Mervyn Kavanagh, one of its wandering sons has been teaching in America's 'semi-Deep South', where he has acquired - and lost - a wife. As he sets off from Shannon toward tranquil Carmincross in the company of a former girlfriend, warm memories come flooding back. But one cloud proves impossible to dispel, for Mervyn is haunted by dark thoughts.

Product Description: A seminal novel by one of Ireland's greatest living writers In Bingen House, guarded by shale-white Ulster mountains, and on the edge of the Atlantic, lived Captain Conway Chesney: small, neat, efficient, and a diabolical domestic tyrant...read more

Product Description: Like Robert Doisneau's Paris, Bill Doyle's Dublin is a defined milieu. In these photographs that span half a century, from the 50s to 90s, Doyle gives us a composite view of a city and its inhabitants, capturing the spirit of a time and place, a pre-boom Dublin still haunted by the ghosts of history...read more

Product Description: Among the best writers this company has published is Ireland's Benedict Kiely. His first book to be released in this country, The State of Ireland, received a front page New York Times Book Review notice in which Guy Davenport wrote, "The first meaning of 'the state of Ireland' is that it's a place where stories are still told, deliciously and by masters of the art, of whom Benedict Kiely is one, perhaps the foremost...read more

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Rich with anecdotes and Irish wisdom, 'The Waves Behind Us' is set mainly in Dublin just after World War II. It follows the author's adventures and encounters as a young journalist and writer.

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Product Description: Within the walls of the ancient house, thirty novices try hard to conform to the religious life. Frawley, boisterous and unconventional; Barragry, the cynical journalist who has left behind a full life and a good woman; MacKenna, sensitive and literary, guarding a frightening secret which he dreads revealing to the Fathers-each must answer that overwhelming question: "Why the hell am I here?"Once banned for being "indecent and obscene," There Was an Ancient House is richly evocative, blending sly humor, ruthlessly honest portrayals of human struggle, and a master storyteller's dazzling feel for language...read more

Product Description: A comic novel set in Cosmona, a fictitious village somewhere in Ireland, peopled by curious characters like:The doctor and his plump dusky-skinned wife, secretly being watched by Gabriel Rock, the peeping Tom with one good eye... The shell-shocked chaplain who stalks through the village with three hounds close at heel like the legendary Fionn MacCool...read more

Product Description: Kiely's anthology of Irish songs, ballads, and poetry composed over three centuries and in thirty-two countries is a rich literary trip.

Product Description: This classic novel from renowned novelist, short-story writer and broadcaster Benedict Kiely follows the trials of a doctor who becomes a gambler and loses everything.

Stories deal with school memories, horse handlers, an attacker of women, a dancing school, childhood friends, travelers, and a storyteller

A selection of Yeats' poetry accompanies photographs and paintings of contemporary Ireland

Three IRA Provos take over a farmstead in the North and hold a family hostage until a bomb in a creamery can is delivered to the doorstep of a local judge

Traces the history of the Irish city, gathers quotations about Dublin by poets, novelists, and writers, and discusses famous sites and citizens

Short stories reflecting an understanding of daily life in Ireland in the twentieth century accompany a novella, Proxopera, about three IRA Provisionals who force Granda Binchey to deliver a bomb to a local judge's doorstep