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A Bit of a Writer: Brendan Behan's Collected Short Prose by Brendan Behan 9781843519003
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Brendan Behan wrote over one hundred articles for Irish newspapers between 1951 and 1956 as he rose to international fame, with most of them written in a weekly column in the Irish Press. The... -
Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.81'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.' So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and... -
After The Wake by Brendan Behan
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.14Brendan Behan's genius was to strike a chord between critic and common man. When he died, at the age of 41, he was arguably the most celebrated Irish writer of the twentieth century. After the... -
Confessions Of An Irish Rebel by Brendan Behan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The immigration man read my deportation order, looked at it and handed it back to me. 'Are you Irish?' he asked me. 'No' I said 'as a matter of fact, I'm Yemenite Arab.' Two detectives came forward... -
The Complete Plays by Brendan Behan 9780802130709
Booksplease Price: £14.29This work includes Behan's complete dramatic works in English, three-full length plays and three one-act plays, with biographical details on Behan and the Irish Republican Movement.Book... -
Behan Complete Plays by Brendan Behan 9780413387806
Booksplease Price: £25.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dead Interesting: Stories from the Graveyards of Dublin by Shane MacThomais 9781856358057
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46From the simplest slab of weathered stone to the most imposing monument, every marker in Glasnevin cemetery bears witness to a life that, in ways small or large, helped shape the history and culture... -
Criminal Children: Researching Juvenile Offenders 1820-1920 Emma Watkins 9781526738080
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.97How were criminal children dealt with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Over this hundred-year period, ideas about the way children should behave - and how they should be corrected... -
Dead as Doornails Anthony Cronin 9781628976434
Booksplease Price: £14.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628976434Author Anthony CroninFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint -
At Swim-two-birds by Flann O'Brien
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Flann O'Brien's innovative metafictional work, whose unruly characters strike out their own paths in life to the frustration of their author, At Swim-Two-Birds is a brilliant impressionistic jumble... -
Dublin Then and Now (R) by Lisa Marie Griffith
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95Dublin Then and Now matches archival images with contemporary views to reveal the past and present of this fascinating city.Dublin's rich architectural heritage ranges from medieval castles and... -
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Translations: York Notes Advanced by John Brannigan 9780582784383 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £1.89Key Features: Study methods Introduction to the text Summaries with critical notes Themes and techniques Textual analysis of key passages Author biography Historical and literary background Modern... -
Dubliners: York Notes Advanced by John Brannigan
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.97Key Features: Study methods Introduction to the text Summaries with critical notes Themes and techniques Textual analysis of key passages Author biography Historical and literary background Modern... -
Dead As Doornails Anthony Cronin 9781843519737
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. Anthony Cronin’s account of life in post-war literary Dublin is as funny and colourful as one would... -
The Silent People Walter Macken 9781035065363
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In 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,... -
The Silent People by Walter Macken
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.52In 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,... -
The Scorching Wind Walter Macken 9781035065325
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40This 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... -
Seek the Fair Land Walter Macken 9781035065349
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40It is 1649. As the English soldiers trample the Irish homesteads, leaving behind them a trail of barbarity and destruction, a few brave men set out to seek a 'fair land' over the brow of the hill... -
Sullivan by Walter Macken 9781447270737
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.77Sullivan was a born actor. Blessed and cursed with the artist's gifts and temperament in full measure, he could hold an audience, or a woman's heart, in the palm of his hand. From a boyhood stuffed... -
Seek the Fair Land by Walter Macken 9781447269045
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00It is 1649. As the English soldiers trample the Irish homesteads, leaving behind them a trail of barbarity and destruction, a few brave men set out to seek a 'fair land' over the brow of the hill... -
Brown Lord of the Mountain by Walter Macken 9781447269304
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Like 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... -
Oh What A Lovely War by Theatre Workshop 9781472584649
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.49Oh What a Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the First World War, told through the songs and documents of the period. Devised and first performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the... -
Donegal Tarantella by Moya Cannon 9781784107871
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61This sixth collection by one of Carcanet's most celebrated Irish poets gathers together lyric poems musing on history, on archaeology, geology and on the deep need of the human spirit to find... -
The Poet & the Baroness: W.H. Auden and Stella Musulin, a Friendship by Michael O'Sullivan 9789633866559
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £16.16For long periods in history, the Austrian capital found itself on the geographical edge of western civilisation. Yet from the 18th century on, Vienna has been a vibrant centre of European culture... -
Oh What a Lovely War by Theatre Workshop
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Oh What a Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the First World War, told through the songs and documents of the period. First performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal,... -
Keats Lives by Moya Cannon 9781784100605
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Moya Cannon's new collection reaches back into the long past, showing how traces left behind - textile fragments, buried thimbles, cave paintings - enable us to make imaginative connections with... -
The Cripple Of Inishmaan Martin McDonagh (Playwright, UK) 9780413715906
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.99"Mr McDonagh is destined to be one of the theatrical luminaries of the 21st century" (The New Republic) In 1934, the people of Inishman learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to... -
Hands by Moya Cannon 9781847771421
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59In Moya Cannon's new collection, Hands, the commonplace is transfigured by an attentiveness that jolts us into wonder. The poems sing of deep connections: the impulse to ritual and pattern that,... -
Great Irish Wives: Remarkable Lives from History Nicola Pierce 9781788494779
Booksplease Price: £21.34Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been overshadowed by those of men. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of their husband's work, as... -
The Little Book of Dog Quotes by Aubrey Malone 9781999763343
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £8.42No self-respecting dog owner should be without a copy of this book of quotations about man's best friend. Compiled by dog lover Aubrey Malone, The Little Book of Dog Quotes brings together hundreds... -
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell 9780198835219
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05"Poverty is what I am writing about". In the late 1920s, Eric Blair resigned his post as a colonial policeman in Burma, immersed himself in the slums of Paris and London, and reinvented himself as... -
A Mind of My Own Kathy Burke 9781398548145
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50Kathy Burke is one of Britain's most distinctive voices. Even as a fearless kid in Islington, she did things her own way; roaming the estate that raised her to find her own path. A place at the Anna... -
Death of a King: And Other Stories by Seamus De Faoite 9781843510642
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63A gypsy king dies, and a group of villagers seek to save him from the dishonour of a pauper's grave. The dispute over the inheritance of a well-field becomes a struggle between the 'old stock' and... -
Bunting's Honey Moya Cannon 9781800174894
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95A Poetry Book Society RecommendationThis is a book of wonderings and wanderings. Many of the wanderings are on familiar territory explored on foot, the hills of Wicklow and of the Burren in Co... -
Patrick Leigh Fermor: Noble Encounters between Budapest and Transylvania by Michael O'Sullivan 9786155225642
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £21.81This book revisits the trajectory of one section of Patrick Leigh Fermor's famous pedestrian excursion from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This S.O.E. officer walked into Hungary as a youth... -
A Night in the Catacombs: Fictional Portraits of Ireland's Literati by David M. Kiely 9781874675617
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99In this gathering of ten stories, beginning and ending over Dublin's River Poddle, David M Kiely merges history with fiction to illuminate mysteries that have baffled literary scholars for... -
Collected Poems by Moya Cannon 9781800170322
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. In Collected Poems one of Ireland's best-loved contemporary poets brings together poems from her six principal collections, Oar (1990), The Parchment... -
Dublin Tales by Helen Constantine 9780192855558
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £10.12Dublin is one of the world's great literary cities, immortalized in works by some of the most celebrated international authors. It is a city of warmth and character, which combines the richest of... -
A Mind of My Own: 'Irrepressibly funny' - Sunday Times by Kathy Burke 9781398548176
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02THE INSTANT BESTSELLER'Vivid, bright and beautiful' - Guardian'Wonderful. I wish I'd written it - I couldn't put it down' Miriam MargolyesKathy Burke is one of Britain's most distinctive voices. Even...