IRISH LITERATURE

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...

Lisa McInerney / The Glorious Heresies (Large Paperback)

One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash society. Ryan is a fifteen-year-old drug dealer desperate not to turn out like his alcoholic father...

Louise Kennedy / Trespasses (Large Paperback)

There is nothing special about the day Cushla meets Michael, a married man from Belfast, in the pub owned by her family. But here, love is never far from violence, and this encounter will change...

Louise O'Neill / After the Silence (Large Paperback)

 Nessa Crowley's murderer has been protected by silence for ten years.Until a team of documentary makers decide to find out the truth.On the day of Henry and Keelin Kinsella's wild party at...

Louise O'Neill / Asking for it

'A soul-shattering novel that will leave your emotions raw. This story will haunt me forever. Everyone should read it' Guardian In a small town where everyone knows everyone, Emma O'Donovan is...

Louise O'Neill / Asking for It (Hardback)

 Emma O'Donovan is eighteen, beautiful, and fearless. It's the beginning of summer in a quiet Irish town and tonight she and her friends have dressed to impress. Everyone is at the party, and...

Louise O'Neill / Asking for it (Large Paperback)

A soul-shattering novel that will leave your emotions raw. This story will haunt me forever. Everyone should read it' Guardian In a small town where everyone knows everyone, Emma O'Donovan is...

Louise O'Neill / Idol

  Totally addictive ' JUNO DAWSON'Completely riveting' FABULOUS'Glamorous, surprising' MARIAN KEYES'Utterly gripping. Unsettling' LUCY FOLEY'An absolute page turner' CECILIA AHERN******Samantha...

Louise O'Neill / Idol (Large Paperback)

 'IDOL is fresh, glamorous, and surprising, taking an issue we all care about and with a deft twist, recalibrating our position. It dazzles us before revealing the darkness at its heart. Louise...

Lucy Caldwell / Being Various (Large Paperback)

 Featuring brand new short stories from Kevin Barry, Eimear McBride, Belinda McKeon, Lisa McInerney, Danielle McLaughlin, Stuart Neville, Sally Rooney, Kit de Waal and many more.Ireland is going...

Maeve Binchy - The Lilac Bus & Dublin 4 - Omnibus HB Edition - Irish Life Classics Collection - Best of Maeve Binchy

A hardcover copy , an omnibus edition ( including two books previously published separately) - The Lilac Bus and Dublin 4 - here issued by The Irish Life Classic Collection, 1991.  Dublin 4...

Maeve Binchy / ( 2 in 1 0mnibus Edition) Circle of Friends / Silver Wedding (Hardback)

Circle of Friends An enchanting novel of fierce loyalty and love in changing times. Big, generous-hearted Benny and the elfin Eve Malone have been best friends throughout their childhoods in sleepy...

Maeve Binchy / Circle of Friends (Hardback)

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Maeve Binchy / Evening Class

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Maeve Binchy / Evening Class (Large Paperback)

Among the many evening classes starting all over Dublin is an 'Introduction to Italian'. On the surface it could be just one of hundreds in which some students will succeed and some will fall along...

Maeve Binchy / Minding Frankie (Hardback)

  Baby Frankie is born into an unusual family. Her mother is desperate to find someone to take care of her child and she doesn't have much time. Noel doesn't seem to be the most promising of...

Maeve Binchy / Nights of Rain and Stars

Four Strangers meet in a Greek taverna high above theSmall village of Aghia Anna From Ireland, America, Germany andEngland, they have each left their homes and their old lives whena shocking tragedy...

Maeve Binchy / Nights of Rain and Stars (Hardback)

  Four strangers, with nothing in common but a need to escape, meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna. From Ireland, America, Germany and England, they have each...

Maeve Binchy / Scarlet Feather (Large Paperback)

 Scarlet Feather is set in contemporary Dublin, and is the story of Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather, who go into business together as caterers. Tom is the son of a builder and his fanatically...

Maeve Binchy / The Copper Beech: Evening Class

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Maeve Binchy / This Year it Will Be Different

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Maeve Binchy / Whitethorn Woods

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Máire Holmes ( Editor) - The Galway Review - ISSUE 3

Issue 3 of the Galway Review, published by Galway Academic Press, bound paperback anthology of poetry, shortfiction and essays and reviews.  Bright yellow covers, no title to spine.  Pasted...

Máire Holmes ( Editor) - The Galway Review - ISSUE 4

Issue 4 of the Galway Review, published by Galway Academic Press, bound paperback anthology of poetry, shortfiction and essays and reviews.  Bright yellow covers, no title to spine.   

Máire Holmes ( Editor) - The Galway Review - ISSUE 6

Issue 4 of the Galway Review, published by Galway Academic Press, bound paperback anthology of poetry, shortfiction and essays and reviews.  Bright yellow covers.   

Marian Keyes / My Favourite Mistake (Hardback)

Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple…Anna has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR.Who...

Martin Malone / This Cruel Station - Stories (Large Paperback)

The stories in This Cruel Station explore what it is like to be Irish — and new Irish — in today's society. Inspired byhis observations and interactions with recently-arrived refugees...

Martin Malone / Us

'An unusual family, Us. There's Dad, who isn't here but whose shadow is, Mum who is here but whose heart is broken. There's Gina who's sad and Karen who's not. There's Victor who's intelligent and me...

Mary Costello / Academy Street (Hardback)

 She stood on the edge of the grass. She hovered between worlds, deciphering the ground, tracing in mid-air the hall, the dining-room, the stairs. She was despairingly close to home now, to the...

Mary Lavin - Tales From Bective Bridge - PB - 1978

Originally published in 1943, this is a Poolbeg paperback reprint, 1978.  Light edgewear to the back cover, scratches where the price tag was previously.    First published in 1943,...

Mary Morrissy / Mother Of Pearl

   MOTHER OF PEARL, the first novel by an acclaimed Irish short-story writer, explores the disturbing territory of the divided self. Through the story of the kidnapping of a baby, the...

Mary Morrissy / Mother of Pearl (Large Paperback)

The story of one woman's search for home and family details the abduction of an infant and revelation of a middle-aged woman who begins to remember her shadow-life as the daughter of a different...

Mary Morrissy / The Rising of Bella Casey

 'a wonderful book from one of our finest writers' Colum McCannBella is a bright, clever girl who trains as a school teacher, determined to escape the limitations of her genteel impoverishment...

Maura Richards - Two to Tango - Vintage PB - 1981 - Single Motherhood in Ireland

Published by Ward River Press, Dublin, 1981.  The author, Maura Richards ( born 1939) was the founder of Cherish, an association for single mothers in the Ireland of the 1960's and 1970's ...

Maurice Earls / Space to Think : Ten Years of the Dublin Review of Books (Large Paperback)

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Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fas - Kerry

Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own...

Maurice Walsh - Blackcock's Feather - Vintage PB Schools Edition

Blackcock's Feather, published by Longmans Browne & Nolan Ltd, Dublin a school edition, originally published 1933. An historical swashbuckling romance/ adventure novel. This book tells the...

Mervyn Wall - Leaves for the Burning - PB

Lucian Brewse Burke, a middle-aged public servant, works in a shabby county council sub-office in the bleak Irish midlands, mired in Kafkaesque bureaucracy and petty skirmishes with locals. Upon the...

Michael Collins / The Keepers of Truth

    It is the mid-80s in post-industrial America. In a small town graced with the decaying hulks of defunct factories, young journalist and college dropout Bill churns out lengthy...

Michael Collins / The Meat Eaters

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Michael Curtin / The Cove Shivering Club (Large Paperback)

 If you swam naked across the Cove and back on any of the chill Good Fridays from 1950-1957, you were entitled to be a member of the Cove Shivering Club. However the club's rules prove hard to...

Michael Magee / Close to Home (Large Paperback)

Luminous and devastating, a portrait of modern masculinity as shaped by class, by trauma, and by silence, but also by the courage to love and to surviveSean's brother Anthony is a hard man. When they...

Michael McLaverty - Collected Short Stories - PB - Poolbeg 1978

First Poolbeg printing, 1978, one of a series of short story collections published by Poolbeg Press . With a short introduction by Seamus Heaney.  Condition - Very good, binding tight, even...

Michael McLaverty - The Three Brothers - Vintage PB 1982 ( Originally 1948)

The three Caffrey brothers are portraits of high sensitivity and insight. John works in a draper's shop in Belfast. Bob has a draper s shop of his own in Monabeg, a nearby village where he lives with...

Michael McLaverty / Truth in the Night

Martin Gallagher was born and raised on Rathlin, though - having spent sixteen years based in Belfast and working on coal ships - has only recently returned to the island. He has now bought back his...

Michael Scott - Irish Folk and Fairy Tales - PB 1985

Paperback, published by Sphere UK, 1985, originally published in hardcover in 1983.  A good solid clean copy, minor wear only, previous owner;s  name and gift inscription to title page...

Michael Scott / Irish Folk And Fairy Tales Omnibus

 Here, collected in one volume, are tales and legends that range from the misty dawn of Gaelic history and the triumph of St Patrick to the Ireland of the present day - tales as beautiful,...

Molly Keane / Good Behaviour

Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces...

Molly Keane / Time After Time

The Swifts, three sisters and their one-eyed brother Jasper, live in a crumbling house in southern Ireland. When they are visited by Leda, their blind but beguiling cousin from Vienna, their...

Naoise Dolan / Exciting Times (Large Paperback)

 'The book of the summer ... Kept me rapt until the final page' THE TIMES'A sharp, smart, witty modern love story. I loved it' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY'More than lives up to the hype .....

Naoise Dolan / The Happy Couple (Large Paperback)

 An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends who may draw them apart Meet Celine and Luke--for all intents and purposes the happy couple...

Neil Belton / The Good Listener : A Life Against Cruelty

When Helen Bamber was a little girl growing up in 1930s England, her father read her sections of Mein Kampf to inure her to the evil in the world. In 1945, at the age of 19, she traveled to the...