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Great Irish Wives
€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

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Beneath The Cedar Tree
€19.95
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Unable to free themselves from a personal trauma six years past, one that has come back to haunt them due to an outrageous miscarriage of justice, Brendan and Irene Gogarty find themselves amongst a planeload of Holy Joes bound for Medjugorje. A pair of agnostics, most unlikely pilgrims, they’re taking a punt on divine deliverance. Medjugorje in 1995 is a spiritual shrine in the middle of a warzone, a ready-made getaway with Vegas-type odds on salvation, but the sacred hill does not deliver.

Overcome with unrealistic hopes for some heavenly sign, Irene has a meltdown on Cross Mountain. Things will never be the same. The couple head for the coast and witness first-hand a country ravaged by conflict before they reach the azure calm of the Adriatic.

Over lazy days in a fishing village the Gogartys begin to unwind. On a whim Brendan decides to buy an old cottage – dubbed the villa – as a gift for Irene. It is perfect except that it is occupied by the auctioneer’s pregnant cousin, Anja, and her severely war-damaged husband, Damir.

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The Dodger
€19.95
There was a time when DJ Carey didn’t need a surname. The star player of a Kilkenny hurling team that dominated the sport for a decade, he had a rare, natural talent that led his county to five All Ireland titles and won him nine All Stars. DJ wasn’t just a hero on the pitch – his easy charm, generosity, and readiness to meet young fans made him a national treasure. Throughout his meteoric rise, strange rumours followed him. In 2003, shocking claims that DJ was dying of cancer swept the country. Who would spread such a story about one of Ireland’s most beloved sporting legends? And what could possibly be gained from it? Two decades later, the truth emerged. DJ Carey was arrested and charged with deception and forgery – accused of faking cancer to con money from those who trusted him most. For years, he had been telling the same lie to generous supporters who believed they were funding life-saving treatment in the U.S. In this riveting exposé, Eimear Ní Bhraonáin uncovers the extraordinary fall from grace of a national icon, and how he betrayed the fans that once loved him.

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Attention
€19.95
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The first collection of Booker Prize-winning writer Anne Enright’s non-fiction writing about culture, literature and her own life

‘Anne Enright might just be Ireland s greatest living writer’ THE TIMES

‘A joy to read’ MAGGIE O’FARRELL

For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights.

These essays, collated from across Enright’s career, take us from Dublin to Galway, Canada to Honduras. They delve into Enright s own family history, and explore the free voices and controlled bodies of women in society and fiction. She offers new perspectives on writers including Alice Munro, Toni Morrison, James Joyce, Helen Garner and Angela Carter.

In Enright s fiction, speech can transform, rupture, enliven and liberate.

In these essays, she speaks to us directly. Electrifying, probing and exuberant, this is a defining collection from one of our most distinguished literary voices.

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For and Against A United Ireland
€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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Mother Mary Comes To Me
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The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small ThingsTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFOYLES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025AUDIBLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025BLACKWELL’S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025WINNER OF THE GOOGLE PLAY BEST OF 2025 AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2026SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2026Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as ‘my shelter and my storm’. Distraught and even a “little ashamed” at the intensity of her response to the death of the mother she ran from at age eighteen, Arundhati began to write Mother Mary Comes to Me. The result is this astonishing, disconcerting, surprisingly funny chronicle—unique and simultaneously universal, of the author’s life, from childhood to the present, from Kerala to Delhi.

With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace—a memoir like no other. 2025 BOOK OF THE YEAR ACCORDING TO NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, TIME, INDEPENDENT, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, OBSERVER

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Sligo Field Club Journal Volume 5
€20.00
Sligo Field Club Journal
Vol 5

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BLUE RAINCOAT THEATRE COMPANY
€20.00
Blue Raincoat

Sligo?s Blue Raincoat Theatre Company reflects various aspects of place and space in their work, and their production of JM Synge?s The Playboy of the Western World (1907), directed by artistic director Niall Henry, which runs in their resident space in The Factory in Sligo, literally and symbolically represents their unique position as Ireland?s only full-time venue-based professional theatre ensemble.

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The Lecher Antenna
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Paperback. This is Part 2 which is a Lecher Antenna Practical Guide and is an elaborate traning course in geobiology and bio-energy which will enable the reader to make their own Lecher antenna measurements. . . . .

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Standing In Gaps
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‘Standing in Gaps’ Seamus O’Rourke – A Memoir

From far away Leitrim looks small and our lives insignificant. Not enough there to fill out the pages of a fairly thick book. Well come closer, and I’ll show you. And remember … it’s not a memory test. Who cares what I can remember. I just want to tell about the misery and the fun we had. It was all around me. In the fields and the houses. In the people and the time. This was my time. And what a time it was, if you had nothing better to be at.

‘The comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim’

Seamus O’Rourke is an award-winning writer, director and actor from County Leitrim. He tours Ireland regularly with his own self-penned shows. Seamus has over two million hits on YouTube and Social Media with his collection of short stories, recitations and sketches.

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In Nearly Every House
€20.00
This book contains biographies along with
black and white photographs featuring
over one hundred traditional musicians
from counties Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon
and Mayo. Through the author’s unique
personal and musical connection to the
musicians of the North Connacht region,
he uses a conversational interview style to
draw out their stories, revealing both the
individual and collective experience within
that tradition.

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To Walk in My Native Place
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To Walk in My Native Place

By Bernadette McCarrick

A book of poems with an accompanying set of photographs on the theme of Native Place.

A coffee table book merging poetry and photography.

“The poems in this collection are a lovingly observed portrait of the poet’s home place. Each poem captures a moment, a place or an event in a language that is evocative yet never sentimental.”

Gerry Boland – September, 2020

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Sligo Field Club Journal Vol 6
€20.00
Martin Wilson Presidential

Martin A. Timoney Editorial

Don C.F. Cotton
Peat and wood deposits along the seashore of Co. Sligo

Martin A. Timoney
Early Bronze Age Cist Grave, Moylough, 1928

Martin A. Timoney
Imitative Fert Burials, Knocknashammer

Brian Lacey
Cúl Dreimne, Drumcliff and Colum Cille

Jim Higgins
Some County Sligo Rood Lofts

Jim Higgins
Medieval Men in Feathered Suits at Sligo Abbey

Conor MacHale
Ó Dubhda Family of Sligo

Eamonn P. Kelly
Antiquarian Research in Co. Sligo

Eamonn P. Kelly
Battle of Moytura and the Enchanted Forge

John McKeon
Lord Palmerston’s Sligo Town Properties

Peter Henry
Some Sligo-related Armorial Bookplates

John Mullaney
V.E. Day 2020

Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich
Monasterredan: How Looks Can Deceive

Harry Keaney
Field-names ‘Sketch the Land in Language’

Ben Healy
God-out-of-the-Bottle

Rory Callagy
Remembering Des Smith

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10-Kieran Quinn + The Theme Night Ensemble
€20.00
A hardcover coffee table book, a comprehensive pictorial account of the Theme Night story (adult and teenage) over the last 10 years. A few good stories in there too.

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The Boy, the mole, the fox and the horse
€20.00
Charlie Mackesy’s beloved The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse has been adapted into an animated short film, coming to BBC One and iPlayer this Christmas. This beautifully made hardback celebrates the work of over 100 animators across two years of production – with Charlie’s distinctive illustrations brought to life in full colour with hand-drawn traditional animation and accompanying hand-written script.

“I made a film with some friends about a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse – their journey together and the boy’s search for home. I hope this book gives you courage and makes you feel loved.” Love Charlie x

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Finding Hope
€20.00
Hope is needed in our daily lives now more than ever. Wars and the pandemic, along with the ongoing climate crisis, are affecting the lives of many people all over the world. In this difficult time, hope is the unifying force to carry us through the despair. To inspire others to find hope in their lives, Sr Stan reached out to a number of individuals to discover where they find hope.

As with her previous best seller Finding Peace (2021), Sr Stan posed the question “Where and how do you find hope in your daily life?”. Despite being a very personal question, public figures and private citizens responded in droves and the result is an authentic and beautiful book sure to inspire readers.

With contributions from:

Charlie Bird, Mary Kenny, Cathy Kelly, Colum McCann, Tanaiste Micheál Martin, Orla Guerin, Mike Ryan, Éanna Ní Lamhna, Myles Dungan, Archbishop Eamon Martin, Collette O’Regan, Bryan Dobson, Mary Lou McDonald, Adi Roche, Dee Forbes….. and many more

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