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…
Want to Read $ 7.99"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
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By: Takeshi Obata , Tsugumi Ohba , Yuki Kowalsky
4.49
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2. The Spinning Heart
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4.27
Format: 637 pages, Hardcover
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3. Two Pints
By: Roddy Doyle
4.09
Format: 129 pages,
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4. TransAtlantic
By: Colum McCann
4.07
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By: Denis Johnson
3.40
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6. 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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7. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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8. Foster
By: Claire Keegan
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when s… read more
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9. The Commitments
By: Roddy Doyle
4.30
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Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the sou… read more
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10. 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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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
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By: Karl Geary
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Juno loves Legs. She's loved him since their first encounter at school in Dublin, the time she foug… 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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4.00
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14. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
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"Life schools you the way no catechism will."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
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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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"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. Topographia Hibernica
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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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17. 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
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4.16
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19. The Alternatives
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3.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more
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20. That Old Country Music
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3.90
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
A collection of short stories of rural Ireland in the classic Irish mode: full of love (and sex), m… read more
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21. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
By: John Koenig
4.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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"liberosis n. the desire to care less about things—to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end z…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
"harke n. a painful memory that you look back upon with unexpected fondness, even though you remember having dreaded it at the time; a tough experience that has since been overridden by the pride of h…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
"Maybe there is no single self to speak of. Maybe you're a shifting collage of many different personas, each as authentic as the next. A kaleidoscope of ever-moving fragments, reflecting a thousand li…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
"But maybe all along, we had the story backward. Maybe we were the ones who cast out the jungle, who striped it naked, and tried to teach it good and evil, breaking it down into pieces that served a p…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
22. Aisling Ever After
By: Emer McLysaght
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Living in the Big Apple feels like a movie, especially when Aisling finds her ex-boyfriend John on … read more
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23. Aisling and the City
By: Emer McLysaght
4.08
Format: 402 pages, None
Aisling is 31, and she’s still a complete Aisling. With BallyGoBrunch flying and the door firmly cl… read more
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24. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
By: Mark O'Connell
3.74
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
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25. Ireland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered
By: Turtle Bunbury
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This volume delves into Ireland’s forgotten history bringing to light some of the most colorful cha… read more
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26. Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War
By: Richard O'Rawe
4.02
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27. Hagstone
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3.63
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more
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28. This is the Life: Days and Nights in the GAA
By: Ciarán Murphy
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
The GAA is Ireland's largest civil society organisation, woven into the fabric of families and comm… read more
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29. 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 … read more
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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
30. Anseo
By: Una-Minh Kavanagh
3.90
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
A contemporary and gorgeous memoir of adoption from Vietnam to Kerry, the love of her small family … read more
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