Quick view Hitching for Hope by Ruairi McKiernan Now: €5.00 MSRP: €19.99 Was: "McKiernan sticks his thumb out, and somehow a healthy dose of humanity manages to roll up alongside him. . . This book is a paean to nuance, decency and possibility."-Colum McCann, National Book Award winner and New York Times be… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Insurrection in Dublin by James Stephens Now: €5.00 MSRP: €9.99 Was: "This hour-by-hour account of the Easter Rising as seen by a non-participant writer and poet is absolutely fascinating. Helps one think straighter about 1916 than all the recent revisionist and anti-revisionist scribblings...a mar… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view From Gaillimh to Galway: The Anglicisation of Irish Place Names by Tom Burnell & Ruth Burnell Now: €22.50 MSRP: €25.00 Was: Have you ever wondered where your town or townland name came from? Do you want to know more about an Irish locality? Well if so this is the book for you. Featuring a comprehensive breakdown of the all available place names in thei… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Thread of Violence by Mark O'Connell Now: €14.50 MSRP: Was: In 1982 Malcolm Macarthur, the wealthy heir to a small estate, found himself suddenly without money. The solution, he decided, was to rob a bank. To do this, he would need a gun and a car. In the process of procuring them, he kill… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Girls Play Too by Jacqui Hurley Now: €11.25 MSRP: Was: Irish sportswomen have been breaking the mould for a very, very long time. In 1956, Maeve Kyle became our first female Olympian, and in 1978 rally driver Rosemary Smith broke the country's land-speed record! Through the 1990s and … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text. Each essayist is a… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Never Better : My Life in Our Times by Tommie Gorman Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: The warm, rich and fascinating memoir of beloved broadcaster Tommie Gorman. When Tommie Gorman was growing up in Sligo in the 1960s, struggle was never far away but his household had a surplus of love and warmth. From modest begin… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view After the Storm : How the GAA Found New Hope by Damian Lawlor Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: ver the years, the GAA and its people have weathered many storms. But whenever there's a threat, this is when the GAA comes together to look after their own. AFTER THE STORM: How the GAA Found New Hope tells the story of the bigge… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The People's Games: A GAA Compendium by John Scally Now: €5.00 MSRP: €11.25 Was: For over 130 years the GAA has been at the heart of Irish life. Now, in The People's Games, John Scally tells the compelling stories of the men and women behind the rich history of Gaelic Games. Since the introduction of televisio… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP by Ronan McGreevy Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: On 22 June 1922, Sir Henry Wilson - the former head of the British army and one of those credited with winning the First World War - was shot and killed by two veterans of that war turned IRA members in what was the most significa… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Memoir of an Irish Jew by Lionel Cohen Now: €20.00 MSRP: Was: Memoir Of An Irish Jew is the story of Lionel Cohen, who was born in 1922 into a Jewish family in Cork. Lionel served in the Irish Army, the British Merchant Navy, the Israeli Army and in the fledgling Israeli Merchant Navy. He re… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Quinn by Trevor Birney Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: This is the gripping inside story of Ireland's bankrupt billionaire, Sean Quinn, who went from rags to riches before gambling it all on Anglo-Irish Bank shares and became the world's biggest personal loser of the economic collapse… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Kellie by Kellie Harrington & Roddy Doyle Now: €12.50 MSRP: €13.75 Was: THE PHENOMENAL MEMOIR OF A NATIONAL TREASUREAfter Kellie Harrington won gold at the Tokyo Olympics, the Irish public recognized her as not merely a sporting hero, but a deeply inspirational human being. Now, Kellie tells the story… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Hegarty's Boatyard: Last Surviving Traditional Wooden Boatyard in Ireland by Kevin O'Farrell Now: €30.00 MSRP: Was: Kevin O'Farrell presents a photographic essay detailing the history and life of one of the last traditional wooden boat building boatyards in Ireland with introductory essays and detailed images that shed a light on the old art of… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Time and Tide by Charlie Bird Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: A poignant and introspective memoir from Irish journalist and broadcaster Charlie Bird. In 2021, Charlie Bird was diagnosed with motor neurone disease - a man whose voice was so synonymous with his career faced losing it completel… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Mise Raiftearai an Fiodoir File by Tadhg Mac Dhonnagain Now: €6.99 MSRP: €21.25 Was: The first cradle to grave biography of Antaine Ó Raiftearaí, or Raiftearaí an File has he is widely known, written for a general readership. A radical voice in 19th century Ireland, the blind, illiterate poet and songwriter Raifte… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Judging Redmond and Carson by Alvin Jackson Now: €14.99 MSRP: €35.00 Was: John Redmond and Edward Carson remain two of the biggest names in modern Irish history. At the peak of their careers as senior members of the British parliament, they were locked together in combat over Home Rule. Divided by the u… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Enchanted Life: The Memoir of a Magician by Herbie Brennan Now: €20.00 MSRP: Was: Memoirs can be boring, covering the same old ground, telling essentially the same old stories. Not this one. Herbie Brennan began a lifelong career as a writer at the age of 18. He worked as a journalist, a magazine editor, an adv… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Minor Monuments by Ian Maleney Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: Set around a small family farm on the edge of a bog, a few miles from the river Shannon, Minor Monuments is a collection of essays unfolding from the landscape of the Irish midlands. Taking in the physical and philo- sophical powe… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view In Kiltumper : A Year in an Irish Garden by Niall Williams & Christine Breen Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: When they were in their twenties, Niall Williams and Christine Breen made the impulsive decision to leave New York City and move to Christine's ancestral home in the town of Kiltumper in rural Ireland. In the decades that followed… Add to Cart The item has been added