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€22.95
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To experience Ireland at its very best, you need Cassie Stokes. As the host of the hugely popular Best of Ireland series, Cassie has spent years travelling Ireland on a mission to find the ultimate pubs, restaurants, hiking trails and hidden gems. Now, for the first time, she’s sharing her insider secrets and favourite spots in one beautiful celebration of her home country.
From the local haunts she can’t get enough of to the locations that take her breath away, this is Ireland through the eyes of someone who knows and loves it deeply. Inside Best of Ireland, you’ll discover:- Over 500 recommendations to add to your Ireland bucket list, all handpicked, tried and tested by Cassie herself- Themed “best of” lists, including old-school pubs, Irish whiskey spots, music festivals, castles, pizza joints and hotels- Ideas for all 32 counties throughout Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, across dedicated chapters covering for Pubs, Food, Drinking Spots, Culture and the Outdoors- Ready-to-go itineraries that bring Cassie’s recommendations together for easy planning, from a quick weekend escape to Dublin to a 10-day west coast road trip- Gorgeous photography, making it the perfect gift for someone looking for an inspiring Ireland travel guide or a keepsake book about IrelandWhether you have a weekend or two weeks to explore, Best of Ireland is all the inspiration you need to have the ultimate Irish adventure.
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€21.95
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AS TRANSCENDENT AND MIRACULOUS AS YOU WOULD EXPECT, THE FINAL BOOK IN THE LANDMARK TRILOGYIn his final book, Manchán Magan implores us – even dares us – to move from the limited rational world to a more expansive spiritual one. To become re-enchanted once again. To understand that there are more ways of seeing, more ways of knowing and to uncover the interconnectedness between all things.
Manchán explores how ancient Irish culture retains deep resonances with other indigenous worldviews – a way of perceiving land, language, nature and spirit as inseparable. Drawing on mythology, early law, folklore and placenames, Manchán traces how Ireland’s forests, sacred trees and landscapes shaped the Irish psyche with such a resilience that many beliefs and customs endure to this day. In Seeing What’s Hidden, Manchán implores us to look again so that we too might rediscover our cultural inheritance and chart our course forward from here.
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€18.95
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‘I’d love to speak more Irish.’Sound familiar?Níl tú i d’aonar – you’re not alone. Irish is experiencing an exciting revitalisation, and it’s finding its voice sa saol laethúil – in everyday life – once more. Now, following the success of the award-winning Gaeilge i Mo Chroí, author Molly Nic Céile returns with Gaeilge inár Saol, a practical, empowering guide to bring Gaeilge into our lives gach lá le muinín – every day with confidence.
From life’s defining moments like saolú, pósadh agus bás – birth, marriage and death – to festivities like Nollaig and Oíche Shamhna, to everyday situations – texting friends, flirting or chatting sa teach tábhairne – here you’ll learn to weave Gaeilge naturally into your day. Full of simple tips and confidence-building exercises, Gaeilge inár Saol teaches us to bí glórach agus bródúil – loud and proud – and full of inspiration to join an athbheochan, the revival, and make Irish a living, breathing part of daily life.
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€24.95
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‘A powerful beacon of hope’ Seán RonayneAs a mass Irish rewilding movement takes shape, Eoghan Daltun takes to the high roads and byroads to meet those leading a quiet revolution on the land. Rewilding, already proven in Scotland, is gathering momentum in Ireland. It offers a radical reimagining of our relationship with the natural world, restoring balance to landscapes long dominated by extraction, industrialised farming and monoculture forestry.
By creating space for nature to recover, on land and at sea, it promises renewed biodiversity, resilient ecosystems and a future less defined by depletion. Yet the challenge is stark: Ireland remains one of the most ecologically altered countries in Europe. In Setting the Land Free, Daltun travels across Ireland and beyond to Scotland and Costa Rica, encountering pioneers restoring bogs, reintroducing native species and regenerating forests and coastlines.
Their work is practical, urgent and deeply hopeful, rooted in the belief that repair is still possible. This is not just a chronicle of change, but an inspiring call to imagine differently – and act.
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€25.00
“In Famine: Voices of a Lost Generation, author, historian and story-teller Joe McGowan brings into focus one of the most poignant chapters in Irish history. Through eyewitness accounts, official records, family memory, and folklore, he reconstructs a vivid, deeply human story of hunger, eviction, disease, and exile, in a journey from the poorest cabin to the ‘big house’ and on to the ill-fated coffin ships.
As chairman and founding member of the County Sligo Famine Commemoration Committee, McGowan is uniquely placed to write about the devastating impact of An Gorta Mór, The Great Hunger. Bringing together the authority of the historian and the sensitivity of the seanchaí, he traces its human consequences and enduring legacy, offering a compassionate account of loss, resilience, and remembrance.”
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Hungry is the powerful new memoir from Number One bestselling author Katriona O’Sullivan – a raw, courageous exploration of survival, identity and the lifelong search for self-acceptance. Raised in a home marked by poverty, addiction and abuse, Katriona defied the odds: from teenage motherhood struggling with her own addictions to becoming a university professor and successful author. But beneath the achievements lay a more private struggle – with her body, her worth, and the unrelenting drive to be enough.
In this fiercely honest memoir, she interrogates how trauma, class and gender shape the way women see themselves – and how society teaches them to measure their value. Told with stunning courage and vulnerability, Hungry is both a personal reckoning and a powerful reclaiming of body, voice and self. It is one woman’s story – and a rallying cry for every woman who has ever felt she had to shrink to survive.
‘Soaring with compassion, intelligence and hard-won wisdom. Ireland’s most important contemporary voice.’LOUISE KENNEDY, author of Trespasses’Amazing. I couldn’t put it down.’ELAINE FEENEY, author of As You Were’Every woman needs to read this book. Every man needs to read this book.’EDEL COFFEY, author of In Her Place’
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‘There is hard-won wisdom here, and good cheer, and a reminder that the world is much wider, older and more interesting than you’d think’ BILL McKIBBEN’Kind, wise and immensely readable’ TIM FLANNERYA thoughtful, illuminating rumination on the life lessons we can take from those who work the land and the millennia of wisdom they draw upon when they go about their day, ‘making a living by turning light and time into money’. As with his previous bestsellers, John Connell skilfully synthesises philosophy, art, literature and spirituality to bolster his thoughts on such topics as stoicism, the food chain and the role of community, leaving the reader convinced of the importance of connecting with their own inner farmer.
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Illustrated by Steve Doogan. AN INSTANT NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER,A PERFECT GIFT FOR ANY OCCASION. A poetry lover, a curator of joy and a wise woman with a deep sense of compassion, Dearbhla Mescal has inspired thousands online to slow down, savour the small moments and rediscover the beauty in everyday life. Now, in her first book, she invites you to join her on a journey of reflection and renewal through a tender and uplifting collection of poems and heartfelt musings.
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€22.95
Sophie Morris takes the guesswork out of shopping, replacing ultra-processed foods with cleaner alternatives that don’t compromise flavour. Along the way, she shares 50 tried-and-true recipes that make cooking from scratch easy, delicious and budget-friendly.
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€19.95
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The prospect of Irish unification is now stronger than at any point since partition in 1921. Voters on both sides of the Irish border may soon have to confront for themselves what the answer to a referendum question would mean – for themselves, for their neighbours, and for their society. Journalists Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride examine the strongest arguments for and against a united Ireland.
What do the words ‘united Ireland’ even mean? Would it be better for Northern Ireland? Would it improve lives in the Republic of Ireland? And could it be brought about without bloodshed?O’Toole and McBride each argue the case for and against unity, questioning received wisdom and bringing fresh thinking to one of Ireland’s most intractable questions.
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Sligo offers a unique setting for a study of the Great Famine and the book investigates the period from the first appearance of the blight to the immediate aftermath. The shifting, inept and often heartless government policies reflected different attitudes to famine relief and this impacted on the people in a very direct and often catastrophic way.
Sligo experienced considerable death and emigration in the years from 1845 to 1852; the second worst affected county in the country after Mayo, losing a third of its population in just a few short years. The reaction of local landlords and landholders to the suffering was also varied and the study explored the lengths to which the Famine offered an opportunity to some landlords to impose long-term policies on their estates.
Padraig Deignan has previously published ‘The Protestant Community in Sligo, 1914-49’ in 2010, ‘Land and People in Nineteenth Century Sligo: from Union to Local Government’ in 2015 and ‘Sligo in the Eighteenth Century’ in 2021.
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€24.95
Food, and specifically seafood, has always been a major part of Shine Carlier’s life. She told Donegal Live that cooking had always been a passion for her, ever since the days of Shine’s Takeaway in Killybegs, which was sold in May 2016 after being in operation for 21 years.
“I wanted the cookbook to be a promotion of Irish seafood and the benefits of our seafood, whether you buy it from your local fishmonger or from us,” commented Shine Carlier. “ We are an island nation, and we are quite low consuming of seafood.”
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€22.95
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Beneath our feet, in our hedgerows, trees and under our seas lies a complex community of beings that goes unseen and unheard by us humans. Soil is the stuff of life itself, bustling with microbes, fungi, beetles and earthworms that soften seeds, nurture saplings and provide all the potential for spring’s bounty. Ferns, primroses, wild violet and canopy leaves of overhead trees are the framework for the hidden power behind a butterfly wing or the singing of a wren.
Here, Anja Murray fills us with wonder for the wonderful world of Ireland’s wild plants and animals through the seasons. From fungi to the origins of feral pigeons, primroses to sea turtles, each piece contains elements of science, history and folklore. Witness the extraordinary mating rituals of frogs and hares.
Discover the incredible secret language of mice in their epic daily battle to survive and avoid capture with the swoop of the sparrowhawk.
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€21.95
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Meet the néaladóirí (cloud-watchers) and réadóirí (stargazers) from our past who, without the luxury of Met Éireann at their disposal, observed birds, trees, animals, as well as markers on land and sea for signs of weather change. The sheer richness and variety of terms they amassed reveal the closeness with which they observed the world around them. Swallows flying low foretold rain.
The heron’s behaviour offered many hints: Aimsir chrua thirim nuair a bhíonn an corr éisc suas in aghaidh srutha chun na sléibhte (when the heron flies upstream to the mountains the weather will be dry but rough). Fearthainn nuair a thagann sí an abhainn anuas (when she goes downstream, it will rain). Evoking countless sodden, shivery experiences on this Atlantic-swept island of ours, this beautifully illustrated gift book uses Irish words to grasp an almost-lost world through the wisdom stored in the Irish language.
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€19.95
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Throughout history, the stories of women’s lives and work have been overshadowed by those of men. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of their husband’s work, as collaborators, muses, carers and managers of the family domain. Great Irish Wives shines a spotlight on ten such wives: Matilda Tone, Mary O’Connell, Constance Wilde, Charlotte Shaw, Emily Shackleton, Annette Carson, Sinéad de Valera, Margaret Clarke, George Yeats and Beatrice Behan.
The men in this book are household names, from Wolfe Tone and Daniel O’Connell to Oscar Wilde and BrendanBehan, and they all have one thing in common: they married women who enabled them to pursue their dreams,even if that meant courting death or outrage. Nicola Pierce tells the stories of these truly remarkable women
