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	<title>Philip Davison</title>
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	<description>novelist and playwright</description>
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		<title>A Burnable Town</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Burnable Town (2006) Somewhere somebody drops a pearl into a beaker of vinegar, challenging their companion’s eyes as it dissolves, just to make a point. And, just to make sure the point is made, they&#8217;re going to drink the vinegar. I know people like that. I&#8217;ve had them look into my eyes. I’ve learned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philipdavison.com/a-burnable-town/</link>
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		<title>The Long Suit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Long Suit (2003) I had my own troubles, some of which I had addressed. When they lifted me my plan had been to go to ground, let time pass and be vigilant. Like a Druid, I had come to count nights instead of days. I watched Clements talking to somebody at the end of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philipdavison.com/the-long-suit/</link>
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		<title>McKenzie&#8217;s Friend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[McKenzie&#8217;s Friend (2000) I was on my way to nowhere in particular. I was forty-nine per cent asleep, but watching for a sign in the face of a stranger. I had convinced myself that nothing is ever finished. Somebody who is no longer with us assured me it was so. The forty-nine per cent, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philipdavison.com/mckenzies-friend/</link>
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		<title>The Crooked Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Crooked Man (1997) Cabinet ministers have to be protected, even when they are out cheating on their wives. If a cabinet minister is out cheating on his wife he doesn’t want to bring his Special Branch bodyguards with him. He tries to give them the slip. He is happier knowing that they are guarding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philipdavison.com/the-crooked-man/</link>
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		<title>The Illustrator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Illustrator (1988) &#8220;I had decided that there was no starting a new life. There is a minimal self to which some can retreat, to which others are transported by shock or failure. A less bruisable, more watchful self. Beyond that leanness is flux, the shallows of madness. A person might think themselves small enough [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philipdavison.com/the-illustrator/</link>
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		<title>Twist and Shout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twist and Shout (1983) &#8220;I know this skiffer in a bedsitter in Rathmines, so I went down there. There&#8217;s a lot of bedsitters down there, you know. The door was open so I went in. It was very dark &#8211; couldn&#8217;t see a thing. She wasn&#8217;t in so I went to sleep. When I woke [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philipdavison.com/twist-and-shout/</link>
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		<title>The Book Thief&#8217;s Heartbeat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Book Thief&#8217;s Heartbeat (1981) &#8220;At twenty-nine I am by far the youngest attendant in the gallery. I feel at once safe and out of place; a discreet watcher with the detachment and self-sufficiency of a spy. Perhaps that is why I never stand at meeting places, but instead, prefer to watch from a short [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philipdavison.com/the-book-thiefs-heartbeat/</link>
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		<title>The Crooked Man (TV Adaptation)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Crooked Man (TV Adaptation) 2003 100 min &#8211; Crime &#124; Drama Harry Fielding is an investigative reporter with a brief to covertly document the compromising exploits of public figures&#8230; See full summary at IMDb » Director:David Drury Writers: Philip Davison (novel), Shaun McKenna (screenplay) Stars: Ross Kemp, Liam Cunningham and Natasha Little]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philipdavison.com/the-crooked-man-tv-adaptation/</link>
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		<title>Learning Gravity (aka The Undertaking)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Lynch. Learning Gravity (2007) Learning Gravity (also known by its original title The Undertaking) 70 min &#8211; 5 June 2007 (Ireland) Learning Gravity &#8211; Documentary about Irish-American Poet and Undertaker Thomas Lynch. The facts of life and death remain the same, Thomas Lynch, observes. We live and die, we love and grieve, we breed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philipdavison.com/learning-gravity-aka-the-undertaking/</link>
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		<title>Chester Beatty Library: Where East Meets West</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chester Beatty Library: Where East Meets West (1979) BAC Films Director Kieran Hickey a film that shows the range and beauty of the Library&#8217;s treasures, and establishes a thematic link between Chester Beatty&#8217;s career as mineralogist and his lifelong interest in acquiring works of art. 47 mins]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philipdavison.com/chester-beatty-library-where-east-meets-west/</link>
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