A History of Irish Forestry
€50.00

Only six copies remaining of this rare, sought-after book.

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, T...

A Poet's Country
€25.00

While Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) was above all a poet, for most of his writing life he was a prolific producer of critical and autobiographical prose. Work for newspapers and magazines was often his main source of income, and provided him with a necessary ...

All for Hecuba: An Irish Theatrical Biography
€70.00

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 autobiogr...

Ancestral Voices The Big House in Anglo-Irish Literature
€40.00

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 a...

Beauty in a Broken Place (HB)
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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 both seriou...

Between the Lines: Poems on the Dart
€12.00

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, disquietu...

Bright Bewildering Green
€12.00

'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 determination over adve...

Forgotten Stones
€30.00

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 limestones region of north County Clare, one heavily populated,...

Hazel: A Life of Lady Lavery
€50.00

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: ow a girl from...

In Ruin Reconciled
€20.00

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 childhood a...

In The Prison of his Days: A Miscellany for Nelson Mandela on his 70th Birthday
€20.00

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, Patrick Galv...

Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940
€50.00

'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...

John Sherman & Dhoya
€20.00

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
€100.00

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 home to a un...

Land & Learning: Two Irish Clubs
€25.00

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 conta...

Longford Essays in County History
€40.00

'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...

Modern Art in Ireland
€300.00

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 ...

Outstaring Nature's Eye
€150.00

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. ...

Reading the Future
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A fascinating series of interviews offering insight into the lives and work of twelve great Irish writers, as selected by an eclectic panel of avid readers for the RTE Radio One series Reading the Future.

"Writing, though it often deals with...

Rebellions: Memoir, Memory and 1798
€50.00

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, originality and real val...

Skelligside
€30.00

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.

Kirby's writi...

The Achievement of Seamus Heaney
€30.00

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 Face of Time
€60.00

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 Synge Letters. Bishop Edward Synge to His Daughter Alicia, Roscommon to Dublin 1746-1752
€100.00

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 consi...

The United Irishman
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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
€30.00

'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 Derry Westenra, the fifth Baron Rossmore of Rossmore Cast...

Trees of Ireland
€100.00

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 informati...

W.S.Landor, One Hundred Poems
€20.00

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' wrote Geo...

Weather Eye
€20.00

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?
€20.00

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...