An accessible, entertaining guide to literary Dublin and the writers associated with it, from Swift to the present day. The book will record in words and pictures where the writers lived and worked, key events and locations associated with them, and will include literary walks, extracts, and information on events, awards and literature-related organisations. Illustrated throughout with period photographs and new photography showing places, events and people related to literary Dublin today.With quotes from contemporary writers, information on Bloomsday celebrations and other Dublin literary events and festivals.
Muriel Bolger Livres





A Suitable Marriage
- 384pages
- 14 heures de lecture
The youngest daughter of Lord Kensley-Balfe, a wealthy landowner from the West of Ireland, Delia is privileged and beautiful. Cossetted by her parents, her older sister Mona and her brother Clement, she lives a sheltered life, her days punctuated by lessons with her governess and horse rides through the wild Irish countryside.But then an enigmatic American arrives in Ireland searching for his ancestral roots and all of a sudden, the path Delia once took as certain, seems less clear to her.As the family prepare for Mona's debut into London society and Clement returns from India with his fiancée Lady Elizabeth Stokes to prepare for his upcoming wedding, Delia has some decisions to make.Will she choose the love of a man she barely knows, risking disgrace and exclusion from her family?Only Delia can decide if she has the courage to become the woman she was meant to be.Moving from Mayo to London to New York and Newport, A Suitable Marriage is a sweeping tale of love, desire and family loyalty.
A Short History of Ireland's Writers
- 203pages
- 8 heures de lecture
All the leading Irish writers and some of the lesser known: playwrights, novelists, short story writers, poets.
Ireland : Glorious Landscapes
- 144pages
- 6 heures de lecture
An atmospheric collection of over 200 wonderful photographs showing the beauty and diversity of Ireland's landscape. Glendalough, The Giant's Causeway, The Burren, The Skelligs, Mizen Head, Lough Derg, Rock of Cashel, Glen of Aherlow, Clew Bay, Killary Harbour, The Slieve Bloom Mountains, and many more.
The Pink Pepper Tree
- 345pages
- 13 heures de lecture
June Cusack has always enjoyed making plans - for her flourishing career, for exotic holidays with her closest friend Danielle, and for her future with Peter Braga, the love of her life.But as Peter prepares for the grand re-opening of his fashionable restaurant The Pink Pepper Tree, June finds her boyfriend increasingly distracted. So when Danielle suggests a relaxing trip to Monte Carlo, she jumps at the chance.However, while on holiday, the events of one terrible night change her forever and when June returns home, the life she and Peter had built together slowly starts to disintegrate.Heartbroken, June forges ahead with new plans for her professional life. But she is about to discover that happiness and love come when you least expect it, and from the most unlikely places.