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Bogland, Great Irish Elk bones, a buried woman... The strata of history are teased apart like the layers of an onion. Imagine a Seamus Heaney poem as a novel.

The Red Mouth

Sheila Armstrong

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Readers of Ryan will already be attuned to the resounding humanity of his characters and the razor-sharp acuity of his social realism. His latest is no exception, a simple story about a fami... read more

Where Are the Kings

Donal Ryan

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The author - a Cornishman living in Galway - walks across Ireland from it most western point on the Dingle peninsula to the easternmost, Burr Point in Northern Ireland. Neither in Eire nor ... read more

The Pathless Land: Finding a Way Across Ireland

Tim Hannigan

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The Benefactors: The enthralling debut novel about class, power and wh ...

Wendy Erskine

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The Art Isles: A 15,000-Year Story of Art in Britain and Ireland ...

Charlotte Mullins

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A first edition, fourth printing, signed by O'Brien in March 2022. The book is in very good condition with the usual aging one would expect from a book 50+ years old: foxing to the page edge... read more

Girls in Their Married Bliss

Edna O'Brien

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From the prolific and consistently excellent author of Hamnet, a novel about a father and son who discover unsettling things while working for the Ordnance Survey project in the west of Irel... read more

Land

Maggie O'Farrell

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A celebration of the written word and a quiet paean to the dingy, depressed Dublin of his adolescence. Is there anything Dillon hasn't read?

Ambivalence

Brian Dillon

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Patrick Kavanagh putting his large feet clean through the floor of a car and calling it 'the destructive power of the poet'; Flann O'Brien almost killing Kavanagh in a race to hop the wall i... read more

Dead As Doornails

Anthony Cronin

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A young actress meets a slightly older dramaturg in Kehoe's pub in Dublin city in the dying years of the Celtic Tiger. In the ensuing two decades, their lives intertwine - artistically, roma... read more

Frida Slattery As Herself

Ana Kinsella

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Eden’s Shore

Oisín Fagan

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By turns tender and brutal, this is an extraordinary debut, written out of Rice's experience working in factory. The poems follow the twelve hours of a night shift. The ritual of work is no ... read more

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Matthew Rice

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By the present (4th) Earl of Iveagh.

Guinness: A Family Succession: The True Story of the Struggle to Creat ...

Arthur Edward Guinness

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New edition of the great Nobel laureate's poetry.

The Poems of Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

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Over a dozen houses including Farmleigh, Luggala, Kenwood, Biddesden...

The Houses of Guinness: The Lives, Homes and Fortunes of the Great Bre ...

Adrian Tinniswood

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First edition, first printing in fine condition with a fine dust jacket.

Luggala Days: The Story Of A Guinness House

Robert O'Byrne

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New hardback edition of her tremendous first novel.

The Country Girls

Edna O'Brien

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Small Things Like These: The Irish Times readers’ choice for bes ...

Claire Keegan

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Two brothers - a chess prodigy and a Dublin lawyer - struggle to connect in the wake of their father's death.

Intermezzo

Sally Rooney

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An account of the Olympic boxer and Church of Ireland priest who became a communist, then fought and died in the Spanish Civil War. By his granddaughter.

Swift Blaze of Fire: The Life of Robert Hilliard: Olympian, Cleric, Br ...

Lin Clark

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A little boy's intense, uneasy grasp of the world around him in an isolated house in Ireland. This is a powerful and moving first novel.

Frogs for Watchdogs

Sean Farrell

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A summer of first love between two boys in rural Ireland - beautifully bittersweet.

Open, Heaven

Sean Hewitt

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A man contemplating marriage is unsettled by his past. By the author of Spies in Canaan.

Ghost Wedding

David Park

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'The greatest literary biography of the twentieth century' and its intriguing author.

Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker ...

Zachary Leader

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Argues that the origins of Ireland's catastrophe lay in the colonisers' experiments with capitalism and imperialism.

Rot: A History of the Irish Famine

Padraic X. Scanlan

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An early novella, and an excellent introduction into MB's work, in which a 22-year old returns to Dublin from Paris after the death of her mother.

The Visitor

Maeve Brennan

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This magnificent C12th castle was repeatedly improved and remodelled over the generations - including by Paxton and Pugin. There's a C17th walled garden and many other delights.

Lismore Castle: Food and Flowers from a Historic Garden ...

Laura Cavendish

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A good hardback reissue of this gem - by the author of Small Things Like These and others.

Foster

Claire Keegan

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Two brothers - a chess prodigy and a Dublin lawyer - struggle to connect in the wake of their father's death.

Intermezzo

Sally Rooney

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The late Irish writer on poetry, identity and artistic responsibility.

Citizen Poet: New and Selected Essays

Eavan Boland

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RO'B, aka The Irish Aesthete, that fount of knowledge, taste and carefully sifted old gossip, has chosen fifteen wildly different houses and interiors for this new book. His emphasis is on t... read more

The Irish Country House: A New Vision

Robert O'Byrne

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The selected writings of the late Nicola Gordon Bowe, a brilliant scholar and delightful person. Her books on Harry Clarke and Wilhelmina Geddes are outstanding.

Visualizing the Celtic Revival: The Arts and Crafts movement in Irelan ...

Roisin Kennedy

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A gorgeous book on the Irish fashion designer whose dreamy designs draw on the work of Louise Bourgeois and Riu Kawakubo of Commes des Garçons.

Simone Rocha

Simone Rocha

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The empress of Ballymaloe on making butter, keeping hens, curing bacon and much more - leaving no sieve, bowl or trug unused. With 700 recipes.

Forgotten Skills of Cooking

Darina Allen

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A new addition to this delightful series of weeny reference works, with wonderful black and white illustrations. By an excellent writer and painter.

Megalithic Ireland: Cairns, Tombs, Henges & Circles ...

Hector McDonnell

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A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder ...

Mark O'Connell

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