IRISH LITERATURE

Benedict Kiely - A Cow in the House and Other Stories - HB 1978 - First Edition

A hardcover first edition, published by Victor Gollancz UK, 1978, attractive small format hardcover with tan and green colour cover design.  Externally, creasing to dustjacket. Internally excellent,...

John McGahern - Getting Through - PB - Short STORIES - 1978

  The author's 4th book , and second published collection of short stories.  Condition -LIGHT EDGEWEAR, this PB REPRINT, Poolbeg/ Quatro 1978 following the first Faber printing, 1978.  Stories by...

Aidan Higgins / Langrishe, Go Down

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Aingeala Flannery / The Amusements (Large Paperback)

 'THIS BOOK is EVERYTHING' Marian Keyes 'Unputdownable . . . one of the best novels of the year' Sunday Independe

Alice Ryan / There's Been a Little Incident (Large Paperback)

 NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2022 Molly Black has disappeared. She's been running away since he

Anna Burns / No Bones

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2002 - a stunning debut novel about a little girl growing up in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. Every single night and every single day Amelia goes upstairs...

Anne Griffin / Listening Still (Large Paperback)

 Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the last words of the dead.Passed down from generation to generation, this gift means she is able to make wrongs right, to give voice to unspoken love and...

Annie M.P Smithson - Nora Connor : A Novel - Mercier PB 1989

A Mercier Press reprint edition, 1989, of Annie MP Smithson's romance novel - Nora Connor ( also known with the subtitle A Romance of Yesterday) - a romance set in Dublin in the 1890's ) Moderate...

Annie M.P Smithson - Paid in Full PB - Mercier Press 1990 Edition

 Anne MP Smithson's 1946 novel,  Paid in Full . Reprint edition by Mercier Press, 1990, in very good condition, SLIGHT DINK TO FRONT COVER .  Anie Mary Patricia Smithson (26 September 1873 21...

Annie M.P Smithson - The Weldons of Tibradden - PB

A Mercier Press reprint. Heavy age tanning to page block .  '. . . As she came out of the churchyard to the road again, she noticed a stranger on the footpath opposite, glancing through the hedge...

Anthony Glavin - One for Sorrow - PB

Published by Poolbeg Press, 1980 Donegal is the setting for most of Anthony Glavin's short stories, either in the county itself, or in those set elsewhere, the memory of Donegal is on the minds of...

Ardal O'Hanlon / Brouhaha

The razor-sharp, violent and darkly comic second novel from actor, comedian and writer Ardal O’Hanlon.Dove Connolly is dead. That’s not good for anyone in Tullyanna, never mind Dove.Now his best...

Audrey Magee / The Colony

In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west coast in search of their own answers, despite what it may cost the islanders.It is the summer of 1979...

Audrey Magee / The Colony (Large Paperback)

 He handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down the pier wall towards the sea.

Audrey Magee / The Undertaking

 A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of business rather...

Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - HB - Autobiography 1968

Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, EX LIBRARY...

Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968)

Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally...

Austin Clarke - Twice Round the Black Church - Dublin - Poet - Autobiography PB

A paperback reprint - Moytura Press 1990, of Austin Clarke's 1962 autobiography, Twice Round The Black Church.    <

Belinda McKeon / Solace (Hardback)

 Mark Casey has left home, the rural Irish community where his family has farmed the same land for generations, to study for a doctorate in Dublin, a vibrant, contemporary city full of possibility...

Belinda McKeon / Tender (Large Paperback)

Catherine and James are as close as two friends could ever be. They meet in Dublin in the late 1990s, she a college student, he a fledgling artist - both recent arrivals from rural communities,...

Benedict Kiely - A Journey to the Seven Streams and Other Stories - PB -1977

A 1977 Poolbeg Press reprint of the debut 1963 short story collection from Tyrone native Benedict Kiely. Condition - internally very good, sunfade to spine, from orange to pale yellow. 144 pages...

Benedict Kiely - Land Without Stars - PB 1990 Reprint - Donegal ( Originally 1946 )

"This novel, first published in 1946, was a young writer's first novel and an attempt to deal with the lives, as he saw and thought about them, of some young people in the North of Ireland. Two...

Benedict Kiely - The Captain with the Whiskers ( Vintage Paperback ) ( 1980 - Originally 1960)

A seminal novel by one of Ireland's greatest living writers In Bingen House, guarded by shale-white Ulster mountains, and on the edge of the Atlantic, lived Captain Conway Chesney: small, neat,...

Benedict Kiely - The Cards of the Gambler - Vintage PB 1973 1ST PB ED

A vintage paperback, Millington, 1973, of Benedict Kiely's novel, The Cards of the Gambler,  first published in hardcover in 1953. Scuff damage to the back cover where an original pricetag was...

Benedict Kiely / Drink to the Bird

   A celebration of events, friends and family from Benedict Kiely's Irish childhood.    All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our...

Benjamin Black (John Banville) / Elegy for April

1950’s Ireland. As a deep, bewildering fog cloaks Dublin, a young woman is found to have vanished.When Phoebe Griffin, still haunted by the horrors of her past, is unable to discover news of her...

Benjamin Black (John Banville)/ The Lemur (Hardback)

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Benjamin Black / The Lemur (Large Paperback)

William ('Wild Bill') Mulholland is an Irish-American electronics billionaire. An ex-CIA operative, he now heads up the Mulholland Trust, with the help of his daughter Louise. When Mulholland gets...

Bernard MacLaverty - Midwinter Break - PB

Paperback, published by Vintage UK .  A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly to Amsterdam for a midwinter break. A holiday to refresh the senses, to see the sights and to generally take...

Bernard MacLaverty / A Time to Dance

Bernard Mac Laverty's beautifully turned

Bernard MacLaverty / Blank Pages and Other Stories (Hardback)

The extraordinary new story collection from one of Ireland's greatest writers and bestselling author of Midwinter Break.Bernard MacLaverty is a consummately gifted short-story writer and novelist...

Bernard MacLaverty / Lamb

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Bernard MacLaverty / Midwinter Break

 A Guardian / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Herald Scotland / Mail on Sunday Book of the YearWinner of the Bord Gais Novel of the Year`Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emotional precision...

Bernard MacLaverty / The Anatomy School (Large Paperback)

  Set in Belfast in the late sixties, Bernard MacLaverty's new novel takes us into Martin Brennan's last semester of high school, when he finds old friendships tested and is forced to face the...

Bernard MacLaverty- Lamb - King Penguin PB

On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the Home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. To Michael Lamb, one of the youngest brothers, the...

Bernard MacLaverty- Lamb - PB

On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the Home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. To Michael Lamb, one of the youngest brothers, the...

Bernard Shaw / Heartbreak House (Vintage Paperback) (1)

      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book.

Billy Keane / The Ballad of Mo & G (Large Paperback)

A gritty black comedy from a talented writer, this is an unconventional love story and an insight into the bleak landscape of post-boom Ireland. In The Ballad of Mo & G, Billy Keane has entered a...

Billy O'Callaghan / Life Sentences

   *THE #3 IRISH BESTSELLER* 'Momentous and epic' BERNARD MACLAVERTY

Billy O'Callaghan / The Boatman and Other Stories

 “I know of no writer on either side of the Atlantic who is better at exploring the human spirit under assault than Billy O’Callaghan.”—Robert Olen Butler

Billy O'Callaghan / The Paper Man (Large Paperback)

1980s Cork. Jack Shine is sorting through his mother's belongings when he discovers a shoe box full of love letters and newspaper clippings. Jack's mother, Rebekah, was a young woman when the Second...

Blanaid McKinney / Big Mouth (Large Paperback)

Big Mouth is a book that delivers, Big Time. Each story has the potency and emotional range of a novella; many of them lodging in the memory, uncomfortable as shrapnel. These are strange, tough, and...

Brendan Behan - Brendan Behan's Island : A Sketchbook ( Drawings by Paul Hogarth) HB - 1962

Hardcover, 1962, previous owner's name and date (October 1962) on inside ffront pastdown, no othermarks noted.    From the snug of the 'Shaky Man' (probably the nearest pub to Guinness Brewery in...

Brendan Behan - Hold your Hour and Have Another - Vintage PB

A collection of Behan's newspaper columns with footnotes  explaining the more esoteric references and translating the Irish phrases Behan threw in. Sometimes silly, sometimes poignant - At one point...

Brendan Flynn ( Editor) - The Clifden Anthology - PB - 1995

An anthology of poetry and prose from the wide range of contributors and attendees at the Clifden Arts Week 1977-1994 Paperback. 

Brendan Kennelly & Katie Donovan ( Editors) / Dublines (Large Paperback)

Dublin has been called the centre of the paralysis of the Universe, the second city of Empire, Scandaltown, Strumpet City, a series of accidental encounters, the largest village in Europe, the fishy...

Brendan Kennelly / The Book of Judas (Large Paperback)

 Brendan Kennelly's Book of Judas, a 400-page epic poem in twelve parts, became the number one bestselling book in Ireland. As well as receiving rapturous reviews, Brendan Kennelly won the Sunday...

Brian Keenan / Four Quarters of Light (Large Paperback)

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Brian MacMahon / A Final Fling

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Brian Moore - Black Robe ( HB First Edition- 1985)

North America. It is the beginning of the 17th century. To Father Paul, the Algonquin are pagans in need of salvation. To the Indians, Catholic priests are greedy and selfish. Accompanying Father...

Brian Moore - I Am Mary Dunne - PB 1977 ( Originally 1968)

First published in 1968 , I Am Mary Dunne follows one day in the life of a beautiful and well-to-do 31-year-old Canadian woman living in New York City with her third husband, a successful playwright...

Brian Moore / Black Robe

    To Father Paul, the Algonkian Indians are pagans in need of salvation. To the Indians, Catholic priests are greedy and selfish. Accompanying Father Paul on his mission to relieve a priest in...