Myths & Legends

Tibet has the Yeti. Scotland has Nessie. Ireland has...leprechauns? Irish mythology is actually full of mysterious animals and fantastical beasts. The airitech was a mysterious creature whose three daughters took on the shape of werewolves and who were all slaughtered by the warrior Cas Corach. Balor the Irish cyclops wreaks destruction when he opens his single eye and it takes four men to lift his eyelid. The alp-luachra is a type of fairy who crawls down into a persons stomach and feeds off what they eat. To rid oneself of the creature you must eat a large quantity of salt beef without drinking anything and force it to come back out of your mouth through thirst! In this beautifully designed book Mark Joyce brings us on a fantastic journey through Irish folklore with his stories of monsters and demons, accompanied by original illustrations.

Following the success of Mythical Irish Beasts (2018) and Mythical Irish Wonders (2020), Mark Joyce returns with Mythical Irish Places, an encyclopaedia of Ireland’s most magical and wondrous locations.

Fairy-Tales are not just fairy-tales: they are records of historical phenomena, telling us something about how Western civilisation was formed. In The Fairy-Tellers' Trail, award-winning travel-writer Nick Jubber explores their secret history of fairy-tales: the people who told them, the landscapes that forged them, and the cultures that formed them.

Award-winning anthologists Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan have put together an outstanding selection of stories. Authors include Neil Gaiman, John Connolly, Adam LG Nevill, Alison Littlewood and Jen Williams. The books too are gorgeous, with foiled covers, printed edges and published only in hardcover, offering a lifetime of reading pleasure.

‘Drowned Out Voices’ gives us a chance to follow GhostÉire, a “paranormal psychical study group”, as they continue on their journey to reach beyond the veil, at 13 historic locations around the country.

2016 Publication. Join Ghost Éire paranormal research team as they travel around various regions in Ireland, investigating plausible hauntings. Experience what they have encountered and their reasons for unexplainable happenings.

Today's Ireland has never lost the link with its pagan past, never forgotten the old ways. This book reveals the hidden world of pagan Ireland, showing it still exists among the people and in the landscape where it belongs.

"The T 'ain B 'o Cuailnge", centre-piece of the 8th century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic. This translation is based on the partial texts in two medieval manuscripts, with elements from other versions, and adds a group of related stories which prepare for the T 'ain.