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Irish Prose
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Strong, My Love (Hardback)€18.99
At the heart of Strong, My Love, Peter Fallon’s first collection in seven years, is a series of prayers for his daughter and son and for their generation. Though time and its tolls pervade the book (‘When my old friend / falters on a stair / or founders on a word or name.’) the author would ‘wake and want to give / the ordinary day / its due’.
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Mary LavinSpecial Price €14.99 Regular Price €24.99
Taking into account new archival material, the book investigates the thematic and stylistic features of Lavin’s work from a variety of perspectives, including the Irish-American.
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The Quotable Oscar Wilde : A Collection of Wit and Wisdom€6.99
"I must die as I lived, beyond my means." Arguably the most quoted man in history, and certainly in his day, this enormous miniature collection is filled with Oscar Wildes' most notorious and witty sayings.
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In the Light of (Paperback)€13.99
Ciaran Carson’s adaptations of prose into rhyming verse ‘are not conventional translations’, as his Author’s Note explains. They are engagements and experiments with the work of a poet who was ‘avant garde before the Avant-garde; a surrealist before Surrealism; and, environmentalist avant la lettre, his critique of industrial society is still relevant today.
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A Journey With Two Maps€21.99
Eavan Boland is one of Ireland’s most acclaimed and popular contemporary poets.
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The Smile And The Tear: Poems And Songs Of IrelandSpecial Price €11.99 Regular Price €14.99
Readers will find many poems and songs that they know, some will be new to them and all guaranteed Irish, ranging from old, unhappy things to poems of love, rage and wild humour, blister-raising satire and devotion to country.
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The Song At Your BackdoorSpecial Price €7.99 Regular Price €11.99
A journey into the Irish countryside accompanied by inspirational and anecdotal insights and dialogue from an in-tune author connected to the world of nature as well as writers, poets, and naturalists
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Thomas Kinsella: Prose Occasions 1951-2006Special Price €5.99 Regular Price €20.99
Thomas Kinsella is widely known as the translator of "The Tain" and "Poems of the Dispossessed".
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To Ireland, ISpecial Price €11.99 Regular Price €17.99
From Beckett and Bowen, through MacNeice, Swift and Yeats - and guided throughout by Joyce - To Ireland, I moves lightly through the long grass of Irish writing.