Books Related to Ireland

Now in Paperback, 'Irish Traditional Cooking has proved itself a practical cookbook and a pleasure to read. With Ireland's best-known cook and the specially commissioned colour photography, you will be inspired to start cooking immediately

In 1994, Irishman Graeme Allen arrived in Urumqi, China, the most landlocked city in the world. With barely a penny to his name and not a word of Chinese, he set about building a new life and career in China’s burgeoning tourist industry.

The first book in over a century to present the stories of the Fianna as a complete and continuous cycle

Full of hilarious celebrity yarns, sequinned characters like the remarkable Stella Minge, and a lot of shameless name-dropping, Mr Pussy: Before I Forget to Remember is the story of a legendary, ground-breaking entertainer, full of pathos, charm and wit.

Ba bheag a ceapadh, nuair a d’imigh na hIarlaí uainn breis agus 400 bliain ó shin, go samhlófaí an fhéidearthacht ar theacht anonn riamh. Castar an fhéidearthacht sin ina réalachas fiontraíoch cruthaitheach ar na leathanaigh istigh. Seol leat, a scríbhinn…

Foclóir Póca is now available in a newly designed and expanded edition. It continues to be the market leader in Irish pocket dictionaries.

From the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, a breathtaking new history of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, showing how their strivings in and beyond New York exemplify the astonishing tenacity and improbable triumph of Irish America.

An examination of Joyce as one of the greatest modern writers, and a study of his life in relation to his four great books: "Dubliners", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake". Photographs of Joyce, his family and his surroundings cover all phases of his life.

A smuggler and a deserter, Darran Anderson's grandfathers skirted the Second World War on the fringes of legality. Darran Anderson's lucid and intimate prose offers a vital new perspective on a troubled history.

The first part of C.S. "Todd" Andrews's autobiography tells of his childhood and the part he played in the uprisings in Ireland between 1916 and 1923, from the Easter Rising to the War of Independence and Civil War. It recounts his street fighting against the British and his escape from internment.

Richard Bartlett was a talented cartographer and topographical draughtsman who practised in Ireland at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Although his early life and career are poorly documented, he left what for this period must be reckoned a substantial output comprising between nineteen and twenty-seven items depending on how they are counted.