Irish Historic Fiction

This diverse collection is a delightful and entertaining windfall from one of Ireland's most colourful writers. An essential complement to Behan's master works.

One evening in 1951, an itinerant storyteller arrives unannounced and mysterious at a house in the Irish countryside. By the November fireside he begins to tell the story of this extraordinary land.

A coming of age story set in Ireland during the second world war. The inherent contradictions of Emergency Ireland come to the surface leading to a misadventure with deeply tragic consequences.

Interwoven with some of the great Irish historical events, this is the story of descendant generations of several families through four centuries of turmoil in Ulster.

Set in heart-wrenching times, intertwining flames of freedom, flames of hate and flames of love is this story of Peter Waller and his childhood memories of the 1920’s and the arrival in Ireland of the Black and Tans.

A story set in Dublin and Ireland of the 1950’s before Nelson’s Pillar was dynamited into a heap of rubble in O’Connell street.

The epic begins in pre-Christian Ireland during the reign of the fierce and powerful High Kings at Tara, with the tale of two lovers, the princely Conall and the ravishing Deirdre, whose travails echo the ancient Celtic legend of Cuchulainn. From this stirring beginning, Rutherfurd takes the reader on a graphically realised journey through the centuries.

A delightfully funny and touching picture of a Derry childhood in the 1940s.

A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of `At Swim-Two-Birds' - Flann O'Brien.