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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 17 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
    A Guest at the Feast - by Colm Toibin

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241970614 | ISBN 10: 024197061x

    A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.  From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lost Letters of Flann O
    The Lost Letters of Flann O'Brien - by Gerry McGowan & Andrew Sherlock (editors)

    £10.00   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780992767051 | ISBN 10: 0992767059

    Discovered in a disused cupboard in a Dublin pub during lockdown, The Lost Letters of Flann O'Brien contains 107 never-before-seen letters written to the cult Irish writer by a collection of twentieth-century luminaries, including Joseph Goebbels, Wa ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Hidden History: The Irish Language in Liverpool/An Ghaeilge i Learpholl by Tony Birtill
    A Hidden History: The Irish Language in Liverpool/An Ghaeilge i Learpholl - by Tony Birtill

    £12.00   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781999803827 | ISBN 10: 1999803825

    Local teacher, journalist and Irish language enthusiast, Tony Birtill, tells the fascinating history of the Irish language in Liverpool over the past 200 years and examines the Irish language vocabulary and speech patterns still in use in present day ... more

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  • Cover image of book From the Air: Ireland
    From the Air: Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way - by Raymond Fogarty

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788490191 | ISBN 10: 1788490193

    Raymond Fogarty’s spectacular drone photography brings a new and thrilling aerial perspective to one of the world’s longest coastal touring routes - Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way.   The Wild Atlantic Way covers 2500km, passing through an inc ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Father
    My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die - by Kevin Toolis

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781474605243 | ISBN 10: 1474605249

    An intimate, lyrical memoir exploring the ancient rite of the Irish wake, and the Irish way of overcoming our fear of death - Being Mortal meets The Last Act of Love.  Death is a whisper in the Anglo-Saxon world. But on a remote island, off the c ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wren Boys by Carol Ann Duffy
    The Wren Boys - by Carol Ann Duffy

    £6.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447271482 | ISBN 10: 1447271483

    Following Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday, The Christmas Truce and Another Night Before Christmas, Carol Ann Duffy continues her annual tradition of writing a delightful and original Christmas poem. This festive poem is about the Wren Boys of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Great Irish Reportage by John Horgan
    Great Irish Reportage - by John Horgan

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241967126 | ISBN 10: 0241967120

    Reports and dispatches from Ireland's finest writers: the first-ever anthology of Irish reportage.   Alongside its world-famous tradition of great fiction, Ireland has a less well known but thrilling tradition of reportage: journalism, dispatc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney
    Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin - by Karl Whitney

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241966129 | ISBN 10: 0241966124

    Dublin is a city much visited and deeply mythologized. In Hidden City, Karl Whitney - who has been described by Gorse as 'Dublin's best psychogeographer since James Joyce' - explores the places the city's denizens and tourists easily overlook.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Never Knew That About the Irish by Christopher Winn
    I Never Knew That About the Irish - by Christopher Winn

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780091960254 | ISBN 10: 0091960258

    Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a fascinating journey around Ireland, discovering the tradtions, triumphs, and disasters, foibles, quirks and customs that make up the Irish people. From their peccadilloes to their passions he uncovers ... more

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  • Cover image of book Who
    Who's Feckin' Who in Irish History - by Colin Murphy, illustrated by Brendan O'Reilly

    £11.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847176325 | ISBN 10: 1847176321

    Did an Irish monk discover America? Which rebel died of having a feckin’ tooth pulled? And who in the name of Jaysus was responsible for the Pledge? If you've ever wondered how much of our rabble-rousing history is true, and how much a load of wojus ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Little Book of Ireland by Ciara Boylan
    The Little Book of Ireland - by Ciara Boylan

    £14.99   hardback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781845888046 | ISBN 10: 1845888049

    The Little Book of Ireland is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of fascinating, frivolous and fantastic information which no one will want to be without. Full of details about the country, past and present, this volume covers su ... more

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  • Cover image of book Irish Language & Culture by Gerry Coughlan and Martin Hughes
    Irish Language & Culture - by Gerry Coughlan and Martin Hughes

    £4.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781741048155 | ISBN 10: 174104815x

    Bejaysus and begorrah! The next best thing for anyone not blessed with the gift of the gab – a grand tour through the language, lilt and laughter of Ireland old and new. So join in the craic, forget the Blarney Stone and wrap your tongue around Engli ... more

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  • Cover image of book Myles Away from Dublin by Flann O
    Myles Away from Dublin - by Flann O'Brien

    £10.00   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781843512653 | ISBN 10: 1843512653

    Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan, aka Myles na Gopaleen) adopted not only a new name (George Knowall) for these rarely seen pieces, but also a new persona. Writing his column "Bones of Contention" for the "Nationalist and Leinster Times", he took on the ... more

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  • Cover image of book 101 Things You Didn
    101 Things You Didn't Know About Irish History - by Ryan Hackney and Amy Hackney Blackwell

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781598693232 | ISBN 10: 1598693239

    Forget about shamrocks, leprechauns, and all that blarney, 101 Things You Didn’t Know About Irish History dispels the myths and tells the true stories of the Irish.  Inside, you’ll learn about about:   * Lives of the ancient Celts until the British ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wearing of the Green: A History of St. Patrick
    Wearing of the Green: A History of St. Patrick's Day - by Mike Cronin & Daryl Adair

    £21.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780415359122 | ISBN 10: 0415359120

    The first book to chronicle the full history of St. Patrick's Day - spanning its medieval origins, steeped in folklore and myth, to today's plastic leprechauns and green beer, and exploring the shared heritage of the Irish through the development of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Contemporary Irish Drama and Cultural Identity by Margaret Llewellyn-Jones
    Contemporary Irish Drama and Cultural Identity - by Margaret Llewellyn-Jones

    £26.50   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781841500546 | ISBN 10: 1841500542

    Within the last ten years there has been a renaissance in Irish drama from both sides of the border, including award-winning work which has transfered to London and New York, and has toured Britain as well as Europe and Australia.  This book ex ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wexford Trilogy: A Handful of Stars, Poor Beast in the Rain and Belfry by Billy Roche
    The Wexford Trilogy: A Handful of Stars, Poor Beast in the Rain and Belfry - by Billy Roche

    £12.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9781854594716 | ISBN 10: 1854594710

    Billy Roche's modern Irish classic tells three separate but related tales of small-town life in Southern Ireland. Set in a snooker club, a betting shop and a local church, each play in The Wexford Trilogy introduces a mix of young cornerboys, old cow ... more

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