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Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions by Eamonn Wall 9780268044237
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.71In recent decades, a large and well-regarded volume of creative work has emerged from the West of Ireland, written by residents of the region, by those raised in West of Ireland families outside the... -
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage Tom Robbins (Travel Editor) 9780571241040
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage is, as Robert Macfarlane says in his introduction, 'one of the most sustained, intensive and imaginative studies of a place that has ever been carried out'. That place is... -
Conamara Chronicles: Tales from Iorras Aithneach by Sean Mac Giollarnath 9780253063526
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36"I find him to be a kindred spirit, a sympathetic but shrewd enquirer, a companionable stroller, and a lover of anecdotes gathered by the wayside." So Tim Robinson described folklorist,... -
Conamara Chronicles: Tales from Iorras Aithneach by Sean Mac Giollarnath
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.44"I find him to be a kindred spirit, a sympathetic but shrewd enquirer, a companionable stroller, and a lover of anecdotes gathered by the wayside." So Tim Robinson described folklorist,... -
Sky Daddy: 'Truly original, deeply weird' - Daily Telegraph by Kate Folk 9781529372700
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A full-throttle thrill: strap in!'Daily MailA CLASSIC STORY OF GIRL MEETS PLANE.A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN TIME, VOX, OPRAH DAILY, VULTURE, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, ELECTRIC LIT, DEBUTIFUL, BOOK RIOT, PEN... -
Music and Irish Identity: Celtic Tiger Blues Gerry Smyth 9780367229573
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Music and Irish Identity represents the latest stage in a life-long project for Gerry Smyth, focusing here on the ways in which music engages with particular aspects of Irish identity. The nature of... -
What The Curlew Said: "Nostos" Continued by John Moriarty 9781843511243
Booksplease Price: £25.92This autobiography, a sequel to Nostos, concludes the story of John Moriarty's life in Connemara during the 1980s and subsequent return to his native Kerry. He writes with compelling detail about his... -
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn 9780140439885
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Restoration-era poet, playwright and novelist Aphra Behn was the first truly professional woman writer in English, and Oroonoko is her sophisticated and insightful condemnation of slavery. This... -
Graveyard Clay: Cre na Cille by Mairtin O Cadhain
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05A brilliant new translation of O Cadhain's modern Irish literature masterpiece, meant to spark debate and comparison with Alan Titley's Dirty Dust, now with bonus materials on its history, reception,... -
Archipelago Anthology by Alice Oswald
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £19.05Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the last twenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by scholar-poet Andrew McNeillie, with the assistance... -
Annaghmakerrig by Sheila Pratschke 9781843510901
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.40The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig celebrates a quarter of a century this year and marks this important milestone with the launch of a beautiful volume, 'Annaghmakerrig'. The Centre is an... -
The Everything Kids' Magical Science Experiments Book: Dazzle your friends and family by making magical things happen! by Tom Robinson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.86Dazzle your friends and family with dozens of science tricks!Kids may not clamor to study science and physics, but they sure enjoy anything that has to do with slime, invisible ink and obtaining the... -
Contentious Terrains: Boglands in the Irish Postcolonial Gothic by Derek Gladwin 9781782052043
Booksplease Price: £46.20This book provides a political and geographical history of how boglands (or bogs) are represented in modern and contemporary Irish literature and culture (1880s-present). Drawing on a range of Irish... -
The New Nature Writing: Rethinking the Literature of Place by Jos Smith 9781350092181
Booksplease Price: £37.42This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.In the last decade there has been a proliferation of landscape... -
Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago by Pippa Marland 9781786607089
Booksplease Price: £90.57Islands have long been the subject of cultural fascination, but in recent decades, they have exerted an increasingly powerful centrifugal force, sending writers to the outer edges of the... -
Minor Monuments by Ian Maleney
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Set around a small family farm on the edge of a bog, a few miles from the river Shannon, Minor Monuments is a collection of essays unfolding from the landscape of the Irish midlands. Taking in the... -
Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture: An integrated systems research approach by Ingrid Oborn
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Sustainable intensification has recently been developed and adopted as a key concept and driver for research and policy in sustainable agriculture. It includes ecological, economic and social... -
The Dirty Dust: Cre na Cille by Mairtin O Cadhain
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.63The original English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cre na Cille, which Colm Toibin has called the "greatest novel to be written in the Irish language" "An audacious novel... -
The Spirit of the River by Declan Murphy 9781843518020
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £10.88The new book from critically acclaimed writer, Declan Murphy. 'As I study the birds, animals and plants around me, I cannot help but see the patterns all living things seem driven to create.'... -
Where Land Meets Sea: Coastal Explorations of Landscape, Representation and Spatial Experience Anna Ryan 9781138250574
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Drawing together philosophical, empirical and academic thinking, this book focuses on generating awareness of the relationship forged between self and surroundings. It details research undertaken at... -
Ireland and Ecocriticism: Literature, History and Environmental Justice by Eoin Flannery
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04This book is the first truly interdisciplinary intervention into the burgeoning field of Irish ecological criticism. Providing original and nuanced readings of Irish cultural texts and personalities... -
Powsels and Thrums Alan Garner 9780008725242
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63'I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration' PHILIP PULLMAN 'Entrancing ... a creative manifesto' TELEGRAPH ...