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Lyons' first novel gives voice to a female character on her fraught journey into adulthood and charts her evolution as an artist, as her adolescent dissociation is thawed through contact with the physical world, the materials of painting and her engagement with Irish community, culture and landscape.

A retired Irish engineer living alone in Bilbao reflects on his life, work, homes and relationships, structuring his thoughts around key pieces of art and music, focusing particularly on a five-year period of prolonged mental agitation spent with his partner in Leipzig.

A Letter Marked Personal is J.P. Donleavy's last novel, completed in 2007. Set in New York, it relates the interior monologue of forty-eight-year-old Nathan Langriesh Johnson, the founder of a successful lingerie company.

Skelligs Haul is a generous compilation of Michael Kirby's prose and poetry, appealing for his simple, elegant style, his knowledge of unique local lore, and his inimitable observations.

In 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 begins work as a footman in one of the houses of the `dying aristocracy'. Thus begins his foray into the upper echelons of Irish society.

A fearless, candid memoir interweaving the author's descent into depression with a medical and cultural history of this illness. "The book will be passed from person to person, within families, from doctor to doctor. It will really help people... This is a book that will really matter." - Colm Toibin

Paul feels the emotional realities of immigration and the demands of professional life during a complex time for his relationship with girlfriend Evelyn, over the course of this novel's exploration of language, memory, building and desire.

Writing with authority and verve, Robert O'Byrne has plumbed a rich vein of social history and connoisseurship, to draw a striking portrait of a complex, brilliant and contradictory personality.' R. F. FOSTER

A tremendous resource and reference book, with almost a thousand Irish names culled from works going back to the early medieval period with the historical background for each. Useful in tracing family roots and even for seeking out unique Irish names for a new family member.

A walk through the story of Moriarty's childhood growing up on a small farm in north Kerry, and his lifelong engagement with the traditional Catholic sacraments.

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

On the eve of World War Two, the lives of an Irish family in Westmeath are about to be changed for ever. Preston's story spans three generations and taking in the battlefields of Syria and Egypt, a farm in Australia, night sorties over Germany, Lincolnshire air fields and the horror of a Sumatran prison camp.

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1 January 2018 will be the 250th anniversary of Maria Edgeworth's birth. Valerie Pakenham's sparkling new selection of over four hundred letters, many hitherto unpublished, will help to celebrate her memory.

Rise above!: Letters from Tyrone Guthrie details the life and letters of the celebrated theatrical director whose influence on international theatre lives on.

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In a collection of one hundred photographs Kim Haughton's new body of work Portrait of a Century offers a stunning portrait of contemporary Ireland as it reflects upon the centenary of the nation's birth in 1916.

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