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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...

Welcome to Europe's largest village. Dublin is a small, cultured city with a rich history and a vibrant culture. This book contains everything you ...

Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Fiona who lived in Dublin. But Dublin is full of colourful characters and creatures from the fairy...

In the 1790s a young artist decided to create a portrait of Dublin. James Malton died in obscurity at the age of thirty-eight, and little is now kn...

'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...

The first biography of the beloved long-time Lord Mayor of Dublin. Alfie Byrne was that rarest of things: a genuinely popular politician. He is sti...

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...

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'. - ...

A fully illustrated history of Ireland’s most famous sporting institution, published in association with the GAA museum in Croke Park. This is a fa...

Flossie McFluff An Irish Fairy Written by Eoin O'Brien, Illustrated by Audrey Dowling Three stories in rhyme about little fairy Flossie McFluff. ...

Fizzing with energy, these drawings were part of an exhibition in the Little Museum in 2016 to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising. We have als...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...