Irish Theatre Handbook

Deegan, Ed

New Island Books

This CD box set marks the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth, and contains 18 hours of the Irish Nobel Laureate's three finest novels-Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable -read by well-known Irish actor Barry McGovern. The set includes a 58 page illustrated booklet on the writer's life and work by Beckett scholar Gerry Dukes.

Samuel Beckett: Three Novels

Literature & Fiction

Samuel Beckett

Literary

After first emerging in the 1920s, ladies Gaelic football was soon sidelined; breathless women chasing after a football was just too unladylike for the powers that be. Despite this resistance, the sport became a popular novelty act at local carnivals. And when the Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) was founded in Tipperary in July 1974, fifty years of extraordinary growth were set in motion. From writing the rule book to a membership of nearly 200,000, the earliest All-Stars to game-changing partnerships, this definitive history captures that unstoppable journey to becoming a national sport and so much more. Lavishly illustrated and drawing from national, club and personal archives, UNLADYLIKE is for the players, the fans, the kit-washers, the sandwich-makers and the supporters alike, and confirms the best is yet to come.

Unladylike: A History of Ladies Gaelic Football

History

Kilgallon, Hayley

Europe

Malone's powerful novel tells the story of the Irish Civil War and the execution of seven IRA men for illegal possession of arms. At the same time, four Kerry volunteers sentenced to death for identical offences are pardoned after undertaking to make their peace with the new government. The prisoners' last six days unfold through the eyes of one of the condemned men, Stephen `Chalky' White as he awaits his execution, while his mother, at her home in Kildare patiently waits for news of her son's fate. This is a book that brings to life the impact that the Civil War had on the Irish people and the divisions that left their small communities scarred for decades.

The Silence of the Glasshouse

Malone, Martin

Genre Fiction

Love Lies Bleeding sees the return of Deirdre O'Dare, the actress protagonist of It Means Mischief and More Mischief. Allow yourself to be wooed and won over by a classy cast of characters who will waltz you from the glitzy spin of Los Angeles, via the Celtic mist of Ireland, to the laidback Languedoc region of France.

Love Lies Bleeding

Romance

Thompson, Kate

Contemporary

A poetry collection exploring such themes as nature, An ever-changing urban landscape, loss and recovery, And The dark places of the heart.

Drinking the Colour Blue

Casey, Eileen

Poetry

Iz, a beautiful young woman trapped in an unhappy, adulterous marriage, is haunted by a great love in her past.as she begins a life on Ireland's south-east coast with her husband. The war in Europe has just ended and change is about to sweep away the old order. As Iz settles down to try and make her life by the sea, the circumstances that have brought her to Monument are shrouded in mystery. The story soars across the decades that follow Ireland's newly won independence and through the class and land issues that once defined Irish society.

The Sea and the Silence

CUNNINGHAM, Peter

Women's Fiction

A rounded portrait of William Joyce, better known as Lord Haw-Haw. It follows his life from Irish peasant to a broadcaster for the Third Reich and covers his trial and execution.

Germany Calling: A Personal Biography of William Joyce Lord Haw-Haw

Biographies & Memoirs

Kenny, Mary

Leaders & Notable People

This book is a celebration of the renowned Irish storyteller Peig Sayers, showing a lighter side to her than previously revealed. For generations of students, Peig Sayer's autobiography was a compulsory text on the Irish Leaving Certificate. But there was a lot more to Peig than tales of poverty and hardship. In this collection of previously unpublished stories, an earthier, funnier, and more dramatic storyteller emerges. Based on RTE and BBC archives, and translated by Ireland's leading experts on Peig, the book also includes two CDs with archived recordings of Peig's storytelling.

Peig Sayers: Labharfad Le Cach/ I Will Speak to You All (English and Irish Edition)

SAYERS, Peig

Mythology & Folk Tales

Mathews has long been an admirer of Flann O'Brien, especially his famous Keats and Chapman sketches. Here he attempts to re-invent the style and wit of the short pieces, with original columns done in the style of O'Brien's sketches. He succeeds wonderfully. Previously printed in Hot Press, each column humorously builds up to a punch line, based on a pun.

The New Adventures of Keats and Chapman: A Selection of Improbable Tales

Humor & Entertainment

Mathews, Tom

Humor

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