Product Description: In Ireland in 1826 millions knew only famine, oppression and degradation. The landlords ground down the tenant famers; tithe wars and injustice were rife. But Dualta Duane battles against tyranny, struggling to survive the evils of hunger, poverty and disease...read more

Product Description: This is a vivid and memorable novel set in Dublin, 1916, during the Easter Rebellion and the bitter years which followed. Through the diverging lives of two young brothers the agony of Ireland during these harrowing times is witnessed...read more

Product Description: A haunting and memorable portrait of the hard life of subsistence farming, ofe loveless arranged marriages, and of rebellion against suffocating social mores in twentieth century Ireland.

Product Description: A thematic collection of short stories providing a unique evocation of the life and people of Galway in the 1940s.

Product Description: A dramatic story set amongst a fishing community in the west of Ireland, a classic in Irish fiction.

Product Description: Book by Macken, Walter

Product Description: Careless of the hurts he inflicts along the way, Bart O'Breen walks his own road, as proud as the devil and as lonely as hell.

Product Description: A collection of short stories from the everyday lives of people in the west of Ireland, evoking a world dominated by the incessant demands of working the land and the sea.

Product Description: Like his father before him, Donn is born to the now mythical role of the Lord of the Mountain, a remote community in rural Ireland, unmarked by the passage of time. But Donn longs for a wider kingdom. He deserts his bride, roams the world, fights in wars, is footloose - yet finds that he is homesick...read more

Shipwrecked on Ox Island by a storm, Conor, his little brother, and his friends find themselves the prisoners of Lady Agnes and her husband, who are searching for a priceless druid treasure

Finn, an English boy, and his little sister, Derval, flee to Ireland to escape their violent stepfather, who, with the police and two mysterious strangers in tow, pursues them when he learns that Finn is about to inherit a fortune.

The first book in a trilogy examining the adventures of several generations of one Irish family. Set amidst the Cromwellian Invasions, Seek the Fair Wind begins in 1641. Dominick McMahon, a merchant by trade, has little appetite for fighting, yet is forced to defend his town against Cromwell's army. From dark city streets to wild mountains, from vicious slaughter to triumphant faith, from selfish obedience to heroic opposition this novel paints a vivid portrait of the struggles of the Irish people against the English. Along with The Silent People and The Scorching Wind, Seek the Fair Land is a fascinating examination of the history and events that fueled the fight for freedom in Ireland.

Product Description: This is the story of Stephen O'Riordan, a true son of the wild and beautiful land of Connemara, of his hopes and ambitions, and of his passionate and stormy love for Kathleen, sister of his bitterest enemy . . . It is also the story of Ireland after twenty-five years of liberty, like Stephen new in its freedom and thought yet primitive in its emotions, its people witty, bawdy, boozy, hard-working, loud-voiced or gentle - but never dull ...read more