'Unsweet Dreams' deals with the profound things that happen in our lives, with the reaffirming wisdom that humour is the best gift we have to navigate our way.
Today, change in our material lives is a constant. Many now living have seen the advent not only of the mobile phone and the Internet, but also of space exploration, vaccines and even indoor plumbing.
Knock is Ireland's national Marian Shrine and is visited by hundreds of thousands of pilgrims every year. This book is about all of the things going on at Knock Shrine, from counseling to prayer guida
Poetry. Winner of the 2008 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Equal parts church hymnal and outlaw country album, Carrie Jerrell's AFTER THE REVIVAL exudes a reverence for all things run down and wrecked. Fr
Karlsen is a down-on-his-luck private investigator looking for work. When the only job on offer is a contract killing, Karlsen agrees despite his lack of experience. Things don't go to plan and it see
Discover a new way of eating - fresh, pure flavours, dedicated to sharing and happiness -with The Brother Hubbard Cookbook, the much-anticipated first cookbook from Brother Hubbard, which will bring a
Lewis looks back on his long-standing fascination with Sicily and the Mafia, evoking the island's landscape and language, considering its changing sexual mores, the effects of African immigration, mem
YouTube sensation John D. Ruddy brings history to life with clarity and hilarity in videos that have amassed millions of views around the world. Here, his viral online hit, Manny Man, turns Ireland's
New collection of poems set in the Delta, with The Yellow Room at its core, a sequence of mirror poems contemplating the Jewishness of the poet's father.
This is the Kingdom of Kerry in all its different hues and glory, a unique, exciting yet relaxing and relaxed place with many different elements to it. This is Kerry clearly shows why Kerry is one of
In November 1940 the body of Moll McCarthy, an unmarried mother of seven, was found in a field in Tipperary. She had been shot. The man who reported the discovery was her neighbour Harry Gleeson. With
Author Pdraig Yeates presents students, academics, researchers, and general interest readers with the third volume of his trilogy examining the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ce
Anyush is a love story set against the backdrop of the Armenian Turkish conflict of 1915 and the Great War. Anyush Charcoudian, a young Armenian woman living with her widowed mother, falls in love wit
Poetry. VOICES BRIGHT FLAGS is a series of experiments in what is sometimes called public poetry, with the poet's country, America, and his relation to it, as the main theme. The poems approach Americ
Crackles with poker-faced wit and stylistic brilliance The light lash of Lewis's humour and his sniffer-dog's nose for the oddball remain undiminished. - The Guardian
The official memoir of Margo O'Donnell, legendary Irish Country Music singer. For fifty years now the name 'Margo' has been synonymous with everything that is positive and enriching in Country and Iri
Retired British GP Tom Miles, on vacation in Kenya, is arrested by leading opposition politician Paul Muya and charged with a War Crime relating to the death of a freedom fighter during the fight of i
Brian is the smallest boy in the village. But he's also the smartest. When the dangerous Vikings arrive it's up to Brian to save the day with the help of his friends and his cleverest invention yet. T
In a country richly endowed with wild mountain ranges, secluded valleys and untamed coastlines, the best natural landscapes can only be explored on foot. Here are over sixty of the greatest one-day wa
Kinsale emerged as a settlement in the 6th century and began trading with English and continental ports. Its deep harbour provided safe anchorage and prospered during the 'golden age of sail'. Compreh
"The end of slavery is no guarantee of freedom. When 12 year old Clayton McGhee journeys north with his parents and grandparents in search of a new life, they must build a homestead with their own lab
Cameron writes on free will, religion, literature, class, nationalism, literature, the arts, and a variety of other subjects as they relate to human relationships. The text is divided into three secti
A delightful series of short stories, providing a composite portrait of women and how the worlds they inhabit have changed over the past 50 years. No longer satisfied with marriage being their only so
The editors and almost all of the contributors are or have been affiliated with the National University of Ireland (NUI), Maynooth, and its Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates (C
Trees are one of Ireland's most precious pieces of heritage, remarkable for many reasons. Illustrated with fine photography, these pages present a fascinating world of trees unique to Ireland with con
Tobin offers a history of the Irish Revolution and the events of the period between 1912 and 1925, with a detailed account of its most significant event, the 1916 Easter Rising. Tobin's account, as th
Alice's garden is her refuge. Inherited from Uncle Jacky, she introduces the great variety of plants and objects she has gathered - everything, of course, with its own unique and fascinating story, br
Ovid's poems voiced by female figures from Greek and Roman myth in new 21st century versions, with a cast of women who are brave, bitchy, sexy, suicidal, horrifying, heartbreaking and surprisingly mod
Spawned in the bleak poverty of an East Anglian fishing port, Catesby is a spy with a big anti-establishment chip on his shoulder. He loves his country, but despises the class who run it. Loathed by t
Recounts the first half of the author's adventurous life with dry, infectious, laconic wit, observing the transformation of a stammering schoolboy into a worldly wise multilingual intelligence agent o
Elias (1897-1990) was a premier sociologist who studied with Alfred Weber, brother of Max. Written over three decades and newly annotated for this edition of volume II, these seven essays are joined b
This third publication on literary Dublin from Lynch (consultant for the Encyclopaedia of Ireland and author with special interest in Irish culture), focuses on the geography and culture of the city,
Ahren Warner's second collection of poems opens with the sequence Lutce, te amo: a raw paean to the Paris it inhabits that offers both adoration and horror in equal measure. Elsewhere, London 'licks a
