Product Description: This vivid memoir chronicles life in a small Gaeltacht area in Munster that has remained largely immune to outside influences because of its isolated location. Ó Maolchathaigh is an astute observer of people and place. His recollections of a "lost world" are unique and searing in their honesty...read more

Product Description: This unique compendium of historical documents dating from 1914 - and collected by F.X. Martin in 1964 - is considered the definitive history of the Howth & Kilcoole Gun-Running. Written by the chief protagonists, these are remarkable first-hand accounts and provide a running commentary on the momentous events of July / August 1914, when German weapons were illegally landed by sea in Ireland...read more

Product Description: Travellers and the Settled Community is unique in its elucidation of the Irish Traveller voice, the Traveller perspective and the important light this sheds on Irish society as it developed from the rural to the urban. The contributors to this volume depict a new and revealing energy in Irish society; an impetus that jettisons the fixed and unchanging viewpoints of old and prefaces a multi-cultural future...read more

Product Description: This book traces a number of common themes relating to the representation of Irish Travelers in Irish popular tradition and how these themes have impacted on Ireland's collective imagination. A particular focus of the book is on the exploration of the Traveler as "Other," an "Other" who is perceived as both inside and outside Ireland's collective ideation...read more

Product Description: Ever since the Abbey Theatre opened in 1940 the collection of portraits on the walls of its foyer has steadily grown. In the beginning, as Yeats wrote, these were all by ""an Irish artist,"" actually his father, the painter J.B. Yeats, but the collection now includes portraits by several renowned Irish painters depicting the players, many of whom have achieved worldwide fame...read more

Product Description: Ever since the Abbey Theatre opened in 1940 the collection of portraits on the walls of its foyer has steadily grown. In the beginning, as Yeats wrote, these were all by ""an Irish artist,"" actually his father, the painter J.B. Yeats, but the collection now includes portraits by several renowned Irish painters depicting the players, many of whom have achieved worldwide fame...read more