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
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
In this collection of short stories, Joe Steve Ó Neachtain displays his inimitable style of writing, which combines a deep understanding of human nature, a courageous eye on social issues and lyrical language. Joe Steve Ó Neachtain Joe Steve ó Neachtain is one of...
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The world presented in Daithí Ó Muirí's short stories is sometimes grim and desolate. His characters lost and wandering in the world. But still you can sense that there is a light of hope that flickers here and there and that it is worth watching out for it. Short fiction in Irish.
Price: €8.00 | Reference: 9781784441371
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
Re-telling of folk tales from the Far-East, from lands far far away, full of kings and queens, princes and princesses, good people and bad people, lazybones, simpletons, drunks, beggars, soldiers, spirits, angels and even the devil himself. Readers young and old will enjoy this rollicking...
Price: €8.00 | Reference: 9781909367678
The final published work in his lifetime by the renowned Máirtín Ó Cadhain, this novella follows a widower as he attempts to plan his wife's funeral arrangements without money, direction or whiskey. Thrown into a desert of unknowing, he knows not where to turn or what to do. In a poignant...
Price: €15.00 | Reference: 9780300242775
This imaginative collection of short stories brings the reader on a riotous journey into a surreal world. It sweeps us along in a whirlwind through stories that are at times dark, at other times awash with colour, and often laced with a sardonic humour. From the sadness of the deserted train station...
Price: €15.00 | Reference: 1902420659
Tomás Ó Flaithearta (Tom O'Flaherty, 1890 - 1936) who was born and reared in Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands in County Galway, Ireland, was an accomplished writer in both English and Irish, as was his brother Liam. He published two stories in Irish before emigrating to the USA in 1912,...
Price: €15.00 | Reference: 9781784441944
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
