Item category 1: Steve McDonagh Collection

When sixteen-year-old Janie is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Janie endures two stifling marriages before she finally meets the man of her dreams - who offers not diamonds, but a packet of flowering seeds.

When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art...

Eimear McBride's debut novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother after a tumour leaves him severely brain-damaged. Not so much a stream of consciousness, as an unconscious railing against a life that makes little sense, and a shocking and intimate insight into the tho...

A comprehensive series of first-hand accounts from the Irish War of Independence and Civil War in Kerry.

Father Brown continues in his humourous, effortless but powerfully effective way to solve an inventive range of high crimes and misdemeanours.

The rise of Barack Obama is one of the great stories of this century: a defining moment in American history, and one with truly global resonance. 'The Bridge' offers a portrait of the man who was determined to become the first African-American president.

Does it still matter which foot your dig with in today's Republic of Ireland? 'Outside the Glow' examines the relationship between Protestants and Catholics and the notion that southern Protestants are somehow not really Irish.