Irland

The number one Irish Times bestsellerIn 1970, Taoiseach Jack Lynch accused two cabinet ministers, Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney, of smuggling arms to the IRA in Northern Ireland. …

Brooklyn 1986. Joe & Elli have entered a major ballroom dancing competition. They have practised hard and hope to win but their plans are jeopardised when the unexpected arrival …

Much of the poetry written by W. H. Auden between 1939 and the time of his death consists of syllabic verse, or lines arranged in accordance with a predetermined syllable-count but …

The Little Book of Ranelagh is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about this Dublin suburb. Here you will find out about Ranelagh’s rural past, …

Four Contemporary Novelists offer accounts of the fiction of Angus Wilson, Brian Moore, John Fowles, and V. S. Naipaul. The author has charted the development of each writer; …

A moving novel about the relationships within families and between friends, told through the touching story of a young woman starting out on a new life in London, on a quest to …

Have you ever wondered where your town or townland name came from? Do you want to know more about an Irish locality? Well if so this is the book for you. Featuring a …

The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not …

Walter Scott in the twenty-first century Ten essays that show Scott is a man for our times Major scholars introduce a new Walter Scott New ideas on the novel and temporality New …

Imagining Ireland's Pasts describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centuries and explains why they could not settle on an agreed …