Arlen House

Love is the central force in Birdie, a collection of 16 flash fictions that sing with the voices of women loving, losing, learning. The characters here find strength, despite the sorrows of death & deceit: a ghost-child returns to Massachusetts to comfort her grieving mother; a Spanish orange tycoon's daughter regrets her mother's terrible choices.

When Patricia O'Connor's novel, The Mill in the North, was first published in 1938, by Dublin's prestigious Talbot Press, the Irish Times heralded it as 'a very human drama' presenting a realistic picture of life in a northern mill village'.

Set in a turbulent British empire, these historical stories brim with energy and emotion, taking readers to the remote reaches of early twentieth century Burma to an Ireland in flux. These interconnected stories are filled with humour, insight, and unexpected moments of revelation.

As with all of OFlahertys great works from the 1920 and 1930s Darkness challenged social, cultural, and moral conventions and presented a searing critique of social life in the Irish Free States initial years. This scholarly edition includes the text, contemporary reviews, illustrations, and a substantial critical introduction by Brian Conchubhair.

A Yeatsian dream of escape from the mind-numbing banalities and demands of adult and modern life. In these poems, the poet locates some temporary shelter from the storm in memories of childhood, sacred sites of personal pilgrimage, and life-affirming muses.

An Bhóinn agus an Bhóchna, originally serialised in 1915–1916 in An Claidheamh Soluis, and first published here in book format. This book provides a standardised version of the original Irish text as well as an introduction and an English translation that will give modern readers a new insight into Ó Riain’s mystical philosophy and practical programme for the Revival.

In this complex political thriller set in Galway in 1925, Detective Officer Michael Mackey of the newly-created Special Branch has been sent to the Garda Barracks in Ballinasloe on a mission to root out subversives. Soon he has a murder to solve, stolen arms to recover, and a lost love to rescue.