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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...

Oisin was the bravest and most handsome young warrior in The Fianna and he loved adventure. So when a beautiful girl, Niamh, galloped across the wa...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 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...

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 ...

The stories of Ireland's best-known castles. Majestic and magnificent, designed to both intimidate and inspire, castles are a common feature across...

Older than Stonehenge, older than the Pyramids, Newgrange in Co Meath was built over 6,000 years ago. This remarkable Neolithic structure by the le...

This pocket-sized A to Z encyclopedia celebrates Irish life and culture and covers everything from ancient Irish abbeys to the zoological gardens i...

William Butler Yeats ranks among the greatest literary talents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though best-known as the author of poems ...

Containing Ireland's most popular prayers and blessings, this book is packed full of inspirational words to take comfort in. In turn these words pr...

The year 2022 sees the 100th anniversary of the death of solider and politician Michael Collins, the legendary leader of Irish republicanism. Born ...

Hardback The Irish famously have a way with words and this beautifully illustrated selection includes the best of Irish wit and wisdom to amuse and...

Hardback Some of the finest speeches ever made have been spoken in Ireland. This book highlights 45 eminent and influential speeches, from Robert E...

This pocket-sized bread and baking book includes all the classic Irish recipes, from soda bread to fadge, with chapters on bread and scones, cakes,...

'In Irish there are so many great rain words and magic words and highly specific natural words (such as the material put on the hooves of donkeys t...

A Treasury of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales collect more than 200 stories from the rich folk legacy of the Emerald Isle. Its pages are animated with c...

The President's Glasses (Paperback) - Peter DonnellyThe president has some VERY important documents to sign at Dublin Castle, but without his glass...

The President's Surprise - Peter DonnellyA very special surprise has been planned for the President's birthday and he is sent out to walk the dogs ...

When he arrives home from his summer holidays, the President realises that he’s left his cat in Kerry! How will he get him back? A witty and stylis...

More of the greatest Irish stories from the producers of the Pocket series. Kings and farmers, monsters and fairies, magic and mayhem - all the ing...

Peppa and George are going to Ireland for an Irish-dancing festival! But when the band forget their instruments, will Peppa and her family be able ...

Did you know there is a patron saint for warts? Have you always  believed that saints were good all the time? Perhaps you imagine they spent all th...

Kidnapped as a boy and sold to slavery in Ireland, Patrick spent many brutal years away from his family and friends and should have hated the Irish...

Fionn Mac Cumhaill was the greatest warrior-leader the Fianna ever had. Brave, swift and very, very clever, his enemies stood no chance against him...