Item category 1: Research Lending

'New Selected Poems' represents generously each of Eiléan's ten collections. The book culminates in a series of powerful new poems confirming that she is, simply, one of the finest poets at work today.

In 'Ship in Full Sail', Colm Tóibín's 'Laureate Lectures' bookend thirty-four essays, one written each month in the course of his tenure as Laureate for Irish Fiction (2022-2025). The myriad topics they embrace include Artificial Intelligence, reading Ulysses, the discomfort of Salman Rushdie ...

In a county where success is weighed in medals, the Ó Sé brothers all hung up their boots with heavy hearts but even heavier pockets: a combined total of 16 All-Irelands, 28 Munsters and 12 All-Stars making their way back to An Ghaeltacht - a haul which is unlikely to be surpassed by a set of s...

In this first biography to chart Trimble's life and death, award-winning journalist Stephen Walker vividly details how this shy Belfast academic changed the political landscape of Northern Ireland. Written with the cooperation of his widow and their children, Peacemaker offers unparalleled insigh...

This work began with a storm: Storm Éowyn. It deprived many people of heat, light and cooking facilities, and caused havoc around Ireland. When Alice Taylor went out to her garden after the storm had passed, she saw that the one-hundred-year-old apple tree, planted by Uncle Jacky - the tree that...

On frosty nights at a flickering fire, Michael Harding withdraws into the stillness of winter and begins to reckon with age and death. November is a rainstorm, December a bleak twilight, but as January dawns and the ice thaws, it is the fragile light of love that penetrates the dark, bringing new...

In partnership with the Burrenbeo Trust, this beautifully crafted book brings together ten inspiring profiles of participants in Burrenbeo projects, written by Pocket Forests co-founder Catherine Cleary. These real-life stories - from farmers and families to schools and community groups - shine a...