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Lyons, Alice
9781843517719
Lyons' first novel gives voice to a female character on her fraught journey into adulthood and charts her evolution as an artist, as her adolescent dissociation is thawed through contact with the physical world, the materials of painting and her engagement with Irish community, culture and landscape.
€15.00

Yeats Now: Echoing into Life

M. Hassett, Joseph
9781843517788
This book is a wonderful companion to the work of Yeats. Hassett's writing provides an excellent frame of context through which to explore one of Ireland's greatest poets.
€15.00

The Last Footman

Macbain, Gillies
9781843517658
In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of the `dying aristocracy'. Thus begins his foray into the upper echelons of Irish society.
€20.00

Ethna MacCarthy: Poetry

MacCarthy, Ethna
9781843517696
Ethna MacCarthy (1903-59) was a Scholar and a First-Class Moderator at Trinity College Dublin where she taught languages in the thirties and forties before studying medicine. Perhaps best known to posterity for her relationship with Samuel Beckett and appearance in several of his writings.
€20.00

Dublin Photographs 1963 - A Pandemic Mirror 2020

MacWeeney, Alen
9781843518266
These 87 black & white photographs taken by Alen MacWeeney in Dublin in 1963/5 are spontaneous images of Dublin and Dubliners in all areas of the city, a street odyssey reflecting a cross section of the people, their habits and behaviour, ten years before Ireland joined the European Union and the wider world.
€50.00

Shared Home Place Seamus Mallon

Mallon, Seamus
9781843517740
Seamus Mallon, Deputy Leader of the SDLP from 1979 to 2001, recounts his happy upbringing in south Armagh as a Catholic in a 90 per cent Protestant village; his turbulent years as a constitutional politician; and his central role in the peace process.
€20.89

Seamus Mallon: A Shared Home Place

Mallon, Seamus
9781843517634
Seamus Mallon, Deputy Leader of the SDLP from 1979 to 2001, recounts his happy upbringing in south Armagh as a Catholic in a 90 per cent Protestant village; his turbulent years as a constitutional politician; and his central role in the peace process.
€20.30

The Happy Belfast Man: The Life and Witness of Arnold Marsh 1890-1977

Marsh, Arnold
9781843518723
Arnold Marsh, son of Belfast tin-factory owner born in 1890, is best remembered as an educationist and headmaster of Newtown Quaker School in Waterford, Ireland.
€30.00

Thirsty Ghosts

Martin, Emer
9781843518631
Two families inhabit this immersive polyvocal work, an intergenerational saga announced with The Cruelty Men (2018) and continued here as punk rockers and Magdalene laundries spiral into a post-colonial Ireland still haunted by its tribal undertow.
€18.00

The Cruelty Men

Martin, Emer
9781843517399
The Cruelty Men is a new novel by prize-winning author Emer Martin. It is a sweeping multi-generational view of an Irish-speaking family who moved from Kerry to the Meath Gaeltacht and the disasters that befall their children in Irish institutions. This story, spanning from the `30s to the late `60s, is narrated through linked family voices.
€17.41

BUMS, FARTS & OTHER INNAPROPRIATE ACTS

Martin, John
9781843511595
Shows that Jonathan Swift was the author of "The Benefit of Farting and Arse Musica" (1722 and subsequent editions). This title contains a poem about Hester (Vanessa) Van Homrigh that the author maintains was written by Jonathan Swift and which establishes that his relationship with her was sexual.
€9.58

STRICTLY NO POETRY

Matthews, Aidan
9781843517443
Strictly No Poetry, Mathews' fourth volume of poetry, and first in twenty years, includes forty-eight new poems and sequences. Collectively they explore themes of religion, sexuality and mental illness.
€14.09