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Aug 26, 2008 his first novel, langrishe, go down, is set in a catholic big house family in celbridge, which differs from the authors own family in that the langrishe offspring are all daughters. Shed written nearly 20 other books before this one. In the torrent of years since the extraordinary achievement of that first novel. Dec 27, 2015 aidan higgins is the author of langrishe, go down 3. The fact that it was a big house novel and apparently told a love story as well as the collapse of the.
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