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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
£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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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