This story starts at the end and moves backwards. Sonaí Ó Giolla has just died, but his spirit is reluctant to leave his body. He travels back through his memories of his life, the people he lived with while he was living in London as an emigrant from Ireland and became a socialist. He remembers...
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“Bhí rí in Éirinn fadó, agus is fadó a bhí…”In this book we spend some time in the company of Ridire an Ghaiscidh (The Heroic Knight), the son of a king who was raised in an underground tomb, who wanted to be a hero like the heroes in the stories that his stepmother would tell him.We...
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A young woman from Poland, Magda, is looking for a new life and moves to Ireland. She meets a wealthy Irish man, Matt, and after a whirlwind romance finds herself married and living in a beautiful big house on the outskirts of the city. But all isn't as it first appeared with her new husband and it...
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Mags and her ten-year-old son live with her mother, Nancy, in a small rural village. They are worried that Nancy is getting depressed. One day they see a piano for sale and think that it might cheer up Nancy, but Nancy has her own memories of piano music . . .
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WINNER of the 'Leabhar Gaeilge na Bliana' prize, sponsored by Love Leabhar Gaeilge in the An Post Irish Book Awards, 2019. Murder mystery by Proinsias Mac a'Bhaird set in the modern day but around a prediction made over a thousand years ago. Winner of the first prize in the Oireachtas na...
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Pádraigín Phléascach is an assistant inventor and a trainee spy as well. She has a big task ahead. Pádraigín and her good friend, (that is, her dog), Einstein, have to catch an international spy and defeat the school bully as well. What harm if a few explosions happen along the way?
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Translation of a short story by Marian Keyes to Irish. This is an easy read in Irish for learners especially, but will also be enjoyed by general Irish-language readers looking for light fiction. Lisa is dead - but she doesn't know it yet. She finds it strange that people are not responding...
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This is a new edition of the well-known Irish-language translation by Seán Ó Cuirrín of Bram Stoker's classic horror novel. Ó Cuirrín succeeded in bringing every drop of life from the Clontarf man's original in this classic translation that was first published in 1933. This is a new edition...
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Winner of Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin, Book of the Year 2019An Tromdhámh by Feargal Ó Béarra is a retelling of a 14th century satirical tale titled Tromdhámh Guaire. Feargal Ó Béarra's contemporary edition brings this entertaining tale to modern readers. The story recounts the...
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Ireland is an unforgiving place for a pregnant eighteen year old. Bríd's baby dies but she is forced to emigrate. Will a new life in America be a new beginning or will the shame and heartbreak of home haunt Bríd forever? Jackie Mac Donncha has produced and chronicled a captivating and intensely...
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