Irish Interest

Winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards Best Irish-Published Book of the Year... Old Ireland in Colour celebrates the rich history of Ireland and the Irish through the colour restoration of stunning images of all walks of Irish life.

Winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year... A Dubray Staff Recommended Read... A fluid hybrid of essay and autofiction to explore the ways in which a life can be changed in response to the discovery of another's - in this case, Eibhli n Dubh Ni Chonaill's Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoghaire, famously referred to by Peter Levi as `the greatest poem written in either Ireland or Britain during the eighteenth century.'

Our HALF PRICE Book of the Week (limited period). A Dubray Staff Recommended Read. Compelling new novel of stigma and secrecy from Sunday Times bestseller.

A lyrical reminder of Ireland's lost words that offer a different way of seeing the world.

Nominated for the Women’s Prize 2020. DUBRAY STAFF RECOMMENDED READ. Told in Maggie O'Farrell's unique voice, HAMNET reveals for the first time in fiction the story of heartbreaking loss which inspired Shakespeare's most celebrated play

Here’s the Story is warm, witty and relentlessly fascinating: an extraordinarily intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable public figures of our time.

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. In this brilliant new book, he digs beneath the surface of familiar place names, peeling back the layers of meaning behind them to reveal stories about the nature of the land of Erin and the people who walked it before us.

A Dubray Staff Recommended Read. Funny, gripping, and sometimes heartbreaking essays from a big new comic talent.

Winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year... A DUBRAY STAFF RECOMMENDED READ. The extraordinary story of a family devastated by a sudden disappearance and transformed by a miraculous return from the award-winning author loved by David Nicholls, Kamila Shamsie and Sebastian Barry.