Books Related to Ireland

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.

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.

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.

Set in the UK and Ireland in the late 1970s and early 1980s, A harrowing story of horrific physical and mental abuse inflicted on the author at the hands of his parents

River and canal walks can have special appeal, the scenery always changing due to flowing water, weirs, locks and the changing countryside. Lenny Antonelli introduces some of the best river and canal trails in the east and east midlands, from short strolls to a five-day trek along the Barrow.