In this collection of short stories, the characters are exhilarated and bewildered by the relentless demands of overpowering emotion, finding themselves defenceless against its ultimately wrecking power. Eilis Ni Dhuibhne has contributed to the antho...
Eilis Ni Dhuibhne is generally considered to be one of Ireland's finest practitioners of the short story. This book brings together nine of her best stories from her first two collections, "Blood and Water" and "Eating Women is Not Recommended," as w...
NOTE: This book is in the Irish language only; no English translation accompanies the Irish language text. The adventures of three teenagers living in the Dublin suburbs - Ruán, Emma and Colm. All neighbours of the same age but with different person...
‘Four girls sit on rocks in the middle of the stream: a dark plump girl; a girl whose hair burgeons from her head in a mane of light; another with long white legs and short black shorts, clipped jet hair; a willowy branch of a girl, blonde. The sun...
Anna Kelly Sweeney is a writer of popular fiction intent on worldly success. Leo is an idealist who lives in rural County Kerry and devotes himself to poetry, culture and innumerable worthy causes. When Anna falls in love with the handsome and enigma...
Utoipe nua-aoiseach is ea Dun an Airgid - go dti go dteann an leabharlannai Laoise Ni Bhroin ar iarraidh… / An Irish-language novel about the utopian housing development Dún an Airgid which seems perfect - until librarian Laoise Ní Bhroin disa...
‘When the story is finished, Muriel and Polly sit in silence. The coloured lights on the fuchsia bush twinkle against the black sea and the black mountain and the black sky. They sit in silence. They let the story settle.’ The Shelter of Neighbou...
This volume collects new short stories from one of Ireland’s leading writers in both the Irish and English languages. Eilis Ni Dhuibhne’s stories are widely acclaimed for their acute perception of Irish women’s lives, the power of her verbal ec...
"All she wants is a new country, a new language, new food. New people, new stories... She wants all this newness – which is as old as the hills – to encourage her, enclose her, remake her... She feels this, though she doesn’t r...