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Tarry Flynn by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65He did not ask things to have a meaning or to tell a story. To be was the only storyA semi-autobiographical novel from the author of The Green Fool and The Great HungerA man's mother can be a... -
The Green Fool by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no respectable person would be seen talking to, but he left doors open as he passed. A delightful... -
The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: $5.36Booksplease Price: $4.65'I have lived in important places, timesWhen great events were decided . . .'By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poems by... -
Collected Poems by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so... -
Selected Poems by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Published in order of first publication as far as possible, this selection ranges from initial offerings such as 'Tinker's Wife' and 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening' to his tragic masterpiece 'The... -
Selected Poems | Patrick Kavanagh by Paul Muldoon
RRP: $21.37Booksplease Price: $14.27All Kavanagh's gifts are on display, as Paul Muldoon writes in his introduction to this new selection of 40 poems spanning 30 years of Patrick Kavanagh's career. In truth, these gifts were hard-won,... -
Poet Alive!: Patrick Kavanagh and the O'Toole Family by Elizabeth O'Toole 9781843518242
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $14.58Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) was one of Ireland's foremost poets, best known for 'The Great Hunger' and novel Tarry Flynn. He is also remembered for his cantankerous, sometimes volatile nature, fuelled... -
The Bookshop Sisters Sarah Webb 9781788495943
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.04A story of sisterhood, secrets and standing up for what you believe in from the award-winning author of The Little Bee Charmer of Henrietta Street and The Weather Girls It's 1956. When... -
Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect by Jane Clarke 9781399729611
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $20.34What does Ireland's nature poetry say about us as a people? How does it speak to us of our past, our inheritance, the values to which we aspire? What clues lie within its language that connect us to... -
Pocket Irish Poetry by Tony Potter 9780717166978
Booksplease Price: $10.47In the words of Seamus Heaney, great poetry can 'Catch the heart off guard and blow it open'. This beautifully illustrated collection contains the greatest poems from the greatest Irish poets,... -
I am the Wind: Irish Poems for Children Everywhere by Lucinda Jacob 9781915071460
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $17.45A fully illustrated collection of Irish poems, ranging from medieval to modern poems in English and Irish, edited by Lucinda Jacob and Sarah Webb and illustrated by Ashwin Chacko. This includes old... -
Berries for Singing Birds by Eileen Casey 9781851322176
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorEileen Casey has published three collections of poetry and a number of chapbooks. She received the Oliver... -
Oona by Alice Lyons
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $13.56What is the sound of a voice that is alienated from itself? How can one truthfully represent the creative process of an artist? Oona, an artist-in-the-making, lives in an affluent suburban culture of... -
At Swim-two-birds by Flann O'Brien
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Flann 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... -
The Presidents' Letters: An Unexpected History of Ireland by Flor MacCarthy
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.41Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Irish-Published Book of the Year A TREASURE TROVE OF LETTERS TO AND FROM OUR NINE PRESIDENTS FROM 1938 TO THE PRESENT DAY With over 400 letters,... -
Maiden Names by Martin Dyar 9781851321230
Booksplease Price: $20.69Maiden Names won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry. It was a book of the year selection in both the Guardian and the Irish Times and was shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize.Book... -
Mute/Unmute by Geraldine Mitchell 9781851322466
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.71This is the fourth collection from Geraldine Mitchell, a Dublin-born writer who won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for poetry. Her poems offer both a timely warning that the planet is mortal and a... -
ARE YOU SOMEBODY?: 30th Anniversary edition Nuala O'Faolain 9781835940488
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Upon its original publication in 1996, Are You Somebody? quickly became an cultural sensation in Ireland, sparking an 'emotional episode in public life in Ireland'. O'Faolain's striking candour and... -
Contemporary Irish Poetry by Paul Muldoon
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08First published in 1984, Paul Muldoon's The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry sought to establish a canon of Irish Poetry since the death of Yeats. Here the reader can explore substantial... -
The Branchman by Nessa O'Mahony 9781851321896
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.07In this complex political thriller set in Galway in 1925, Detective Officer Michael Mackey of the newly-created Special Branch has been sent to the Garda Barracks in Ballinasloe on a mission to root... -
Plenitude Thomas McCarthy 9781800174108
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99Thomas McCarthy's new book Plenitude is a collection of formal, lyrical poems of family, politics and memory.About the AuthorThomas McCarthy was born in Cappoquin in 1954 where he was educated at the... -
The Death Poems: Songs, Visions, Meditations Mr Gerard Beirne 9781784632731
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.57The Death Poems: Songs, Visons, Meditations explores death in a range of forms - celebratory, visionary and contemplatively, using subject matter as varied as the dust heaps of remains that... -
The Blind Stitch: Poems by Greg Delanty 9780807128213
Booksplease Price: $20.48The poems in The Blind Stitch interweave family, marriage, love, and friendship into a larger world of public life. Set in Greg Delanty's native Ireland, in America, and in India, the book is sewn... -
Leaves of Hungry Grass: Poetry and Ireland's Great Hunger: 2016 by Vincent Woods 9780997837445
Booksplease Price: $17.54Taking poetry as an act of witness and restorative memory, this essay traces the development of poems relating to Ireland's Great Hunger from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. An... -
Dead As Doornails Anthony Cronin 9781843519737
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.55Dead 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... -
Selected Poems Eilean Ni Chuilleanain by Eileann Ni Chuilleanain
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08A renowned Irish poet, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain has published 7 collections of poetry. Born in Cork City in 1942, her collections include Acts and Monuments (1972), Site of Ambush (1975), The Second... -
The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse by Thomas Kinsella 9780192801920
RRP: $19.42Booksplease Price: $15.79This anthology presents the Irish tradition as a unity: verse in Irish and English, usually regarded separately, are shown as elements in a shared and often painful history. The selection is in... -
The Ship of Birth by Greg Delanty 9781903039632
Booksplease Price: $14.24The Ship of Birth records a father's responses in the days immediately before and after a child is born. Just as material significant to the dead is placed in a Ship of Death, so this Ship of Birth... -
Mr. Dineen's Careful Parade: New and Selected Poems Thomas McCarthy 9780856463204
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17Memory, love, history and ideas: Thomas McCarthy has a uniquely direct and engaged approach both to the private and the public, which are inseparable in his poetry. His special blend of wit and... -
Reading the Future: Twelve Writers from Ireland in Conversation with Mike Murphy by Cliodhna Ni Anluain 9781901866575
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.95Featuring nine in-depth interviews with Mike Murphy and three round-table discussions with fellow Irish writers and critics, Reading the Future creates a unique freeze-frame portrait of Ireland's... -
Voices from a Journal by Bill Naughton 9781901866599
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.56This is a writer's journal of his friendships, encounters and observations during the 1950s and 60s, describing relationships with Cork author Frank O'Connor, Patrick Kavanagh, Charles Cape (onetime... -
Merchant Prince by Thomas Mccarthy 9780856463754
Booksplease Price: $18.89In 'Merchant Prince' Thomas McCarthy presents two groups of poems, set largely in Cork, and a novella set in Italy, in the period from 1769 and 1831. They tell the story of Nathaniel Murphy: his... -
There Was Fire in Vancouver by Sinead Morrissey
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Morrissey is the winner of the 2013 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry and the 1990 Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry. This book of poems is organized around the theme of the journey: from communism to... -
Last Geraldine Officer by Thomas McCarthy 9780856464218
Booksplease Price: $18.80The first part of Thomas McCarthy's book collects his recent short lyrics. Part Two daringly recreates a forgotten period in the Anglo-Irish world: a Big House in the years between the World Wars, a... -
Between Here and There by Sinead Morrissey 9781857545586
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17In her second book of poems Sinead Morrissey's worlds grow more diverse, encompassing the Orient, the Antipodes, America and an Ireland which recent history has changed: a country observed through... -
State of the Prisons by Sinead Morrissey
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99In her third book of poems, Sinead Morrissey builds on the achievement of her award-winning collection, "Between Here and There", by expanding the lyric into new territories and admitting new voices... -
Trespassers: A Memoir by Julia O'Faolain 9780571294923
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Her mother, who wrote vivid versions of old Irish folk tales, once said of the Irish Civil War: 'In those days... fear kept you from sleeping, but also from getting fat or bored.' Her father was... -
Prophecy by Thomas McCarthy 9781784107277
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Following his acclaimed Pandemonium, Thomas McCarthy's Prophecy dwells on childhood memory, romantic love and the varieties of human attachment. Still embodying his distinctive voice and craft, in... -
Gathering Evidence by Caoilinn Hughes 9781847772626
Booksplease Price: $16.66With pinpoint accuracy, virtuosity and humour, Caoilinn Hughes aligns scientific and poetic venturing. In this striking debut collection she focuses on moments of discovery, from the first controlled... -
Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-45 by Gerald Dawe
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.83In the first half of the 20th century, the men and women of Ireland experienced the brutal realities of a succession of wars - from the unrelenting casualties of WW1, to the domestic upheavals of the...