IRISH LITERATURE

Oona Frawley ( Editor) / New Dubliners (Hardback)

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Orla Mackey / Mouthing (Large Paperback)

Sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued, a multigenerational portrait of small-town life in Ireland Welcome to Ballyrowan.This sleepy corner of rural Ireland may seem tranquil, but scratch the surface and...

Oscar Wilde / The Importance of Being Earnest

 A deliciously airily irresponsible comedy. Such is the "The Importance Of Being Earnest," the most personally characteristic expression of Wilde's art, and the last of the dramatic productions...

Oscar Wilde / The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Oscar Wilde / The Picture of Dorian Gray (Large Paperback)

In this celebrated work, his only novel, Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic...

Oscar Wilde / The Plays of Oscar Wilde

With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit,...

Padraic Fallon Jr. / A Hymn Of The Dawn (Hardback)

A Hymn of the Dawn’ tells of the life of the poet Padraic Fallon (1905-1974), his wife Don and their six sons during an idyllic summer in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s. At Prospect, a...

Padraic Pearse / Short Stories ( Dual Language Edition)

Five stories demonstrating Pearse's deep compassion for the Irish people of his time. Includes: Íosagán / Eoineen of the Birds / The Roads / The Black Chafer / The Keening Woman...

Paraic O'Donnell / The Maker of Swans (Hardback)

 It is no small matter, after all, to create something—to make it so only by setting down the words. We forget the magnitude, sometimes, of that miracle. Mr Crowe was once the toast of...

Pat Boran / Local Wonders: Poems of Our Immediate Surrounds (Large Paperback)

 What do we love? When troubles and doubts threaten to overwhelm, what sustains or inspires us? What are the things we cannot do without?Recent events have made many of us question a great deal...

Patrick Boyle - All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye - HB

Hardcover, first edition MacGibbon & Kee, 1969. Short Stories.  Patrick Boyle was an Irish novelist. Boyle was born in 1905 in Ballymoney, County Antrim. He worked for the Ulster Bank in...

Patrick MacGill - Moleskin Joe - PB - 1983 Reprint

Moleskin Joe is one of the most memorable characters to appear in Patrick MacGill's first two books, 'Children of the Dead End' and 'The Rat-Pit'. This sequel, first published in 1923, recalls the...

Patrick McCabe / Breakfast on Pluto (Hardback)

Set in Ireland in the 1970s, Breakfast on Pluto follows the exploits of Patrick "Pussy" Braden, an endearing but deceptively tough young man. Abandoned as a baby in his small Irish hometown...

Patrick McCabe / Call Me the Breeze

 Joey Tallon has witnessed many profound changes in the small town of Scotsfield. The men have changed from brutality and corruption to wealth and respectability. And Joey's transformed himself...

Patrick McCabe / Carn

 'It seemed as if the town of Carn, a huddled clump of windswept grey buildings split in two by a muddied main street, had somehow been spirited away and supplanted by a thriving, bustling place...

Patrick McCabe / Emerald Germs of Ireland (Hardback)

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Patrick McCabe / Hello and Goodbye

  Welcome to Hello and Goodbye: two dark tales from two deceased narrators - bottled-lightning treats that will make you gasp, gurn, shiver and squirm. HELLO MR BONES: two damaged souls have,...

Patrick McCabe / Hello and Goodbye : Hello Mr Bones (Large Paperback)

Welcome to Hello and Goodbye: two dark tales from two deceased narrators - bottled-lightning treats that will make you gasp, gurn, shiver and squirm. HELLO MR BONES: two damaged souls have, thanks to...

Patrick McCabe / Mondo Desperado

From a farmer's romance and his skin condition to one man's culinary relationship with Bruce Lee, Mondo Desperado and its blackly comic series of stories will make you howl with laughter.All...

Patrick McCabe / Mondo Desperado (Large Paperback)

 You wouldn't expect to find a 28-year-old mature woman mixed up with a bunch of swingers in a small town like Barntosna. But that's exactly what happened according to Walter Bunyan. She was his...

Patrick Mccabe / Poguemahone (Large Paperback)

Dan Fogarty, an Irishman living in England, is looking after his sister Una, now seventy and suffering from dementia in a care home in Margate. From Dan's anarchic account, we gradually piece...

Patrick McCabe / The Butcher Boy

When I was a young lad, twenty or thirty or forty years ago, I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent". So speaks Francie Brady, the narrator and...

Patrick McCabe / Winterwood (Large Paperback)

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Patsey Murphy ( Editor) / Celebrating What Truly Matters: Powers Irish Whiskey Short Story Collection Volume One (Hardback)

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Paul Muldoon / Horse Latitudes

This collection of poems presents us with fields of battle and fields of debate. It weaves between popular song and riddle, between haiku and densely compressed narrative and engages the public...

Paul Murray / Skippy Dies

Paul Murray's Skippy Dies is a tragicomic masterpiece about a Dublin boarding school Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very...

Paul Murray / Skippy Dies (Large Paperback)

Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old...

Paul Murray / The Bee Sting (Large Paperback)

 From the author of Skippy Dies comes a dazzlingly intricate and poignant tragicomedy about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good man at the end of the world. The Barnes...

Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022

The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this...

Pauline Hall - Grounds - PB - 1983

Brandon Books, Originally 1983,  The novel charts the youth and adolescence of a Margaret Hogan , growing up in Dublin from the late 1940's to the 1960's

Peadar O'Donnell - Proud Island - PB - 1985 ( Originally 1975)

A 1985 O'Brien Press reprint of the 1975 original. Light spotting to pages, binding tight, otherwise unmarked. 

Peig Sayers / An Old Woman's Reflections - Kerry Blasket Islands

  Storytelling kept alive the myths, legends and history of the Blasket Islands. In her old age, Peig Sayers, recounted her life to her son who recorded the tale in this book. She recalls the...

Polly Devlin - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983

This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked...

Rachael English / The Paper Bracelet (Large Paperback)

 Every baby's bracelet held a mother's secret...Inspired by heartrending real events, the gripping new novel from No. 1 bestselling author Rachael English. Readers of Diane Chamberlain and...

Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The School for Scandal (Large Paperback)

The intrigues of such aptly named characters as Lady Sneerwell, Sir Joseph Surface, Lady Candour, and Sir Benjamin Backbite have amused theater audiences for more than two centuries. They are the...

Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback )

At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born.Father Tom Conroy - a spiky,...

Richard Power - The Hungry Grass - HB 1970 - Classic Novel Ireland ( Originally 1969)

Father Tom Conroy - a spiky, difficult man - dies at a reunion of his seminary colleagues. At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on...

Rob Doyle / Here Are the Young Men

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 'NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR' AWARDCHOSEN AS ONE OF 'IRELAND'S 20 GREATEST NOVELS SINCE 1916' BY HOT PRESS MAGAZINEMeet Matthew, Rez, Cocker and Kearney. Facing...

Robert Hogan ( Editor) - Feathers From the Green Crow : Sean O'Casey 1905-1925 - HB - 1962

A collection of the early writings of Sean O'Casey  - organised thematically - Education and Culture / Nationalism / The Irish Language / Labour / I Been Workin' on the Railroad /...

Roddy Doyle / A Star Called Henry

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Roddy Doyle / Life Without Children : Stories (Large Paperback)

 A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short storiesLove and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the...

Roddy Doyle / Love (Hardback)

   ** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 **** SHORTLISTED FOR THE DALKEY LITERARY NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 **'A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality' John BoyneOne...

Roddy Doyle / Love (Large Paperback)

 'A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality' John BoyneOne summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant.Old friends, now married and with grown-up...

Roddy Doyle / Oh, Play That Thing (Large Paperback)

 On the last page of A Star Called Henry, the first volume of the The Last Roundup trilogy, we left Henry Smart on the run from his Republican paymasters, the men for whom he had perpetrated...

Roddy Doyle / Smile

 ust moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly's pub for a pint, a slow one.One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts...

Roddy Doyle / The Commitments

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Roddy Doyle / The Dead Republic

 We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western...

Roddy Doyle / The Deportees

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Roddy Doyle / The Deportees (Large Paperback)

 For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a magazine started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant...

Roddy Doyle / The Guts (Hardback)

Jimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids ...and bowel cancer. He isn't dying, he thinks, but he might be...

Roddy Doyle / The Snapper

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Roddy Doyle / The Van (Hardback)

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