Books

A fitting tribute to the achievements of a popular Irish restaurant and of the Irish food industry.

The book traces the course of what Oscar Wilde called his ‘ancient friendship’ with Carlos Blacker, ‘always the truest of friends and most sympathetic of companions’, from its beginning in the early 1880s to their tragic breakup in 1898.

For lovers of the often dark and troubled poetry of Louis MacNeice, his father is a reassuring presence: solid, sober, pious yet tolerant, a C of I clergyman who was not afraid to reject the Ulster Covenant of 1912, denounce sectarianism, and even espouse Irish nationalism.

Contains a complete revision and updating of The succession of parochial clergy in the United Diocese of Cashel and Emly by St. John Drelincourt Seymour, 1908 and of James Blennerhassett Leslie's two unpublished manuscript volumes of Clergy of Leighlin, 1939. Heavy volume - for shipping outside the island of Ireland an additional postage charge will be requested at processing stage.

The Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough have been united since 1216 and, unusually, contained two diocesan cathedrals: Christchurch and St Patrick's (until the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland in 1870). Heavy volume - for shipping outside the island of Ireland an additional postage charge will be requested at processing stage.

This volume should prove to be of immense value to local and family historians alike, as well as being an indispensible research tool for the study of Irish ecclesiastical history.

Illustrated with black and white maps and photographs.Heavy volume - for shipping outside the island of Ireland an additional postage charge will be requested at processing stage.

Through a distinguished career of critical scholarship and translation, Robert Alter has equipped us to read the Hebrew Bible as a powerful, cohesive work of literature. 

’Delightful, colourful and well-researched....a literary gem that gives the reader an informed and emotive insight into the events that marked the long life of the Royal Canal.’ - The Longford Leader

Traces the history of the River Shannon as a navigation from the 1750s through to the present day.

The Cook’s Bible, with over 1000 recipes out of the Ballymaloe kitchen