IRISH LITERATURE

Edna O'Brien / The Country Girls Trilogy ( OMNIBUS)

 Edna O'Brien's beloved classics plunge us into the lives and loves of two girls in rural 1950s Ireland (with a new foreword by Eimear McBride).'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no...

Edna O'Brien / The House Of Splendid Isolation

 'A powerful, complex fable, mysteriously conceived and deeply felt . . . Brilliant' Irish TimesWhen Josie, confined to bed in her dilapidated country mansion, sees the door swing back and the hooded...

Edna O'Brien / The House of Splendid Isolation (Hardback)

  Into Josie's bedridden world in a dilapidated country mansion comes McGreevey, bloody crusador for a united Ireland. By the author of "The Country Girls", "Lantern Slides" and "Time and Tide"...

Edna O'Brien / The Little Red Chairs

   When a man who calls himself a faith healer arrives in a small, west-coast Irish village, the community is soon under the spell of this charismatic stranger from the Balkans. One woman in...

Edna O'Brien / Time and Tide

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Edna O'Brien / Time and Tide (Hardback)

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Edna O'Brien / Wild Decembers (Large Paperback)

 Edna O'Brien's masterly new novel, WILD DECEMBERS, charts the quick and critical demise of relations between Joseph Brennan and Mick Bugler - "the warring sons of warring sons" - in the countryside...

Edward Rutherfurd - The Rebels of Ireland ( The Dublin Saga - Book 2) - HB - 2006

The sequel to The Princes of Ireland follows the lives and destinies of several Dublin families, both Catholic and Protestant, from all strata of society, from the sixteenth-century colonization of...

Eilís Dillon - Blood Relations - HB 1977 1st Edition

The sequel to Across the Bitter Sea, Blood Relations chronicles the painful birth of twentieth-century Ireland. Eils Dillon has recaptured all the essence of the time when a nation [was] struggling...

Eilís Dillon - Blood Relations - PB 1979 ( Originally 1977)

The sequel to Across the Bitter Sea, Blood Relations chronicles the painful birth of twentieth-century Ireland. Eils Dillon has recaptured all the essence of the time when a nation [was] struggling...

Eilís Dillon -The Head of the Family ( Vintage PB - 1982 )( Originaly 1960)

This multi-layered novel introduces us to the eccentric, not to say dysfunctional, Dublin household of the Mallons. The head of the family is Roger Mallon, grand old man of Irish literature (and...

Eilís Ní Dhuibhne - Hurlamaboc - PB - As Gaeilge - BRAND NEW

Winner of a merit award in the Bisto Children's Book of the Year Award for 2007. Eachtraí triúr deagóirí i mbruachbhaile i mBaile Átha Cliath - Ruan, Emma agus Colm. Comharsana ar comhaois iad ar...

Eilis NI Dhuibhne / The Pale Gold of Alaska (Large Paperback)

    In these subtle, deceptively simple new stories, the acclaimed Irish writer Eilis Ni Dhuibhne demonstrates her mastery of a form she is steadily reshaping to make her own. Dealing with the...

Eimear McBride / Strange Hotel (Hardback)

 From the multi-award-winning author of the literary phenomenon A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing.At the mid-point of her life a woman enters an Avignon hotel room. She's been here once before - but...

Eithne Shortall - Grace After Henry - BRAND NEW - PB

Grace After Henry - brand new copy  Grace sees her boyfriend Henry everywhere. In the supermarket, on the street, at the graveyard.Only Henry is dead. He died two months earlier, leaving a huge hole...

Eithne Shortall / The Lodgers

One house. Three strangers. A second chance at happiness.Tessa's life as an activist and volunteer worker takes a hit after a fall. At the ripe young age of 69, she's no longer able to live alone and...

Elaine Feeney / How to Build a Boat (Large Paperback)

 This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness and flairElaine Feeney's high-profile champions include Douglas Stuart, Margaret Atwood, Marian...

Elaine Feeney / Let Me Go Mad in my Own Way (Large Paperback)

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Elaine Garvey / The Wardrobe Department (Large Paperback)

Mairéad works all hours in a run-down West End theatre’s wardrobe department, her whole existence made up of threads and needles, running errands to mend shoes, fixing broken zips and handwashing...

Eleanor Knott - Irish Syllabic Poetry 1200-1600 - PB -2ed Reprint 1994

An introduction to Irish Syllabic Poetry of the period 1200-1600, with selections, notes and glossary, by Eleanor Knott, 2nd edition reprint, 1994, published by the school of Celtic Studies, DIAS,...

Emma Donoghue / Astray

With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways, drifters; gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross borders of...

Emma Donoghue / Haven

A story of survival set in 600 AD Ireland; a parable of patriarchy, destruction and religion at sea, by Emma Donoghue, the bestselling author of Room. 'Everything a novel should be: compassionate,...

Emma Donoghue / The Sealed Letter

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Eoin C Macken / Kingdom Of Scars

 Sam Leahy is a shy, fifteen-year-old boy navigating two social worlds: the uptight bullies at his all-boys' private school and the small uncouth gang in his neighbourhood. This gang of five follows...

Eoin McNamee / The Blue Tango

 'At 2.20am in the morning of the 13th November 1952 the body of 19 year old Patricia Curran was carried into the surgery belonging to the family doctor. At first Dr Kenneth Wilson thought she had...

Eoin McNamee / The Blue Tango (Large Paperback)

A thriller set in a shadowy world of corruption and sexual intrigue. A narrative of white mischief in post-war Ireland, of false accusation and savage murder, presided over by the tragic figure of...

Eoin McNamee / The Vogue

 LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019 'A wonderfully eerie, tragic read. I read it with my heart in my mouth

Eugene McCabe / Death and Nightingales

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Eugene O'Brien / Going Back (Large Paperback)

A debut that continues the story of the hit RTÉ TV series Pure Mule , which captured the whole world in one small Irish town.Scobie Donoghue was once the king of Friday, Saturday and Sunday night,...

Evie Woods / The Mysterious Bakery On Rue de Paris

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Ferdia Mac Anna / Cartoon City : A Novel (Large Paperback) -

 When Myles, a tabloid reporter, falls for Mia, a young artist, he poses as a gangster to impress her. Mia then hires him to kill her father, Psychodad, and Myles finds himself plotting the perfect...

Fergus Brogan ( Editor) - True To Type : 18 Stories - PB 1991

Co-published by Irish Times Books and Sugarloaf Publications, 1991.  A collection of 18 ( fiction) short stories from journalists and writers for the Irish Times, With cartoons by Martyn Turner...

Fiona Scarlett / Boys Don't Cry

 'I can't remember ever reading anything so moving . . . It's so beautiful.' MARIAN KEYES They say boys don't cry

Flamingo/Harper Collins Publishing / 20th Century Irish Writing (8 Book Box Set)

20th Century Irish Writing (8 Book Box Set) A mix of fiction, memoir and biography.  dermot bolger / father's music brian moore / the statement james joyce / a portrait of the artist as a young...

Fonzie Keogh - The Half Crown Man - PB

Jimmy, the half-crown man, is selling his usual wares but rumours start spreading about the extras he is offering. Elizabeth, the newly widowed pub landlady, is besotted with Dominic, the glamorous...

Francis MacManus - Men Withering ( Vintage PB 1966) ( Originally 1936)

There is little need to introduce the writing of Francis MacManus. For many years his books have charmed all who have gently relaxed into his world of Irish rural life. For over three decades, he...

Francis MacManus - The Greatest of These - Vintage Mercier Paperback 1969 ED

The Greatest of These was first published in Dublin in 1943 by the Talbot Press.Set in the late 19th century,  It presents a very sympathetic portrait of Bishop Ned Langton, who feels impelled to...

Francis MacManus - The Greatest of These - Vintage Mercier Paperback 1975

The Greatest of These was first published in Dublin in 1943 by the Talbot Press. Set in the late 19th century,  It presents a very sympathetic portrait of Bishop Ned Langton, who feels impelled to...

Francis MacManus - Watergate - Poolbeg PB 1980 ( Originally 1942)

A reprint Poolbeg edition, 1980, first published in 1942.  A story about an American woman coming back to the family house/farm in Ireland and upsetting the status quo. Alice Lennon had left Ireland...

Francis MacManus / Watergate (Vintage Paperback)

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Francis Stuart - A Hole in the Head - HB -1977

First edition, , hardcover published by Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1977. Sun fade to dudstjacket, especially to spine.     As he undergoes medical and psychiatric treatment, reality and fantasy are...

Francis Stuart - Memorial - PB (Raven Arts Press) 1984, Originally 1973

Paperback, published by Raven Arts Press, Cover art by John Farman, and portrait of Stuart to back cover.  Slight curl to lower cover edge, tanning to pages, embossed former owner mark blindstamped...

Frank McGuinness / Donegal

 We are who you come from. We are who you'll go to. The Day family are Irish country-music royalty and Irene is their queen. Her relatives are completely dependent on her success. But as Irene's star...

Frank McGuinness / Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme

On 1 July 1916, the 36th (Ulster) Division took part in one of the bloodiest battles in human history, the Battle of the Somme. This enduring war play is a powerful portrayal of mortality, love and...

Frank O'Connor - The Holy Door & Other Stories - Vintage Pan PB - 1973

A vintage Pan paperback edition by Cork author Frank O'Connor -  The Holy Door and other Stories - Pan PB -  edgeworn - 1973 printing ( first thus - these stories were taken from the Collected...

Frank O'Connor - An Only Child - Vintage Pan PB - 1970 Edition - Originally 1961

This reprint edition, Pan 1970 , in very good condition, usual age tanning to page block, no other marks, no inscriptions, small closed nick on back cover,  light edgewear to covers.  This is an...

Frank O'Connor - Masculine Protest and Other Stories - Vintage PB

A collection of short fiction by O'connor, with period wraparound image of Cork city on front cover. Fade to spine, usual age tanning to pages.  1972 reprint edition, Pan Books UK. 

Frank O'Connor - My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories - Vintage Penguin PB 1963

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's...

Frank O'Connor - The Mad Lomasneys - Vintage PB

A Pan Books UK paperback edition, 1970's . The prices on the back cover have been covered with a black marker, there is spine lean, tanning to pages, and previous owner's name to title page...

Frank O'Connor / My Oedipus Complex (Vintage Paperback)

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Frank O'Connor / My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's...

Fred Johnston / Keeping the Night Watch (Large Paperback)

These eleven stories by the Irish poet, critic, and novelist Fred Johnston generally explore the concept of the internal exile, the outsider in contemporary society. These are stories about bright...