Dermot Healy’s fourth collection presents itself as a book-length poem that charts the annual migrations of thousands of barnacle geese between their breeding grounds in Greenland and their winter quarters on an island beside his home.

In a wind-battered Mayo cottage, playwright Jack Ferris tries to salvage something from his broken love affair with Catherine Adams. Drink and despair drove her away can his imagination call her back? But as he summons up her past, Jack finds he has also called up her RUC father and a whole dangerous world of opposed traditions.

Ireland is a country rich and deep in Literary heritage. But it is in poetry that the full breath and depth of that heritage has been best explored. "A Treasury of Irish Verse' captures all that is best in Irish poetry.

Kelsha is a distant place, over the mountains from everywhere. You go over the mountains to get there, and eventually, through dreams.'

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.

A novel of great love and loss, and of the heartbreaking choice between personal freedom and duty.

In this collection of some of his finest letters, the late John B.Keane, novelist, playwright and literary man extraordinaire turns the letter as a means of communication into a comic, sometimes surreal art form. Includes: Letters of a Successful TD, Letters of a Love Hungry Farmer, Letters of a Matchmaker, Letters of an Irish Priest, Letters of an Irish Minister of State.
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A young mother's fight to change her destiny ...
Emily Cusack has it all sorted. A loving husband, two adorable kids and a gorgeous home.

Harry Rigby likes a smoke, the easy life, and Robert Ryan playing the bad guy in late night black-and-whites. Sweet. But when the wife of a prominent politician is murdered in her best nightie, Rigby finds himself caught in a crossfire between rogue paramilitaries, an internal Garda inquiry and the heaviest blizzard of coke ever to hit the Northwest.

Flashing with razor-sharp wit and edgy, fast-paced plotting, Eight Ball Boogie is an enthralling page-turner that marks the debut of a potent new talent in crime fiction.

In the 1970s, in an isolated, rural parish in north-west Philippines, James Kennedy began to question the beliefs which had sustained him through almost twenty years as a Columban priest.

Against a backdrop of revolution, martial law, the war in Vietnam and upheavals throughout the Catholic Church, James tells the dramatic, true story of how he fell in love and left the priesthood.

The final book in the "Children of the Famine" trilogy, set during the Irish famine.

Available from June 3rd 2010. Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. An actress still in her teens
begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious, irreverent, beautiful, flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a girl of the inner city tenements, dreaming of stardom in America.

Raw, earthy, almost conversational poetry, relentlessly sifting through conventional perceptions and attitudes. An inner odyssey mirrored in images of a changing Ireland.

When the honeymoon is over real life begins...Newly married Debbie, worried about mounting debts and with wedding bills still to pay, is at her wits' end with coke-sniffing, champagne-swilling hubby, Bryan.

In this beautifully designed and produced gift book, we get a selection of about sixty of Yeats's best loved poems complemented by the paintings from Irish artists, usually artists who were contemporaries of the poet.

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.

Never Pass a Bar That Has Your Name On It, says the eighth rule of travel a very rewarding rule if your name is McCarthy and you're wandering through the west of Ireland.

Sligo based Patrick McCabe's prose is as brilliantly macabre as ever. In scenes of disarming inventiveness - from a farmer's romance and his skin condition to one man's culinary relationship with Bruce Lee - Mondo Desperado will make you howl with laughter from the first unnerving page to last.

Nan and Jim have a good, strong marriage. Each has their own career - she is a successful concert pianist and he is an archaeologist. Together they have been living a congenial life of self-sufficiency in the north-west of Ireland.

The compelling new novel from the worldwide bestselling author. Kenny's Department Store, with its handsome Edwardian facade and unique cherry-picked goods, is the jewel in the Irish town of Ardagh's crown.

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

When we first met Paula Spencer - in "The Woman Who Walked into Doors" - she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together. Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula's forty-eighth birthday.

A Graphic Adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Novel

An artist paints a picture of the young and handsome Dorian Gray. When he sees it, Dorian makes a wish that changes his life. As he grows older, his face stays young and handsome. But the picture changes. Why can't Dorian show it to anybody? What is its terrible secret?

Ellen McCarthy
New from the author of Guilt Ridden
A young man emerges from a car crash on a remote road in Boston. Although he walks away unscathed the crash has claimed an innocent life.
Sixteen years later Melanie Yeats walks into a Garda station with her hands stained in blood. As ...

Set in Dublin during the Lockout of 1913, this is a panoramic novel of city life. It embraces a range of social milieux, from the miseries of the tenements to the cultivated, bourgeois Bradshaws.

From the very opening pages, we see the many memorable characters as they move about Joe and Kate Ruttledge, who have come to Ireland from London in search of a different life. There is John Quinn, who will stop at nothing to ensure a flow of women Johnny, who left for England 20 years before in pursuit of love and Jimmy Joe Mc Kiernan, head of the IRA, both auctioneer and undertaker. The gentle Jamsie and his wife Mary embody the spirit of the place. They have never left the lake but know everything that ever stirred or moved there.

The poems in Dermot Healy's first collection - launched in 1992 to an unusually warm reception - move in a variety of registers, from the background amd imaginative landscape of County Cavan to the West of Ireland coast where he now lives.

The Barrytown Trilogy consists of the first three novels by Irish writer Roddy Doyle and is first published as a trilogy in 1992. All of the three novels have been adapted into successful movies.

The three novels are: The Commitments (1987, film 1991), The Snapper (1990, film 1993), The Van (1991, shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, film 1997). All three novels are focused on the Rabbitte family.

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.

Six people from different generations and with different beliefs are forced to listen to each other and come to terms with each other. A novel about morals and manners, about culture clashes and clashes of personalities, but it is also a novel full of stories, as the characters give account of themselves, and the others listen, awe struck of deeply amused at things they haven't heard before.

In The Bodhrán Makers, John B. Keane encapsulates the spirit and atmosphere of a 50's rural Ireland in decline. His language relates the warmth and simplicity of a people facing hardships from every side. The folk of the outlying country area of Dirrabeg contest with the land and elements simply to survive while conscious that the townspeople of Trallock look down on their humble ways.

They take solace in their families, old friendships, music, dance and porter. But against them is a church whose rigid dogma offers little comfort or understanding to combat the pains of life. Some of the priests are sympathetic yet they are powerless in the face of the patriarch, Cannon Tett. Assisted by his housekeeper, Nora Devane, he hears and sees all - and judges without mercy.

Keane matches humour and empathy to regale us with a tale typical of the experience of the Irish who had to choose emigration or obsolescence. The magic is in his characters and in the telling.

This book is a "must" for anyone who wants to know more about how the Irish labourers fared in England of the fifties. It is sometimes humorous and gives a very accurate portrayal of what it was like at that time for the Irish immigrants in Britain.

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....

The stories range from 'Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner', where a father - who prides himself on his open-mindedness when his daughters talk about sex - is forced to confront his feelings when one of them brings home a black fella, to a terrifying ghost story, 'The Pram', in which a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge's older sisters and decides - in a phrase she has learnt - to 'scare them shitless'. Most of the stories are very funny - in '57 per cent Irish' Ray Brady tries to devise a test of Irishness by measuring reactions to Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in the 2002 World Cup, Riverdance and 'Danny Boy' - others deeply moving. And best of all, in the title story itself, Jimmy Rabbitte, the man who formed The Commitments, decides it's time to find a new band, and this time no White Irish need apply. Multicultural to a fault, The Deportees specialise not in soul music this time, but the songs of Woody Guthrie.

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.

Dermot Healy's poetry distils the essence of a gift he exercises more often and elaborately in other forms - for narrative, dialogue, characterisation, and acute insight and observation.

In this new work - set in and around his home on the ocean's edge of Sligo, in London and further afield - he captures the every day's ordinary dramas and 'small habits', noting at the same time the hallway 'where something is after happening'.

Contains: The Year of the Hiker, The Change in Mame Fadden, and The Highest house on the Mountain.
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This is the first book in the famine trilogy. "The Great Irish Famine" brilliantly recreated through the story of three young survivors. Ireland in the 1840s is devastated by famine.

Dermot Healy's poems 'project an open, rugged humanity, celebratory of common life'. In his second collection he broadens his focus from his communal devotions to the quick of the natural world. Local speech patterns incorporate idiosyncratic observations and sometimes surreal incursions.

James Murray’s debut collection of Irish fiction.
Within the confines of these pages a variety of characters act out dramas that stretch from the rational to the far side of the absurd. These stories illuminate the shadows of life with luminescent humour, like flickering images from film clips. They take the reader on a literary carousel where both appalling and the appealing mingle and blend on the edges of society. Here sharp wit and unusual insights emerge from the shadows and cast light on the world of normality and routine. There are sixteen very different tales in this collection - sixteen dimensions, where a new distinct fiction voice emerges.