Dublin lilliput (235 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Youth dives into the lives of four teenagers in Irelands most diverse town, Balbriggan. Angel is about to finish school and discover if Drill music and YouTube fame can deliver on their promises. Princess is battling to escape her claustrophobic surroundings and go to university and Dean is ready to come out from under his famous fathers shadow, while Tanya, struggling with the spotlight of internet infamy, is still posting her dream life for all of her faithful followers. Isolated and disorientated by the white noise and seemingly insurmountable expectations of adolescence, our protagonists are desperate to find anything that helps them belong. Oblivious to one anothers presence, potential and struggles, they pass each other on the street as strangers. But when their paths cross, the connections they make will change the course of their lives. Twenty-first century life hyper-sexualized, social media saturated, anxiety-plagued is here. Living inside its characters heads, and negotiating their interior landscape, this book is a love song to the possibilities of youth. Using insights gained from the young people he works with, Currans evocative writing yields the authenticity this novel demands. With instinctive affection and admiration for his characters strengths and complexities, Youth is a journey through streets less travelled. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Land Question has always been predominant in Ireland. According to forecasts, there will be as few as 15,000 farmers in twenty years time. As the Irish rural image undergoes radical transformation, this timely, informative, vigorously argued book will be necessary reading for those working in rural development, food production, housing, transport, heritage and conservation, to say nothing of those who simply care about Irelands future. Land Matters concerns social and ecological change, the underlying results of structural and policy decisions made in Brussels or Dublin and their impact on the ground. It addresses the following themes: globalization and the forces that shape society; the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy), and why it has been reformed; social inequality; REPS (the Rural Environment Protection Scheme) and its impact; survival strategies in everyday life (farm households and diversification); green capitalism; landscape, heritage and the politics of perception; nitrate pollution; migration; contrasting rural visions (housing in the country, clean food); and views of a region west Cork in which competing claims are made by farmers, hoteliers, conservationists and second-home owners. Key organizations such as Teagasc, the IFA, An Taisce and Organic Trust are also examined and profiled. Land matters permeate all our lives, from our supermarket shelves to our television screens and studies, from our boardrooms to our streets, dwellings, communities and belief systems. No one will be untouched by the issues raised in this pioneering, analytic work. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A Lost Tribe is a novel that charts the role of the priest in Ireland, from his exalted position to one of an endangered species. The seminarians at St Pauls are granted permission to watch the opening of Vatican II, transfixed by the procession of bishops vested in flowing robes. Seduced by the power emanating from Rome and inspired by the vision of the Vatican Council, these young men sacrifice their instincts to a life in the priesthood. The dream collapses when the Irish Church becomes unwilling to evolve with a rapidly mutating world and unable to wield the power it once had. Unable to cope with the pressures of ministry and no longer fulfilled by their call, many abandon their vocation to seek a new life. Mac, a spirited young student, is disillusioned with the inadequacy of his seminary training and is expelled for a tryst, while timid fellow priests share remedies for the collective loneliness of their vocation. Kings daring novel offers an insight into the conflicted life of the priest struggling with the demands of a self-selected lifestyle and the isolation of clerical celibacy. A Lost Tribe is a poignant study of an altered society. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In the midst of the Second Intifada, two acts of extreme violence lead to an act of extraordinary humanity. A suicide bomb was detonated outside a nightclub in Tel Aviv, killing twenty-two people, mostly young Israelis. The next day, in an apparently retributive act of violence, an Israeli settler shot Palestinian pharmacist, Mazan Al-Joulani in the neck, rendering him brain-dead. From the ashes of these deadly events rose an incredible act of generosity when the family of Al-Joulani agreed to donate his heart to a dying Israeli. The son of pioneering cardiologists, Rowan Somerville travelled to the Levant to speak with survivors and their families, interviewing the surgeon who performed the transplant, and meeting the family of the suicide bomber Saeed Hotari. In this close look at humanity at work, Somervilles writing is at once personal and objective, an outsiders unbiased view of events steeped in, but overcoming, prejudice. The close observations and fastpaced narrative style have the immediacy of a contemporary thriller. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Abandoned by her parents when they resettle in Meath, Mary O Conaill faces the task of raising her younger siblings alone. Padraig is disappeared, Sean joins the Christian Brothers, Bridget escapes and her brother Seamus inherits the farm. Maeve is sent to serve a family of shopkeepers in the local town. Later, pregnant and unwed, she is placed in a Magdalene Laundry where her twins are forcibly removed. Spanning the 1930s to the 70s, this sweeping multi-generational family saga follows the psychic and physical displacement of a society in freefall after independence. Wit, poetic nuance, vitality and authenticity inhabit this remarkable novel. The Cruelty Men tells an unsentimental tale of survival in a country proclaimed as independent but subjugated by silence. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paul Clements travels the length of the Shannon in this book. It will be of interest to nature lovers and to tourists, containing a wealth of local knowledge of the area around Shannon, especially useful for staycations. In August 1939 the Irish travel writer Richard Hayward set out on a road trip to explore the Shannon region just two weeks before the Second World War broke out. His evocative account of that trip, Where the River Shannon Flows, still sought after now by lovers of the river, became a bestseller. Eighty years on, inspired by his work, Paul Clements author of Romancing Ireland, the biography of Richard Hayward retraces Haywards journey along the river, following if not strictly in his footsteps then within the spirit of his trip. From the Shannon Pot in Cavan, 344 kilometres south to the Shannon estuary, his meandering odyssey takes him by car, on foot, and by bike and boat, discovering how the riverscape has changed but is still powerful in symbolism. While he recreates Haywards trip, Clements also paints a compelling portrait of twenty-first century Ireland, mingling travel and anecdote with an eye for the natural world. The book gives a voice to stories from water gypsies, anglers, sailors, lock keepers, bog artists, insta pilgrims and a water diviner celebrating wisdom through her river songs and illuminates cultural history and identity. Wildlife, nature, and the built heritage, including historic bridges, all play a part. On a quixotic journey Paul Clements produces an intimate portrait of the hidden countryside, its people, topography and wildlife, creating a collective memory map, looking at what has been lost and what has changed. This is the country of the River Shannon that runs through literature, art, cultural history and mythology with a riptide pull on our imagination a tribute to Irelands longest river reflecting the deep vein flowing through the culture of the country. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. 1st edition. 214pp, octavo, tight binding, clean throughout, clean wraps with sharp corners.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Feminist, socialist, trenchant social commentator, Nell has seen and lived it all. From the early days of the civil rights movement and the revolutionary fervour of Free Derry to the bitter conflict at the Garvaghy Road and the Siege of Sarajevo, she has been both a participant in and a witness to history in the making. Writing about it all in her own way, and as nobody else ever could, the force of her passionate pen has won her a place as one of Irelands best-loved journalists. Here are moving accounts of the numbed aftermath of Bloody Sunday; of the lonely death of Ann Lovett in 1984 and of the shock of the Kerry Babies case a year later. And in excerpts from her acclaimed In the Eyes of the Law series we meet Maoists, Hare Krishna monks, wife-beaters and adult consenting males confronting the Dublin District Courts. Taken from sources ranging from The Irish Times, Irish Press and Sunday Tribune, to Hot Press, Kerrys Eye and Magill, Vintage Nell harvests the strange fruits of Irish social and cultural life from the seventies to the twenty-first century. It features classic accounts of the Popes Visit in 1979 and of the dirty protest of women prisoners in Armagh Prison and sympathetic, raw, incisive cameo-portraits of Ian Paisley, Martin McGuinness, Raymond Gilmour, Bishop Casey, Mary Robinson, Winnie Mandela, Mo Mowlam and others. From the serious Reservoir Prods, Chernobyl and The Life and Death of Mary Norris to the witty and satiric Silent Night, Golden Balls and Jukebox (on Elvis) Vintage Nell concludes with a poignant description of her mother Lilys death in December 2004, and showcases the best work of this prodigiously talented writer. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. some shelf wear.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. This novel by Maylis Besserie, the first of her Irish trilogy, showsus Samuel Beckett at the end of his life in 1989, living in Le Tiers-Temps retirement home. It is as if Beckett has come to live in oneof his own stage productions, peopled with strange, unhingedindividuals, waiting for the end of days. Yell, Sam, If You Still Can is filled with voices. From diary notes to clinical reportsto daily menus, cool medical voices provide a counterpoint toBeckett himself, who reflects on his increasingly fragile existence.He remains playful, rueful, and aware of the dramatic irony that hasbrought him to live in the room next door to Winnie, surroundedby grotesques like Hamm or Lucky, abandoned by his wife Suzannewho died before him. Besserie delights in Becketts bilingualism and plays back and forthbetween the francophone and anglophone properties of language, summoning James Joyce as Beckett reminisces about evenings thetwo spent together singing, talking and drinking. Largely writtenin the library of the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Besserie has kept thehum of Irish voices throughout this work. Yell, Sam, If You Still Can won the Goncourt du premier roman, the prestigiousFrench literary prize for first time novelists, just before the country went into lockdown. Besserie is now planning a further two novelsthat will explore the links between Ireland and France and is toutedas the new star of the French literary world. Financial Times Book of the Year 2022. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In Introducing Moriarty Canadian theologian and academic Michael W. Higgins compiles the essential writings of Irish philosopher and mystic, John Moriarty. This distillation of Moriartys texts on ecology, mysticism and spirituality is a perfect introduction to the work of this complex and, at times, esoteric philosopher. Higgins commentary provides an excellent guide to one of the countrys most enigmatic modern thinkers and is an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in Irish philosophy and spirituality. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In a disused railway tunnel lives Pollyhester, dressmaker to the stars. Celebrities dream of Pollyhesters designs, teased out of ancient recycled fabrics and her wonderous imagination. But when Fashion Dictators change the fashion, celebrity Iverna makes extraordinary demands on poor Pollyhester. She summons her loyal helpers, who include a fallen dancing angel, a lovesick Viking motorcycle courier and a host of sinister spiders, to save the day. Beautifully illustrated, and simply told, this enchanting tale will captivate both young and old. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Slight shelf wear to cover.

1st ed. No inscriptions or annotations; binding tight; dust jacket slightly worn at edges Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Village of Longing, George OBriens narrative of his childhood in the somnolent river-valley settlement of Lismore, Co. Waterford, during the 1950s, has established itself as a contemporary classic since its initial publication in hardback in 1987. It describes the life and surroundings of an only child raised in an unorthodox household within a close-knit society ruled by the twin empires of Castle and Church haunted by the lure of foreignness and the pain of exile. George OBriens shimmering prose incarnates an Ireland in microcosm a physical place and a place of the mind. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Second Printing. Some cover corner creases and shelf wear with some cover scuffing. ; Second printing of trade paperback edition, 2008. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover design by Niall McCormack with photo by Tommy Kelly. ; 240 pages; On a late August night a young man is kicked to death outside a Dublin nightclub and celebration turns to devastation. The reverberations of that event, its genesis and aftermath, is the subject of this extraordinary story, stripping away the veneer of a generation of Celtic cubs, whose social and sexual mores are chronicled and dissected in this tract for our times. The victim, Conor Harris, his killers three of them are charged with manslaughter and the trial judge share common childhoods and schooling in the privileged echelons of south Dublin suburbia. The intertwining of these lives leaves their afflicted families in moral free fall as public exposure merges with private anguish and imploded futures. Trade PB.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In an essay from 1996 collection Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara and Other Essays, Tim Robinson noted that we are spatial entities, which is even more basic than being physical entities, subject to the law of gravity. In this dazzling new series of essays Robinson examines aspects of his own time in space, moving from his childhood in Yorkshire, to a deadly moment on a Malayan airstrip, a pilgrimage to the midnight sun, adventures in the art-worlds of Istanbul, Vienna and London, and finally to the spaces of the West of Ireland which he has interpreted with incomparable attention and fidelity over the past three decades. The essays explore problems in mathematics and mapping, the human implications of the arc of a missile the feelings of a sceptic upon approaching divine ground in the company of a mystic, and other encounters of the empirical with the numinous: Robinson has an uncanny capacity to write convincingly about both. The sequence ends with an angry outburst against the continuing destruction of the Irish countryside and a moving hymn to the delights of his own house and garden at the edge of the sea in Connemara. My Time in Space is the latest instalment in a literary corpus of singular integrity and endless fascination. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Zustand: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. With B&W illustrations. Text clean; binding tight. Very slightly bent by poor storage at some time Used - Very Good. VG paperback.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. In Stock.

Zustand: Very Good. 2nd impression. Paperback, VG+. x+149pp, b/w illustrations, index, ink note from a previous owner to the half title, otherwise a fine copy. Articles from the author's Irish Times newspaper column, which began in 1988 & discussed all things weather wise. Brendan McWilliams [ 1944 - 2007 ] Irish meteorologist and science writer. 300 grams.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Slight shelf wear to jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Slight shelf wear to jacket.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In Showbusiness with Blood, Eamon Carr beguiles the reader with an insightful account of the worlds greatest boxers, from Steve Collins to Mike Tyson to Tyson Fury and Katie Taylor. Boxing, Irelands most successful Olympic sport, became turbo-charged in the mid-90s. A golden age followed as Irish boxers excelled in the harsh, violent and sometimes tragic business that is professional boxing. Having become enamoured of the sport during a period of serious illness as a child, Eamon Carr was on hand to witness the victories and disasters. The core principle of prize-fighting striking and defence demands enormous courage each time the boxer steps forward. Surrounded by enthusiastic fans, the ring can yet be the loneliest place in the world. Ireland embodies this tradition with renewed focus over the past three decades in a golden age of boxing. Showbusiness with Blood takes the reader on an intimate journey through Irish boxings years of triumph and desolation. Carrs enthusiasm for the sport illuminates the dark corners of the fight game with stories from gruelling training camps, noisy press conferences, behind-the-scenes hustling and the savage brutality of championship fights. These are stories of aspiration and devastation. Yet amid the chaos and destruction of the boxing ring are inspirational tales of courage, resilience and personal redemption: boxings enduring saving grace Featured boxers include: Steve Collins, Wayne McCullough, Bernard Dunne, Darren Sutherland, Tyson Fury, Jamie Conlan, Andy Lee, John Joe Nevin, Katie Taylor, Willie Casey, Carl Frampton, Michael Conlan, Mike Tyson, Seamus McDonagh, Conor McGregor, Martin Rogan, Michael Carruth, Francis Barrett, Matthew Macklin and Gary Spike OSullivan. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near fine copy.

Fourth Printing. Near fine paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Corner creased. Wrappers slightly sun-toned. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 256p. ; 22 cm. Subjects; O'Connor, Rory Childhood and youth. Knocknagoshel (Ireland) Social life and customs 20th century. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; wrapper edges slightly creased. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xii, 339 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes discographies and index. Contents; Dermot Bolger -- Tim Booth -- Paul Brady -- Philip Casey -- Lar Cassidy -- Paul Charles -- Denny Cordell -- Mary Coughlan -- Jeananne Crowley -- Peter Cunningham -- P.J. Curtis -- Barry Devlin -- Keith Donald -- Donovan -- Theo Dorgan -- Roddy Doyle -- John Dunne -- Anne Enright -- Marianne Faithfull -- BP Fallon -- Peter Fallon -- Alec Finn -- Aisling Foster -- John Wilson Foster -- Martin Gale -- Carlo Gebler -- Kathy Gilfillan -- Elgy Gillespie -- Tim Goulding -- Bill Graham -- Hugo Hamilton -- Mick Hanly -- Dermot Healy -- Desmond Hogan -- John Hutchinson -- Mary Kenny -- Michael Lindsay-Hogg -- Shane MacGowan -- Pat McCabe -- Nell McCafferty -- Ciaran McGinley -- Patrick McGrath -- Frank McGuinness -- Paul McGuinness -- Paddy Moloney -- Danny Morrison -- Terry Moylan -- Paul Muldoon -- Kevin Myers -- Charles Naper -- George O'Brien -- Joe O'Connor -- Tim O'Grady -- Fintan O'Toole -- Rhonda Paisley -- Noel Redding -- Martin Rowson -- Jim & Peter Sheridan -- Pete Short -- James Simmons -- John Stephenson -- Colm Tóibín -- Niall Toner -- Brian Trench -- Paolo Tullio -- Mark Venner -- Dick Warner -- Ian Whitcomb -- Kathleen Williamson -- Ron Wood -- Terry Woods. Subjects; Rock music. History and criticism. Ireland. 20th century. 1960s. 1970s. 1980s. 1990s. Anthology. Discography. Index. 1 Kg. …

1st edition. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 54p; 22cm. Subjects: Parnell, Charles Stewart 1846-1891. Nationalists Ireland; Biography. Politicians Ireland; Biography. Ireland Politics and government 1837-1901. 1 Kg. …