IRISH LITERATURE

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 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 Van (Hardback)

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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 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 ( Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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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...

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

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Roddy Doyle / Two for the Road (Hardback)

 The next round in the beloved Two Pints series from the ever-brilliant, always hilarious imagination of bestselling author of The Commitments and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha HaTwo men meet for a pint -...

Roddy Doyle / Two Pints (Hardback)

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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...

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,...

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...

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? (Large Paperback)

 She's never known what it is not to succeed - and she never lets down her guard. Why would she? She's Alice, after all, the one people come to, the one with all the answers.Her first term in...

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

The Sunday Times and Global number one bestseller**Winner of Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards**A Book of the Year in The Times, the Guardian, the Irish Times and the Financial...

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...

Sally Rooney / Conversations with Friends

 'This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I'm not alone.'- Sarah Jessica Parker (Instagram)WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND...

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...

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 - Dramatische Dichtungen in Drei Sprachen

With text of dramatist Samuel Beckett's work in three languages - English,  French (Waiting for Godot was originally published in French first) and German.  Originally published 1981. 

Sara Baume / Spill Simmer Falter Wither

This book was shortlisted for the shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2015. It is longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2015. It is longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2016. It is...

Sara Berkeley - The Swimmer in the Deep Blue Dream - PB - 1991

Paperback, published by Raven Arts Press, Dublin 1991. A collection of short stories.  A businessman is mesmerized by the woman he follows from a London tube. A Dublin mother raises her children...

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 (Marco Sonzogni - Editor) - The Translations of Seamus Heaney - HB - Faber- 2022

Hardcover, published by Faber, 2022, first edition.  Condition - very good, two poems on he contents list ahve ticks beside them, otherwise, unmarked as far as I can ascertain...

Seamus Heaney / Finders Keepers : Selected Prose 1971 - 2001

 Finders Keepers is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying...

Seamus Heaney / The Rattle Bag (Large Paperback)

  Conceived as a collection of the editors' own favourite poems, The Rattle Bag has established itself as the classic anthology of our time. Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes have brought together...

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...

Sean O'Casey - Blasts and Benedictions : Articles and Stories ( Selected by Ronald Ayling ) HB 1967

Hardcover first edition, Macmillan UK, 1967, selected by Ronald Ayling ( with the assistance of  O'Casey's wife) and published 3 years after the author's death.  Biographical essays, essays...