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Hundreds of thousands of people all over Ireland were entertained and thrilled in their youth by reading the homely and racy adventures of Kitty the Hare in magazines and journals. Kitty was the...

Spalt and other Great Poems by Gabriel Fitzmaurice brings together a collection of serious poems and silly poems, naughty poems and nice poems from Ireland's best-selling children's poet.These poems,...

A compilation of the oddest, most eccentric and truly bizarre customs, laws and superstitions of our forefathers. The people of Cathay demanded such a huge level of respect by children towards their...

John B. Keane was born in Listowel in 1928. Educated at St. Michael's College he has worked as a chemist's assistant, assistant to a fowl-buyer, furnace-operator and clerk. Son of a widely respected...

'All women are bastards ...'Jimmy Collins - competent middle manager by day, suburban rockstar by night - has just been dumped and he's not taking it very well. Even a visit to his stylist can't...

Brighid 'Biddy' McLaughlin, the acclaimed Irish journalist and storyteller, has endured unthinkable tragedy-the murder of her beloved sister Siobhan and the devastating drowning of her husband. Yet,...

In Best-Loved Poems Gabriel Fitzmaurice, 'the people's poet', gathers favourite poems written over a career spanning more than forty years, poems that have touched the minds and hearts of people all...

John B. Keane is known nationally and internationally as a successful playwright, handling tragedy and comedy with equal art, and as a prose fiction writer of great invention and skill. Yet an equal...

From the author of internationally renowned author of Sive. The Buds come to Ballybunion for their yearly break before the snows of winter whiten the hills. (Bud is an abbreviation of the Gaelic...

In March 1920, the republican Lord Mayor of Cork, Tom?s MacCurtain, was shot dead in his home. Blaming the RIC for his death, IRA members followed District Inspector Swanzy, believed to have ordered...

The Chastitute: A Play in Two ActsAuthor: John B. KeanePublisher: Mercier PressPublication Date: Dec 06, 2024Number of Pages: 74 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1781179417ISBN-13:...

The Civil War left a more violent mark on Kildare than the War of Independence had. As a garrison county with military barracks situated on the main Cork and Limerick roads in Naas, Newbridge, the...

Pearse's skill as an orator is indisputable. His fiery idealism was one of the key motivators that brought the rebels to the GPO in 1916. This collection of his writing showcases this skill, but also...

The Course of Irish History is the classic general history of Ireland, covering the economic, social and political development of the island of Ireland from prehistoric times to the present day. It...

A collection of stories recounting Irish encounters with the Devil.'Don't mind the light, Martin. There'll be plenty o' that where you're going - an' heat to go with it.' If the Devil is no Irishman,...

Liam ? Duibhir charts the struggle for independence, both militarily and politically, in Donegal from before the events of Easter 1916 until the truce in 1921.Donegal has long been seen as one of the...

The Essential George Boole: Logic, Love, and Legacy is a captivating biography that explores the extraordinary life of George Boole, a self-taught English mathematician whose groundbreaking work laid...

A play exploring the strained family relations when a couple return from England on a visit.Author: John B. KeanePublisher: Mercier PressPublication Date: Jun 14, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

'The Holistic Gardener: Beauty Treatments from the Garden allows you to look outside or in your cupboard at ingredients you might never have thought of using in your beauty regime. From natural...

The Home Rule Bill, passed by the British parliament in 1912, was due, when it came into effect in 1914, to give Ireland some control over her own affairs for the first time since the Act of Union in...

We are not by choice a warlike people. When our native institutions flourished before the seventeenth century they were not based on a warlike conception of society. The forces with which medieval...

This is a book which will remind you of those things about Ireland that you would like to remember and read over and over again. In these pages you can let your mind wander in lazy reflection through...

In The Irish Cookbook, traditional Irish dishes are adapted to suit present-day tastes and lifestyles. It includes many modern recipes using our finest fresh seafood, farmhouse vegetables, prime...

When Cromwell's soldiers drummed and swaggered their way through Galway in 1651 they forgot for a while about the strange, remote people who dwelt on the west bank of the Corrib, fishing, plying up...

The best and most humorous lines in all John B. Keane's writings, selected by himself and presented in convenient small format. The book includes the classics: 'A play about sex in Ireland is always...

This book brings to light the social, cultural, political and economic complexities and contradictions of Ireland in the 1950s. A decade of creative change and innovation, 'Ireland in the 1950s'...

This is a sequel to the best-selling The Wind That Round the Fastnet Sweeps. In it John M. Feehan continues his odyssey from Crookhaven up the coast of Kerry to the Skelling Rocks and the Blasket...

First presented by the Abbey Theatre during the Dublin Theatre Festival in September 1963, The Man from Clare is an Irish classic. The Man from Clare follows the personal tragedy of an aging athlete...

The Marriage of Nurse HardingAuthor: Annie M. P. SmithsonPublisher: Mercier PressPublication Date: Jan 06, 2025Number of Pages: 162 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1781179263ISBN-13:...

For the first time in published form 'The Men Will Talk to Me: Galway Interviews' chronicles the experiences of the Galway-based survivors of the War of Independence and the Civil War, recorded in...