IRISH LITERATURE

Rachael English / The Paper Bracelet (Large Paperback)

 Every baby's bracelet held a mother's secret...Inspired by heartrending real events, the gripping new novel from No. 1 bestselling author Rachael English. Readers of Diane Chamberlain and...

Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The School for Scandal (Large Paperback)

The intrigues of such aptly named characters as Lady Sneerwell, Sir Joseph Surface, Lady Candour, and Sir Benjamin Backbite have amused theater audiences for more than two centuries. They are the...

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...

Robert Doyle / Here Are The Young Men (Large Paperback)

  As they face the void of their post-school lives, Matthew, Rez, Cocker and Kearny spend their first summer of freedom in a savage apprenticeship on the streets of Dublin. Roaming aimlessly...

Roddy Doyle - The Barrytown Trilogy - HB

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Roddy Doyle - The Barrytown Trilogy - HB ( The Commitments/ The Van/ The Snapper)

Here, in one volume, are Roddy Doyle’s three acclaimed novels about the Rabbitte family from Barrytown, Dublin. In them we follow the rapid rise of Jimmy Rabbitte’s soul band, the...

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 (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 : 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 / 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 / Paula Spencer (Hardback)

  When we first met Paula Spencer - in "The Woman Who Walked into Doors" - she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together. "Paula Spencer" begins...

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 Woman Who Walked into Doors (Hardback)

 By the author of "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha", winner of the 1993 Booker Prize, this is the life history of Paula Spencer - her contented childhood, her romance with Charlo, and her sad marriage. It...

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

Paula Spencer #3 Booker-Prize winner Roddy Doyle’s spectacular return to his iconic character, Paula Spencer, whom he originated in the groundbreaking The Woman Who Walked into Doors and...

Roddy Doyle / Two Pints (Hardback)

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Roddy Doyle / Two Pints (Large Paperback)

Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, take the piss… They talk about their wives, their kids, their kids’ pets, their football teams and...

Roisin Maguire / Night Swimmers (Large Paperback)

  'A warm, unsentimental and beautifully-observed book for our times' Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days'If I were in bother I'd want the Ballybrady bunch at my back. This is a truly...

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 / Moving On (Large Paperback)

Three great loves. Two very different countries. One step closer to finding her way home...As a new decade begins, hopeless romantic and big dreamer Ellen is finally moving on from her hometown.In...

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...

Roisín O’Donnell / Nesting (Large Paperback)

An extraordinary and urgent debut by a prize-winning Irish writer, NESTING introduces an unforgettable new voice in fiction. On a bright spring afternoon in Dublin, Ciara Fay makes a split-second...

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...

Ronan Hession / Leonard and Hungry Paul

LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL is the story of two friends who ordinarily would remain uncelebrated. It finds a value and specialness in them that is not immediately apparent and prompts the idea that maybe...

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 (Hardback)

 'Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney's best novel.' THE TIMES*The Sunday Times and Global number one bestseller**Winner of Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards*Alice, a...

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...

Sam Baneham - The Cloud of Desolation - HB - 1982

Hardcover , Wolfhound Press, 1982.  Condition, very good, internally unmarked.  Sam Baneham's highly original, satiric Irish novel, The Cloud of Desolation (1982) creates through memorable...

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...

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,...

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 / 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...