Books

'... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...' Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a faminePaperback

Signed by the AuthorA Little History of Dublin is a high-speed history of life in the Irish capital. The key events are explained in short, digesti...

What can a postcard tell you about a city? Everything.  This high-speed history tells the story of Dublin from its roots as a Viking town all the w...

Bono -- artist, activist and the lead singer of U2 —has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of t...

Quotable Oscar Wilde A Collection of Wit and Wisdom H/B "I must die as I lived, beyond my means." Arguably the most quoted man in history, and cert...

'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself' Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous b...

Exploring Nature in the City Written by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Photographs by Anthony Woods, Illustrated by David Daly This lavish, entertaining and un...

In the summer of 2000, a young Irish journalist returned from New York to launch a magazine about life in boomtown Dublin. The Dubliner was an inst...

Girl: 'Giz a kiss.' Bloke: 'Let me swally me phlegm first.' - Two aul dears queuing for the no. 27 bus. Just caught the end of the conversation: Ol...

My Dublin 1963 // My Dubliners 2020 by Alen MacWeeney These 89 black & white photographs taken by Alen MacWeeney in Dublin in 1963/5 are sponta...

HORRIBLE HISTORIES GRUESOME GUIDES: DUBLIN takes his readers on a gore-tastic tour of the streets of Dublin, exposing all of its most scurrilous se...

From stories of the Pig Woman of Dublin, to the grave robbing students of the College of Surgeons who took a cadaver for a boisterous lunch in Bewl...

Signed by the AuthorThe first biography of the beloved long-time Lord Mayor of Dublin. Alfie Byrne was that rarest of things: a genuinely popular p...

Exploring Dublin City's past, present and future'This book is marvellous. It tells the entire Dublin story and brings it so freshly up to date'. - ...

Oscar Wilde was one of Ireland's finest and most prolific 19th-century writers and a celebrated wit. He became a popular playwright in the early 18...

These are stories of courage, love, betrayal, greed, stupidity, magic and miracles. Leprechaun gold has always been a great draw for people with ha...

This pocket-sized cookbook includes classic Irish pub dishes, from simple bar snacks to Sunday roasts, as well as exciting new suggestions such as ...

In the words of Seamus Heaney, great poetry can 'Catch the heart off guard and blow it open'. This beautifully illustrated collection contains the ...

Craic, or crack is a Gaelic word, with no exact English translation. The closest you get is fun. The expression ceoil agus craic, means music and f...

The perfect introduction to Ireland’s dramatic fight for sovereignty Gaining independence from British rule has dominated Irish history since the p...

The book tells the history of Northern Ireland from the Third Home Rule Bill right through to Derry Girls. Covering all aspects of the beginnings o...

From its opening in 1796 to finally closing its doors in 1924, Kilmainham Gaol has held an iconic place in Irish history. Built as Dublin’s County ...

Encompassing stories of some of Ireland's best known characters as well as key moments in Ireland's past, this pocket history recalls the country's...

This book explains what happened in the years before and after Ireland's Easter Rising, as well as providing an exciting day-by-day account of the ...