Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language
By: Darach O'Séaghdha
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What do we talk about when we talk about Irish? When we talk about saving or supporting a language …
Want to Read $ 7.99"The Irish word for innuendo is claontagairt. Sorry it's so long and hard."-Darach O'Séaghdha, Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language
"The Irish word for innuendo is claontagairt. Sorry it's so long and hard."-Darach O'Séaghdha, Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language
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1. The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)
By: Terry Pratchett , Stephen Baxter
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
From the back jacket: NORMALLY, WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO, HE LISTENED TO THE SILENCE. The Silen… read more
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2. Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
By: Jeff Lindsay
3.72
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
See alternate cover edition: He's a charming monster... A macabre hero... A serial killler who on… read more
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3. Death and the Penguin
By: Andrey Kurkov , George Bird
4.33
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefe… read more
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4. The Táin: From the Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailnge
By: Anonymous , Thomas Kinsella , Louis Le Brocquy
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Tain Bo Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's… read more
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5. Nobody Walks
By: Mick Herron
3.95
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited new novel by British espionage fiction master Mick Herron, author of the 2013 Crim… read more
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6. Raising Steam (Discworld, #40, Moist von Lipwig #3 )
By: Terry Pratchett
4.32
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork -… read more
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7. The Commitments
By: Roddy Doyle
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the sou… read more
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8. Dexter By Design (Dexter, #4)
By: Jeff Lindsay
3.80
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
The macabre, witty New York Timesbestselling series (and inspiration for the #1 Showtime series, De… read more
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9. Acts of Desperation
By: Megan Nolan
3.74
Format: 288 pages, None
In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic … read more
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"You always think your pain is the most painful. You always think it's uniquely awful."-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
"I didn't want her near me, because she was the only one able to see me for what I was, but I couldn't lose her for the very same reason."-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
"You can't complain about feeling bad, about being depressed, if you aren't trying to sleep, trying to eat, trying to care about yourself."-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
"I made mistakes like this all the time, seeking affirmation from the very worst people, so that what I must have been after deep down was confirmation of the fears instead of their dismissals"-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
10. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
11. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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12. Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
By: Manchán Magan
4.27
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
The Irish language has thirty-two words for field. Among them – a field of corn-grassTuar – a fiel… read more
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13. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
14. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
15. Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language
By: Darach Ó Séaghdha
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
'Thought-provoking, irreverent and often laugh-out-loud hilarious' Irish Independent . "Motherfocló… read more
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- language
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- ireland
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"This may come as a surprise to generations of Irish pupils, but the Irish language wasn't invented just to infuriate people forced to learn it at school."-Darach Ó Séaghdha, Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language
16. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
By: Lou Sullivan
4.76
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguab… read more
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"I don't even know if there was anyone that's ever felt as I do.. how they coped, what they did...how do I find out what someone like me does?"-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
"A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won't exist to prove them wrong."-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
"In a lot of ways I think the problem is I spend too much time seeing myself though other people's eyes and not really being in my body and enjoying myself and relaxing in my image."-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
"I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are."-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
17. Topographia Hibernica
By: Blindboy Boatclub
4.33
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The … read more
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18. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
19. Rememberings
By: Sinéad O'Connor
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more
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"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings
20. Leonard and Hungry Paul
By: Ronan Hession
4.15
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
In this startling debut, Ronan Hession tells the story of two thirty-something men who take care of… read more
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"You may wish to note the above"-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul
"It was strange that after all the years of getting the kids to be independent, she would feel so daunted at having her life back. But it was the nature of being a parent. The kids' lives are their ow…"-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul
"Leonard wore a new feeling of peace. He had always associated peace with the idea of happiness, as if it were some sort of steady state that happiness turned into when it was for real. But now he rea…"-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul
21. Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies Beneath Us
By: Manchán Magan
4.17
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
Our ancestors developed a uniquely nature-focused society, centred on esteemed poets, seers, monks,… read more
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22. Snowflake
By: Louise Nealon
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely talented young Irish writer makes her literary debut with this powerful and haunting… read more
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23. An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey Into the Magic of Rewilding
By: Eoghan Daltun
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beautiful nature writing combined with a passionate appeal for a radically changed relationship to … read more
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"A common misconception is that rewilding seeks to return land to an idealised previous ecological state. In reality it would never be possible to go back in time to some arbitrarily chosen baseline -…"-Eoghan Daltun, An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey Into the Magic of Rewilding
24. A Ghost in the Throat
By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
4.04
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and auto… read more
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"Swift, the twist from ordinary to catastrophe."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
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"We cannot know from whose mouths the echoes of our lives will chime."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"We cannot permit reason to intrude upon this moment. Do not deny us this."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
25. Spirit Level
By: Richy Craven
3.94
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
Danny Hook is a directionless twenty-something year old fresh out of therapy. Dealing with his disa… read more
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26. What the Taliban Told Me
By: Ian Fritz
3.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost. When … read more
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27. Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language
By: Darach O'Séaghdha
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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"The Irish word for innuendo is claontagairt. Sorry it's so long and hard."-Darach O'Séaghdha, Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language
28. Irish and Ecology | An Ghaeilge agus an Éiceolaíocht
By: Michael Cronin
4.13
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
This book looks at the greatest challenge facing Ireland in the 21st Century – climate change. The … read more
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29. Where I End
By: Sophie White
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
My mother. At night, my mother creaks. The house creaks along with her. Through our thin shar… read more
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30. A Lick and a Promise
By: Imelda May
3.85
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
A Lick and a Promise is the debut poetry collection of one of Ireland's most famed female musicians… read more
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