This title presents the memoirs of Ireland's acclaimed author and playwright, Hugh Leonard. Born in 1926 in Dublin, he was educated at Presentation College, Dun Laoghaire. He is an award winning playwright and screenwrit ...Quick View
Frank McCourt continues his life story in the brilliant, bestselling sequel to the million-selling ‘Angela’s Ashes’. ‘Angela’s Ashes’ was a publishing phenomenon. Frank McCourt’s critically-acclaimed, ly ...Quick View
A Westmeath childhood richly remembered. The author recounts his early life spent around the town of Delvin, the village of Drumcree, and the townland of Rickardstown. ...Quick View
Roy Keane's new memoir, ghost-written by Booker-winning novelist Roddy Doyle, takes on his acrimonious departure from Manchester United. ...Quick View
Dublin has experienced great and often astonishing change in its 1,400 year history. It has been the largest urban center on a deeply contested island since towns first appeared west of the Irish Sea. There have been oth ...Quick View
In his new autobiography, written with characteristic humour and often outrageous candour, Graham shows that life is more than just a series of dates and it's really the things you love that make you who you are. From hi ...Quick View
David Norris is one of Ireland's most popular, colourful and charismatic public figures. Not a man to shy away from controversy, he has spent most of his adult life challenging the establishment, whether as a leading cam ...Quick View
In this account of life in post-war literary Dublin, Anthony Cronin writes of the frustrations and pathologies of this generation: the excess of drink; the shortage of sex; the insecurity and begrudgery; the limitations ...Quick View
This is a companion volume to Hugh Leonard's "Home Before Night" containing anecdotes and stories of Leonard's coming of age and early adulthood in Dublin, and his subsequent move to London. Leonard aims to reveal a pict ...Quick View
J.P. Donleavy's Ireland: In All Her Sins and in Some of Her Graces
By: J. P. Donleavy
10 May 1986 - Viking Press
Follow a youthful J. P. Donleavy on a Trinity student odyssey through the Dublin of the 1940s and 1950s ...Quick View
The History of the Ginger Man: The Dramatic Story Behind a Contemporary Classic By the Man Who Wrote
By: J. P. Donleavy
Donleavy is a gifted storyteller, and this memoir is as vivid and entertaining as the The Ginger Man itself. Donleavy recounts the four years he spent writing this popular novel in Ireland and America, describing his rea ...Quick View
A Singular Country is J.P. Donleavy’s idiosyncratic and personal view of Ireland told in the vernacular of the Irishman, which he has nearly, but not quite, become. “A country where the dead are forever living and wh ...Quick View
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