The Singing Flame
By: Ernie O'Malley
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
1978 Anvil Books Ltd. Appears to have had very little use. Spine is uncreased. Ink date (Oct 6, 197…
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1. That They May Face The Rising Sun
By: John McGahern
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely considered to be the finest Irish writer of fiction at work today, John McGahern gives us a … read more
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- ireland
2. The Sympathizer
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizeris … read more
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3. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
4. Guerilla Days in Ireland: A Personal Account of the Anglo-Irish War
By: Tom Barry
4.15
Format: 275 pages,
Guerilla Days in Irelandis the extraordinary story of the fight between two unequal forces, which e… read more
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- history
- biography
- military history
- nonfiction
- ireland
5. Borstal Boy
By: Brendan Behan , Benedict Kiely
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
Brendan Behan was an Irish playwright and novelist, as well as a youthful revolutionary. In 1939, a… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- ireland
6. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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7. Strumpet City
By: James Plunkett
3.89
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Set in Dublin during the Lockout of 1913, Strumpet City is a panoramic novel of city life. It embra… read more
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8. The Sellout
By: Paul Beatty
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Sellout is the first book by an American author to win the UK's prestigious Man Booker Prize. A… read more
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9. The Year of the French
By: Thomas Flanagan
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of … read more
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10. The Dark
By: John McGahern
4.20
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
The Dark, widely acclaimed, yet infamously banned, is John McGahern's sensitive, perceptive, and be… read more
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11. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
12. My Fight for Irish Freedom
By: None
3.00
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
A personal memoir from Dan Breen, a must read for those interested in the struggle for Irish freedom read more
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13. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- ireland
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
14. 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
15. 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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- ireland
16. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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17. The Promise
By: Damon Galgut
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more
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"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
18. All Down Darkness Wide
By: Seán Hewitt
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
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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- nonfiction
- ireland
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings
20. The Rodfather: Inside the Beautiful (Ugly, Ridiculous, Hilarious) Game
By: Roddy Collins
4.28
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
The hilarious memoir from the funniest man in football!Roddy Collins is a football man - now in the… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
21. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
By: Mark O'Connell
3.74
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- ireland
22. Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War
By: Diarmaid Ferriter
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
At the end of the Irish War of Independence, Dublin signed an unsatisfactory treaty with London, th… read more
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- politics
- military history
- nonfiction
- ireland
23. The Singing Flame
By: Ernie O'Malley
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
1978 Anvil Books Ltd. Appears to have had very little use. Spine is uncreased. Ink date (Oct 6, 197… read more
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- autobiography
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- ireland
24. The Sunken Road
By: Ciaran McMenamin
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
'Tremendous' William Boyd A powerful and gripping novel about love, loyalty and obsession set duri… read more
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