IRISH LITERATURE

Peter Haining / Great Irish Stories of Childhood (Hardback)

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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...

Randall Maggs / The Echoing Years: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Translation from Canada and Ireland (Large Paperback)

"The Echoing Years" completes a trilogy of anthologies combining the poetry of Ireland and Newfoundland and Labrador. "The Backyards of Heaven" (2003) and "However Blow the Winds" (2004) have sold...

Richard Kirwan / Minding Jack (Large Paperback)

Richard Kirwan’s deeply moving novel, Minding Jack, is a strikingly vivid reawakening of Waterford in the early 1960s. It evokes a city caught between the conservative past and an exciting...

Richard Murphy / The Kick (Hardback)

 In The Kick, poet Richard Murphy has constructed, from astonishingly detailed diaries kept over the course of five decades, a unique memoir of his life and times. The book is a publishing event...

Roddy Doyle / A Star Called Henry

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Roddy Doyle / A Star Called Henry (Hardback)

Born in the slums of Dublin in 1902, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing, begging, often...

Roddy Doyle / Bullfighting

 Bullfighting moves from classrooms to graveyards, local pubs to bullrings; featuring an array of men at their working day and at rest, taking stock and reliving past glories. Each is concerned...

Roddy Doyle / Bullfighting (Large Paperback)

 The men in "Bullfighting" are each concerned with loss in different ways - of their place in their world, of power, virility, love - of the boom days and the Celtic Tiger. 'The stories, his...

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...