IRISH LITERATURE

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...

Flann O'Brien - The Hard Life - Vintage HB - 1973 (Originally 1961)

A 1973 printing of the Hart-Davis MacGibbon edition of Flann O'Brien's The Hard Life.  Tanning to pages, uneven sunfade to back cover, otherwise unmarked.  Subtitled “An Exegesis of Squalor,” The...

Flann O'Brien / The Hard Life

 From the author of "The Poor Mouth" and "The Third Policeman", comes this novel about how two orphaned boys come to live in the household of the disputatious Mr. Collopy. While he is engaged in...

Flann O'Brien / The Poor Mouth

   The classic satire from the renowned comic and acclaimed author of `At Swim-Two-Birds' - Flann O'Brien.Flann O'Brien's gloriously wicked satire of the traditional Irish peasant novel, The Poor...

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...

Frances Macken / You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here (Large Paperback)

Evelyn is intoxicating. She's self-assured, mercurial, dominant and mischievous. But she's also mean, and as much as her best friends Katie and Maeve crave her approval, theirs is a threesome held...

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 Ronan / Dixie Chicken (Large Paperback)

From the award-winning author of The Men who Loved Evelyn Cotton , this is a novel in which God plays narrator, death is the mystery and sex the possible key. When the successful and adored Rory...

Fred Johnston / Atalanta (Large Paperback)

Fred Johnston of Galway, Ireland,established a fine reputation as short story writer (Keeping the Night Watch), poet, and novelist, and this book latest weaves Greek mythology (Atalanta and...

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...

George Bernard Shaw - Plays Pleasant : Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell - Vintage Penguin PB - 1946 ( Originally 1898)

A vintage Penguin paperbacks ( Horizontal band editions) of plays by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw - as follows - Plays Pleasant - comprising Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny...

George Bernard Shaw - Collected Plays - 10 Volume Set - HB Pocket Editions1927

A reprint set, unformly sized and with identical design on each of G.B Shaw's plays , in 12 volumes , originally 1926, here in the 'Pocket Edition, 1927' Published by Constable and CompanY. Titles in...

George Moore - Hail and Farewell ( PB 1985 - Originally 1911 )

Hail And Farewell! by George Moore is a memoir of Moore’s time in Dublin in the decade prior to the outbreak of the Great War and the Irish Revolution, at the height of what became known as the...

George O'Brien - Dancehall Days - HB - 1ST Edition 1988

Dancehall Days brings the narrator to his father’s house in Monkstown, Dublin, to dream of a college education and of twisting the night away. Instead, he experiences the vicissitudes of a beloved...

Ger Fitzgibbon / Songs For A Burning City (Large Paperback)

On the evening of December 11, 1920, a production of The Gondoliers is in full swing at the Cork Opera House when word comes through that the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries are rampaging through the...

Gerald Stembridge / What She Saw (Large Paperback)

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Glenn Patterson / Gull (Large Paperback)

 It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports...

Graham Norton / A Keeper

     Atmospheric, creepy and impossible to put down.' the TIMES'A compelling and moving story, expertly told, that will draw you in and keep you in its grip until the last page.' DAILY...

Graham Norton / A Keeper (Large Paperback)

   Dear Lonely Leinster Lady, I'm not really sure how to begin . . .* * *The truth drifts out to sea, riding the waves out of sight. And then the tide turns.Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after...

Graham Norton / Forever Home (Large Paperback)

 The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author Graham Norton 'A magnificent novelist.' STUART HERITAGE f

Graham Norton / Holding

The Sunday Times bestseller and debut novel from Graham Norton.'Poised and perceptive' Sunday Times'... a deftly plotted story as moving as it is compelling' Sunday Mirror'Deeply accomplished .....

Graham Norton / Holding (Large Paperback)

Duneen is a quiet place, far enough from the big towns to have kept its own rhythms. Its residents include castdown policeman PJ who lives a lonely, uneventful life punctuated only by the next meal -...

Graham Norton / Home Stretch

 'Graham is a lovely writer and this is by far his best. The passage of time is beautifully handled, and the emergence of Ireland into the modern world is a joy to read... There's a lovely kindness...

Graham Norton / Home Stretch (Large Paperback)

 Shame and longing can flow through generations, but the secrets of the heart will not be buried for ever.It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for a wedding. The day before the...

Greg Baxter / The Apartment (Hardback)

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Harry Levin / The Essential James Joyce1 (Vintage Paperback)

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Hugo Hamilton / Dublin Palms (Large Paperback)

 The palm trees give the street a holiday atmosphere. There must be something in the soil they like. They have straight leaves that get a bit ragged, with split ends. At night you hear them rattling...

Hugo Hamilton / The Speckled People

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Irish Independent / Great Irish Writers Series (Complete 20 Book HB Set)

Great Irish Writers - a collection of uniformly sized hardcover fiction titles from the best of Irish authors.    Books: 1 John McGahern / That they may face the Rising Sun 2 Joseph O'Connor / Star...

J. G. Farrell / Troubles (Vintage Paperback)

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J.P Donleavy - A Singular Man - Vintage Penguin PB 1966

What will happen to George Smith? Mysteriously rich and desperately lonely, George appears to be under attack from all quarters: his former wife and four horrible children are suing to get his money;...

J.P Donleavy - The Saddest Summer of Samuel S - Vintage Penguin PB 1976 - Originally 1966

A slim pb novella, first published by Penguin in 1966, this is a 1979 reprint edition. Sun fade to spine ( from orange to yellow) , and light edgewear to all covers.  A wily American driving his...

J.P. Donleavy / The Ginger Man

First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of t

Jack Harte / In the Wake of the Baggar (Large Paperback)

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James Healy / Songs of Percy French (Large Paperback)

William Percy French was one of Ireland's favourite sons and his influence on traditional Irish Music can still be felt.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

James Joyce - Stephen Hero -1982 ( Originaly 1944) ( Edited & introduced by Theodore Spencer)

Although Joyce later entirely rewrote his novel of a young Irishman's rebellion against church, country and family, this early version is beautifully composed, the mood being more discursive and...

James Joyce - The Essential James Joyce - Vintage Penguin PB - Edited Harry Levin

The Essential James Joyce," edited and with an introduction by Harry Levin, includes four of the six books ( complete text of all  4 ) on which Joyce's astonishing reputation is founded: "A Portrait...

James Joyce / A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Vintage Paperback)

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