Product Description: The photographs highlight incidents and scenes hitherto disregarded, and illustrate the tenor of daily life in Dublin during Joyce's early life. Long-departed Dubliner's in their streets and parks return to the reader's gaze: babies in perambulators, lords, ladies, servants, and professional classes, army officers, constabulary, and urchins are all to be found, alongside monuments (subsequently blown up) and a wide choice of goods and services, from Zebra Grate Polish to High Class Artificial Teeth...read more

Product Description: John B. Keane, playwright, poet and fiction writer, was born in Listowel, Co. Kerry in 1928. His first play Sive, a rural tragedy of love and greed, was rejected by the Abbey Theatre but made a sensational impact on its first - amateur - production and has come to be seen as a classic work...read more

Product Description: John B. Keane is one of Ireland's most popular playwrights. With his plays now reaching the cinema, his work has become known to an international audience. 30 years after John B. Keane made his professional debut as a playwright, biographers Gus Smith and Des Hickey join forces to tell the remarkable story of the man from Listowel...read more

Focusing on the stories of the people who decided the fate of the Lusitania, this account traces the patterns of decisions made on board the luxury liner, on the attacking U-boat, and at the British Admiralty