Cries of an Irish Caveman (Durcan Paul)(Paperback)

Cries of an Irish Caveman (Durcan Paul)(Paperback)

WINNER OF THE 2014 IRISH BOOK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Cries of an Irish Caveman is Paul Durcan's most inspired and surprising collection of poems. Through four distinct sections, he brings his tender lyricism to bear on the themes of love and loss, life and death. The first section describes an

O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor (Durcan Paul)(Paperback)

WINNER OF THE 2014 IRISH BOOK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor was first published in a tiny edition in Dublin in 1975. It was Paul Durcan's first fully-fledged collection, and already displays an astonishingly mature, visionary power, shot through with the

Monk - The Life and Crimes of Ireland's Most Enigmatic Gang Boss (Williams Paul (author))(Paperback / softback)

An enthralling account of infamous Irish criminal Gerry

Time-travelling Caveman (Pratchett Terry)(Paperback / softback)

*The final collection of short stories from the incredible Sir Terry Pratchett!* Imagination is an amazing thing. It can take you to the top of the highest mountain, or down to the bottom of the deepest depths of the sea. This where it took Doggins on his Awfully Big Adventure: a quest full of

Diary of an Irish Mother(Paperback / softback)

Set in London in 1983, 'Diary of an Irish Mother' offers a snapshot into the hectic life of Vera Byrne. Her daily struggle to hold everything together, bringing up three difficult teenagers, going to work, a DIY nightmare,a 'lazy' husband, car trouble ... and the list goes on. Never a dull

Grace - Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year (Lynch Paul)(Paperback / softback)

An epic story of a young girl on a life-changing odyssey across nineteenth-century Ireland on the eve of the Great

The Wild Laughter: Winner of the 2021 Encore Award (Hughes Caoilinn)(Paperback)

AN IRISH TIMES, IRISH SUNDAY TIMES, IRISH INDEPENDENT & SUNDAY INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2020 NOMINATED FOR NOVEL AT THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS, 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS, 2021 'Extraordinary... A book of wicked intelligence and tender heart.' - Max Porter, author

New Selected Poems of Tom Paulin (Paulin Tom)(Paperback / softback)

Since his precise, potent and subtle portraits of Northern Irish life first came to public attention in the 1970s, Tom Paulin has been an unmissable writer on the contemporary poetry

An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry (Davis Wes)(Paperback)

Never before has there been a single-volume anthology of modern Irish poetry so significant and groundbreaking as An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry. Collected here is a comprehensive representation of Irish poetic achievement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from poets such as Austin

Complete Book of Irish & Celtic 5-String Banjo (Tom Hanway)(Paperback)

An important anthology of Irish and Celtic solos for the 5-string banjo featuring a comprehensive, scholarly treatise on the history, techniques, and etiquette of playing the banjo in the Celtic tradition. Includes segments on tuning, pick preferences, and tablature reading followed by 101 jigs,

Nation and not a Rabble - The Irish Revolution 1913-23 (Ferriter Diarmaid)(Paperback / softback)

An arresting account of the Irish Revolutions and their legacy by a world leading Irish historian. Now available in

The Death of an Owl (Torday Paul)(Paperback)

From Partition to Brexit: The Irish Government and Northern Ireland (O. Beachain Donnacha)(Paperback)

From Partition to Brexit provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of how successive Irish governments have tried to overcome the challenges presented by the division of Ireland, including the decades-long conflict that claimed thousands of

Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors - Second Edition (Maxwell Ian)(Paperback / softback)

The second edition of Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in archives throughout Northern Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth-century census returns and school registers, will be

Kim (Kipling Rudyard)(Paperback)

Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, spends his childhood on the bustling streets of Lahore, begging and running errands in order to survive. One day he meets an old Tibetan lama, and he decides to accompany him on his travels across the Indian Subcontinent. After falling into the

At My Mother's Knee...and Other Low Joints (O'Grady Paul)(Paperback)

In his own uniquely acid tongue, Paul O'Grady traces the hilarious tales of life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that took him from a virtuous altar-boy ('my first drag') to Britain's best loved entertainer. It's a life that includes, varyingly, stints in an abbatoir, as a social worker, in a

Sport and Ireland: A History (Rouse Paul)(Paperback)

This is the first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport. Sport and Ireland demonstrates that there are aspects of Ireland's sporting history that are uniquely Irish and are defined by

Brida (Coelho Paulo)(Paperback)

Brida, a young Irish girl, has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom. She meets a wise man who dwells in a forest, who teaches her to trust in the goodness of the world, and a woman who teaches her how to

Hard Life (O'Brien Flann)(Paperback)

Subtitled An Exegesis of Squalor, The Hard Life is a sober farce from a master of Irish comic fiction. Set in Dublin at the turn of the century, the novel does involve squalor illness, alcoholism, unemployment, bodily functions, crime, illicit sex but also investigates such diverse topics as Church

Recovering (Sadlier Richie)(Paperback)

Winner of the An Post Irish Sports Book of the Year AwardShortlisted for The William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award'Not only the sports book of the year, the book of the year.' Paul Howard'Unputdownable, ' The Last Word, Today FM'You'll go a long way to find a better autobiography. It's raw,

Thrill of it All (O'Connor Joseph)(Paperback / softback)

Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese refugee. Together they form a band. Joined by cellist Sarah-Therese Sherlock and her twin brother Sean on drums, The Ships in the Night set out to chase fame. But the story of this makeshift family

Irish Thatch (Byrne Emma)(Pevná vazba)

A celebration of Irish thatch.The picturesque, white-washed thatched cottage is an iconic emblem of Ireland.The tradition reaches back in history to the ancient crann g and one-roomed labourers' cottages. Beautiful examples of this still-living craft can be found all over the island, from bustling

Green Fool (Kavanagh Patrick)(Paperback / softback)

Presents an account of the author's Irish rural upbringing that describes a patriarchal society surviving on the edge of poverty, sustained by the land and an insatiable love of gossip. This title includes tales of schoolboy skirmishes, blackberrying and night-time

Art of the Glimpse - 100 Irish short stories(Pevná vazba)

An anthology of Irish short stories selected by writer, editor and broadcaster Sinead