IRISH LITERATURE

Frank O'Connor - An Only Child - Vintage Pan PB - 1970 Edition - Originally 1961

This reprint edition, Pan 1970 , in very good condition, usual age tanning to page block, no other marks, no inscriptions, small closed nick on back cover,  light edgewear to covers.  This is an...

Frank O'Connor - Masculine Protest and Other Stories - Vintage PB

A collection of short fiction by O'connor, with period wraparound image of Cork city on front cover. Fade to spine, usual age tanning to pages.  1972 reprint edition, Pan Books UK. 

Frank O'Connor - My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories - Vintage Penguin PB 1963

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's...

Frank O'Connor - The Mad Lomasneys - Vintage PB

A Pan Books UK paperback edition, 1970's . The prices on the back cover have been covered with a black marker, there is spine lean, tanning to pages, and previous owner's name to title page...

Frank O'Connor / My Oedipus Complex (Vintage Paperback)

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Frank O'Connor / My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's...

Frank Ronan / Dixie Chicken (Large Paperback)

From the award-winning author of The Men who Loved Evelyn Cotton , this is a novel in which God plays narrator, death is the mystery and sex the possible key. When the successful and adored Rory...

Fred Johnston / Atalanta (Large Paperback)

Fred Johnston of Galway, Ireland,established a fine reputation as short story writer (Keeping the Night Watch), poet, and novelist, and this book latest weaves Greek mythology (Atalanta and...

Fred Johnston / Keeping the Night Watch (Large Paperback)

These eleven stories by the Irish poet, critic, and novelist Fred Johnston generally explore the concept of the internal exile, the outsider in contemporary society. These are stories about bright...

Garrett Carr / The Boy from the Sea (Large Paperback)

1973. In a close-knit community on Ireland’s west coast, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Named Brendan by Ambrose Bonnar, the fisherman who adopts him, the boy will become a source of...

Gavin Corbett / This Is The Way (Hardback)

 WINNER OF THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2013 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE PRIZE 2013

George Bernard Shaw - Plays Pleasant : Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell - Vintage Penguin PB - 1946 ( Originally 1898)

A vintage Penguin paperbacks ( Horizontal band editions) of plays by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw - as follows - Plays Pleasant - comprising Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny...

George Bernard Shaw - Collected Plays - 10 Volume Set - HB Pocket Editions1927

A reprint set, unformly sized and with identical design on each of G.B Shaw's plays , in 12 volumes , originally 1926, here in the 'Pocket Edition, 1927' Published by Constable and CompanY. Titles in...

George Moore - Hail and Farewell ( PB 1985 - Originally 1911 )

Hail And Farewell! by George Moore is a memoir of Moore’s time in Dublin in the decade prior to the outbreak of the Great War and the Irish Revolution, at the height of what became known as the...

Ger Fitzgibbon / Songs For A Burning City (Large Paperback)

On the evening of December 11, 1920, a production of The Gondoliers is in full swing at the Cork Opera House when word comes through that the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries are rampaging through the...

Graham Norton / A Keeper

     Atmospheric, creepy and impossible to put down.' the TIMES'A compelling and moving story, expertly told, that will draw you in and keep you in its grip until the last page.' DAILY...

Graham Norton / Forever Home (Large Paperback)

 The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author Graham Norton 'A magnificent novelist.' STUART HERITAGE f

Graham Norton / Frankie

Frankie Howe was never quite sure enough of herself to take centre stage - after all, life had already judged her harshly. Now in her eighties, she finds it easier to forget the life that came before...

Greg Baxter / The Apartment (Hardback)

'She was

Harry Levin / The Essential James Joyce1 (Vintage Paperback)

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Hugo Hamilton / Dublin Palms (Large Paperback)

 The palm trees give the street a holiday atmosphere. There must be something in the soil they like. They have straight leaves that get a bit ragged, with split ends. At night you hear them rattling...

Hugo Hamilton / The Speckled People

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Irish Independent / Great Irish Writers Series (Complete 20 Book HB Set)

Great Irish Writers - a collection of uniformly sized hardcover fiction titles from the best of Irish authors.    Books: 1 John McGahern / That they may face the Rising Sun 2 Joseph O'Connor / Star...

J. G. Farrell / Troubles (Vintage Paperback)

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J.G. Farrell / Troubles

Winner of the 1970 lost Man Booker prize in 2010.Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancée he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite...

J.M Synge / The Playboy of the Western World - Mercier Edition PB

John Millington Synge's classic work set in Mayo. A mysterious traveller, Christy Mahon, arrives in the village believing he has killed his father. He is looked upon as a hero by the locals and falls...

J.P Donleavy - A Singular Man - Vintage Penguin PB 1966

What will happen to George Smith? Mysteriously rich and desperately lonely, George appears to be under attack from all quarters: his former wife and four horrible children are suing to get his money;...

J.P Donleavy - The Saddest Summer of Samuel S - Vintage Penguin PB 1976 - Originally 1966

A slim pb novella, first published by Penguin in 1966, this is a 1979 reprint edition. Sun fade to spine ( from orange to yellow) , and light edgewear to all covers.  A wily American driving his...

J.P. Donleavy / The Ginger Man

First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of t

Jack Harte / In the Wake of the Baggar (Large Paperback)

This fir

James Healy / Songs of Percy French (Large Paperback)

William Percy French was one of Ireland's favourite sons and his influence on traditional Irish Music can still be felt.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

James Joyce - Stephen Hero -1982 ( Originaly 1944) ( Edited & introduced by Theodore Spencer)

Although Joyce later entirely rewrote his novel of a young Irishman's rebellion against church, country and family, this early version is beautifully composed, the mood being more discursive and...

James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Penguin PB - 1965 - Originally 1916

This edition, published by Penguin UK, 1968, heavy tanning to pages ( especially inside front cover and front endpages) Light edgewear externally.  Playful and experimental, James Joyce's...

James Joyce / A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

 'Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo 'So begins...

James Joyce / A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Vintage Paperback)

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James Joyce / A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.. (Vintage Paperback)

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James Joyce / A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man... (Vintage Paperback)

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James Joyce / Dubliners

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James Joyce / Dubliners / A Portrait Of The Young Artist / Ulysses (Hardback)

Three Acclaimed Classics In One Volume

James Plunkett - Collected Short Stories - Vintage Poolbeg PB 1977

Published by Poolbeg Press, this is the Collected Short stories by James Plunkett - author of Strumpet City.  Light creasing to corners, heavy age tanning to inside covers and page block, binding...

James Plunkett - Strumpet City - Vintage Granada PB Reprint 1977

Originally published in 1969 , and the subject of a classic RTE TV series in 1979-80.   First published in 1969, it has repeatedly been described as one of the greatest Irish novels of all time...

James Plunkett / Farewell Companions. (Vintage Paperback)

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James Plunkett / The Boy on the Back Wall

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James Plunkett / The Trusting and the Maimed (Vintage Paperback)

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James Stephens - Desire and Other Stories - Vintage Poolbeg Ed 1980 - Irish

First thus paperback edition published by Poolbeg Press, 1980, a best of selection of the short fiction of James Stephens, Desire and Other stories - collated from his two most prominent short story...

James Stephens - The Charwoman's Daughter - PB -1972

Paperback, published by Gill & Macmillan, 1972.  Originally published in 1912, a novel of growing up in Dublin of the time, against the background of the city's slums. 

James Stephens - The Crock of Gold - PB - Pan PB - 1981

A 1981 Pan paperback edition, externally clean and unmarked, moderate age tanning to pages, previous bookshop sticker to back cover.    When a crock of gold belonging to the leprechauns of Gort na...

James Stephens - The Crock of Gold : Vintage 1973 Pan PB ed - Irish Fantasy Classic

Part fable, part fairy tale, partly a telling take on Irish and Celtic myth, this is the 1973 Pan PB edition of The Crock of Gold, by James Stephens (1882-1950) . Introduction by Walter de La...

James Stephens - The Demi-Gods - HB 1914

Hardcover, published by Macmillan UK, 1914, a small format hardcover in green cloth, rubbed and lightly edgeworn, titles in gilt to front cover, and embossed to spine ( possibly originally in gilt...

James Stephens - The Demi-Gods - PB 1982 (Originally 1914)

Originally published 1914, this is a Butler Sims 1982 PB , with an introduction by Augustine Martin   "The Demi-Gods" by James Stephens is a novel written in the early 20th century. The narrative...

James Stephens / The Charwoman's Daughter (Vintage Paperback)

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James Stephens / The Crock of Gold

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