Product Description: A selective anthology from poets born in the Republic of Ireland in the 1950s. In recent years poets from the North have received considerable attention, while those from the South have received less. This tries to level the imbalance...read more

Interweaves the stories of a petty chief and his storyteller a neurotic young man, a boy and his father, a journey across America, and dealings in Key West

Product Description: "Prayers of Sherkin" is a play set in the 1890s about the dwindling of a religous sect which came to Sherkin Island off the south west coast of Ireland from Manchester three generations previously. "Boss Grady's boys" centres around two brothers in their small hill farm on the Cork/Kerry border...read more

Product Description: The play that established Barry as one of Ireland's most powerful contemporary playwrightsThomas Dunne, ex-chief superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan police looks back on his career built during the latter years of Queen Victoria's empire, from his home in Baltinglass in Dublin in 1932...read more

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Product Description: Mai O'Hara lies in a Dublin hospital in 1953 attended by a young nursing Sister and visited by the uneasy figures of her husband Jack, daughter Joanie and her dead father. Fuelled by alcohol, passion and despair it is the story of her flamboyant but destructive relationship with Jack, the lost country of her childhood and unfulfilled expectations in the wake of Irish independence and self-rule...read more

Eneas is marked as a traitor after signing up to fight with the British in World War I, becomes a hunted man targeted by IRA hitmen, and is forced to live on the run for the rest of his life. A first novel. Reprint.

Product Description: The paradoxical business of being in love, the seamless fixed mythology that goes on between father and son, and the rhetorical instrument that language makes itself in the interests of persuasion are the themes explored. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A novel set in 1950s Ireland follows the adventures of Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah, who live and work on a farm in rural Wicklow at a time when the country around them is changing rapidly.

Product Description: The latest dramatic offering from one of Ireland's master playwrightsJohnny Silvester should be enjoying his retirement in his opulent home outside Dublin, but the past is catching up with him. Once lionized for ushering the Irish Republic into the modern world, Silvester has fallen out of favor not only with the public, but also with his family and friends...read more

Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Willie Dunne finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields and that festering at home, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising.

In two poignant, interweaving monologues, Janet and Joe tell the story of their lives of petty crime in Dublin, the act of violence that shattered their marriage and their long years of suffering before Joe's final redemptive act.

Roseanne McNulty, a one hundred-year-old patient in a mental hospital, is secretly writing her memoirs. Meanwhile, her doctor discovers a document by a local priest that tells a very different story of Roseannes life.

Product Description: Told in the first person, as a narrative of her life over seventeen days, On Canaan's Side is the heartbreaking story of a woman whose capability to love is enormous and whose compassion, even for those who have wronged her, is astonishing...read more

A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture In this highly anticipated new novel, Irishman Jack McNulty is a “temporary gentleman”—an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he’s writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary events that he has seen. A lifetime of war and world travel—as a soldier in World War II, an engineer, a UN observer—has brought him to this point. But the memory that weighs heaviest on his heart is that of the beautiful Mai Kirwan, and their tempestuous, heartbreaking marriage. Mai was once the great beauty of Sligo, a magnetic yet unstable woman who, after sharing a life with Jack, gradually slipped from his grasp. Award-winning author Sebastian Barry’s The Temporary Gentleman is the sixth book in his cycle of separate yet interconnected novels that brilliantly reimagine characters from Barry’s own family.