IEThe Irish Times
Where Are the Kings: Donal Ryan’s wrenching, gorgeous new novel
Story of an orphaned boy connects the tectonic emotions of adolescence to the stormy tempers of the natural world
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- 17 Aug 2026, 21:26 UTC
- Last checked
- 17 Aug 2026, 21:26 UTC
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- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 17 Aug 2026, 08:39 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Greg Londe
- Section
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Story of an orphaned boy connects the tectonic emotions of adolescence to the stormy tempers of the natural world
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Where Are the Kings: Donal Ryan’s wrenching, gorgeous new novel
Story of an orphaned boy connects the tectonic emotions of adolescence to the stormy tempers of the natural world
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- #3
- Observed
- 17 Aug 2026, 21:26 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
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- 678,773 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt