and Niall MacMonagle discuss John Updike's My Father's Tears and Other Stories. </description>
      <itunes:subtitle>Julia Carlson and Niall MacMonagle discuss John Updike's My Father's Tears and Other Stories. </itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>Off the Shelf 7 November 09.  Presenter:  Andy O'Mahony.  Producer:  Bernadette Comerford	</title>
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      <description>Discussion on Taking the Medicine by Druin Burch (Chatto).   </description>
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      <description>Discussion on The Quest for Modern Ireland by Bryan Fanning (Irish Academic Press) </description>
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      <title>Off the Shelf 17th October 2009.  Presenter:  Andy O'Mahony.   Producer: Bernadette Comerford	</title>
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      <description>Discussion on The Hugo Young Papers edited by Ion Trewin (Allen Lane)   </description>
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      <title>Off the Shelf 24 October 2009.  Presenter:  Andy O'Mahony.  Producer:  Bernadette Comerford.	</title>
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      <description>Discussion on "The Triumph of Music " by Tim Blanning (Allen Lane).   </description>
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      <title>Off the Shelf 3 Oct. 09.  Presenter:  Andy O'Mahony.  Producer:  Bernadette Comerford	</title>
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      <description>Mary Raftery, Alan Dukes and Brendan Keenan discuss "The Storm" by Vince Cable. </description>
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      <title>Off the Shelf 16 May 2009.  Presenter:  Andy O'Mahony.  Producer:  Bernadette Comerford	</title>
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      <description>Discussion on "King Dan: the Rise of Daniel O'Connell, 1775-1829" by Patrick M.Geoghegan (Gill and Macmillan).   </description>
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      <description>Discussion on Plays and Controversies:  Abbey Theatre Diaries 2000-2005 by Ben Barnes. </description>
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      <description>Eunan O'Halpin and Ronan Fanning discuss British Spies and Irish Rebels:  British Intelligence in Ireland 1916-1945 by Paul McMahon (Boydell Press).  </description>
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      <description>Darwin's Sacred Cause by Adrian Desmond and James Moore discussed by Prof. David McConnell and Fr. Brendan Purcell. </description>
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