IRISH LITERATURE

Oona Frawley ( Editor) / New Dubliners (Hardback)

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Oscar Wilde - Complete Works of Oscar Wilde - HB - SLIPCASED - Introduction by Vyvyan Holland

Hardcover, slipcased, published by Collins UK, 1966. Originally published in 1948, with an introduction by Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland.  Cover art by Aubrey Beardsley. 

Oscar Wilde / Lady Windermere's Fan; a Woman of No Importance; an Ideal Husband; the Importance of Being Earnest; Salome (Vintage Paperback)

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Oscar Wilde / The Plays of Oscar Wilde

With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit,...

Paraic O'Donnell / The Maker of Swans (Hardback)

 It is no small matter, after all, to create something—to make it so only by setting down the words. We forget the magnitude, sometimes, of that miracle.

Paraic ODonnell / The House on Vesper Sands

 'Tremendously good' Observer'The most vivid and compelling portrait of late Victorian London since The Crimson Petal and the White' Sarah Perry'Part Wilkie Collins, part Conan Doyle' Guardian'Huge...

Pat Boran / Local Wonders: Poems of Our Immediate Surrounds (Large Paperback)

 What do we love? When troubles and doubts threaten to overwhelm, what sustains or inspires us? What are the things we cannot do without?Recent events have made many of us question a great deal about...

Patricia Scanlan / The Liberation of Brigid Dunne

 Published in the UK as A Family Reunion*** THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ***One explosive family reunion. A lifetime of secrets revealed.Spanning generations and covering seismic shifts in the lives of...

Patrick Boyle - All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye - HB

Hardcover, first edition MacGibbon & Kee, 1969. Short Stories.  Patrick Boyle was an Irish novelist. Boyle was born in 1905 in Ballymoney, County Antrim. He worked for the Ulster Bank in County...

Patrick MacGill - Moleskin Joe - PB - 1983 Reprint

Moleskin Joe is one of the most memorable characters to appear in Patrick MacGill's first two books, 'Children of the Dead End' and 'The Rat-Pit'. This sequel, first published in 1923, recalls the...

Patrick McCabe / Call Me the Breeze

 Joey Tallon has witnessed many profound changes in the small town of Scotsfield. The men have changed from brutality and corruption to wealth and respectability. And Joey's transformed himself too,...

Patrick McCabe / Carn

 'It seemed as if the town of Carn, a huddled clump of windswept grey buildings split in two by a muddied main street, had somehow been spirited away and supplanted by a thriving, bustling place...

Patrick McCabe / Emerald Germs of Ireland (Hardback)

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Patrick McCabe / Hello and Goodbye

  Welcome to Hello and Goodbye: two dark tales from two deceased narrators - bottled-lightning treats that will make you gasp, gurn, shiver and squirm. HELLO MR BONES: two damaged souls have,...

Patrick McCabe / Hello and Goodbye : Hello Mr Bones (Large Paperback)

Welcome to Hello and Goodbye: two dark tales from two deceased narrators - bottled-lightning treats that will make you gasp, gurn, shiver and squirm. HELLO MR BONES: two damaged souls have, thanks to...

Patrick McCabe / Mondo Desperado

From a farmer's romance and his skin condition to one man's culinary relationship with Bruce Lee, Mondo Desperado and its blackly comic series of stories will make you howl with laughter.All of our...

Patrick McCabe / Mondo Desperado (Large Paperback)

 You wouldn't expect to find a 28-year-old mature woman mixed up with a bunch of swingers in a small town like Barntosna. But that's exactly what happened according to Walter Bunyan. She was his wife...

Patrick McCabe / The Butcher Boy

When I was a young lad, twenty or thirty or forty years ago, I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent". So speaks Francie Brady, the narrator and...

Patrick McCabe / Winterwood (Hardback)

 The intention was, of course, to bring her out to Winterwood - to that magical place that only me and her knew - but I wouldn't tell her that until much later on, for I wanted it to be as much of a...

Patrick McCabe / Winterwood (Large Paperback)

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Paul Murray / Skippy Dies (Large Paperback)

Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old...

Paul Murray / The Bee Sting

The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under―but rather than face the music, he’s spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a...

Paul Murray / The Bee Sting (Large Paperback)

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Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022

The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this...

Pauline Hall - Grounds - PB - 1983

Brandon Books, Originally 1983,  The novel charts the youth and adolescence of a Margaret Hogan , growing up in Dublin from the late 1940's to the 1960's

Peadar O'Donnell - Proud Island - PB - 1985 ( Originally 1975)

A 1985 O'Brien Press reprint of the 1975 original. Light spotting to pages, binding tight, otherwise unmarked. 

Peig Sayers / An Old Woman's Reflections - Kerry Blasket Islands

  Storytelling kept alive the myths, legends and history of the Blasket Islands. In her old age, Peig Sayers, recounted her life to her son who recorded the tale in this book. She recalls the events...

Polly Devlin - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983

This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked...

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 Kathryn...

Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals

Both Sheridan and Goldsmith lamented the popularity of sentimentalcomedy in the later eighteenth century and wrote their witty andsatirical plays (though never lascivious in the manner of...

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 Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback )

At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born.Father Tom Conroy - a spiky,...

Rob Doyle / Here Are the Young Men

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 'NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR' AWARDCHOSEN AS ONE OF 'IRELAND'S 20 GREATEST NOVELS SINCE 1916' BY HOT PRESS MAGAZINEMeet Matthew, Rez, Cocker and Kearney. Facing the...

Robert Hogan ( Editor) - Feathers From the Green Crow : Sean O'Casey 1905-1925 - HB - 1962

A collection of the early writings of Sean O'Casey  - organised thematically - Education and Culture / Nationalism / The Irish Language / Labour / I Been Workin' on the Railroad / Controversies /...

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 cold,...

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 same...

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 summer's...

Roddy Doyle / Love (Large Paperback)

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

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 murder...

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 and...

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 Commitments

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Roddy Doyle / The Complete Two Pints

Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub...In 2012, Roddy Doyle showed us the world anew: through the back-and-forth of two Dublin pub-dwellers. They chewed the fat, set the world to rights, slagged...

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. The...

Roddy Doyle / The Deportees

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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 Snapper

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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 its...

Roddy Doyle / Two More Pints (Hardback)

 Two men meet for a pint - or two - in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, curse the ref, say a last farewell... In this second collection of comic dialogues Doyle's drinkers...

Roddy Doyle / Two Pints (Hardback)

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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 gave...