IRISH LITERATURE

John Banville / Mefisto

  This sourcebook of ideas is designed to help teachers, students and others interested in education to understand and engage in philosophical enquiry with children. It illustrates how...

John Banville / Mrs Osmond (Large Paperback)

 A MASTERFUL TALE OF BETRAYAL AND CORRUPTION BY THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SEA'Banville is one of the writers I admire the most' Hanya Yanahigara, author of A Little Life 'A...

John Banville / Snow

 'Outstanding.' Irish Independent'Exquisite.' Daily Mail'Hypnotic.' Financial Times'This is crime fiction for the connoisseur.' The Times'The body is in the library,' Colonel Osborne said. 'Come...

John Banville / Snow (Large Paperback)

 'An outstanding novel and an absolute page-turner.' Irish Independent'A typically elegant country house mystery.' Guardian, Biggest books of the AutumnA CrimeReads Most Anticipated Book of...

John Banville / The Infinities (Large Paperback)

From the writer of the Booker Prize-winning "The Sea", comes a new novel, a major literary event of the Autumn. John Banville is one of the finest and most critically-acclaimed writers of...

John Banville / The Lock-Up

'The ultimate page-turner.'IRISH INDEPENDENT'Like drinking Bollinger when your usual tipple is Babycham.'THE TIMESThe Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow and April in...

John Banville / The Lock-Up (Large Paperback)

 Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” ( The New Yorker ) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mysteryIn...

John Banville / The Untouchable

The Untouchable is an engrossing, exquisitely written and almost bewilderingly smart book ...It's the fullest book I've read in a very long time, utterly accomplished, thoroughly readable,...

John Banville / The Untouchable (Large Paperback)

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John Boyne / A History of Loneliness

  Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen...

John Boyne / A Ladder to the Sky

 'A deliciously dark tale of ambition, seduction and literary theft . . . an ingeniously conceived novel that confirms Boyne as one of the most assured writers of his generation.' Hannah...

John Boyne / A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom (Large Paperback)

  Some stories are universal. Some are unique. They play out across human history, and time is the river that flows through them.This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a...

John Boyne / All The Broken Places (Large Paperback)

   1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame, and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to...

John Boyne / My Brother's Name is Jessica (Large Paperback)

 'John Boyne made his name with The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas and he's on stellar form in My Brother's Name is Jessica.' Daily ExpressSam Waver's life has always been pretty quiet. A bit of a...

John Boyne / Next of Kin

1936: London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. But the king is not the only member of the aristocracy with a hard decision to make. Owen Montignac, the...

John Boyne / The Absolutist

September 1919: Twenty-years-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a clutch of letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the...

John Boyne / The Absolutist (Large Paperback)

 September 1919:20 year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War...

John Matthews (Editor) / From the Isles of Dream (Large Paperback)

Visionary stories and poems of the Celtic Renaissance A marvelous anthology of stories and poems by writers of the early twentieth century Celtic Renaissance - including work from Ireland, Scotland...

John McGahern / The Leavetaking

 Widely considered one of the greatest Irish writers by readers and critics alike, John McGahern has been called "arguably the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett" ( The Guardian...

John Millington Synge - Deirdre of the Sorrows (1912) | The Tinker's Wedding, Riders to the Sea & The Shadow of the Glen (1915) - 2 Vintage HB Reprints

2 vintage uniformly sized Maunsel & Co hardcovers of J.M Synge plays, as follows -  Deirdre of the Sorrows - A Play, 1912, Maunsel & Co, Dublin & London 1912 ( originally 1910. Clean...

John O'Donnell / Almost the Same Blue (Large Paperback)

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John P Harrington / Modern Irish Drama - A Norton Critical Edition - PB

Full texts of 12 classic Irish dramas, from Yeats to Friel , with notes, commentaries, criticism and context essays.  Light student underlining and notes added.   

Joseph O'Connor / Ghost Light (Large Paperback)

 Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious and flirtatious, Molly...

Joseph O'Connor / Inishowen (Large Paperback) PB

  Detective Martin Aitken's life is already in chaos but when a strange woman collapses in a Dublin street on Christmas Eve, his world is about to be turned on its head. This is a story of...

Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls

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Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback)

 1865. The Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the Irish famine-ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, a daughter of its journey, Eliza Duane Mooney, sets out on foot from Baton Rouge,...

Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback)

  1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana,...

Joseph O'Connor / Shadowplay

 Discover the enthralling Richard & Judy Book Club pick for winter 2020 from international bestseller Joseph O'Connor.'The best novel that I've read in the last twenty years... It's...

Joseph O'Connor / Star of The Sea

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Joseph O'Connor / Star of the Sea (Large Paperback)

In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea sets sail for NewYork. On board are hundreds of refugees, some optimistic, many more desperate. Among...

Joseph O'Connor / The Ghosts of Rome (Large Paperback)

Rome Escape Line Trilogy #2 In the final months of World War II, a clandestine group known as The Choir smuggles thousands of escapees out of Nazi-occupied Rome via a secret route known as the...

Joseph O'Connor / Where Have You Been? (Large Paperback)

 Where Have You Been? is award-winning novelist Joseph O'Connor's first collection of short stories in more than twenty years.Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's...

Joseph O'Connor / Yeats Is Dead ! (Large Paperback)

  A serial novel by 15 of the brightest talents in Irish writing (including Marian Keyes, Pauline McLynn, Gina Moxley and Frank McCourt), telling an elaborate tale of murder, mayhem and...

Joseph OConnor / The Star of the Sea (Large Paperback)

  In a story of tragedy and mercy, love and healing, the nearer the ship gets to the Promised Land, the more her passengers seem moored to a past which will never let them go...

Julia O'Faolain / Under the Rose - Selected Stories (Large Paperback)

 Julia O'Faolain is one of the most important Irish writers of the past half-century. Under the Rose is a selection of short stories taken from her many celebrated collections.These are stories...

Julian Gough - Jude, Level 1 - SIGNED Hardcover 1st Edition 2007

A signed hardcover first edition, of Jude, by Julian Gough, and published by Old Street Publishing 2007.  This is the tale of Jude, a Tipperary-reared orphan, who on his 18th birthday, sets off...

Julian Gough / Connect

 'A work of genius' Donal RyanNevada; the near future; a family in crisisBiologist and single mother Naomi is worried about the impact her ground-breaking research might have on the world. And...

Julian Gough / Connect (Large Paperback)

'A tour de force' Joseph O'Connor'A work of genius' Donal RyanNevada; the near future; a family in crisisBiologist and single mother Naomi is worried about the impact her ground-breaking research...

Julian Gough / Jude: Level 1

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Julian Gough / Jude: Level 1 (Hardback)

   "If I had urinated immediately after breakfast, the Mob would never have burnt down the Orphanage." So begins the hilarious,award-winning, genre-busting tale of Jude, a...

June Caldwell / Room Little Darker

   From one of Ireland's most grindingly authentic and radically original talents, Room Little Darker explores the clandestine aspects of modern life through jagged, visceral tales of...

Keith Ridgway / The Long Falling

Grace Quinn is an Englishwoman who has lived in rural Ireland all her adult life but is still a stranger. Haunted by the death of one son, for which her brutal husband blames her, and by the absence...

Ken Bruen - A Galway Epiphany - PB BRAND NEW

A Galway Epiphany Jack Taylor has finally traded in his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country.But on a day trip back into the city, Jack is hit by a truck and left in a...

Kevin Barry / Beatlebone

 WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS "John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip." A novel of family,...

Kevin Barry / That Old Country Music

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Kevin Casey / A State Of Mind (Large Paperback)

In mid-1970s rural Wicklow, John Hughes, a once-feted journalist/author with writer’s block, reflects on recent events. When English author William Cromer and his German lover Ingrid move to...

Kevin Power / White City (Large Paperback)

 From the highly acclaimed author of Bad Day in Blackrock - inspiration for the 2012 award-winning film What Richard Did, directed by Lenny Abrahamson - comes a darkly funny, gripping and...

Kevin Powers / A Shout in the Ruins

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Lady Wilde - Ancient Legends , Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland - PB -1971 ( Reprint of the 1888 Edition)

This is a reprint edition, 1971, published by O'Gormans Bookshop , Galway ( now where Easons is on Shop Street) It is a facsmilie of the original by Lady Wilde - 'Speranza' - the mother of Oscar...

Lauren MacKenzie / The Couples (Large Paperback)

Eva looked out the attic window of their charming guest house and watched the sun rise. She thought she might be sick. Splayed on the lawn below was Frank, apparently out cold. Her husband snored in...

Laurence Sterne - A Sentimental Journey - HB - Heritage Press USA - 1944 - Illustrated

A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy became a hugely influential work of...

Lisa Harding / Bright Burning Things

 Sonya used to perform on stage. She attended glamorous parties, dated handsome men, rode in fast cars. But somewhere along the way, the stage lights Sonya lived for dimmed to black. In their...