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Rare & Recent Books
The Last Few Left Sale
Up to 77% off
As the streets of Cong are empty and the shop door is closed to browsers (Click or Phone and
Collect and mail order still available) I’ve been sorting out odd copies of recently published
titles to make space for new stock and am offering the books in this catalogue at incredible
discounts.All the books are new* and would make great stocking fillers for Christmas or just
lockdown reading. There are only one or two copies of each title left so it’s first come first
served and when they’re gone, they’re really gone. Please order early to avoid disappointment.
Orders
Orders for the books in this catalogue by telephone only
To order telephone me on 085 168 0250 between 11am and 4pm.
If you live within 5km of the shop you can collect your books from the shop and pay cash on
collection or by card over the phone at the time of your order.
If you live more than 5km from the shop you can pay by card over the phone and I will post the
books out to you. Postage within Ireland is just €6.50 for any amount of books or free postage
for orders over €50.
Offers in this catalogue end at midnight on Friday 6th
November.
*Some books may have a small remainder mark.
Fiction
The Last of the High Kings (Modern Irish
Classics)
Ferdia Mac Anna
€11 €5
You save 55%
Soft cover, New Island Books, 2011
Set during the summer of Punk in Howth, The Last of the High Kings is a
coming-of-age comic novel that tells the story of 17 year old Frankie Griffin
as he tries to deal with his eccentric family. First published in 1991, New Island bring this Modern Irish
Classic back to life.
Ghost Light
Joseph O'Connor
€9 €5
You save 44%
Soft cover, Vintage, 2011
A powerful and deeply moving masterpiece about love, partings and
reconciliation from the international bestselling author of Star of the Sea.
The Mammy
O'Carroll, Brendan
€10 €5
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Soft cover, The O'Brien Press, 2011
THE MAMMY describes the life and times, the joys and sorrows of Agnes, hero of
the BAFTA-nominated TV series Mrs. Browne's Boys. A book of hilarious incidents, glorious characters,
and a passion for life, it is written with a sure touch and great ear for dialogue.
The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus
Stories
Rankin, Ian
€14 €6
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Soft cover, Back Bay Books, 2016
Brilliant, irascible and frequently frustrating to both his friends and his long-
suffering bosses, John Rebus has made the dark places of Edinburgh his
home for over two decades. The Beat Goes On collects all of Ian Rankin's Rebus short stories for the first
time, including two never-before published tales written specifically for this collection.
Days Without End
Barry, Sebastian
€22 €10
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Hardcover, Viking, 2017
COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017
MAN BOOKER PRIZE "A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a
violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in
the making."--Kazuo Ishiguro.
Wolf on a String: A Novel
Black, Benjamin
€24 €12
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Hardcover, Henry Holt and Co., 2017
Bestselling author Benjamin Black turns his eye to sixteenth century Prague
and a story of murder, magic and the dark art of wielding extraordinary
power
Ordeal by Innocence
Christie, Agatha
€13 €5
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Soft cover, William Morrow Paperbacks, 2018
Considered by critics as one of the best of Agatha Christie's later novels, and
a personal favorite for Christie herself.
City of Lost Girls
Declan Hughes
€9 €6
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Soft cover, John Murray, 2011
In LA there's a killer on the loose. He kills young and rootless girls and he
always kills in threes. Back in Dublin, Ed Loy, happy in a new
relationship, is reunited with Jack Donovan, a film director friend
from LA with a turbulent personal history. When the third young
female extra fails to show for work on Jack's movie, Loy begins to suspect Jack. And when the previous
victims of the 'Three-in-One Killer' are discovered in LA at locations Jack used for his movies, Loy's
suspicion hardens. He flies to LA to liaise with the LAPD on their investigation. He must find something in
his and Jack's shared past that can point to the killer.
Frog Music
Donoghue, Emma
€14 €5
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Soft cover, Back Bay Books, 2015
Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat
wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny
Bonnet is shot dead.
Smile
Doyle, Roddy
€13 €6
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Soft cover, Penguin Books, 2018
From the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, a bold,
haunting novel about the uncertainty of memory and how we contend with
the past.
The Green Road
Enright, Anne
€23 €8
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Hardcover, W. W. Norton & Company, 2015
Spanning thirty years and three continents, The Green Road
tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigan family,
and her four children. Ardeevin, County Clare, Ireland. 1980.
When her oldest brother Dan announces he will enter the
priesthood, young Hanna watches her mother howl in agony
and retreat to her room. In the years that follow, the
Madigan children leave one by one: Dan for the frenzy of
New York under the shadow of AIDS; Constance for a
hospital in Limerick, where petty antics follow simple
tragedy; Emmet for the backlands of Mali, where he learns
the fragility of love and order; and Hanna for modern-day Dublin and the trials of her own motherhood.
When Christmas Day reunites the children under one roof, each confronts the terrible weight of family
ties and the journey that brought them home. The Green Road is a major work of fiction about the
battles we wage for family, faith, and love. Enright s razor-sharp writing turns every ordinary detail into
a weapon, to create a story that cuts right to the bone. New York Review of Books"
Thirteen Ways of Looking
McCann, Colum
€14 €6
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Soft cover, Random House, 2016
in his first collection of short fiction in more than a decade, McCann charts
the territory of chance, and the profound and intimate consequences of even
our smallest moments.
TransAtlantic
McCann, Colum
€13 €5
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Soft cover, Random House, 2014
In the National Book Award–winning Let the Great World Spin,
Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of
fiction that The New York Times Book Review called “an
emotional tour de force.” Now McCann demonstrates once again
why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his
generation with a soaring novel that spans continents, leaps
centuries, and unites a cast of deftly rendered characters, both
real and imagined.
After the Lockout
McCann, Darran
€10 €5
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Soft cover, HarperCollins, 2013
November 1917. With tensions in Ireland, war in Europe and revolution in Russia,
Victor Lennon returns to his home village after a long exile. Radicalised by his experiences in the Dublin
Lockout and Easter Rising, Victor is a hero to many but a danger to some.
Quichotte
Salman Rushdie
€23 €10
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Hardcover, Jonathan Cape, 2019
Quichotte is a love story of profound tenderness and humanity from a great
storyteller at his brilliant best. Wise, beautifully written, as heartbreaking as
it is wildly comic, its characters unforgettable, its plot dazzlingly suspenseful,
Quichotte illuminates our corrupt times where fact is so often indiscernible
from fiction.
Testimony
Shreve, Anita
€12 €5
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Soft cover, Back Bay Books, 2009
Writing with a pace and intensity surpassing even her own greatest
work, Anita Shreve delivers in Testimony a gripping emotional drama
with the impact of a thriller. No one more compellingly explores the dark
impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, the needs and fears that drive ordinary men and
women into intolerable dilemmas, and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst
transgressions.
House of Names
Toibin, Colm
€22 €10
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Hardcover, Scribner Book Company, 2017
From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín
comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra--spectacularly audacious,
violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling.
John
Williams, Niall
€19 €8
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Hardcover, Bloomsbury, 2008
Niall Williams' novel is a prodigious feat of imagination written with
poetic vision, and an unforgettable validation of courage and faith.
Romantic, wild and passionate, John is the story of what it might be to
love for a lifetime.
Sports and Pastimes
Flying Finn: A Tribute
To Irish Motorbike
Legend Martin
Finnegan
Davison, Stephen
€20 €8
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Hardcover, Blackstaff Press, 2009
When Stephen Davison first met Martin
Finnegan in 2003, it marked the
beginning of an enduring friendship.
Together, they produced some of the
best action shots in the sport's history
and created an extraordinary record of a road racing life that was tragically cut short when Martin was
killed at the Tandragee 100 in May 2008. Flying Finn captures the spirit and heart of a road racing hero.
The GAA Immortals: 100 Gaelic Games
Legends
Scally, John
€10 €6
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Soft cover, Black & White Publishing, 2018
The lore and legend of Gaelic Games has been shaped by great players.
Since the Games began, special players have had a unique power to make
the heart skip a beat. Now THE GAA IMMORTALS celebrates the
achievements of 100 of the very best footballers, hurlers, managers, ladies
footballers and camogie players from the start of the twentieth century to the present day.
The Second Half
Keane, Roy; Doyle, Roddy
€16 €6
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Soft cover, W&N, 2014
In a stunning collaboration with Booker Prize-winning author Roddy
Doyle, Roy Keane gives a brutally honest account of his last days as a
player, the highs and lows of his managerial career, and his life as an
outspoken ITV pundit.
Ken Mcgrath: My Autobiography
McGrath, Ken
€19 €6
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Soft cover, Black and White Publishing, 2016
'You always knew you'd have a battle with Ken - he's a warrior. His
book is a brilliant account of his hurling career and the incredible
challenges he has faced since.'
A Practical Guide to Modern
Gamekeeping: Essential Information
for Part-time and Professional
Gamekeepers
J.C.Jeremy Hobson
€17 €8
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Soft cover, How To Books Ltd, 2012
This book is a comprehensive gamekeeping manual for those enthusiastic amateurs who spend their
spare time running a small DIY syndicate shoot, and for those who are professionally employed on a full-
time basis. It shows the reader how to perform all the tasks required of the modern gamekeeper,
including how to rear and release game and advises on many aspects of habitat improvement and
conservation.
The Compleat Waterfo(u)wler: A
Discourse on Duck Hunting with a
Little Goose on the Side
Peterson, B. R.
€14 €8
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Hardcover, The Lyons Press, 2003
This volume offers the last word on duck hunting, from the author of "The Original Roadkill Cookbook".
From the moral base camp of the Valhalla Lounge, deep inside Buck Peterson's Duck Lodge and
Advanced Plucking Center, Buck provides meaningful answers on how to call ducks (based on the latest
research on how drakes and hens communicate); how to identify game species such as the rare
Johnathan Divingsom Seaduck and the Fly Blue-Wing Devils; how to measure trophy ducks using official
Boom and Crockpot Club standards; how ducks interpret near-death experiences (NDE); and more.Dan Donnelly 1788-1820: Pugilist,
Publican, Playboy
Myler, Patrick
€10 €6
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Soft cover, The Lilliput Press Ltd, 2009
This book tells the remarkable story of an Irishman whose exploits in the bare-
knuckle ring made him into an early 19th century folk hero. His victories over highly regarded English
opponents came in the wake of several armed rebellions and were seen as symbolizing his country's fight
for freedom from Westminster rule.
Cookery
Clodagh's Kitchen Diaries:
Delicious Recipes
Throughout the Year
McKenna, Clodagh
€24 €12
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Hardcover, Kyle Books, 2013
Clodagh's Kitchen Diaries takes you through a
cooking year month by month. Packed with advice
on what to eat when and tips for preserving the
harvest, her inspirational recipes include dinner party
menus for special occasions; monthly soup, salad,
sandwich and vegetable specials from her
restaurant; and cakes for occasions such as Mother's Day, Easter and Christmas. Think Red Velvet Cakes
for Valentine's Day, Orange and Cardamom Pancakes for Shrove Tuesday, and Fish of the Month dishes.Fresh: Simple, Delicious Recipes to Make You Feel
Energized!
Skehan, Donal
€22 €12
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Hardcover, Sterling Epicure, 2017
Television and YouTube sensation Donal Skehan
believes in maximizing health and energy through
the enjoyment of flavorful, nutrient-packed food.
Fresh embodies this philosophy by focusing on
seasonal fruits and vegetables, as well as grains,
with a secondary emphasis on high-quality meat
and seafood. This cookbook includes recipes for
breakfasts (try the Gluten-free Pancakes with
Blueberry, Banana and Honey), food to eat on the
run (Tahini Crunch Noodle Salad!), easy suppers
(Yakitori Salmon Skewers with Red Rice Salad),
quick dinners (Rosemary Beef with Horseradish
Sauce and Fennel Salad), and "Better for You"
sweet treats, such as Peanut Butter Brownies and Glazed Apple Galettes. Every dish is big on flavor and
chock-full of goodness!
Modern Irish Food
€18 €8
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Hardcover, Bounty Books, 2016
Modern Irish Food contains everything from hearty soups to
traditional Irish dinners, all brought up-to-date and accompanied
by beautiful photography. You'll get a side dish of Irish history
along with the recipes - learn the components of an 'atin and
drinkin' soup and find out the true value of a humble hen. Heavy
Irish meals have been successfully modernised so that your food
is lighter and cleaner, and each dish comes with comprehensive
and clear instructions. Whether you're cooking for all the family or making a quick snack for one, this
book is the perfect addition to any modern kitchen.Jamie Oliver's Christmas
Cookbook: For the Best
Christmas Ever
Oliver, Jamie
€30 €15
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Hardcover, Flatiron Books, 2017
Jamie Oliver's Christmas Cookbook is packed with all the
classics you need for the big day and beyond, as well as loads
of delicious recipes for edible gifts, party food, and new ways
to love those leftovers.Last one left. Dust jacket has slight shelf damage.
Going Vegan: The Complete
Guide to Making a Healthy
Transition to a Plant-Based
Lifestyle
Newman, Joni Marie; Adams, Gerrie
€18 €8
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Soft cover, Fair Winds Press, 2014
Inside this practical guidebook to fearlessly become vegan,
are sample menu plans, complete with shopping lists! Enjoy
amazing recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert.
Meals so delicious and satisfying, you won't even miss the
bacon.History
Pathway to Rebellion - Galway 1916
William Henry
€10 €5
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Soft cover, Mercier Press, 2016
In 'Pathway to Rebellion' Willie Henry traces the origins of the rebellion of
1916 in Co. Galway back over a century.
Shadow of the Brotherhood: The Temple Bar Shootings
Barry Kennerk
€10 €6
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Soft cover, Mercier Press, 2011
When a gunman disappears into the Dublin fog, they leave two seriously
wounded police constables in his wake. Through innovative use of
eyewitness testimonies, police reports, medical notes and other material,
the author casts a magnifying glass on Victorian Dublin - a city in which the
footsteps of the assassin are never far away.
Royal Roots - Republican Inheritance: The Survival of
the Office of Arms
Hood, Susan
€27 €10
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Soft cover, The Woodfield Press, 2002
This is the absorbing story of the Office of Arms, Ireland's heraldic
authority and the oldest Office of State. Founded in 1552, and derived from an earlier medieval heraldry
based on the traditions of sovereigns and members of the nobility, today the Office has a much widerrelevance, providing heraldic services for Irish people and institutions throughout the world. This book is
the history of its remarkable survival during the last 150 years, when it bridged the transition from Crown
Government to Republican State.
Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of
Change from 1970
R. F. Foster
€26 €6
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Hardcover, Oxford University Press, 2008
Roy Foster is one of Ireland's leading historians, the author of the
much acclaimed two-volume biography of Yeats as well as the
definitive history Modern Ireland, which has been hailed as "dazzling"
(New York Times Book Review) and "elegant, erudite, wise, witty"
(Irish Times). Now, this brilliant writer offers a "short and combative" account of Ireland's astonishing
transformation over the last three decades.
The Most Illustrious Order: The Order of St. Patrick & its
Knights
Galloway, Peter
€45 €15
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Hardcover, Unicorn Press, 1999
The Order of Saint Patrick was instituted in 1783. This is the
definitive history of the Order, setting it in context as a
political, social, cultural and ceremonial constituent of
viceregal Ireland. Also included is a survey of the 146
knights of the order appointed between 1783 and 1936, and
complete lists of the Grand Masters, Knights and Officers.General Irish Interest
That's Life
Marty Whelan
€23 €8
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Hardcover, Gill & Macmillan, 2015
Throughout the highs and lows of a 30-year career as one of
Ireland's best-loved radio and television personalities, Marty
Whelan has always remained upbeat, with a determination for
survival and an enthusiasm for life. Although he is one of
Ireland's national treasures, Marty has never stopped being a
fan himself. That's Life describes his many wonderful
adventures, up close and personal with his own heroes: getting
to bring his beloved mum to tea with her idol Norman Wisdom,
forgetting how to speak on coming face-to-face with Al Pacino,
entertaining Spike Milligan and dancing in the dark with Bruce
Springsteen.
Irish Ghosts
€10 €6
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Soft cover, Gresham,
Ireland's story telling tradition is captured in Irish Ghosts with its
many tales of spectral phenomena, including haunted castles and
houses, floating islands, death coaches, tortured souls and
terrifying apparitions.Transport
Liffey Ships and Shipbuilding
Pat Sweeney
€10 €7
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Soft cover, Mercier Press, 2010
This book provides a comprehensive history of the four shipbuilding yards that
have operated along Dublin's River Liffey since shipbuilding began there.
Bray and Enniskerry Railway
Liam Clare
€15 €7.50
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Soft cover, The History Press, 2007
Between 1840 and 1910, more than a dozen proposals were put forward to
link the village of Enniskerry to the town of Bray by rail or tramway. Some
never developed beyond a gleam in the eye of an entrepreneur, while others
got bogged down in the complicated legal and political procedures involved in seeking approval for any
new rail or tramway scheme.
Early Aviation in Ireland
€10 €5
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Soft cover, Dreoilin Publications Ltd, 2013
Ireland's unique aviation history was made by extraordinary men and women.
This is the story of the early pioneers who first took to the skies of Ireland for the
first time some of whom gave their lives during their daring flights in their early flying machines. This is a
remarkable story that is vividly told with an eye for detail and accuracy.Children’s
Rover and the Big Fat Baby
Doyle, Roddy
€12 €6
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Hardcover, Macmillan Children's Books, 2016
The BFB (Big Fat Baby) is missing! Can Rover the wonder dog and his little
nephew Messi (who is actually very tidy) track her down?
When We Were Very Young
Milne, A. A.
€7 €4
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Soft cover, Dean & Son, 2016
When We Were Very Young is a best-selling book of poetry by A. A. Milne.
First published in 1924, it includes the original illustrations by E. H.
Shepard.
The Hodgeheg
Dick King-Smith
€7 €4
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Soft cover, Puffin, 2017
Max is a hedgehog who lives with his family in a nice little home, but it’s on
the wrong side of the road from the Park where there’s a beautiful lily pond
and plenty of juicy slugs, worms and snails! From the number-one author for
animal magic comes this wonderful new edition of The Hodgeheg.War in Ireland, 20 - 21 November 1920
Jim Eldridge
€6 €4
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Soft cover, Scholastic, 2017
November 1920. Ireland is in the middle of a war for independence.One Sunday,
events come to a head and an exciting football match turns into a survival battle for eleven-year-old
Liam Donnelly. Soldiers shooting, machine guns firing, people screaming... How will Liam make it out of
the stadium alive? And even if he does, is there anywhere safe left to go?
Literature
Flann O'Brien (Writers and their Work)
Joe Brooker
€18 €6
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Soft cover, Northcote House Publishers Ltd, 2004
Flann O'Brien was the best known pen name of Brian O'Nolan one of modern
Ireland's most perplexing, subversive and underrated writers. This new study assesses the whole span of
O'Nolan's achievement, including his early forays into public satire and his fabrication of authorial
identities. Re-reading the whole span of Flann O'Brien's work, this title reintroduces O'Brien as a figure
more relevant than ever to contemporary debates in Modernism and Irish studies.Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil
Durcan, Paul
€13 €7
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Soft cover, Harvill Secker, 0
Paul Durcan has been at the heart of Irish cultural life for over 40 years and
his poetry has acquired a huge international following. Greetings to Our
Friends in Brazil is his most challenging and engaging collection yet, one that
addresses itself through Ireland and the Irish diaspora to the whole world beyond.
Brian Friel: Plays 3: Three Sisters; A
Month in the Country; Uncle Vanya; The
Yalta Game; The Bear; Afterplay;
Performances; The Home Place; Hedda
Gabler (Contemporary Classics)
Friel, Brian
€22 €8
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Soft cover, Faber & Faber, 2014
This third collection by Brian Friel contains two original works:
Performances, which considers the relationship between the private life
and public work of the composer Leoš Janácek; and The Home Place, set in Ballybeg, Donegal, at the
dawn of Home Rule. There are three masterful plays based on stories by Chekhov; and Friel's exquisite
versions of Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and of Turgenev's A Month in the
Country.Nature
Reconnecting with Celtic Trees
Queally, Jackie
€16 €8
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Soft cover, Earthwise Publications, 2017
An innovative guide to the Celtic Trees viewing them foremost as a
spiritual template for inner growth. Guided lunar meditations, poems,
diagrams, spiritual artistic illustrations, general insights, an historical
overview of Celtic Tree calendar, and a practical and philisophical
examining of the role of sound, dowsing and Gaia Touch as viable
means to connect deeper with trees.
Pocket Books - Birds
€6 €4
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Soft cover, Green Android, 2014
Pocket profiles of over 100 birds from around the world
Dermot Gardens
O'Neill, Dermot
€15 €5
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Soft cover, Poolbeg Press Ltd, 2003
Dermot O'Neill has been gardening on RTE since 1982.
Now, in Dermot Gardens he has put together the definitive
guide to everything you need to know to create the perfect
garden.Where to Watch Birds in Ireland
Paul Milne; Clive D. Hutchinson
€21 €8
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Soft cover, Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd, 2009
This new edition covers the best birdwatching sites in Ireland. In a format
familiar to readers of this popular series, each site is considered in terms of
'Habitat', Access' and 'Birds', allowing birders of all levels to plan successful
birding trips anywhere in Ireland, and to maximise the chances of getting the
best out of each site and each region. The book includes up-to-date, detailed
maps and attractive line drawings. This book has been extensively revised, with several new sites added
for this edition, together with information on disabled access for most sites.
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