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An English-Irish phrasebook compiled by leading Irish-language scholar and lexicographer. Of particular interest to those learning the language and schools market.

Over a decade, Fishamble commissioned and called for submissions of tiny plays that reflected major changes in Irish society from 2011-2021. Inviting playwrights to submit plays of less than 600 words, the company produced 50 tiny plays in Tiny Plays for Ireland, 10 tiny plays in Tiny Plays 24/7, and 10 tiny plays in partnership with ESB in Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future.These productions of tiny plays created a patchwork quilt of theatre to reflect the times through which we were living. They were performed in Project Arts Centre Dublin, Irish Arts Center New York, and Kennedy Center Washington DC, as well as shared online. This anthology publishes all 70 tiny plays, providing an invaluable resource of four-minute plays for actors, directors, students, and teachers.

It's the early 1980s, and Fiona and her family have recently moved back from England to the family farm in Mayo. Fiona's huge-hearted mum decides to take in foster children, short term, through the local social services. It's a decision that will change all their lives. Over the next decade, a procession of faces passes through the house; every face, every child, has their own story, and each story claims a little piece of Fiona's heart. Some stay a few weeks; some months, and then years.Through Fiona's eyes, we meet tiny Gerard, lost in his babygro; toddler Bea, whose mama calls from London every week for hugs and kisses; and baby Blue, whose social worker brings him to visit his mother in hospital. Then there are the sisters, Bernadette, who is all fizz, and Máiread, who cries all the time. Slowly, we learn the story of the sisters and the trauma that lives in their heads from the dark home they come from. Máiread ultimately stays with Fiona's family until she is grown up.We also hear of the chaotic system through which all these children, as well as Fiona and her family, must pass, where a judge's cold decision can alter a child's life, for better or worse, where emergency placements can break up siblings, where the foster family are often left in the dark and with little back-up.

The modern story of LGBTQ liberation in Ireland is often framed as one of success, with the triumph of the Marriage Equality referendum in 2015, the passing of the Gender Recognition Act that same year, and later the ascendancy of LGBTQ figure Leo Varadkar to the height of power as Taoiseach in 2017. While a lot has changed for LGBTQ liberation more broadly in Ireland, that is only half the story. The variety of LGBTQ life across the island is too abundant and too diverse to be contained to these singular moments of progress. Ireland's growing LGBTQ archives, along with the community who lived through decades of activism, contain a rich wealth of records and stories relating to the country's LGBTQ communities. This book digs deep into these archives and people's stories. In doing so, the book excavates a community's history, built by generations of LGBTQ people to offer a rich and kaleidoscopic window into the lesser told stories of Ireland's LGBTQ activism and history, from the visit of Hollywood royalty to Dublin's "gay scene", to the mother of a gay son who caught the ear of a government minister and changed history, to a group of LGBTQ people who became involved in the Republican struggle to how Ireland's current President fought against conservatism to ensure an AIDS awareness campaign made it to television. These are just some of the stories that spin a rich tapestry of LGBTQ life in Ireland. As we approach 50 years since the founding of a gay rights movement in Ireland in 2024, Reeling in the Queers, seeks to offer an overview of individual perseverance, poignant losses and stirring collective gains, as it provides a front row seat to over 50 years of LGBTQ life across the island, while lifting the lid on Ireland's hidden histories.

In 2023, Garry Bannister's Teasáras Gaeilge-Béarla proved beyond doubt the enthusiasm for his particular brand of Irish reference works. Described by The Irish Times as a 'marvel' and nominated for an Irish Book Award, Irish-speakers queued up to buy it.Now Bannister is back, with a brand new Irish-English phrasebook that will sit perfectly alongside the perennially popular What's That as Gaeilge? and Proverbs in Irish.What's That as Béarla? will improve and enrich your spoken Irish skills for an upcoming oral examination or if you simply want to make your written and spoken Irish a tad more colloquial. This book is ideal for anyone interested in the beauty, flavour and rhythm of the living, modern language.With lead words in Irish this reference book is perfect for intermediate Irish language speakers seeking to expand and enrich their vocabulary and terms of expression.

In early 2018 the Facebook page In Her Shoes: Women of the Eighth began as an art project with the intention to change undecided voters' minds in the upcoming referendum on the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. The grassroots project posted anonymous stories of the negative impacts of the Eighth Amendment alongside a simple photo of a pair of shoes. In the five months from its creation to the referendum vote on 25 May 2018, the page grew over 115,000 followers with an organic reader reach of over four million per week. RTÉ reported that it was 'stories in the media' that influenced 43 per cent of voters to vote Yes.Out of the thousand stories sent to In Her Shoes, Erin Darcy has selected thirty-two as a representation of the entire island of Ireland. The anonymous stories are reproduced with their authors' consent and remain in their original words. By preserving these stories within this book, we enshrine women's experiences in history where are often written out. In Her Shoes is the story of a changing social landscape, of an uprising within the author and within Ireland.Fully illustrated by the author, this book will speak to the historical importance of women's storytelling and include a collection of 32 stories, representing the 32 counties on the island of Ireland.

A beautiful and devastating new story by acclaimed Irish poet, Anne Walsh Donnelly.

Following the success of her lockdown collection What Day Is It? Who Gives a F*ck, Jan Brierton returns with a new collection of 52 poems that riff on menopause, midlife, the mental load, friendships, relationships, loss and self-acceptance.

Cork's most beautifully spoken millionaire is on a mission to help Ireland's nouveau riche: learn to eat, drink, flirt and behave as if you were a member of Cork's One Per Cent.

A pair of novellas, set over two pivotal summers in the lives of two young men from Belfast, recall the constraints of the place where they were born and the times in which they are living. Capturing the innocence of adolescent boys, their passion, confusion and yearning, Two Summers is for anyone who has ever been young.

The first comprehensive account of one of the darkest and mostly forgotten episodes of the Troubles.

The long-awaited latest book in the much loved Sunday Miscellany series from RTÉ Radio 1.

Marking the centenary of Yeats's Nobel Prize, a timely guide to the work of Ireland's national poet and the changing Ireland he lived through.

In rich and abundant illustrations, Annie West tells a rowdy story of artistic struggle, ego and unexpected kindness. You will never look at the Irish Literary Canon in the same way again.

Simms and his team's meticulous work are proof positive that well-built social housing can add immensely to the tone and style of a city. His work remains a touchstone and an inspiration.

Part of the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers, now translated for the first time into Irish with the support of An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta, and ideal for learners of the Irish language.

Part of the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers, now translated for the first time into Irish with the support of An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta, and ideal for learners of the Irish language

Part of the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers, now translated for the first time into Irish with the support of An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta, and ideal for learners of the Irish language.

A ground-breaking Irish lesbian love story, set across the decades from the 1980s AIDS crisis to the 2015 marriage referendum.

An indispensable companion for anyone seeking to understand the role of Saint Patrick in forging modern Irish identity.

In a gorgeous new novel, William Wall conjures the colours, tastes and scents of Liguria, exploring the intersection of friendship, love, language, debt and politics.

This comprehensive and engaging overview of the history of Irish forestry relates historical events to present-day concerns and controversies, drawing out general themes that echo throughout the centuries. It will appeal to anyone who cares about the Irish landscape and environment.

From Ireland, England, France, Austria, Greece, Turkey and Italy to America and the West Indies, overflowing with historic events, from the French Revolution to the Great Irish Famine, with a cast of the famous and infamous, Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo, lived life to the absolute limits. Privileged yet compassionate, charismatic yet flawed, Regency Buck, Irish landlord, West Indian plantation owner, Knight of St Patrick, Privy Counsellor, intrepid traveller, intimate of kings, emperors and despots, favoured guest in the fashionable salons of London and Paris, patron of artists and pugilists, founder of the Irish Turf Club, friend and fellow traveller of Lord Byron, treasure-seeker, spy, sailor and jailbird, as well as the father of fifteen children, the astonishing range and diversity of Sligo's life is breathtaking.From a youth of hedonistic self-indulgence in Regency England to a reforming, responsible, well-intentioned legislator and landlord, Sligo became enshrined in the history of Jamaica as 'Emancipator of the Slaves' and in Ireland as 'The Poor Man's Friend' during the most difficult of times.Eight years in the writing and sourced from over 15,000 primary contemporary manuscripts located by the author in private and public archives around the world,From Rake to Radical sheds new light on significant historical events and on the people who shaped them in Ireland, England, Europe and the West Indies during a period of momentous political turbulence and change.

'she is no small town, and this is no small story . . .'BASED ON THE POPULAR DUBLIN HISTORY PODCAST A companion to the hugely successful podcast of the same name by Donal Fallon, THREE CASTLES BURNING is an enjoyable wander through some of Dublin's less obvious but more interesting streets and roads such as Henrietta Street, Watling Street, Fownes Street and Kildare Road.On the Dublin streets we walk every day, there are hidden reminders of the lesser-known heroes and events that have contributed to the evolving story of our capital. The city's motto, 'the obedience of the citizens produces a happy city', may feel outdated and loaded today but the three burning castles of its ancient coat of arms have come to represent the indomitable spirit, creativity and vision that define this big town. Inspired by the No. 1 podcast, Three Castles Burning: A History of Dublin in Twelve Streetschampions the activists, workers, architects, poets, migrants, artists and merchants who have made and remade the city we know and love by going beneath the many layers of twelve key streets where they lived and worked. Because, in the city Joyce called the 'Hibernian Metropolis', the disobedience of its citizens is the cornerstone of its past, present and future.This combination of social, cultural, industrial and commercial, and political history, through the prism of the places where revolutions great and small were sparked, offers the reader a fresh and unexpected take on Ireland's capital city.

Over the last thirty years, the English Premier League has grown to become the richest and most popular league in football - and the Irish have been at the heart of its success since the very beginning.In exclusive interviews with thirty former and current players, and an in-depth analysis ofIrish players' involvement, Gareth Maher celebrates the astounding contribution that the Republic of Ireland has made to the most famous league in the world of sport.With insights from Seamus Coleman, John O'Shea, Niall Quinn, Shay Given, Jonathan Walters, Richard Dunne, Andrew Omobamidele and many more, Away Daysuncovers the good, the bad & the ugly of a league that has been home to almost two-hundred Irish players.This is the story of Ireland's impact on the Premier League as told through the experiences of the players who have lived through the title wins and the relegation scraps, the big-money moves and the cancelling of contracts, the villian's disdain and the hero's acclaim over three whirlwind decades.