The story of Éadaoin is our finest Old Irish love story, a story that survived in fragments found in The Book of the Dun Cow and in The Yellow Book of Leacan. Diarmuid Johnson has combined all these various fragments and knitted them into a whole — filling the gaps and adding meat to the bones...
Price: €16.00 | Reference: 9781909907683
"THE BEST NOVEL SINCE THE TURN OF THE CENTURY" — ComharThis first novel won the Oireachtas Prize 2007, and the Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin award 2008.Set in mid-17th century Ireland and Continental Europe, the narrative in An Cléireach is triggered by a single event that takes place...
Price: €15.00 | Reference: 9780898332339
This first novel won the Oireachtas Prize 2007, and the Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin award 2008.Set in mid-17th century Ireland and Continental Europe, the narrative in An Cléireach is triggered by a single event that takes place during the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland, when a small...
Price: €18.00 | Reference: 9780898332339
One thousand and six hundred years ago, a young boy was brought to Ireland as a slave. He spent many long and lonely years minding sheep and pigs on Slieve Mish. Then he managed to escape and he had the intention to bring the Gael to Christianity. that boy was called Patricius, or Saint Patrick as...
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The heat is turned off in the museum and the Mummy and its friends are afraid that they'll be cold. With help from the lion the Mummy decides to go back to Egypt. But it's a long, long trip! This book is suitable for readers between 8 and 10 years of age. There are six books in the series...
Price: €7.50 | Reference: 9781909907485
Winner of Gradam Ui Shúilleabháin 2007.In the archives of the French town of Chartres some printed pages from the 18th Century were discovered, and a reference to the mysterious author of these printers' proofs, Captain Seán Ó Raghallaigh. Set in and around the battle of Fontenoy 1745,...
Price: €12.50 | Reference: 978089833257
GEARRLIOSTA 'LEABHAR NA BLIANA 2015' LACÁISTE SPEISIALTA €15Combining the taut action-pacing of a thriller and the reflective depth of the literary novel, Darach Ó Scolaí has written a book to follow in the heels of his prize?winning best?seller An Cléireach. In this heady paranoic thriller...
Price: €18.00 | Reference: 9780898332865
A collection of traditional stories collected in Seanadh Farracháin in the Joyce’s Country, County Galway and edited by Ailbhe Nic Giolla Chomhaill, along with a fine account of the rich folkloric storytelling tradition of the area. The stories were collected in Seannadh Farracháin as...
Price: €15.00 | Reference: 9781909907812
The innovative analysis and proposals in this book set out a positive and optimistic agenda for the Gaelic community. This collection of four essays examines the circumstances of the Gaeltacht and the Irish language in the 20th century. Given the current crisis in the Gaeltacht, the...
Price: €12.00 | Reference: 9781911363002
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson is one of the best known adventure novels ever written. This is the exciting story of David Balfour, a young man whose uncle Ebeneazer wishes to kill and to steal his inheritance. Through his friendship with Jacobite swordsman Alan Breck Steward he escapes the...
Price: €15.00 | Reference: 9781909907652
