This very day, coming charging towards the presses like a rhino heading for the last croissant, is a book by Robin Walker. Robin is Tom Sharpe mixed with a dose of Montgomery of Alamein and lightly drizzled with essence ...Quick View

Hilary is four, not yet five, and she has a mother and a father and an older brother and sisters. She even has a name at home – Billy – that is different from her written-down name. But now that she is in Low Babies ...Quick View

Salesman with an AK-47 is the thrilling adventure of an Irish man who served with the elite of the British Army, guarded the Queen and found himself on active service in Northern Ireland during the early eighties. Years ...Quick View

Tom Connolly joined An Garda Síochána in 1955, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. His early days on the force were spent in Kildare, Naas and Newbridge, tracking petty thieves, raiding pubs and ...Quick View

Frida Keane’s memoir is an important and fascinating record of the life lived by the occupants of the Big Houses of west Waterford and beyond in the early 20th century.It also focuses attention on Irish society at this ...Quick View

From the author of the best-selling novel The Cocaine Diaries comes a true story of Dublin in the 1980s. The Party Animals were a wild bunch of womanising strippers. There was no dress code, no uniformity and no rehea ...Quick View

Committed to peace and the resolution of conflict Quakers (Friends) focus on alleviation of the suffering occasioned whether to the civilian population or the military in a war situation. In the two World Wars the Friend ...Quick View

Reading through Drimnagh man Michael Thurlow’s satirical history of Marlin Communal Aerials’s evolution is like dredging the rich nuggets of a political, cultural and social memory mine. The Marley Man glitters with ...Quick View

The Long Acre is PJ Cunningham's second collection of short stories 'from the heartland of Ireland' and are a sequel to the author’s acclaimed book ‘The Lie of the Land’, which charted the vicissitudes of growing u ...Quick View

In 1962 Seán Ó Sé recorded An Poc ar Buile with Seán Ó Riada and Ceoltóirí Chualann. It proved a huge success and resulted in seven wonderful years working with Seán Ó Riada and over sixty years of singing. His ...Quick View

This is the memory of a young man who when he graduated from secondary school had no prospect of work. It details his life at sea and the many and varied places he visited, some of the people he met and things he encount ...Quick View

As a child, growing up in Belfast in the 1950 s, Monica Connell spent the summer holidays in Donegal. In the 1990 s, by now an anthropologist and author, she returned to Donegal with her husband. Gathering Carrageen is t ...Quick View