Irish Shades Of Grey
Started as a bit of craic by tweeter Paul Duggan one day during a wet summer, the #IrishShadesOfGrey hashtag become one of the biggest EVER in Ireland. Tweeters sent comic messages that brought...
View ArticleBreak A Leg A Memoir
“We’re going to make a play out of our own lives and we’re putting it on in three weeks. Now let’s get started....” A new memoir from acclaimed playwright and director Peter Sheridan, Break A Leg...
View ArticleFinglas: A People's Portrait
The days were punctuated by the sounds of neighbours gossiping over garden walls, the Angelus bells and the tinny melody of the ice cream man’s van. The nights by the sound of rave music, as cider...
View ArticleSuddenly, While Abroad: Hitler's Irish Slaves
Suddenly, While Abroad tells the story of 32 merchant seamen from Ireland who were held in conditions of great hardship in an SS slave labour camp from 1943–45. They were being punished for refusing...
View ArticleCome Here To Me: Dublin's Other History
THIS CHRISTMAS BESTSELLER IS NOW BACK IN PRINT AND AVAILABLE! A history book that looks at things from a different angle! Come Here To Me discusses everything from punk music and stand-up comedy...
View ArticleTiny Plays For Ireland
'Tiny Plays is a great concept, and over two years and two cycles it has offered audiences fifty unique glimpses of the world around us and the endless potentials of theatre. ' Sarah Keating - Irish...
View ArticleThe Broadsheet Book Of Unspecified Things That Look Like Ireland
As The Gathering picks up pace, it’s time to step back and ask ourselves what really makes us Irish. Some would say it’s that unique sense of humour; some would say it’s a grá for tea, the black...
View ArticleBogmail - Modern Irish Classic
A truly funny and stunningly well-told tale of murder in a small Irish village near Donegal, Bogmail is a classic of modern Irish literature.Set in a remote village in the west of Ireland, the action...
View ArticleCold Spring
“He got down on his hands and knees and reached in under the bed where he kept his toolbox. Careful not to make a sound, he searched desperately for a weapon of defence. Then the bedroom door creaked...
View ArticleMaking Way
“You have to see what’s through and under and over and behind things. You have to pay real attention…” Tom, an aging music executive, retiree and sailor meets Clare, a young, beautiful and somewhat...
View ArticleShootout: The Battle For St Stephen's Green, 1916
As the Proclamation of the Irish Republic was being read from the steps of the General Post Office on Sackville Street on Easter Monday 24th April 1916, 160 members of the Irish Citizen Army under...
View ArticleThe Fall of Ireland (Paperback Edition)
“I am not a bad man, but I am a deeply lonely one…”While a floundering Irish government clings to its illusion of power as an international troika waits in the wings, Martin – a mid-ranking civil...
View ArticleThe Fall Of Ireland
A fine and elegantly written character study of both a man and a nation.” Sunday Business Post While a floundering Irish government clings to its illusion of power as an international troika waits in...
View ArticleApron Strings: Recipes From A Family Kitchen
From a Speedy Spelt Soda to Boeuf Bourguignon, Nessa Robins guides the novice and the experienced home chef through an array of tasty, tempting and traditional recipes with a modern twist. No...
View ArticleIrregulars
- Irregulars is astounding. Kevin McCarthy is doing for Irish history what Dennis Lehane is doing for the history of Boston. Wonderfully written, tense, provocative and oh so highly entertaining....
View ArticleOnce In Another World
Dublin, March 1937. Holland, an idealistic young IRA recruit, is offered a strange assignment. He is told to guard and spy on a sinister Hungarian businessman and Sabine his secretary – a Jewish...
View ArticleHawks & Other Short Stories
With Hawks, Peter Hollywood has crafted a gripping collection of stories which reflects the changing face of Northern Ireland. While Northern Ireland is in the process of a gradual transformation...
View ArticleThe Skipper & Her Mate
The Skipper & Her Mate is a book about the people, boats and wildlife on the Irish waterways. Told from the perspective of a woman with only a week’s hire-boat experience learning to skipper a...
View ArticleValley of the Peacock Angel
A young Kurdish shepherd Cotkar witnesses the slaughter of his family and most of the inhabitants in his home town of Halabja, situated in the Valley of the Peacock Angel, from the relative safety of...
View ArticleTóchar - Walking Ireland’s ancient pilgrim paths
Tóchar (‘Causeway’) is a walking-pace travelogue through the country that was dubbed ‘the Island of Saints and Scholars’ long before the Celtic Tiger took up residence. Set against the backdrop of...
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