When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man who drew up in his sports car - and her life was almost wrecked.

Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the Great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. It is a tale of its hero's triumph as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people.

Here Comes Everybody - CHRIS KILLIP'S IRISH PHOTOGRAPHS Thames & Hudson

IN THE FOREST, set in the west of Ireland and based on a horrendous true crime, is the story of a young man who shoots dead three people in a forest glade.

This is the film tie-in book based on the John Carlin's "Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation

Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin.

A protestant from Carrick-on-Shannon who rose to the top of Irish literary society and was close to Yeats, AE, and also wrote for Count Plunkett's papers The Irish Homestead and The Irish Statesman.

Kate Cullen's Lively Manuscript account makes rivetting reading about the close-knit life of Protestant Ireland, a society absorbed in it's own triumphs and misfortunes, in its religion and fashions.

Here is Soundings, in its original form just as you remember it. The same stony grey soil of Patrick Kavanagh’s Monaghan; T.S.Eliot’s same women who come and go talking of Michaelangelo. Please enjoy once more!

This title presents Barack Obama's political vision for the future of America.If Barack Obama is successful in his quest to become President of the United States, he will dramatically change the face that his country presents to the world.

A funny, direct, lively and moving account of growing up in small-town Ireland. Healy lovingly coaxes his childhood into being until, one day, his elderly mother hands him the coded diary he kept as a teenage tearaway and the uncut past bursts in like a blast of raw air.

Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prize-winner, dramatist and, above all, poet, W.B. Yeats began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. For anyone interested in the literature of the twentieth century, Yeats's poetry demands to be read and what is more, to be read as a whole.

On a wet Noverber morning in 1940, Harry Gleeson discovered the body of Moll McCarthy in a field near the village of New Inn, Co. Tipperary. She had been shot twice with a shotgun, once in the face....

For the first time RTÉ Radio is making available a selection of 18 of the most popular pieces from Joe O’Connor’s weekly radio column on Radio One’s Drivetime show. The pieces include humourous vignettes on life and living in contemporary Ireland, and Joe’s wry observations on the people and politics of our times.

This literary memoir is a companion volume to Company: A chosen life(2001). John Montague was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1929. At the age of four he was sent to live with his Father's sisters at Garaghey, Co. Tyrone. Since the early 1970s Cork has been his home. John has published a substantial body of poetry as well as two collections of short stories, and an autobiographical novella, as well as his two books of memoirs.

What happens when a devout believer who answered his vocation in the Church of Ireland, questions and then loses his faith in the supernatural or miraculous aspects of the life of Jesus Christ? Patrick Semple writes about the backdrop against which he grew up and became aware of the world and his questions about God and religion. This gripping memoir is his story: the story of a Church of Ireland clergyman who no longer believes the basic doctrines of Christianity and has found new insights in the teachings of modern astrophysics. "The Rector Who Wouldn't Pray for Rain" is also a picture of religious life in Ireland over the last sixty years, from an outsider's view of the Catholic triumphalist days of the 1940s, to the problems and benefits of the liberal secular society of today, told by a man who understands, and has lived through, both sides of the story.

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This collection traces the course of Yeats' artistic development from youthful romantic idealism, to middle-age disillusionment. The change in his poetry is to a more direct, austere, forceful style. Many of the poems are evocative and paint moving portraits of people and places.

In his authoritative biography of Yeats, Roy Foster brings new light to Yeat's Bohemian early life of uncertain finances, love affairs, avant-garde friends, and experiments with drugs and occultism, to illuminate one of the most complex and fascinating lives of modern times.

Naxos AudioBooks continues its new series of Great Poets – represented by a collection of their most popular poems on one CD – with W. B. Yeats, one of the most loved poets of the twentieth century. He left a large legacy of outstanding poems, and the finest are collected here: Down by the Salley Gardens, The Lake Isle of Inisfree, The Secret Rose and He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven. They are read by a strong cast led by Olivier award winner Jim Norton.

Willie & Maud tells the story of the most fascinating love affair of the Irish literary world. William Butler Yeats was one of the most outstanding figures of twentieth-century literature. Maud Gonne, an esteemed beauty, was renowned for her lifelong dedication to the cause of Irish nationalism. Their story is one of sexual passion and unrequited love.

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Signed by the Author, Kevin Connolly. This unique book brings the reader on an illustrated journey of the biographical, geographical and literary references to the city and county of Sligo and the surrounding area made during the lifetime and in the works of William Butler Yeats.Though Yeats was born in Sandymount in Dublin in 1865 and spent little of his adult life in the environs of Sligo the poet himself maintained that Sligo was the domain of his childhood and the landscape of his poetic imagination for much of his life.