IRISH LITERATURE

Cláir Ní Aonghusa / Four Houses & a Marriage

Sinead's world is collapsing. Her marriage to Eoin is floundering. She's at war with her parents and the school she worked in for years is closing down. When a beloved aunt dies and leaves her a...

Claire Kilroy / All Names Have Been Changed

 All Names Have Been Changed is set in Dublin in the mid-1980s - a city in the grip of recession and a heroin epidemic. Narrated by Declan, the only boy of a tight-knit writing group at Trinity...

Claire Kilroy / Soldier Sailor. (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Claire Kilroy / Tenderwire (Large Paperback)

  Eva Tyne, an Irish violinist living and working in New York, collapses after her solo debut and is rushed to hospital. Still dazed after the incident, she finds herself embarked on a...

Claire Kilroy / The Devil I Know (Large Paperback)

  There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile He made a crooked deal and he blew a crooked pile He dug a crooked hole. And he sank the crooked isle And they all went to hell in a...

Clare Boylan - Holy Pictures - HB - 1st Ed 1983

Hardcover first edition, published by Hamish Hamilton UK , 1983 . Heavy tanning to pages.  For Nan, on the threshold of puberty, and her younger sister Mary, innocence blends uneasily with the...

Clare Boylan - Last Resorts - HB - US Edition 1986

Harriet's yearly family vacation on the Greek island of Keptos is disrupted by her twins' desire to get drunk with the locals, her thirteen-year-old daughter's suddenly ripe sexuality, and the abrupt...

Clare Boylan / Holy Pictures (Vintage Paperback)

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Clare Boylan / Home Rule (Hardback)

When aristocratic Englishwoman Elinore Dubois married a handsome young Irishman, her mother warned her that he would give her ten children and leave her destitute. In fact there are only nine...

Colin Barrett / Wild Houses (Large Paperback)

The remarkable, funny and thrilling debut novel from the acclaimed, prize-winning author of the short story collections, Young Skins and HomesicknessAs Ballina prepares for its biggest...

Colin Walsh / Kala

We used to be such a force, back then when she was still with us. What happened to her?In the seaside town of Kinlough three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years. They –...

Colin Walsh / Kala (Large Paperback)

In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years. They - Helen, Joe and Mush - were part of an original group of six...

Colm McCann / TransAtlantic (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Colm Tobin / Long Island (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Colm Tóibín / Long Island (Large Paperback)

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the...

Colm Toibin / Mothers and Sons

 Colm Toibin's Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Psychologically intricate and emotionally...

Colm Toibin / Mothers and Sons (Hardback)

Colm Toibin's new and challenging collection of stories paint rich and textured portraits of individuals at different pivotal moments in their lives. In each case, Toibin shows how their...

Colm Toibin / Nora Webster (Large Paperback)

It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at...

Colm Toibin / The Blackwater Lightship

Set in modern day Ireland, The Blackwater Lightship tells the tale of three women, Dora Devereaux, her daughter Lily and grand-daughter Helen. They arrive at an uneasy peace with each other...

Colm Toibin / The Empty Family

In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast...

Colm Toibin / The Empty Family (Large Paperback)

  In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family Colm Tóibín delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals,...

Colm Toibin / The Heather Blazing

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Colm Toibin / The Magician

  Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2022 From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells...

Colm Tóibín / The Magician (Large Paperback)

 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZEFrom one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family.The...

Colm Toibin / The Master (Hardback)

 It is January 1895 and Henry James's play, GUY DOMVILLE, from which he hoped to make his fortune, has failed on the London stage.Opening with this disaster, The Master spans the next five years...

Colm Toibin / The South

In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland and her family for Barcelona, determined to become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and proceeds to build a...

Colm Toibin / The Testament of Mary

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013 From the author of Brooklyn comes a short, powerful novel about one of the most famous mothers in history. In a voice that is both tender and filled with...

Colum McCann / Apeirogon

 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICISSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS...

Colum McCann / Apeirogon (Large Paperback)

 CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTSMAN, IRISH TIMES, BBC.COM, WATERSTONES.COM'Nothing like any book you've ever...

Colum McCann / Apeirogon (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Colum McCann / Dancer

Stunning, bestselling novel based on the real life of Rudolf Nureyev from an acclaimed author.This novel opens on a battlefield: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland,...

Colum McCann / Dancer (Large Paperback)

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Colum McCann / Fishing the Sloe-black River

Stunning collection of short stories from the prize-winning author of DANCER An ageing nun is tracked to ground by her sister; a garrulous beautician must lay out the corpse of a loved one. These are...

Colum McCann / Let the Great World Spin (Large Paperback)

 New York, August 1974. A man is walking the sky. The city stands still in awe. Between the newly built Twin Towers the man is striding, twirling and showboating his way through the air. One...

Colum McCann / Thirteen Ways of Looking (Hardback)

   From the author of the award-winning novel Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic comes an eponymous novella and three stories that range fluidly across time,...

Colum McCann / This Side Of Brightness (Hardback)

 A breakthrough novel for one of the most gifted of the current generation of Irish writers. Ostensibly a love story in three generations, THIS SIDE OF BRIGHTNESS is about many other about the...

Colum McCann / This Side of Brightness (Large Paperback)

  From the author of Songdogs, a magnificent work of imagination and history set in the tunnels of New York City. In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia...

Colum McCann / TransAtlantic (Hardback)

Newfoundland, 1919. Two aviators—Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown—set course for Ireland as they attempt the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, placing their trust in a modified...

Colum McCann / Transatlantic (Large Paperback)

1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west...

Colum McCann / TransAtlantic (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Colum McCann / TransAtlantic. (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Conal Creedon / Passion Play

The Pounding on his door is gettinglouder ond louder . . .- AnswerdeshaggindoorwiIlyaanswerdeshaggindoor !-l am safe...Pluto stubs out onother cigorette in the dregs ofhis coffee mug ond buries...

Conor Bowman / Horace Winter Says Goodbye (Large Paperback)

'Original, moving and funny...' Irish Independent Meet Horace Winter and fall in love with life again in this bestselling novel ... Horace Winter has led an unexceptional life. Ever since that...

Conor McPherson / The Weir

 The spellbinding, beautifully observed hit from the master of suspenseful realism.A bar in a remote part of Ireland. The local lads are swapping spooky stories to impress a young woman recently...

Conor O'Callaghan / Nothing On Earth

 As fine as it is frightening." (John Banville). "This one will stay with you like your shadow." (Guardian). "Extraordinary...pitch-perfect." (Irish Times). "Strange, beautiful and quietly...

Daniel Corkery - The Stormy Hills - Short Stories - Vintage Mercier Paperback

A collectionm of 9 short stories , published in this edition by Mercier Press, c 1966 - ( undated in this printing)  Cover design by John Skelton, paperback - contains Nightfall, The Awakening,...

David Marcus ( Editor) - New Irish Writing 1 - PB - 1970

Paperback,  published by Dolmen  Press, 1970.  Based on the weekly series then running in the Irish Press Newspaper as 'New Irish Writing' . Contains poetry and short fiction.  A...

David Marcus ( Editor) / Phoenix Irish Short Stories 1997 (Hardback)

The second Phoenix collection of the finest in Irish contemporary short stories, featuring Eugene McCabe, Michael Collins, Colum McCann and Mike McCormack among others.   This book is second...

David Marcus / The Irish Eros (Hardback)

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David Park / The Truth Commissioner

   Henry Stanfield, the newly arrived Truth Commissioner, is troubled by his estrangement from his daughter, and struggling with the consequences of his infidelities. Francis Gilroy,...

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David Park / Travelling in a Strange Land

 Set in a frozen winter landscape, the new novel from the prize-winning, acclaimed author David Park is a psychologically astute, expertly crafted portrait of a father’s inner life and a...