Geographic: Ireland

The Commitments are a band with a mission - bringing soul to Dublin. Led by Jimmy Rabbitte, a man with ambition, coached by Joey 'The Lips' Fagan, an old man with a trumpet, protected by Mickah Wallace, owner of the most feared forehead in Barrytown.

The Commitments are a band with a mission - bringing soul to Dublin. Led by Jimmy Rabbitte, a man with ambition, coached by Joey 'The Lips' Fagan, an old man with a trumpet, protected by Mickah Wallace, owner of the most feared forehead in Barrytown.

This long-awaited fourteenth volume corrects all known errors and adds much new information to the previous entries, gathered from various sources including the House of Lords Record Office and many historians and genealogists.

When Mara, Brehon of the Burren, is summoned to the sandy beach of Fanore, on the western fringe of the kingdom of the Burren, she sees a sight that she has never witnessed before during her thirty years as law-enforcer and investigating magistrate: a dead man lying in a boat with no oars. Immedi...

In two decades of the bloody Irish struggle, no one is more feared and reviled than the terrorist both sides know as Cuchulain. But now, Cuchulain finds himself chased not only by British intelligence, but also by the KGB and the IRA.

It is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady's father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. Her mother died long ago and now, orphaned on the cusp of adulthood, Cora is adrift and alone. Soon, a letter will ar...

Following a near-death experience as a child, the narrator becomes cursed with the ability to foresee the deaths of the people closest to him. These visions come to him in his dreams, and following a disastrous attempt to save a childhood friend from drowning, a set of terrifying events begins to...

How do you tell the story of life that is no one thing? How do you tell the story of a life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood? And how do you tell that story when you are not just a woman but a woman in Ireland? In these powerful and daring essays Sinead Gleeson does that...

In 'The Copper Beech', Maeve Binchy provides a portrait of a small Irish town whose untroubled surface conceals the passions, rivalries, friendships, ambitions and jealousies beneath.

In 'The Copper Beech', Shancarrig school stands in the shade of an old copper beech, a tree that has watched over many young lives.

Talented lawyer Hannah Campbell is after a change in her workaholic Manchester life - so on an uncharacteristic whim she books herself a place at the world-renowned Killorgally Cookery School in County Kerry. But on her first night in Ireland, sampling the delights of Dublin, Hannah can't resist ...

1995, Ireland. Panic grips the village of Drumsuin when a teenage girl goes missing in the nearby forest. Saoirse is not the first girl to disappear in those woods. And when it's revealed she was playing the Counting Game that day - a ritual believed to ward off the forest's evils - old superstit...

Rather like the regions intoned on BBC Radio's 'Shipping Forecast,' the names of Britain's sixty or so racecourses are regularly broadcast on TV and Radio sports programmes. But what are the racecourses actually like? Britain, where the thoroughbred evolved and where the sport of horseracing deve...

This is the definitive authorised account of the extraordinary life and career of Thin Lizzy guiding spirit, Philip Lynott. Leading music writer Graeme Thompson explores the fascinating contradictions between Lynott's unbridled rock star excesses and the shy, sensitive 'orphan' raised in working ...

Chief Superintendent Christy Mangan knows how hard it is to turn a murder investigation into a conviction. As a top murder detective and founder of the Garda Cold Case unit, he saw it all over the course of his 40-year career. 'Cracking the Case' takes a deep dive into the fascinating world of se...

Renowned academic Dr. Sparling seeks help with his project on a remote Irish village. Historical researchers Ben and Chloe are thrilled to be chosen - until they arrive. The village is isolated and forgotten. There is no record of its history, its stories. There is no friendliness from the locals...

Renowned academic Dr. Sparling seeks help with his project on a remote Irish village. Historical researchers Ben and Chloe are thrilled to be chosen - until they arrive. The village is isolated and forgotten. There is no record of its history, its stories. There is no friendliness from the locals...

This directory contains the biographies of Anglican clergy as well as comprehensive information of English, Welsh and Irish benefices and churches, Scottish incumbencies and central London churches.

This directory contains the biographies of Anglican clergy as well as comprehensive information of English, Welsh and Irish benefices and churches, Scottish incumbencies and central London churches.

This directory contains the biographies of Anglican clergy as well as comprehensive information of English, Welsh and Irish benefices and churches, Scottish incumbencies and central London churches.