New Irish Non-Fiction

Russell Alford and Patrick Hanlon are fried food aficionados – they are absolutely obsessed with anything that can be put in a deep-fryer or a pot full of dripping.

To the casual observer Alice Dalton’s life might have seemed idyllic. But in the quiet of her middle class Dublin home she lived her life with a damaged mother, an authoritarian father, rebellious brothers and warring sisters. In a bitterly divided country that is tearing itself apart, Alice’s pursuit of independence, identity and love takes her on a perilous journey through attraction, hypocrisy, courtship, and intolerance.Alice Dalton is a headstrong middle-class young Catholic woman who is determined to live life as she chooses. George Gilbert is a working class Protestant who loves his family and wants nothing more than to play his music. When Alice and George fall in love, they are thrust into a world of religious intolerance and social discrimination. Alice must combat alienation and exclusion while George fights prejudice, intolerance and the stigma of serious illness. Constructing Alice is a deeply affecting story of love against all the odds.

In this beautiful new 25th anniversary edition, you will find photography to accompany many of the dishes, classics just as you remember them, updates to a number of the dishes and the addition of many new recipes.

An accessible and streamlined cookery primer for anyone wanting to master basic cooking skills using 25 of the most popular staple ingredients, written by the grande dame of Irish food.

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

New Edition. Winner - Gourmand World Cookbook Awards: Best World Gourmand Cookbook 2017. Growing your own food is exciting but, when it comes to knowing how to make the most of your produce, it can be daunting. In Grow, Cook, Nourish, bestselling author Darina Allen draws on more than 30 years of experience gardening at Ballymaloe to take you through an extensive list of vegetables, herbs and fruits.

A modern manual - get ready for a masterclass in bread making from Ballymaloe.

Latest collection from Cork poet based at UCC

In 2014, Myrtle Allen will celebrate her nintieth birthday and Ballymaloe House will celebrate fifty years open to the public. This new edition of The Ballymaloe Cookbook, first published in 1977, marks the occasion.

Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, setting a diverse range of writing and visual art in a fluid panorama of liquid associations that connect Irish literature to an archipelago of other times and places.