The Big Fellow

Biographies & Memoirs

O'Connor, Frank

Community & Culture

Poolbeg Pr Ltd

Guests of the Nation

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Strange bedfellows

Strange Bedfellows

Boran, Pat

Short Stories & Anthologies

The richness of daily life in rural County Kerry in the 1950s is evoked in exquisite detail. Bowler captures well the acute sensitivities of his narrator, an adolescent whose failed attempt, at age ten, to run away with tinkers in a horse-drawn caravan does little to staunch his melancholy and his sense of longing for life beyond the emigration-bled village of Cahirciveen. Mr. Bowler is a dab hand when it comes to the turn of a phrase, rendering with precision what has been said, just so, while at the same time evoking all that goes without saying."" - NY Times. ""With a lyrical voice recreates adult memories of a magical childhood."" - Publishers Weekly.

Destiny of Dreams

Michael Bowler

While on tour with their parents' theatre company in Cork, Kate and her older brother take opposite sides in the debate over the proposed building of a chemical factory nearby.

Bugsy Goes to Cork (Children's Poolbeg)

Swift, Carolyn

Children's Books

Provides the lyrics to 78 Irish ballads, including such pieces as "The holy ground," "Master McGrath," and "The wild colonial boy"

The Poolbeg Book of Irish Ballads (A Paperback Original)

McMahon, Seán

Poetry

Light foxing to fore edge, good internally

The People Who Drank Water from the River

History

Kennedy, James

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Geese, Peacocks, hens, and penguins become students at the flying school run by a daredevil sparrow.

Cruncher Sparrow's Flying School

Snell, Gordon

Lovers

Standún, Pádraig

While she waits for an appointment at the Women's Centre that has been delayed, Hanna Troy wanders around Dublin and thinks about her life both what has happened to her and how she has handled it...She watches while one after another of her contemporaries gets married and has children the path she assumed she would follow, too. But Hanna and her husband, Sam, don't have children. Hanna goes to doctors and clinics, but Sam refuses to be tested...Hanna's insightful recounting of her experience offers encouragement because it shows how she learns to survive the disappointment meted out to her in life...A brilliant portrayal of a point of view that reminds readers of the singular nature of the human condition.--Booklist. ""The convincing picture drawn of these Irish thirty-somethings and the urgency of the pain at the heart of the novel make it a compelling read. As does the subtle central image of light-making, beautiful and replete with meaning.""--Irish Times.

The Light-makers

Mary O'Donnell

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