After the untimely death of his mother, five-year old Seamas and his ten (TEN!) siblings were left to the care of their loving but understandably beleaguered father. In this thoroughly delightful memoir, we follow Seamas and the rest of his rowdy clan as they learn to cook, clean, do the laundry, and struggle (often hilariously) to keep the household running smoothly and turn into adults in the absence of the woman who had held them together. Along the way, we see Seamas through various adventures: There's the time the family's windows were blown out by an IRA bomb; the time a priest blessed their thirteen-seater caravan before they took off for a holiday on which they narrowly escaped death; the time Seamas worked as a guide in a leprechaun museum during the recession; and of course, the time he inadvertently found himself on ketamine while serving drinks to the President of Ireland. Through it all, the lovable, ginger-haired Seamas regales us with his combination of wit, absurdity, and tenderness, creating a charming and unforgettable portrait of an oddly gigantic family's search for some semblance of normalcy.

    Cast off as a ward of the Irish state, Carmel enters adulthood a broken woman. Yearning for a sense of belonging and in desperation to find her place in the world, Carmel agrees to a marriage of convenience, and resigns herself to a quiet and unfulfilled life. Her private confinement is upended, however, when she receives a mysterious letter out of the blue. Who could possibly be looking for Carmel? Who else knows she is out there? In lieu of answers, Carmel is faced with a choice: change her life forever—or not—the future is up to her. Get swept away in this novella, the mystery of an unlived life and follow Carmel’s journey from longing to understanding in Letters of Freedom.

    story of an abandoned love, who after making her life in Italy, goes back to the UK to re-make her life there teaching Italian

    It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, queen and king of Connacht, and their allies, seeking to carry off the great Brown Bull of Cúailnge. The hero of the tale is Cúchulainn, the Hound of Ulster, who resists the invaders single-handed, while Ulster's warriors lie sick.Thomas Kinsella's presents a complete and living version of the story. His translation is based on the partial texts in two medieval manuscripts, with elements from other version, and adds a group of related stories which prepare for the action of the Táin. Illustrated with brush drawings by Louis le Brocquy, this edition provides a combination of medieval epic and modern art.

    

    He’s everything she never knew she wanted, but a summer fling is a complication that she really doesn’t need right now. Becca’s got a life waiting for her back home, but Sean may be just too good to resist. Her mom Jackie knows all too well how a seductive stranger can change the entire course of your life, so how can she advise her daughter to resist Sean’s charms? And besides, Jackie has a problem of her own. She needs to decide just how much she is willing to sacrifice for the man she loves.Driving on the Left celebrates the unbreakable bond between mother and daughter: two women with only one week to make decisions that will affect the rest of their lives as they travel through the beautiful Irish countryside.

    

    Her job takes her all over the UK, various towns and cities, hotel room after hotel room.But she loves her life, and she wouldn’t have it any other way, because every time she has an itch to scratch, she has the perfect solution. Katriona is known to some Mistress Eve, because different places, and different hotel rooms offer Katriona the opportunity to become someone else. She is the....DOMME

    It includes also some of the statements made and dispatches issued by the leaders during the Week, at the surrender, and after it, as well as some references to their activities while fighting was in progress. It has been thought well, too, to include accounts, where it has been possible to come upon such, of the last moments of the leaders from the lips of the relatives or friends who visited them or the priests who attended them. Some of the letters herein are being published for the first time. Time was when it was felt that the letters of the leaders to their near relatives were too intimate for them to be read by the public in general, but it will be accepted now more than half a century later, that, having given their lives for Ireland, the leaders of the Rising - as, indeed, all who took part in it - have become part of our history so that everything they did, or said, or wrote, has a rightful palce in the annals as well as in the hearts of the Irish people. Those included are: Padraic Mac Piarais (P. H. Pearse), Tomas O Cleirigh (Thomas J. Clarke), Tomas Mac Donnchadha (Thomas MacDonagh), Eamonn O Dalaigh (Edward Daly), Liam Mac Piarais (William Pearse), Micheal O hAnnrachain (Michael O'Hanrahan), Ioseph O Pluingcead (Joseph Mary Plunkett), Sean Mac Giolla Bhride (John MacBride), Sean Mac Aodha (Sean Heuston), Micheal O Meallain (Michael Mallin), Eamonn Ceannt, Conchuir O Colbaird (Con Colbert), Tomas Ceannt (Thomas Kent), Sea Mac Diarmada, Seamus O Conghaile (James Connolly), Ruairi Mac Easmainn (Roger Casement). Also included are illustrations and a list of illustrations, and two appendices of remembrances.

    It is the winter following the summer they met. A couple, Bell and Sigh, move into a remote house in the Irish countryside with their dogs. Both solitary with misanthropic tendencies, they leave the conventional lives stretched out before them to build another—one embedded in ritual, and away from the friends and family from whom they’ve drifted. They arrive at their new home on a clear January day and look up to appraise the view. A mountain gently and unspectacularly ascends from the Atlantic, “as if it had accumulated stature over centuries. As if, over centuries, it had steadily flattened itself upwards.” They make a promise to climb the mountain, but—over the course of the next seven years—it remains unclimbed. We move through the seasons with Bell and Sigh as they come to understand more about the small world around them, and as their interest in the wider world recedes.Seven Steeples is a beautiful and profound meditation on the nature of love and the resilience of nature. Through Bell and Sigh, and the life they create for themselves, Sara Baume explores what it means to escape the traditional paths laid out before us—and what it means to evolve in devotion to another person, and to the landscape.

    

    

    A testament to the craft traditions of Ireland covering over 40 crafts, from woodcarvers, thatchers, goldsmiths and potters to glassblowers of the famous Waterford crystal, 'crios' weavers from the Aran Islands, and the makers of harps, quilts, baskets and curraghs, drystone walls and Irish lace.

    Volume II: Akhenaton, the Cult of Aton & the Dark Side of the Sun (Polemical Investigations into the Extermination of Druidry and the Rise of Judeo-Christianity).

    What if they told you that you could never dance again? What if your most cherished beliefs turned out to be a lie? Kaylee faces these unthinkable challenges in this 6th book in the 7-book Kaylee O'Shay series, a book that spans two years of her tumultuous yet triumphant dance career!

    Secrets remain... My Dearest T, Whatever you hear, do not believe it for a moment...1940: In south-west Ireland, the young and beautiful Lady Charlotte Rathmore is pronounced dead after she mysteriously disappears by the lake of Blackwater Hall. In London, on the brink of the Blitz, Nancy Rathmore is grieving Charlotte's death when a letter arrives containing a secret that she is sworn to keep - one that will change her life for ever.2019: Decades later, Ellie Fitzgerald is forced to leave Dublin disgraced and heartbroken. Abandoning journalism, she returns to rural Kerry to weather out the storm. But, when she discovers a faded letter, tucked inside the pages of an old book, she finds herself drawn in by a long-buried secret. And as Ellie begins to unravel the mystery, it becomes clear that the letter might hold the key to more than just Charlotte's disappearance.An unforgettable and spellbinding story of secrets, war, love and sacrifice, perfect for readers of Kate Morton, Eve Chase and Louise Douglas.

    

    

    This is the kind of book the world needs right now' DONAL RYAN_______________'My dictionary's first two definitions of 'comrade' are:A close companion.An intimate associate or friend.The third one is:A fellow soldier.My friends have been all those things to me.'In this stunning essay collection, award-winning journalist Rosita Boland explores the many friendships that have shaped her life. Surprising and beautiful, she writes about the imaginary friends of early childhood, books that have provided companionship and joy, kindred spirits met while travelling, the friend she hoped might become something more, and also the friendships that become lost over time.Life-affirming, affecting and wise, Comrades is a powerful exploration of what it is to live, to connect, and to be human in this world._______________'An absorbing journey along life's tracks and trails.' THE SUNDAY TIMES IRELAND'A moving, beautiful and deeply felt meditation on friendship, loyalty and connectedness in a disconnected world' HILARY FANNIN

    Here is her firsthand account of growing up in a family dedicated to the fight for Irish independence. This eventually led to her direct involvement in the most exciting and important period of modern Irish history -- the years leading up to the Easter Rising and after, her husband's execution, her imprisonment in England, the Civil War -- through the early days of the Irish Republic and active roles as a member of the Dail and Senate and as Lord Mayor of Dublin. A gripping life story told with astonishing clarity of thought and memory.

    

    

    Her daughter Sam and baby son PJ keep her tethered to this life she doesn't want. She finds unexpected refuge with a seventeen-year-old boy, but this relationship is only temporary, a sticking plaster on a festering wound. It cannot last and when her chance to leave Northern Ireland comes, Nuala takes it.In 1994, Sam Malin plans escape. She longs for a life outside her dysfunctional family, far away from the North and all its troubles, free from her quiet brooding father Patsy, who never talks about her mother, Nuala; a woman Sam barely knew, who abandoned them twelve years ago. She finds solace in music, drugs and her best friend Becca, but most of all in an illicit relationship with a jagged, magnetic older man.She is drawn to him, and he to her, in a way she can't yet comprehend.Sam is more like her mother than she knows.

    

    Hamish McHaggis is a lovable, happy-go-lucky Haggis recognizable by his orange fur, big red nose, and tartan hat. In tow are the skeptical Rupert Harold the Third, a Hedgehog and English gent, the cheeky and mischievous Pine Marten, and Angus and Jeannie, two accident-prone Osprey. Colorfully illustrated, the captivating stories will educate and reveal the geography and history of Scotland and leave children wanting to know more about Scotland. Jeannie's brother is having a surprise party, but he's not the only one who gets a surprise

    

    

    

    

    In a small town on the Irish border Maeve and her two friends have just secured summer jobs in the local shirt factory. They plan to make as much money as they can while waiting for their A Level results before getting out of town and away to the UK. As the summer progresses and the marching season begins, tensions in the factory start to rise between the Catholic and Protestant workforce and events escalate putting Maeve's chance of escape in jeopardy.

    

    

    It refutes much of what has become the accepted wisdom of current academics who see no way of overcoming the sectarian division.It offers something unique - a programme on the national question to unite, rather than divide the working class.For those seeking ways in which the national problem can be overcome, this challenging book is a must.

    Perfect for fans of When You Trap a Tiger and Shouting at the Rain.After Breda Moriarity gets caught stealing one too many times, Breda's mom sends her to Ireland—a place she has never been—to live with the grandfather she has never met.While Breda doesn’t want to be in this strangely beautiful land, she finally gets to meet her granda, her mom’s father. He’s a grumpy farmer who is also a seanchaí, a traditional Gaelic storyteller. But the most important story to Breda is the one nobody will talk about: what happened to her absent father. If nothing else this summer, Breda is determined to figure out the truth about her family’s history—and herself.This powerfully poignant middle grade novel asks important questions about immigration, estranged relationships, and family secrets.

    

    

    There was no famine in the ordinary sense of that word. It was genocide perpetrated by more than half of Britain's army (67 regiments of its 130 regiments total). They removed, at gunpoint, Ireland's abundant meats, livestock, and food crops to the ports for export; thus starving the people. The book's colored map shows the locations of some 180 of the resultant mass graves. The Perfect Holocaust is an achievement of the first magnitude and would be obligatory reading in a free Ireland - Tomás Mac Síomóin, Ph.D. I recommend this book to anyone trying to understand not only the history of Ireland, but the histories of Holocausts around the world – Jesse W. Collins, Ph.D. Post-Doc, Harvard University. Evidence of Famine as Genocide: - Ms. Dudley Edwards and those interested in the facts of the period would do well to read the definitive study by Chris Fogarty in his book “Ireland 1845-1850; the Perfect Holocaust;” – John Leahy, Wilton Road, Cork City (in Ireland’s Sunday Independent Newspaper). Have just finished reading your great book and found that the information therein will put paid to the liars of history. – Tom Mahon, Bribie Island, Qld. Australia. This is the most important book in my possession. – Tony Morrisroe, Elgin, IL USA. Your book is wonderful! Priceless Exhibits and Maps! – Teresa McCormack, Dublin, Ireland. I urge everyone to read this gem of brilliant achievement. – Kenneth Tierney, New York. This book performs a great service to the Irish Nation. Thank you. It hurts to know that I had believed the lies for most of my life. – Tom McGrath, Dublin.

    Beginning with found language from the English and French versions of a series of grammar exercises, the poems and prose poems wonder about, and wander about in, language as it comes alive (or fails to) in classrooms. It is a sort of Venn diagram of two books, with the central overlap in the found language from Mallarmé’s chosen proverbs and his own French translations of them. From that point, the book branches out into different shapes in each language, following sounds and associations as they emerge.