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But names and places are familiar: Rafter Street, where Eilis walks to her first day at work in Mrs Kelly's shop; the Atheneum – currently closed for renovation – where Nancy first "got off with George Sheridan" and where Eilis is forced to accompany her to another dance only to be ignored by George's friend Jim Farrell; the cathedral on the hill.
A life in books: Colm Tóibín Susanna Rustin 2010
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That evening, when Nancy and Annette called Eilis noticed Nancys engagement ring immediately.
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009
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That evening, when Nancy and Annette called Eilis noticed Nancys engagement ring immediately.
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009
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That evening, when Nancy and Annette called Eilis noticed Nancys engagement ring immediately.
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009
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The report's author Eilis Lawlor added: "Our research puts figures on what anyone who has been to France or Spain already knows – the UK's railways are poor value for money."
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Unfortunately for the film, which describes itself as having been inspired by actual events, the first-time director, Larysa Kondracki, and her screenplay collaborator, Eilis Kirwan, took their most obvious inspiration from the tricks and tropes of other films.
'Apes': Something to Thump Chests About Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Colm Tóibín's novel Brooklyn wrapped this small Wexford town so tightly in the bittersweet recollections of his heroine Eilis – leaving Ireland for America, then returning, then leaving again – that the reality of shops, pubs, roads, river is perhaps doomed to fall short of the 1950s romance.
A life in books: Colm Tóibín Susanna Rustin 2010
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In Brooklyn, the beach just over the cliff is where Eilis comes on a Sunday afternoon, where she goes swimming with Jim Farrell and realises how much she likes him.
A life in books: Colm Tóibín Susanna Rustin 2010
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Rachel, Eilis, and Jerry will all be appearing in the magazine for the first time.
ROF: Buying Time douglascohen 2010
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Rachel, Eilis, and Jerry will all be appearing in the magazine for the first time.
April 30th, 2010 douglascohen 2010
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