Máirtín Ó Cadhain was one of the most foremost Irish language writers of our time. As a writer, a teacher and a campaigner he blazed a trail through contemporary Irish life. Collected in this book are fifteen of his best short stories.
Price: €15.00 | Reference: 9781784441043
Writer of the Month: Pádraic BreathnachALL CLÓ IAR-CHONNACHT'S books are on a 50% discount from Cló Iar-Chonnacht during April, 2019. Pádraic Breathnach is well known as one of the most prolific short story writers in the Irish language. This book contains a selection of the best...
Price: €15.00 | Reference: 9781784441029
Breathnach is always a special pleasure to read for his clean, spare style, which can be poetic, supple, or moving as the moment requires. The Irish TimesPádraic Breathnach is a writer renowned as a stylist, a nature lover and for his depiction of youth, and the seventeen stories in this...
Price: €12.00 | Reference: 1902420934 | Alt: 9781902420936
The first prize in the Cló Iar-Chonnacht Literature Award was awarded to Jackie Mac Donncha for his short story collection, Bróga Johnny Thomáis, that deals with: love and heartache, ageing, the labours of life - universal themes written in a lyrical, discerning, sensitive manner and presented to...
Price: €10.00 | Reference: 9781909367654 Price Now: €5.00
These stories are grounded in everyday life, in its raw and tragic beauty. A loyal woman betrayed, another coming to terms with rape and her stolen childhood. Children carrying secret parcels and a man reflecting on his life as it comes to an end. Collected in the pages of this book readers will...
Price: €10.00 | Reference: 9781784441234
Pádraic Breathnach is our Writer of the Month for April, 2019 and all of his books are available at a 50% discount during the month of April. Read about the Cló Iar-Chonnacht 'Writer of the Month' in the news section of our website. Pádraic Breathnach will be reading from his work in the...
Price: €2.50 | Reference: 1874700923 Price Now: €1.25
In this collection of short stories, Colin Ryan, an Irish-language writer from Australia, makes his own of the language and gives it a unique Australian twist. The stories touch on travellers, criminals, soldiers, the dead, people who have gone missing, people who are searching for others, and those...
Price: €8.00 | Reference: 9781784441227
Sa chnuasach gearrscéalta seo, amharcann an t-údar ar na dúshláin a bhíonn le sárú ag an iolar fíréan agus é ag iarraidh a theacht i dtír ar shléibhte Thír Chonaill, an ghráinneog fhéir agus é ag treabhadh leis ó thús earraigh go deireadh fómhair, an teifeach mná ar...
Price: €10.00 | Reference: 9781784441845
Alan Titley is a prolific short story writer who moves beyond Ireland to enlarge international themes. The hundred short fictions in this, his third collection, illustrates with affinity the sharp acerbic humour that inspired the original tale-bearers in the major work of Boccaccio, The Decameron. A...
Price: €12.70 | Reference: 1902420047
Stories from the Kerry seanchaí, Bab Feirtéar, with dialectal notes by Roibeard Ó Cathasaigh and Bo Almqvist.Read a sample from the book
Price: €15.01 | Reference: 1902420594
