New Island Books

A detective story that swelters and smells of the oppressively hot Dublin summer 1866, by a debut fiction author steeped in the history of the city.

Re-print. A tumbling trip through the dozens and dozens of street characters that have walked Dublin and its suburbs’ streets.

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.

Northern Irish women's writing is going from strength to strength and this anthology captures its current richness and audacity.

Garry Bannister presents readers with the first comprehensive translation of Zen koans in both English and Irish, and provides an intriguing investigation into the hidden messages of these foundational texts in the study of Zen Buddhism.

An comprehensive English-Irish phrasebook by the well-known and widely respected Irish lexicographer Garry Bannister.

Proverbs are like people - they can be humorous, sad, old, young, even have their own offspring. But they can also tell us a great deal about the time, the place and the culture that created them.

Already a cult hit, Kiss My... will appeal to the Irish-language student and the open-minded traveller alike.

IRISH–ENGLISH THESAURUS is a significant addition to the corpus of reference texts, an essential and indispensable resource for speakers, authors, poets, journalists, students and teachers, and, indeed, for anyone wishing to enrich and develop their spoken and written Irish-language skills.

Latest in successful series of general introductions to Irish including What’s That As Gaeilge and Proverbs in Irish, as well as IBA-nominated Teasaras Gaeilge-Bearla. This book will improve and enrich your spoken and written Irish, and ideal for beginners.