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The Last Footman Gillies Macbain 9781843517658
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €18.15In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he... -
Ethna MacCarthy: Poems by Ethna MacCarthy
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €18.15Ethna MacCarthy (1903-59) was a Scholar and a First-Class Moderator at Trinity College Dublin where she taught languages in the thirties and forties before studying medicine. Perhaps best known to... -
The Cruelty Men Emer Martin 9781843517399
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €15.83'An original, radical and vital new voice in Irish writing ... [The Cruelty Men] should propel an already proven and prodigious talent to the forefront of contemporary Irish letters.' THE IRISH TIMES... -
Changing Irish Times: Irish Women Journalists 1969-1981 by Elgy Gillespie 9781843510185
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.92This 'new journalism' by Irish Times women writers originally appeared on the Women First pages during the 1970s. Together, the pieces reflect the enormous social and political upheaval of the years... -
Refiguring Ireland: Essays in Honour of L.M. Cullen by David Dickson 9781901866841
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €48.20This collection of essays has been specially commissioned in order to mark the quite exceptional contribution that Louis Cullen has made to historical studies in Ireland and abroad over the last... -
The Hist, The: And Edmund Burke's Club by Declan Budd 9781901866001
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €31.42The College Historical Society has been a microcosm of the politics of Ireland since the first discussions in Edmund Burke's Club in 1747. As a student debating society it has always debated the... -
The Dolmen Press: A Celebration by Maurice Harmon 9781901866759
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.92The Dolmen Press, which operated under the guiding hand of Liam Miller from 1951 to 1987, was a beacon in a dark time for Irish publishing and occupies a central position in the story of Irish poetry... -
Dublin's Palm House by Amelia Stein 9781843511823
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.93A monograph of duotone photographs, taken in the Palm House at the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin, beautifully illustrate this building as it was prior to its restoration. The... -
The Strangled Impulse by William King 9781843516217
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €9.39The Strangled Impulse follows a young curate uprooted from a comfortable parish to serve the pastoral needs of working-class North Dublin. Set against the backdrop of the Church's dwindling influence... -
Sudden Thaw by Peggy O'Brien 9781843510413
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.50PEGGY O'BRIEN grew up in western Massachusetts, where she now lives with her husband. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. After graduating from Mount Holyoke College, she moved... -
Brian Bourke: Five Decades, 1960s-2000s by Brian Bourke 9781843511724
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €58.74The book contains writings by Seamus Heaney, Frances Ruane, Carlos Garcia-Monzon, Eva Bourke, Frankie Gavin, Rosemarie Noone, James McKenna, Desmond Egan, Patrick Murphy & Frank McGuinness. It is... -
Historical Essays 1939-2001: A Miscellany by R.B. McDowell 9781843510284
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €19.09This miscellany gathers together essays and papers written over a span of sixty-odd years. Some are hitherto unpublished, others disinterred from rare and learned periodicals: Together they form a... -
Belios by Orfhlaith Foyle 9781843510673
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.46Narrator Noah Gilmore is researching the biography of William Belios, an ex-missionary and once famous photographer, and spends a week in his household at Oughterard, Co. Galway. Belios is Gilmore's... -
Hopdance by Stewart Parker 9781843517092
RRP: €11.90Booksplease Price: €10.28In a great Irish tradition of autobiographical fiction that includes James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark, Parker's poignant novel depicts... -
Denis Johnston: A Life by Bernard Adams 9781901866674
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €26.00This is the first biography of Denis Johnston, barrister, theatre director, film-maker, pioneering television producer, war correspondent, essayist and celebrated playwright. Johnston was of Ulster... -
Malinski by Siofra O'Donovan 9781901866513
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.46Two young brothers in Lvov, separated by war. Henryk, imprisoned by theNazis with his mother in the family home, flees with her ahead of the advancing Soviets, eventually settling in Ireland... -
Soldiers of Liberty: A Study of Fenianism 1858-1908 by Eva o Cathaoir 9781843517528
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.46Based on extensive archival research, this fascinating monograph rescues from obscurity the lives of over a thousand Fenians. Fenianism railed against the depopulation of a postFamine Ireland,... -
Why Forests? Why Wood?: The Case for Multipurpose Forestry in Uncertain Times by Donal Magner 9781843518839
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €22.60Donal Magner knows the importance of forests better than most as illustrated in his critically acclaimed Stopping by Woods, the definitive guide to over 340 of Ireland’s forests and woodlands. In Why... -
Solitary and Wild by David Fitzpatrick 9781843511946
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.33For lovers of the often dark and troubled poetry of Louis MacNeice, his father is a reassuring presence: solid, sober, pious yet tolerant, a Church of Ireland clergyman who was not afraid to reject... -
All the Spangled Host by John A. Ryan 9781843516613
RRP: €10.12Booksplease Price: €8.95In this lyrical and compelling collection of tales of the quotidian, John A. Ryan paints a sincere picture of Ireland, it's environment and people. His delicate awareness of the world around him is... -
Invoking Ireland: Ailiu Iath n-Herend by John Moriarty 9781843510796
Booksplease Price: €16.66In the nineteenth century, here in Ireland, we started to walk away decisively from a native language that was a way of seeing and knowing things. In the twentieth century we started to walk away... -
Dead As Doornails Anthony Cronin 9781843519737
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.92Dead 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 Personality Of Ireland: Habitat, Heritage and History by E. Estyn Evans 9780946640812
Booksplease Price: €14.02This classic study of Irish culture, extensively illustrated with photographs, maps and drawings, and reissued with a new foreword and an updated bibliography, gives a detailed yet panoramic view of... -
Yeats 150: William Butler Yeats 1865-1939 by Declan Foley
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.46YEATS 150 is a collection of essays, many of them illustrated, commemorating the life and work of Irish poet and Nobel Laureate, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). The book, dedicated to Seamus... -
The Singing-masters by John O'Meara 9780946640683
RRP: €14.22Booksplease Price: €12.01This essay in autobiography opens in Eyrecourt, east Galway, and describes an early schooling at Rockwell and the experiences of a Jesuit novice at Emo Court, Co. Laois, and Rathfarnham. John O'Meara... -
Strictly No Poetry by Aidan Mathews 9781843517443
RRP: €14.88Booksplease Price: €12.50Strictly No Poetry, Mathews' fourth volume of poetry, follows upon Windfalls (Dolmen 1977), Minding Ruth (Gallery 1983) and According to the Small Hours (Cape 1998), and has been long awaited. In... -
The Scar by Mary Cregan 9781843517603
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €15.47At the age of twenty-seven, married, living in New York, and working in book design, Mary Cregan gives birth to her first child, a daughter she names Anna. But it's apparent that something is... -
From Lucifer to Lazarus: A Life on the Left by Mick O'Reilly 9781843517641
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €18.15In From Lucifer to Lazarus: A Life on the Left, Mick O'Reilly shares his experiences as a politician and trade unionist and his unwavering thoughts and insights on controversial, complex issues... -
The Marriage at Antibes by Carol Azedah 9781901866339
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.85The Country Road' moves heartbreakingly through the days of Cathy, a lonely eight-year-old in a Northern Ireland populated by her elderly neighbours and the vague menace of the security forces. In... -
Maurice Craig: Photographs by Amanda Bell 9781843512004
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.05For fifty years, architectural historian Maurice Craig carried a camera nearly everywhere he went. Meticulously catalogued, the resulting collection of over two thousand photographs was donated to... -
Death of a King: And Other Stories by Seamus De Faoite 9781843510642
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.27A 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... -
The Sway of Winter by Orla Murphy 9781843510024
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €10.23The Sway of Winter tells the story of Birgit, a young Scandinavian woman who has moved to the island of Inis Breac to paint, and to recover from a suffocating relationship. Geoff, an English widower,... -
Another Europe?: After the Third No by Gwyn Prins 9781843511502
RRP: €11.31Booksplease Price: €9.83After the French and Dutch electorates decisively rejected the EU Constitution at the polls in 2005, the Irish delivered a resounding 'Third No' in June 2008, triggering a political earthquake in the... -
Rise Above! Letters from Tyrone Guthrie by 9781843517184
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €29.87Rise above!: Letters from Tyrone Guthrie details the life of the celebrated theatrical director whose influence on international theatre lives on. Here, in a stunning volume of letters, we are... -
Story of a Girl by Tom MacIntyre 9781843510147
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.92The girl of this story is a clairvoyant. To the other children in the local National School, she is an 'imbissil', a creature of the margins. But she is a lightning-conductor for all that happens in... -
The History of Magpies by Desmond Hogan 9781843516668
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €18.15A collection of twelve mint fresh stories from the award winning Irish author, described by Neil Jordan as 'the real thing - a writer of great originality, dramatic flair, linguistic invention - who... -
Irish Flour-milling: A Thousand Year History by Andy Bielenberg 9781843510208
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €29.51This book brings together a series of essays which unfold and illuminate the history of the Irish flour milling industry from the medieval period to the present day. Milling was one of Ireland's... -
Through the Gate of Ivory by Patrick Devaney 9781843510161
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.27Trinity student Charles Stanihurst, the son of a Dublin merchant and a Roscommon chambermaid, flees his native city after assaulting an English officer and heads for the West of Ireland, where he... -
Words, Words, Words: Houghmagandie, Knockers, Trolleys and Others by Diarmaid O'Muirithe 9781843510598
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.50What is your problem if you are ringled to a flazzard? When is Chewidden Day? How might you get out of the langle? Why is going for a dacker a quite innocent activity in one place, but something... -
The Whole Matter: Poetic Evolution of Thomas Kinsella by Thomas H. Jackson 9781874675570
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874675570Author Thomas H. JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint The Lilliput Press...