IRISH LITERATURE

Eoin McNamee / The Blue Tango (Large Paperback)

A thriller set in a shadowy world of corruption and sexual intrigue. A narrative of white mischief in post-war Ireland, of false accusation and savage murder, presided over by the tragic figure of...

Eoin McNamee / The Vogue

 LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019 'A wonderfully eerie, tragic read. I read it with my heart in my mouth.' Anna Burns, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Milkman'A captivating tale...

Erskine Childers / The Riddle of the Sands

`About this coast... In the event of war it seems to me that every inch of it would be important, sand and all.'Executed in 1922 for his involvement in Irish republicanism, Childers in remembered...

Eugene McCabe / Death and Nightingales

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Eugene O'Brien / Going Back (Large Paperback)

A debut that continues the story of the hit RTÉ TV series Pure Mule , which captured the whole world in one small Irish town.Scobie Donoghue was once the king of Friday, Saturday and Sunday...

Evie Woods / The Mysterious Bakery On Rue de Paris

This is the magical tale of Edith Lane, who sets off to find her fortune in the beautiful city of Paris. Fortune, however, is a fickle thing and Edith ends up working in a vintage bakery in the...

Ferdia Mac Anna / Cartoon City : A Novel (Large Paperback) -

 When Myles, a tabloid reporter, falls for Mia, a young artist, he poses as a gangster to impress her. Mia then hires him to kill her father, Psychodad, and Myles finds himself plotting the...

Fergus Brogan ( Editor) - True To Type : 18 Stories - PB 1991

Co-published by Irish Times Books and Sugarloaf Publications, 1991.  A collection of 18 ( fiction) short stories from journalists and writers for the Irish Times, With cartoons by Martyn Turner...

Flamingo/Harper Collins Publishing / 20th Century Irish Writing (8 Book Box Set)

20th Century Irish Writing (8 Book Box Set) A mix of fiction, memoir and biography.  dermot bolger / father's music brian moore / the statement james joyce / a portrait of the artist as a young...

Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman - Vintage Picador PB 1978 Irish Classic

A vintage Picador 1978 edition, light tanning to page block, no inscriptions internally. First published in 1967, this is the 5th printing.  A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic...

Flann O'Brien ( Myles na Gopaleen ) - The Poor Mouth HB ( English translation) Illustrated by Ralph Steadman - HB 1973

Originally published as gaeilge under the title An Béal Bocht, this is Flann O'Brien's satirical take on all the poor god help us stories published in Irish by the likes of Séamus...

Flann O'Brien / The Poor Mouth

   The classic satire from the renowned comic and acclaimed author of `At Swim-Two-Birds' - Flann O'Brien.Flann O'Brien's gloriously wicked satire of the traditional Irish peasant novel,...

Flann O'Brien / The Third Policeman

Within the boudaries of this novel the reader will find: a murder thriller; a comic satire about an archetypal village police force; a surrealistic vision of eternity; the story of a tender, brief...

Fonzie Keogh - The Half Crown Man - PB

Jimmy, the half-crown man, is selling his usual wares but rumours start spreading about the extras he is offering. Elizabeth, the newly widowed pub landlady, is besotted with Dominic, the glamorous...

Frances Macken / You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here (Large Paperback)

Evelyn is intoxicating. She's self-assured, mercurial, dominant and mischievous. But she's also mean, and as much as her best friends Katie and Maeve crave her approval, theirs is a threesome held...

Francis MacManus - Men Withering ( Vintage PB 1966) ( Originally 1936)

There is little need to introduce the writing of Francis MacManus. For many years his books have charmed all who have gently relaxed into his world of Irish rural life. For over three decades, he...

Francis MacManus - The Greatest of These - Vintage Mercier Paperback 1969 ED

The Greatest of These was first published in Dublin in 1943 by the Talbot Press.Set in the late 19th century,  It presents a very sympathetic portrait of Bishop Ned Langton, who feels...

Francis MacManus - The Greatest of These - Vintage Mercier Paperback 1975

The Greatest of These was first published in Dublin in 1943 by the Talbot Press. Set in the late 19th century,  It presents a very sympathetic portrait of Bishop Ned Langton, who feels...

Francis MacManus - Watergate - Poolbeg PB 1980 ( Originally 1942)

A reprint Poolbeg edition, 1980, first published in 1942.  A story about an American woman coming back to the family house/farm in Ireland and upsetting the status quo. Alice Lennon had left...

Francis MacManus / Watergate (Vintage Paperback)

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Francis Stuart - A Hole in the Head - HB -1977

First edition, , hardcover published by Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1977. Sun fade to dudstjacket, especially to spine.     As he undergoes medical and psychiatric treatment, reality...

Francis Stuart - Black List, Section H ( US HB 1st Edition 1971 )

This astonishingly powerful novel follows H on a spiritual quest for revelation and redemption, from his disastrous marriage to Iseult Gonne, the Irish Civil War and internment, to his life as a...

Francis Stuart - Memorial - PB (Raven Arts Press) 1984, Originally 1973

Paperback, published by Raven Arts Press, Cover art by John Farman, and portrait of Stuart to back cover.  Slight curl to lower cover edge, tanning to pages, embossed former owner mark...

Frank McGuinness / Donegal

 We are who you come from. We are who you'll go to. The Day family are Irish country-music royalty and Irene is their queen. Her relatives are completely dependent on her success. But as...

Frank McGuinness / Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme

On 1 July 1916, the 36th (Ulster) Division took part in one of the bloodiest battles in human history, the Battle of the Somme. This enduring war play is a powerful portrayal of mortality, love and...

Frank O'Connor - The Holy Door & Other Stories - Vintage Pan PB - 1973

A vintage Pan paperback edition by Cork author Frank O'Connor -  The Holy Door and other Stories - Pan PB -  edgeworn - 1973 printing ( first thus - these stories were taken from the...

Frank O'Connor - Masculine Protest and Other Stories - Vintage PB

A collection of short fiction by O'connor, with period wraparound image of Cork city on front cover. Fade to spine, usual age tanning to pages.  1972 reprint edition, Pan Books UK. 

Frank O'Connor - My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories - Vintage Penguin PB 1963

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's...

Frank O'Connor - The Mad Lomasneys - Vintage PB

A Pan Books UK paperback edition, 1970's . The prices on the back cover have been covered with a black marker, there is spine lean, tanning to pages, and previous owner's name to title page...

Frank Ronan / Dixie Chicken (Large Paperback)

From the award-winning author of The Men who Loved Evelyn Cotton , this is a novel in which God plays narrator, death is the mystery and sex the possible key. When the successful and adored Rory...

Frank Ronan / The Men Who Loved Evelyn Cotton (Hardback)

Winner of the "Irish Times"/Aer Lingus Prize, this first novel by Frank Ronan asks whether the heroine, Evelyn, has found any real advantage in being loved by men. It looks at her love affairs,...

Fred Johnston / Atalanta (Large Paperback)

Fred Johnston of Galway, Ireland,established a fine reputation as short story writer (Keeping the Night Watch), poet, and novelist, and this book latest weaves Greek mythology (Atalanta and...

Fred Johnston / Keeping the Night Watch (Large Paperback)

These eleven stories by the Irish poet, critic, and novelist Fred Johnston generally explore the concept of the internal exile, the outsider in contemporary society. These are stories about bright...

George Bernard Shaw - Plays Pleasant : Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell - Vintage Penguin PB - 1946 ( Originally 1898)

A vintage Penguin paperbacks ( Horizontal band editions) of plays by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw - as follows - Plays Pleasant - comprising Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny...

George Bernard Shaw - Collected Plays - 10 Volume Set - HB Pocket Editions1927

A reprint set, unformly sized and with identical design on each of G.B Shaw's plays , in 12 volumes , originally 1926, here in the 'Pocket Edition, 1927' Published by Constable and CompanY. Titles in...

George Moore - Hail and Farewell ( PB 1985 - Originally 1911 )

Hail And Farewell! by George Moore is a memoir of Moore’s time in Dublin in the decade prior to the outbreak of the Great War and the Irish Revolution, at the height of what became...

George Moore - The Lake - PB ( 1980, Originally 1905)

A paperback Colin Smythe Publishing reprint, 1980. This edition with an afterword by Richard Cave.  Condition, very good, spine uncreased, previous owner's name and date to blank endpage. 

George O'Brien - Dancehall Days - HB - 1ST Edition 1988

Dancehall Days brings the narrator to his father’s house in Monkstown, Dublin, to dream of a college education and of twisting the night away. Instead, he experiences the vicissitudes of a...

Gerald Stembridge / What She Saw (Large Paperback)

"Sex, scandal, politics, and a cast of characters you just can't trust, all delivered with a thoroughly modern sensibility."-SARAH PINBOROUGH, author of Behind Her EyesThe storied Hotel...

Gerry Adams / Black Mountain : and other stories

In this collection, one of Ireland’s best-known political figures brings us new and selected stories of politics, of family, of love and of friendship. These are portraits of Ireland, and...

Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback)

 It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury...

Graham Norton / A Keeper

     Atmospheric, creepy and impossible to put down.' the TIMES'A compelling and moving story, expertly told, that will draw you in and keep you in its grip until the last page.'...

Graham Norton / A Keeper (Large Paperback)

   Dear Lonely Leinster Lady, I'm not really sure how to begin . . .* * *The truth drifts out to sea, riding the waves out of sight. And then the tide turns.Elizabeth Keane returns to...

Graham Norton / Holding

The Sunday Times bestseller and debut novel from Graham Norton.'Poised and perceptive' Sunday Times'... a deftly plotted story as moving as it is compelling' Sunday Mirror'Deeply accomplished .....

Graham Norton / Home Stretch

 'Graham is a lovely writer and this is by far his best. The passage of time is beautifully handled, and the emergence of Ireland into the modern world is a joy to read... There's a lovely...

Greg Baxter / The Apartment (Hardback)

'She was always in many places at once, invested deeply in a hundred different notions, and of all the things I liked about Saskia that was the thing I liked most'. One snowy morning in an old...

Harry Levin / The Essential James Joyce1 (Vintage Paperback)

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Helen Cullen / The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually (Large Paperback)

'There's a crack in everything, it's how the light gets in' Leonard Cohen'I devoured this, falling in love with the setting and with every character - and when I reached the end, I wept. It is just...

Hugh McFadden / Crystal Clear : The Selected Prose of John Jordan (Large Paperback)

   Writer, poet, lecturer, broadcaster and man-of -letters, John Jordan (1930-88) was a distinguished scholar-critic in the Dublin of his day, teaching English at University College Dublin...

Hugo Hamilton / Dublin Palms (Hardback)

 The palm trees give the street a holiday atmosphere. There must be something in the soil they like. They have straight leaves that get a bit ragged, with split ends. At night you hear them...

Hugo Hamilton / Dublin Palms (Large Paperback)

 The palm trees give the street a holiday atmosphere. There must be something in the soil they like. They have straight leaves that get a bit ragged, with split ends. At night you hear them...

Hugo Hamilton / The Speckled People

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