IRISH LITERATURE

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 (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 / Bullfighting : Stories (Hardback)

 The Man Booker Prize-winning author takes the pulse of modern Ireland with a masterful new collection of stories.Roddy Doyle has earned a devoted following for his wry wit, his uncanny ear, and...

Roddy Doyle / Charlie Savage (Hardback)

 **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC WRITING 2019**Meet Charlie Savage: a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking...

Roddy Doyle / Life Without Children (Signed by the Author) (Paperback)

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Roddy Doyle / Love

 'A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality' John Boyne One summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up...

Roddy Doyle / Oh, Play That Thing (Hardback)

 On the last page of A Star Called Henry, the first volume of the The Last Roundup trilogy, we left Henry Smart on the run from his Republican paymasters, the men for whom he had perpetrated...

Roddy Doyle / Oh, Play That Thing (Large Paperback)

 On the last page of A Star Called Henry, the first volume of the The Last Roundup trilogy, we left Henry Smart on the run from his Republican paymasters, the men for whom he had perpetrated...

Roddy Doyle / Smile

 ust moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly's pub for a pint, a slow one.One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts...

Roddy Doyle / The Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments (Hardback)

Together in one volume, this book contains Roddy Doyle's trilogy about the Rabbitte family of Barrytown, north Dublin. "The Commitments" was a major film of 1991, "The Snapper" is currently being...

Roddy Doyle / The Dead Republic

 We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western...

Roddy Doyle / The Deportees

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Roddy Doyle / The Deportees (Large Paperback)

 For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a magazine started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant...

Roddy Doyle / The Guts (Hardback)

Jimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids ...and bowel cancer. He isn't dying, he thinks, but he might be...

Roddy Doyle / The Guts (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Roddy Doyle / The Snapper

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Roddy Doyle / The Van

  The Van is the story of Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr., and his best friend Bimbo, who buy an old fish-and-chip van and go into business in the Dublin of the 1990s.       To view...

Roddy Doyle / The Woman Behind the Door (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Roddy Doyle / The Woman Who Walked Into Doors

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Roddy Doyle / The Women Behind the Door ( Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Roddy Doyle / The Women Behind the Door (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Roisin Meaney / A Winter to Remember (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Roisin Meaney / A Winter to Remember (Large Paperback)

 A cosy, festive page-turner from the bestselling author of It's That Time of Year Emily Feeney has always loved the festive season, so when she invites some of her favourite people to...

Roisin Meaney / It's That Time of Year (Large Paperback)

 'Warm ... uplifting -- Roisin Meaney is a gifted storyteller' Sheila O'Flanagan, bestselling authorIt's the day before the wedding ...Three strangers arrive home to Ireland to the house that...

Roisin Meaney / Life Before Us (Large Paperback)

 'Life Before Us is a wonderfully woven, beautiful book full of hope, love and characters so fully formed I feel like I know them. I adored it' Emer McLysaght 'A warm, insightful story about...

Roisin Meaney / The Anniversary (Large Paperback)

 Three couples. One weekend. Everything is about to change...The sparkling and spellbinding new novel from Number One bestselling author Roisin MeaneyLily and Charlie separated after twenty-six...

Roisin Meaney / The Birthday Party (Large Paperback)

 'A wonderful storyteller' Ciara Geraghty'Meaney is utterly credible, utterly authentic, utterly irresistible' Irish Independent'Roisin Meaney is a skilful storyteller' Sheila O'FlanaganThe new...

Ronan Bennett / Havoc, in its Third Year

    England in the 1630s: turbulent times, with fears of foreign invasion and Catholic conspiracies rife. John Brigge, a farmer and coroner, is respected in his North Country community,...

Ronan Bennett / The Catastrophist

Gillespie, an Irishman, goes to the Congo in 1959 in pursuit of his beautiful lover Inès, a passionate Italian journalist. Unlike her, Gillespie has no interest in the deepening independence crisis,...

Ronán Hession - Ghost Mountain - HB - BRAND NEW

Ghost Mountain is a fable-like novel about a mountain that appears suddenly, and the way in which its manifestation ripples through the lives of characters in the surrounding community. It looks at...

Rory Gleeson / Rockadoon Shore

' Rockadoon Shore is terrific' Roddy Doyle'One of the most exciting Irish storytellers to have emerged in years' Gavin CorbettCath is worried about her friends. DanDan is struggling with the death of...

Ruth & Pen / Emilie Pine (Signed by the Author) (Paperback)

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Ruth Gilligan / Can You See Me? (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Ruth Gilligan / Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan

At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl and her family emigrate from the continent in search of a better life in America, only to pitch up in Ireland by mistake. In 1958, a mute boy...

Ruth Gilligan / Nine Folds Make A Paper Swan (Hardback)

 At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl and her family emigrate from Lithuania in search of a better life in America, only to land on the Emerald Isle instead. In 1958, a mute...

Ruth Gilligan / Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan (Large Paperback)

 1901. Cork can sound very similar to New York to foreign ears and tired brains, so it's no surprise that Ruth's family - Jewish refugees fleeing the European pogroms - mistakenly disembark from...

Ruth Gilligan / Somewhere In Between (Large Paperback)

 The exams are finally over, the sun is shining and celebration is in the air. For twins Chloe and Alex the future looks bright, if a bit uncertain. But turbulence is not far from the horizon.It...

Sally Rooney / Beautiful World, Where Are You (Large Paperback)

 'Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney's best novel.' THE TIMES*The Sunday Times and Global number one bestseller*Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if...

Sally Rooney / Conversations with Friends (Large Paperback)

 Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and darkly observant. A college student in Dublin and aspiring writer, she works at a literary agency by day. At night, she performs spoken word...

Sam Hanna Bell - December Bride ( Paperback) ( Film - t

Sam Hanna Bell's classic novel of County Down, originally published 1951, this reprint 1991, Blackstaff Press.  At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent...

Sam Hanna Bell / December Bride

 'a quiet, compassionate story' New York TimesSarah Gomartin, the servant girl on Andrew Echlin's farm on Strangford Lough in County Down, bears a child by one of Andrew's sons. But which one?...

Samuel Beckett ( Seán Lawlor & John Pilling - Editors) - The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett - HB 2012

It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. The Collected Poems is the most complete edition of Beckett’s...

Samuel Beckett - Murphy | Watt | Mercier & Camier ( Grove Press HB Edition)

A hardcover standalone edition, containg three of Beckett's novels, published in this collected edition by Grove Press USA, first edition thus. With an introduction by Colm Tóibín ,...

Sarah Gilmartin / Dinner Party : A Tragedy (Large Paperback)

 Kate meticulously plans a dinner to mark the anniversary of a death in the family, from the fancy table setting to the perfect baked alaska waiting in the freezer. But by the end of the night,...

Sarah Gilmartin / Dinner Party: A Tragedy (Hardback)

To mark the anniversary of a death in the family, Kate meticulously plans a dinner party - from the fancy table setting to the perfect baked alaska waiting in the freezer. But by the end of the...

Séamas Ó Buachalla - The Literary Writings of Patrick Pearse - Vintage PB

All of Pearse's published short stories, poetry and plays, translated into English by Séamas ó Buachalla, Mercier Press, 1979 Edgewear to covers. 

Seamus Deane / Reading in the Dark

A haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal...

Seamus Deane / Reading in the Dark (Hardback)

  A boy's childhood is lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-Fort of Grianan; where children are stolen away by demonic forces. The other is actual: the city of Derry in the...

Seamus Heaney - North - Vintage Faber Poetry 1978

In North Seamus Heaney found a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people, history and landscape. Here the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different...

Seamus Heaney / Beowulf

Composed towards the end of the first millennium, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. In his new translation, Seamus Heaney has...

Seamus Heaney / New Selected Poems 1966-1987

 This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987).'His is...

Sean McCann / The Wit of Oscar Wilde (Hardback)

 `I can resist everything except temptation' Oscar Wilde is probably the most quoted and quotable man in history. His genius manifested itself in his plays and poetry but he is equally...