300 years of Irish Periodicals

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A History of Irish Forestry

This comprehensive study, with a foreword by Lord Killanin, looks at Irish forestry from the migration of the first wood species some 10,000 years ago to the present day.

Part One, The Historical Background, examines the primeval forest and e...

Airy Plumeflights - A beginner's guide to Celtic script and design

'In this lucid and beguiling book about the ancient art of the scribe, Tim O'Neill has found the perfect way to celebrate the hallowed traditions of penmanship. Airy Plumeflights sweeps the reader away into a pristine world of quills and inks ...

All Valiant Dust: An Irishman Abroad

For many of its participants, the Second World War was the most intense period of their lives - with horizons widened by grief, strangeness and excitement. Peter Ross, graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, to become a troop commander in Montgomery's E...

All for Hecuba: An Irish Theatrical Biography

From his days as a child actor in London, sharing the stage with Noel Coward, to founding the Gate Theatre in Dublin with his partner Hilton Edwards, and undertaking ambitious tours to pre-war Europe, Micheall MacLiammoir. All For Hecuba combines auto...

An Aran Reader

The Aran Islands are among the most finely wrought land-masses in the western world. Their antiquity, diversity and cultural richness have made them a source of fascination for writers, romantics, naturalists, linguists, archaeologists, anthropologist...

An Irish Sporting Life

'It is a long time since I have read a book of reminiscences as engaging'
- Tony O'Riordan, The Irish Times

Ancestral Voices The Big House in Anglo-Irish Literature

The Big House motif has long been prominent in Anglo-Irish literature, but a comprehensive study of the subject is still awaited. Ancestral Voices brings together new essays on relevant work by Maria Edgeworth, Charles Lever, George Moore, Somerville ...

Beauty in a Broken Place (HB)

In Colm Toibin's debut play, Beauty in a Broken Place, Sean O'Casey recalls the people and events surrounding the 1926 premiere of his controversial drama The Plough and the Stars. Toibin's unusual and provocative memory play manages to be...

Between the Lines: Poems on the Dart

One hundred and forty-four poems were selected by the editor from the two hundred or so displayed on DART carriages between 1987 and 1994: short enough for passengers to read without missing their stops, resonant enough to inspire reflection, disquiet...

Bright Bewildering Green

'A story remarkable because commonplace in rural Ireland - the surplus child, the tragedy of the extra mouth.'
- from the Foreword by John Stalker

'A heartening, eloquent but dispassionate testimony to the triumph of determ...

Champagne & Silver Buckles, The Viceregal Court at Dublin Castle 1700-1922

Dublin Castle was the headquarters of British rule in Ireland, both literal and symbolic. There, the Viceroy, chief representative of the Crown in Ireland, presided, a conduit and image of power. Around him gathered a privileged elite who represented the ...

Conversations with James Joyce

'In the Dublin of my day there was the kind of desperate freedom which comes from a lack of responsibility, for the English were in governance then, so everyone said what he liked....

Forgotten Stones

CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT

This guide to the 'forgotten stones' of early ecclesiastical sites and buildings is a lovingly detailed record of 82 churches secreted in the hundred-odd square miles of the Burren, a primeval li...

Hazel: A Life of Lady Lavery

Until now Lady Lavery has been remembered for the numerous portraits by her husband, the painter John Lavery, celebrated in "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited' by W.B. Yeats, This first biography of Hazel tells the story the pictures cannot: o...

In Ruin Reconciled

In Ruin Reconciled, A Memoir of Anglo-Ireland 1913-1959 (t'hat country of the mind'), tells the story of an orphan girl adopted by Anglo-Irish parents and brought to live in the Big House of Curragh Chase, Adare, Co. Limerick. Her solitary chi...

In The Prison of his Days: A Miscellany for Nelson Mandela on his 70th Birthday

In The Prison of his Days: A Miscellany for Nelson Mandela on His 70th Birthday includes work by the following authors:

Chinua Achebe, John Banville, Samuel Beckett, Mary Benson, Edward Bond, Hubert Butler, Austin Clarke, ...

Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940

'Every future account of architecture in Ireland should be indebted to this book.'

- Edward McParland, Times Literary Supplement

' Rothery's book sheds an illuminating light on Ireland's progress in the first four decades of this cent...

Jack Doyle: The Gorgeous Gael

Jack Doyle was a 6ft 5in Irishman with a giant appetite for life. In 1933 he drew 90,000 to London's White City to see him f...

Jammet's of Dublin

From 1901 to 1967 this Dublin restaurant – so famous in its day that letters simpl...

John Sherman & Dhoya

John Sherman and Dhoya, novella and story, are among the earliest of W.B. Yeats's published compositions, begun at his father's prompting when the young poet was living in London in 1888.

John Sherman is a poignant and delightful narrative that dra...

Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra

The Sliabh Luachra area of Cork and Kerry, described as 'more a state of mind than a territory', has no precise boundary. This fertile ground in the heart of Munster, the birthplace of poets Aogan O Rathaille and Eoghan Rua O Suilleabhain, is ...

Land & Learning: Two Irish Clubs

This is the tale of two Dublin gentlemen's clubs, Kildare Street (founded in 1782) and University (founded in 1849), which united in 1975 to become the Kildare Street and University Club. Since their formation each has done much to nurture, and to...

Longford Essays in County History

'A very valuable addition to our understanding of one county... any native of the county or anybody interested in history generally will find that it illuminates a hidden corner of the past.'
- Stephen Collins, The Sunday Press

Longford, Ess...

Memoirs of a Wild Goose

Highly personal memoirs by Irish diplomats are rare, and those with the quality of fictional autobiography by George Moore, Brendan Behan and Francis Stuart are rarer still. These remarkable reminisces of a man who served his country in Germany and It...

Modern Art in Ireland

During World War II Irish artists who had been living and working on the Continent and in Britain came home to neutral Ireland and began to react against the Royal Hibernian Academy and Nationalist Realism. This survey begins here and goes on to trace...

Old Swords

These eleven stories by Desmond Hogan, his first publication since Larks' Eggs: New and Selected Stories (2005), collect newly minted shards of experience focused on the lives of the dreamers and marginalized who populate his imagined worlds. They...

Outstaring Nature's Eye

This first book-length study of the fiction of John McGahern traces his development as an artist by providing a detailed reading of each of his five novels and three collection of stories.

Denis Sampson teaches English at Vanier College, Montreal. ...

Rebellions: Memoir, Memory and 1798

WINNER OF THE 2005 CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL AWARD

'Rebellions is an autobiography, an astonishingly clear-sighted and lucid account of a tragic and disputed episode in Irish history and a polemic. The book's importance, origin...

Roger Casement: Imperialist, Rebel, Revolutionary

'Seamas O Siochain has written what is the most voluminous biography of Casement and a significant contribution to an understanding of his life.' Frank Callinan, The Irish Times

Roger Casement is among the most written about and mytho...

Short Circuit: Strengthening Local Economics for Security in an Unstable World

With the deregulation of international trade and a free movement of capital, the world economy is more unstable than ever and liable to economic collapse. So precarious is it that it should no longer be relied upon to provid...

Skelligside

This is the remarkable folk autobiography of a small famer, fisherman and poet from from the South Iveragh peninsula of Co. Kerry, part of Ireland's western sea-board, a region bounded by mountains and unique inits cultural inheritance.

K...

Swift: An Illustrated Life 1667-1745

Who was Jonathan Swift? Bruce Arnold's provocative book examines this enigmatic figure in the light of his relationships - with his lover Esther Vanhomrigh ('Vanessa'), his ward Esther Johnston ('Stella'), and his many great male f...

The Achievement of Seamus Heaney

The Nobel Prize for Literature has drawn unprecedented attention to the poetry and prose of Seamus Heaney, who now takes his place alongside Dante and Yeats. Yet in spite of his international reputation, some still see Heaney as an earthbound, pastora...

The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement

"He could tell you things! Things I've tried to forget; thing I never did know." Joseph Conrad

"...his was a heroic nature. I should like to write upon him subtly, so that his enemies would think I was with them till they finished my book ...

The Face of Time

Leland Lewis Duncan was born in Lewisham, Kent, in 1862. His father was a civil servant. Duncan and his two younger sisters enjoyed a secure middle-class Victorian upbringing, and in 1882 he entered the War Office and rose through the ranks to be awarded...

The Singing-Masters

'Fascinating... a delight not to be missed. It's a rare treat indeed to find such an honest, penetrating, wise and thoughtful autobiobiography.'
- Eilís Dillon, The Irish Times

'A beautifully-written book.'
- Benedict Kiely, Sund...

The Synge Letters. Bishop Edward Synge to His Daughter Alicia, Roscommon to Dublin 1746-1752

Edward Synge wrote 221 letters to Alicia, his daughter, betweeen May and October of 1746 to 1752. He was an adoring though not uncritical father, advising, gossiping and instructing her from his country estate. Synge was a wealthy man and Alicia a con...

The United Irishman

The 1790s, coloured by revolutions in France and North America, were to see the birth of republicanism in Ireland and the emergence of radical Presbyterianism in the north. The decade is increasingly being considered as one of the most formative in modern...

Throttle Full Open: A Life of Lady Bailey, Irish Aviatrix

ONLY AVAILABLE IN EBOOK FORMAT

'I have felt the need for a change of scene and interest lately.'
-Lady Bailey on the eve of her London-Cape Town flight, March 1928.

Mary Westenra, born in 1890, was the daughter of Derr...

Trees of Ireland

This elegant volume celebrates, and documents, over thirty native and naturalized trees. Individual trees are depicted in pencil silhouette, and watercolours detail mature foliage, flowers, and fruit.

The accompanying text includes botanical ...

Vanishing Kingdoms: The Irish Chiefs and Their Families HB

Vanishing Kingdoms combines an account of aristocracy and its history in Ireland with an interview-based description of twenty recognized Irish chiefs of the name and their family backgrounds. Three of them, The O'Brien, O'Conor Don and The O&...

W.S.Landor, One Hundred Poems

Walter Savage Landor was born in Warwick, in 1775, and died in Florence in 1864. His output in prose and poetry was prodigious. 'No English writer - no English poet - of equal size and quality has been less attended to in the last fifty years'...

Weather Eye

Weather Eye is a selection from the famous column in The Irish Times, which over the years has described and evoked all aspects of that most perennial of subjects for exchange and conversation - the lingua franca of country - and townspersons everywhere...

What Did I Die Of?

Medicine and literature are the unifying strands in this skilfully wrought tapestry of Irish biographical portraiture. It delineates the pioneering 18th-century Limerick surgeon Sylvester O'Halloran, his contemporary Oliver Goldsmith MD, Dublin's Milton e...