Books

Songs from the High Stool

Songs from the High Stool

Bar Stool Notions of Poetry is one of Jonathan Roth’s many books of poetry. This book consists of 45 funny, moving and heartwarming, easy read poems.  He dedicated his book to ‘tolerators of national poetry, proud West of Ireland culchies, fellow bar stool residents’ and a few more,

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The Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry Revisited

The Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry Revisited

The Magdalene Laundry system which operated in this country for over 150 years will forever remain a stain on the Irish psyche, and one that cannot easily be expunged. Now a new book has emerged which deals specifically with one of these laundries,

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Dublin Book Festival 2023

Dublin Book Festival 2023

From 8th-12th November book lovers can expect to journey across Dublin as this year’s fest looks to take place across a number of exciting venues: buildings, walkways, canals, gardens, bookshops and libraries across the city. The Festival Hub will return to the Printworks in Dublin Castle.

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Poems and Prose from Beneath the Reek, by Jonathan Roth

Poems and Prose from Beneath the Reek, by Jonathan Roth

Jonathan Roth is a retired medical gerontologist who spends his time between Dublin and Westport, Co Mayo. In 2022 Jonathan climbed Croagh Patrick (or the Reek as it known to locals) and a few weeks later wrote a poem about his experience called

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Christmas Books for Children

Christmas Books for Children

Books are always a wonderful gift for Christmas, they are certainly my favourite gift, and there are a lot of good new books of Irish interest out this Christmas. Here we will look briefly at just a small sample of them.

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Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story

Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story

Ronan Casey’s compendium, Medium Sized Town, Fairly Big Story, is classic stocking filler fare, especially if you have a taste for the oddities of small town life. Subtitled ‘The Stories that made the Headlines in Ireland’s Local Newspapers… And Nowhere Else’,

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Dancehall Days

Dancehall Days

Stuck for gift ideas for a loved one who has everything? Has that same person spent any of their days in the dancehalls of the 50s and 60s, or can they appreciate good photography? Dancehall Days could be the answer to your conundrum. It is a collection of photographs by Michael O’Reilly,

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Stocking Fillers

Stocking Fillers

The Christmas season of goodwill to all men is upon us and is evident in the unending list of charity cards and gifts now on offer. It can be difficult to pick one from all the worthy causes, but an excellent way to get that Christmassy glow during the pre-Christmas gift-buying

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A Social and Natural History of Sandymount, Irishtown and Ringsend

A Social and Natural History of Sandymount, Irishtown and Ringsend

This anthology of essays and images proposes to do exactly what the title says: within its pages are 32 essays on the history and environment of the famed Dublin 4 neighbourhoods named in the title. A collaborative

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Donnybrook: A History

Donnybrook: A History

The room brimmed at Elm Park Golf Club with members, family, friends, historians and local residents for the launch of Dr Beatrice Doran’s book Donnybrook: A History on the 7th of November. A long queue quickly formed to purchase a

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