The life and times of one of the most colourful characters in the Irish literary pantheon and our first serious novelist of note.

Did Ó Conaire walk all the way to Russia? In an attempt to dispel certain myths - while, possibly, creating new ones on the way - these lively reminiscences are from people who actually knew the man, the likes of Liam O' Flaherty, Austin Clarke, Séamus Ó Grianna, F.R. Higgins and Micheál Mac...

Liam Ó Flaithearta was born in the Aran Islands in 1896. He spent time as a soldier in the First World War and the Civil War, a while travelling the world on board a ship, a while in the Bowery, New York, before he set upon writing as a craft in the 1920's. He is renowned worldwide for his novels...

‘Literature is the soul of the language' wrote Seosamh Mac Grianna, and in this book are twelve of the most lively and spirited short stories that have been written in the Irish Language.The big writers are there - Liam Ó Flaithearta, Pádraic Ó Conaire, Pádraig Mac Piarais - as well as,...

This volume contains 20 of the best short stories written in Irish in the last century, edited by Gearóid Denvir, lecturer in Modern Irish in NUIG, and Aisling Ní Dhonnchadha, lecturer in Modern Irish in NUI Maynooth.Read a sample from the book

A selection of ten of the best stories from one of the most prolific contemporary writers from the time of the Gaelic revival at the turn of the 20th century.Read a sample from the book