IRISH LITERATURE

John McGahern / High Ground

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John McGahern / Love of the World: Essays

 John McGahern did not spread himself thinly as a writer. Nearly all of his creative energy went into what was central for him: the great novels and stories that are now part of the canon of...

John McGahern / Memoir

'As wise and compelling a book as any of his elegiac and graceful novels.' David Mitchell This is the story of John McGahern's childhood; of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement,...

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 / The Barracks

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John McGahern / The Barracks (Vintage Paperback)

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John McGahern / The Collected Stories - Faber PB

This collection of short stories are from the author shortlisted for the 1990 Booker Prize with his book "Amongst Women". John McGahern is also the author of "The Barracks", "The Dark", "Getting...

John McGahern / The Leavetaking

 Widely considered one of the greatest Irish writers by readers and critics alike, John McGahern has been called "arguably the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett" ( The Guardian...

John Millington Synge - Deirdre of the Sorrows (1912) | The Tinker's Wedding, Riders to the Sea & The Shadow of the Glen (1915) - 2 Vintage HB Reprints

2 vintage uniformly sized Maunsel & Co hardcovers of J.M Synge plays, as follows -  Deirdre of the Sorrows - A Play, 1912, Maunsel & Co, Dublin & London 1912 ( originally 1910. Clean...

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.   

Jonathan Swift / A Modest Proposal

'... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...'Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a famineIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black...

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 / Inishowen (Large Paperback) PB

  Detective Martin Aitken's life is already in chaos but when a strange woman collapses in a Dublin street on Christmas Eve, his world is about to be turned on its head. This is a story of...

Joseph O'Connor / My Father's House (Large Paperback)

Rome Escape Line Trilogy #1 September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. The war's outcome is far from certain.An Irish priest, Hugh O'Flaherty,...

Joseph O'Connor / My Father's House - PB

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 / Redemption Falls

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Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback)

 1865. The Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the Irish famine-ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, a daughter of its journey, Eliza Duane Mooney, sets out on foot from Baton Rouge,...

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 (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 (Large Paperback)

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

Joseph O'Connor / The Salesman

 It's Dublin, June 1995, the hottest summer since records began. But Billy Sweeney, a middle-aged salesman with a failed marriage, a faltering career and a tumbledown house, has more than...

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 / 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 O'Connor / Yeats Is Dead ! (Large Paperback)

  A serial novel by 15 of the brightest talents in Irish writing (including Marian Keyes, Pauline McLynn, Gina Moxley and Frank McCourt), telling an elaborate tale of murder, mayhem and...

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...

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 / 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...

June Caldwell / Room Little Darker

   From one of Ireland's most grindingly authentic and radically original talents, Room Little Darker explores the clandestine aspects of modern life through jagged, visceral tales of...

Kate Cruise O'Brien / The Homesick Garden

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Kate O'Brien / The Ante-Room (Vintage Paperback)

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Kate O'Brien / The Land of Spices

At a convent in Ireland at the start of the century, Reverend Mother hears little Anna Murphy recite a poem and feels a storm break in her hollow heart. This novel explores love, forgiveness, freedom...

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 / The Long Falling

Grace Quinn is an Englishwoman who has lived in rural Ireland all her adult life but is still a stranger. Haunted by the death of one son, for which her brutal husband blames her, and by the absence...

Keith Ridgway / The Parts (Large Paperback)

  Keeping her company are her companion of many years Kitty Flood, and the discreetly insane American, Dr George Addison-Powell. Why is Delly so keen to die? What exactly is in the letter...

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 Killing Of The Tinkers

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Kevin Barry / Beatlebone (Hardback)

 WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015He will spend three days alone on his island. That is all that he asks . . . John is so many miles from love now and home...

Kevin Barry / Night Boat to Tangier (Hardback)

 LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR EASON NOVEL OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDSIRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERBOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TIMES LITERARY...