IRISH LITERATURE

John McGahern - The Barracks - Vintage Panther PB ED 1967 - Gárda Siochána

The first novel by John McGahern, originally published in 1963. Elizabeth Regan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children...

John McGahern / Amongst Women

  Michael Moran is an old Irish Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the Irish War of Independence. Moran is still fighting — with...

John McGahern / Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories

McGahern's command of the short story places him among the finest practitioners of the form, in a lineage that runs from Chekhov through Joyce and the Anglo-American masters. When the collection was...

John McGahern / Getting Through

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John McGahern / High Ground

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John McGahern / Memoir (Hardback)

This is the story of John McGahern's childhood; of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement, and his own discovery of literature and his ambition to become a writer. At the...

John McGahern / That They May Face the Rising Sun

Now a major motion picture: the Booker-shortlisted Irish author's last novel: a 'masterpiece' (Observer ) - 'wise and compelling ... elegiac and graceful' (David Mitchell) - by 'one of the greatest...

John McGahern / That They May Face the Rising Sun (Hardback)

  From the very opening pages, we see many memorable characters as they move about the Ruttledges, who have come from London home to Ireland in search of a different life. There is John...

John McGahern / The Barracks

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John Millington Synge / - Plays - HB 1958 Reprint ( Collected Plays )

The literary and dramatic work of J.M. Synge is most famous for the 'riots' provoked by his 1907 play The Playboy of the Western World and, indeed, this was neither the first nor the last time that...

John Millington Synge / The Complete Works of J. M. Synge - Plays

 Edited and with an Introduction by Aidan Arrowsmith, Manchester Metropolitan University.The literary and dramatic work of J.M. Synge is most famous for the 'riots' provoked by his 1907 play The...

John P Harrington / Modern Irish Drama - A Norton Critical Edition - PB

Full texts of 12 classic Irish dramas, from Yeats to Friel , with notes, commentaries, criticism and context essays.  Light student underlining and notes added.   

John Patrick McHugh / Pure Gold: Stories (Large Paperback)

 Two boys set fires while their worlds fall apart. A couple drive out to the hills in a last-ditch effort to save their marriage. A horse crashes a house party. Set on an imagined island off the...

John Somer & J Daly ( Editors) - Scribner Book of Irish Writing - Paperback Edition 2001 Short Fiction

This is a collection of short fiction that shows the power, vitality and diversity of the modern Irish story. Fresh voices are represented alongside those synonymous with contemporary Irish...

John Wyse Jackson / Best-Loved Oscar Wilde (Hardback)

 Those whom the gods love grow young.Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900), one of Ireland's most beloved writers, was a playwright, poet, novelist and author of fairy stories and...

Joseph O'Connor - My Father's House - PB ( Rome Trilogy - Book 1 )

When the Nazis take Rome, thousands go into hiding. One priest will risk everything to save them. September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. An Irish...

Joseph O'Connor / Ghost Light (Large Paperback)

 Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious and flirtatious, Molly...

Joseph O'Connor / Ghost Light. (Signed by the Author) (Paperback)

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Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback)

  1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana,...

Joseph O'Connor / Shadowplay

 Discover the enthralling Richard & Judy Book Club pick for winter 2020 from international bestseller Joseph O'Connor.'The best novel that I've read in the last twenty years... It's...

Joseph O'Connor / Shadowplay (Hardback)

 Discover the thrilling life of Bram Stoker, the man who created Dracula, in this immersive historical novel.**Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award **1878: The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three...

Joseph O'Connor / Shadowplay (Large Paperback)

 Discover the thrilling life of Bram Stoker, the man who created Dracula, in this immersive historical novel.**Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award **1878: The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three...

Joseph O'Connor / Shadowplay. (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Joseph O'Connor / Star of The Sea

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Joseph O'Connor / Star of the Sea (Hardback)

 In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the "Star of the Sea" sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of refugees, some optimistic, many more are...

Joseph O'Connor / The Thrill of it All

   At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese refugee. Together they form a band. Joined by cellist...

Joseph O'Connor / The Thrill of it all (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Joseph O'Connor / Where Have You Been? (Large Paperback)

 Where Have You Been? is award-winning novelist Joseph O'Connor's first collection of short stories in more than twenty years.Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's...

Joseph OConnor / The Star of the Sea (Large Paperback)

  In a story of tragedy and mercy, love and healing, the nearer the ship gets to the Promised Land, the more her passengers seem moored to a past which will never let them go...

Julia O'Faolain / Under the Rose - Selected Stories (Large Paperback)

 Julia O'Faolain is one of the most important Irish writers of the past half-century. Under the Rose is a selection of short stories taken from her many celebrated collections.These are stories...

Julian Gough - Jude, Level 1 - SIGNED Hardcover 1st Edition 2007

A signed hardcover first edition, of Jude, by Julian Gough, and published by Old Street Publishing 2007.  This is the tale of Jude, a Tipperary-reared orphan, who on his 18th birthday, sets off...

Julian Gough / Connect

 'A work of genius' Donal RyanNevada; the near future; a family in crisisBiologist and single mother Naomi is worried about the impact her ground-breaking research might have on the world. And...

Julian Gough / Connect (Large Paperback)

'A tour de force' Joseph O'Connor'A work of genius' Donal RyanNevada; the near future; a family in crisisBiologist and single mother Naomi is worried about the impact her ground-breaking research...

Julian Gough / Free Sex Chocolate (Large Paperback)

 Free Sex Chocolate is a witty, irreverent, provocative, and highly original collection of poems and songs written by Julian Gough from the 1980s to the present. An acclaimed novelist, this is...

Julian Gough / Jude in London (Large Paperback)

 A COMIC EPIC FOR ANYONE WHO LOVES RODDY DOYLE, P.G. WODEHOUSE, BECKETT AND KAFKA, BUT WISHES THEIR BOOKS HAD MORE EXPLOSIONS...'The Death of the Author is on your conscience!'It was. 'Sorry,' I...

Julian Gough / Jude: Level 1

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Julian Gough / Jude: Level 1 (Hardback)

   "If I had urinated immediately after breakfast, the Mob would never have burnt down the Orphanage." So begins the hilarious,award-winning, genre-busting tale of Jude, a...

Karen Fitzgibbon / Never Look Back (Large Paperback)

Jenny loses her nineteen-year-old daughter Clara at Colbert train station in Limerick. She is holding Clara’s young baby in her arms, a baby she didn’t know existed twenty-four hours...

Kate Cruise O'Brien / The Homesick Garden

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Kathleen MacMahon / Nothing But Blue Sky (Large Paperback)

 'A poignant, gentle and astutely observed novel about marriage and the evolution of love' Sunday Times, NOVELS OF THE YEAR 2020________________Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage?David...

Kathleen MacMahon / Nothing but Blue Sky (Signed by the Author) (Paperback)

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Kathleen MacMahon / The Home Scar (Large Paperback)

   From the Women's Prize longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky 'The home scar - that's what they call the mark limpets make on the rock when they return.''Wait, they leave the...

Kathleen MacMahon / The Long, Hot Summer (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Keith Ridgway / Hawthorn and Child

 Hawthorn and his partner, Child, are called to the scene of a mysterious shooting in North London. The only witness is unreliable, the clues are scarce, and the victim, a young man who lives...

Keith Ridgway / Hawthorn and Child (Large Paperback)

Hawthorn and Child are mid-ranking detectives tasked with finding significance in the scattered facts. They appear and disappear in the fragments of this book along with a ghost car, a crime boss, a...

Ken Bruen - A Galway Epiphany - PB BRAND NEW

A Galway Epiphany Jack Taylor has finally traded in his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country.But on a day trip back into the city, Jack is hit by a truck and left in a...

Ken Bruen / Galway Girl (Large Paperback)

 The latest Jack Taylor novel from the Godfather of Irish noir Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom.Still reeling from a violent...

Ken Bruen / The Dramatist (Large Paperback)

The impossible has Jack Taylor is living clean and dating a mature woman. Rumour suggests he is even attending mass... The accidental deaths of two students appear random, tragic events, except that...

Kerri ní Dochartaigh / Thin Places (Hardback)

A breathtaking mix of memoir, nature writing and social history: this is Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s story of a wild Ireland, an invisible border, an old conflict and the healing power of the...

Kevin Barry / City of Bohane (Large Paperback)

  Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award. Forty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along...

Kevin Barry / Dark Lies the Island (Large Paperback)

 A kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. And OAP kiddie-snatchers, and scouse real-ale enthusiasts, and occult weirdness in the...

Kevin Barry / Town and Country

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