Product Description: Beyond the West Coast of Ireland lies the Great Blasket Island. Beautiful, desolate and surrounded by wild seas, it was once home to a small but fiercely independent community of people whose medieval way of life had long vanished from the Irish mainland...read more

Product Description: Three writers offer words in search of wonders. The author Cole Moreton, the poet Mark Halliday and the journalist Martin Wroe collaborate on a collection of poems that are full of honesty, doubt and beauty.

Product Description: A terrifying and honest account of family tragedy and the effects of war. When Cole Moreton was growing up in London in the early 1970s his heroes leapt from the pages of the Victor Book for Boys. Moreton was part of the last generation to be brought up on the folklore of the Second World War and his grandfather, then in the blue-black uniform of the Salvation Army, certainly looked and sounded like a hero...read more

Chronicles the dramatic events that led to the inhabitants of the remote Blasket islands off the coast of Ireland to abandon their ancient homes and medieval way of life in 1953, following the lives and fates of this vanished people and of the Kearney family, who had made new lives for themselves in America. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Chronicles the dramatic events that led to the inhabitants of the remote Blasket islands off the coast of Ireland to abandon their ancient homes and medieval way of life in 1953, following the lives and fates of this vanished people and of the Kearney family, who had made new lives for themselves in America. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)