IRISH LITERATURE

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 / Night Boat to Tangier (Hardback)

 LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR EASON NOVEL OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDSIRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERBOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TIMES LITERARY...

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...

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...

Liz Nugent / Skin Deep (Large Paperback)

 Perfect summer read for those who like their escapism on the darker side' Ian RankinThe deliciously sinister new novel from the No 1 bestselling author of Richard and Judy Book Club pick, Lying...

Louise Kennedy / Trespasses

 Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion.Amid daily reports of violence, Cushla lives a...

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 Nealon / Snowflake (Large Paperback)

 WINNER OF SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2021, AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS'Wonderful' Roddy Doyle'Sparks with tender charm and humour . . . Fresh, bleakly funny' Sunday Times'Sharp,...

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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