A light-hearted, fully-illustrated retro-style picture book with 50+ words and phrases you can use to practise your Irish with your furry bestfriend.
Includes phonetic spelling/pronunciation guide.
Paperback
Pages 112
Séamus Ó Conaill examines the artifacts of an Irish home, from ash trays on back windowsill to the potpourri gathering dust in the ‘good room’. The list includes many newer objects...
Grasp a leaf from nature and discover for yourself the therapeutic, culinary, nutritious properties of wonderfully gifted, exhilarating, invaluable stinging nettles, when you gather, dry, store and used them for...
John Creedon has always been fascinated by place names, from when he was a young boy growing up in Cork City to travelling around Ireland making his popular television show....
A bilingual (English & Irish) selection of the poetry of Máire Mhac an tSaoi. ‘She is a prober of the condition of love, and no living poet has brought more...
Pádraic Breathnach delves deep into the complexities of human relationships. Whether at their genesis or demise, amidst their construction or destruction, he paints a vivid picture of the intricacies of...
By turning off the main highway and discovering old routes, some of which have been travelled for thousands of years, you will see Ireland in an entirely different way. Follow the...
How to win friends and influence people, Irish style! A collection of words and phrases to showcase the famed Irish gift of the gab, from fond greetings and terms of...
Celtic Ireland was a land of tribes and warriors; but a sophisticated & enlightened legal system was widely accepted. The brehons were the keepers of these laws, which dealt with...
oday’s Ireland has never lost the link with its pagan past, never forgotten the old ways. This book reveals the hidden world of pagan Ireland, showing it still exists among...
You could say that Frank McNally is a travel writer – he writes while the world travels by! For almost twenty years, Frank’s name has occupied the byline of the...
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Irish names: they’re older than the pyramids. And looking to the future, they’ll probably be mispronounced for another 5000 years! This book contains over 200 Irish names for girls and...
Insects, birds, bats, foxes, badgers, shrews. These beautiful and fascinating creatures need somewhere to live, as their own natural habitats become more and more endangered. Learn how to make your...
We Irish have enriched the English language with a slew of snazzy gems. Did you know we’re the ones behind quarks, electrons and vectors, Sudocrem and Wellington boots? No surprise that we invented begrudgery, but croquet and Wunderkind were us too! So if some yahoo is getting on your nerves,...
An Dá Shaol: Ag Cur Rútaí i Ráth Chairn is a memoir by Pádraic Mac Donncha. Pádraic Sheáinín is a man who has experienced two different worlds. He was born into...
In 1849, the Thomas Arbuthnot set sail for Australia.Onboard were 194 Irish girls. I heard the emotion in Sarah’s voice as she asked, ‘Will we ever come back?’ ‘Come back where?’ ‘Home,’...
While officially Ireland has two languages, in truth is it is probably closer to three: English, Irish, and Irish-English (Hiberno-English). And it is this third language, Irish-English, that most Irish...
A journey across Ireland, in words and dazzling images, exploring the nature we pass every day. Go deep in the bog, high in the mountains and under crashing waves. Discover alpine...
The Irish nana is a repository of family history, memory and lore. Sometimes, like the Italian nonna, she is also a 'walking cookbook', carrying the old knowledge of how things...
In his second book Ronan Moore, author of Irishology, has created a humorous and irreverent guide to every county in Ireland: Galway, where rainfall is measured not in millimetres but in...
The perfect introduction to Ireland’s dramatic fight for sovereignty Gaining independence from British rule has dominated Irish history since the plantation of Ulster. This book focuses on the lead up...
From its opening in 1796 to finally closing its doors in 1924, Kilmainham Gaol has held an iconic place in Irish history. Built as Dublin's County Gaol, it held hundreds...
The Great Famine, "an Gorta Mor" in Irish, was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. It's often referred to as the Irish...
