Books Related to Ireland

Philomena is now a major film starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, directed by Stephen Frears

A ground-breaking biography revealing the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula.

A ground-breaking biography revealing the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula.

A stunningly illustrated collection of delicious and easy mood-boosting recipes.

This lavishly illustrated book is the first devoted to the subject of the manufacture and use of wallpaper in Ireland.

An A to Z of quirky facts and stories about Limerick county

Limerick, Ireland's third most populous city, has a rich and vibrant history stretching back to its foundation by the Vikings. Historian Sharon Slater explores the development of the city, showing how it has changed and grown over the years, recalling shops and industries, streets and buildings, societies and clubs and a lost way of life.

Fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Limerick.

This is an account of social life in pre-Reformation Dublin, telling of its ruling class, its wealthy merchants, its all-powerful traditional church, the city's personalities, and Dublin's unwanted Irish.

The iconic Cotton Tree in the centre of Freetown, Sierra Leone, is a cherished monument to the life of that country for centuries. In Leaves from the Cotton Tree, the Sierra Leone Ireland Partnership (SLIP) has assembled thirty-seven essays by Irish people and Sierra Leoneans which share some of that experience spanning some seventy years.

Covering almost one thousand years, this volume explores the political, cultural, economic, religious and social history of medieval Ireland.