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In Response to Rilke: I bhFreagairt ar Rilke by Celia de Freine 9781851322411
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €17.74Although Rainer Maria Rilke is better known for his work in German, he also wrote more than four hundred poems in French. During a residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, Celia de Freine... -
Two Notes for Home by Terry McDonagh 9781851322930
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €17.74There's no place like home, Terry McDonagh writes. And he concludes that home is enough. Home for McDonagh is Cill Aodain where he has returned after spending many years in Hamburg, also home for him... -
Female Activists: Irish Women and Change 1900-1960 by Mary Cullen 9781851322350
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €27.62In this pioneering collection, Cullen and Luddy chart the lives and work of women who were significant figures in Irish political life in the twentieth century. Cutting their activist teeth in the... -
Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine Niamh Boyce 9781851323289
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781851323289Author Niamh BoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Arlen HousePublisher Arlen House -
Watching for the Hawk by Breda Spaight 9781851323043
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.14This debut collection is an unflinching and intensely moving evocation of a childhood in rural Ireland. In vivid language, Spaight draws us into a world of parental conflict, poverty, illness, and... -
Carmen Cavanagh by Annie Smithson 9781851322787
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.60Annie Smithson's third novel, Carmen Cavanagh, is for the most part set in 1911 in the wilds of Donegal and in cosmopolitan Dublin, and the story deals largely with the exacting life of district... -
Teanga don Tost: Micheal O Conghaile, Cathal O Searcaigh agus an Aiteacht Sean Mac Risteaird 9781851323234
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €23.94This original Irish language monograph provides novel and contemporary readings of the literary works of two major Irish language writers, Cathal O Searcaigh and Micheal O Conghaile. In recent years... -
Eachtraí Asail: Mémoires d’un Ȃne by Comtesse de Ségur 9781851322886
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781851322886Author Comtesse de SégurFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Arlen HousePublisher Arlen... -
Pray for the Wanderer by Kate O'Brien 9781851322770
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.14Pray for the Wanderer, usually regarded by critics as Kate O'Brien's response to the banning of Mary Lavelle in Ireland, is much more than a discourse on culture and censorship. It explores the... -
Birdie by Nuala O'Connor
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.91Love is the central force in Birdie, a collection of sixteen historical and out-of-time flash fictions that sing with the voices of women loving and losing and learning. The characters here find... -
Billy Boy by Rosemary Jenkinson 9781851322831
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.91Written by acclaimed playwright and fiction writer Rosemary Jenkinson, Billy Boy is a fiery new play about Belfast bonfire builders. Aaron is looking after the biggest and most controversial "boney"... -
Aesop i gConamara by Nollaig Mac Congail 9781851322459
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.48This Irish language version of Aesop's Fables includes a Connemara twist. The fables are accompanied by essays on the Irish language scholars who translated the fables, and an essay on the history of... -
Marching Season by Rosemary Jenkinson 9781851322275
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.60Marching Season is the fifth short story collection by Belfast author writer and playwright, Rosemary Jenkinson, who is renowned for being one of the sharpest and boldest chroniclers of contemporary... -
Cesca's Diary, 1913-1916: Where Art and Nationalism Meet by Hilary Pyle 9781851322312
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €35.94Born in England into a unionist family, the artist Frances Georgiana Chenevix Trench became an ardent nationalist and quickly involved herself in the movement for Home Rule and political freedom in... -
When Things Come to Light by Liz McManus 9781851322909
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.60Although Liz McManus never knew her maternal grandparents, by using old family papers, she has pieced together their story. Wallace and Margaret McKay are Unitarian by birth and republican by... -
Washing Windows III: Irish Women Write Poetry by Alan Hayes 9781851323210
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.60Washing Windows III anthology is representative of contemporary Irish literature, and of a new society and a new way of accepting and honouring the talent all around us.Book InformationISBN... -
Impossible Blackbird by Theodore Deppe 9781851323135
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.14In Theodore Deppe’s eighth book of poems, lyricism and a gift for narrative come together to explore the challenges and gifts of daily life on the coast of Connemara in the west of Ireland... -
Washing Windows Too: Irish Women Write Poetry by Alan Hayes 9781851323111
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.99The writers in Washing Windows Too have things on their minds that have exploded into that love-urgency that makes writers write. And, just as it should be, few subjects are off limits. A poet may... -
The Sligo-Leitrim World of Kate Cullen, 1832-1913: A 19th century memoir revealed by Hilary Pyle 9781851322329
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Kate Cullen's lively memoir is a riveting account of the close-knit life of Protestant Ireland, a society absorbed in its own triumphs and misfortunes, in its religion and fashions, and yet conscious... -
Tafann na dTonn : The Barking Waves Gabriel Rosenstock 9781851323272
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.91American master photographer Ron Rosenstock has been coming to County Mayo for over half a century where the Westport region opened up its secret heart to him. Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock has... -
Triangle: Three Novellas of Ireland by Pol O Muiri 9781851322879
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €17.74In Triangle, Pol O Muiri meditates on contemporary Ireland in three novellas that shadow one another. Touching on issues relating to language, religion, history and economics, O Muiri offers a... -
Muscail, a Ghiorria by Eithne Ni Ghallchobhair 9781851322404
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.99This debut collection of poetry from the Donegal-based writer and linguist Eithne Ni Ghallchobhair addresses Irish nature and a day in the life of a hare. This collection was shortlisted for the 2020... -
James Liddy: A Critical Study by Brian Arkins 9781903631072
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903631072Author Brian ArkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Arlen HousePublisher Arlen House -
When the Light: New and Selected Poems by Geraldine Mills 9781851323081
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781851323081Author Geraldine MillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Arlen HousePublisher Arlen... -
Nobody Needs to Know by Tanya Farrelly 9781851322299
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.60Known for tense and often troubling stories in her award-winning debut, When Black Dogs Sing, Farrelly enters darker and murkier places in her second collection. In these stories, a girl witnesses... -
Helloluia! by Alan Titley 9781851323258
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.14Helloluia!, Titley’s first bilingual poetry collection, engages with modern, contemporary life (political, social, philosophical, environmental, historical) using a wide range of poetic forms... -
Tearing Stripes off Zebras: Forty Years of Women Writing in Ireland by Catherine Dunne 9781851323005
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.60WEB was the brainchild of Arlen House founder Catherine Rose, who appointed poet Eavan Boland as Creative Director. As an editor at Arlen House from 1978, Boland did much extraordinary work to... -
Eachtrai Mara Phaidi Pheadair as Toraigh by Seamus Mac a' Bhaird 9781851322237
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.60Although Tory Island, a small island off the north coast of Ireland, has been a stronghold of the Irish language for centuries, the island has no literary tradition. Therefore, this recently... -
Laoithe Cumainn agus Danta Eile by Cathal O Searcaigh 9781851322602
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74A new collection of poetry by one of Ireland's finest poets. His ongoing affair with his native Donegal landscape is unsurpassed in its subtle understandings of people and place.Book InformationISBN... -
Fugitive by David Butler 9781851322282
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.60A Lebanese student has had enough of a lecturer's inappropriate advances; a frustrated author takes her revenge on a publisher; a petty dispute over a land boundary escalates wildly; a woman has had... -
CoolChaint by Dolores Stewart 9781851322428
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €17.74Dolores Stewart imagines and writes in the two tongues of Ireland. In both languages, Stewart imbues the hallmarks of the European imagination with personal and contemporary pertinence. Her poetry... -
An Taobh Eile den Scamall by Conor Bowman 9781851322251
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.60This is the story of two young people whose lives are changing. They are both trying to make their way in the world. Rachel's estranged father has just come back into her life, and Frank is trying to... -
The Mill in the North by Patricia O'Connor 9781851322893
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85When Patricia O'Connor's novel, The Mill in the North, was first published in 1938, by Dublin's prestigious Talbot Press, the Irish Times heralded it as 'a very human drama ... presenting a realistic... -
Medea's Cauldron by Deirdre Brennan 9781851322916
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.46A new poetry collection, at the age of 88, by a writer who first became interested in writing in the 1940s and 1950s when she met famous Irish writers Peig Sayers and Blanaid Salkeld. Over the... -
A Unison of Breaths by Lynda Tavakoli 9781851323326
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.91Family relationships remain a key influence in Tavakoli’s writing, Honesty has its own consequences, and whether it concerns personal subject matter (her dementia poems, for example), or more... -
Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism, 1880-1980 by Margaret Ward 9781851322565
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781851322565Author Margaret WardFormat PaperbackImprint Arlen HousePublisher Arlen House -
A Name for Himself by Catherine Dunne 9781851322794
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85Farrell is a loner who has survived a fractured childhood. He finds love with Grace, the daughter of his employer. But issues of class, and emotional and mental fragility, threaten to destroy their... -
Belongings by Joan Newmann 9781903631638
Booksplease Price: €20.38This joint collection, Belongings, is an absolute joy to read and represents some of Kate Newmann and Joan Newmann's finest work to date. One of the most interesting aspects of the poetry is its... -
Deeply Regretted by . . . by Maeve Binchy 9781903631706
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €22.56Deeply Regretted By . . ., Maeve Binchy's classic television play, is a moving and powerful account of a tragedy affecting a woman in London who discovers, on the death of her 'husband', that their... -
On American Literature and Diasporas by James Liddy 9781851320448
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €20.16This first volume of James Liddy's sparkling essays, selected introduced by Eamonn Wall, provides unique insights into the work of American writers and Irish writers overseas and includes first-hand...