By Any Means: His Brand New Adventure From Wicklow to Wollongong
By: Charley Boorman
28 May 2009 - Sphere
Bikes have always been Charley's first love, but he also enjoys a challenge. So when the chance comes to travel across three continents 'by any means', he jumps right in. Grabbing whatever local transport he can get his ...Quick View
Irish Women's Fiction: From Edgeworth to Enright
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By: Heather Ingman
07 May 2013 - Irish Academic Press Ltd
Irish Women 's Fiction examines women s novels up to and following the establishment of the Irish state, the period of the Second World War, the Second Wave feminism of the 1970s, to postmodernism in the 1990s. Heather I ...Quick View
New and selected pieces by the renowned international journalist and foreign correspondent Lara Marlowe, including stories from the Middle East, the Balkans, France (where she lived for a total of seventeen years), and a ...Quick View
This new and expanded edition of Talking of Joyce focuses on James Joyce's cultural ancestry - aesthetic and linguistic, in particular - and his Italian influences and connections. Originally published in 1998, to great ...Quick View
Plough Music includes songs and poems, drawings and anecdotes David Medcalf has gathered from people involved with ploughing. This book relates the ancient act of ploughing to the modern world in often humorous ways, ens ...Quick View
Two women living a hundred years apart. One home that binds them together. When Edie Chadwick travels to Ireland to close up her uncle’s lakeside lodge, it’s as much to escape the burden of guilt she’s carrying ...Quick View
I'm Sorry, Sir: The double life of Graham Dwyer, Ireland's BDSM Killer
By: Niamh O'Connor
12 Jun 2015 -
It was the perfect murder. Childcare worker Elaine O’Hara disappeared on the same day she was discharged from a psychiatric hospital where she’d been treated for suicidal thoughts. She left her phone at home and ...Quick View
Special Category: 1978-1985 Volume 2: The IRA in English Prisons
By: Ruán O'Donnell
24 Aug 2015 - Irish Academic Press
This major three-part work is the definitive history of Irish Republican prisoners detained in England’s maximum security prison ‘dispersal system’ during the entire period of the ‘Troubles’. Special Category V ...Quick View
A romantic holiday in sunny Rome. A happy marriage strong enough to last forty years. Three children, now adults, who've grown up secure in the knowledge that they know everything about their mum and dad, and each other. ...Quick View
Wilde's Women: How Oscar Wilde Was Shaped by the Women He Knew
16 Oct 2015 - Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Hailed as a gay icon and pioneer of individualism, Oscar Wilde's insistence that 'there should be no law for anybody' made him a staunch defender of gender equality. Throughout his life from his relationship to his extra ...Quick View
Almost the Perfect Murder: The Killing of Elaine O'Hara (Kindle Edition)
By: Paul Williams
02 Jul 2015 - Penguin
Almost the Perfect Murder: The Killing of Elaine O'Hara, the Extraordinary Garda Investigation and the Trial That Stunned the Nation: The Only Complete Inside Account. For over a year everyone assumed missing Dublin wom ...Quick View
A young video shop assistant exchanges the home comforts of one mother-figure for a fleeting encounter with another; a brother and sister find themselves at the bottom of a coal mine with a Japanese tourist; a Welsh stag ...Quick View