Bailiúchán: 10 Day Short Loan

Macken, author of Quench the Moon and Rain on the Wind, is one of Ireland's most popular writers. This collection of his short stories provides a wonderful evocation of the city of Galway's life and people in the 1940s.

Orphaned as a child, Cahal Kinsella returns from an industrial school in Letterfrack to the small farming village of Caherlo in West Galway, to live under the rule of his tyrannical grandfather. Cahal must learn to assert his individuality if he is to have any hope of freedom from his misery. Wit...

Subject: Elizabeth Mathew, daughter of an Irish Catholic who became a judge in England, and wife of the Irish nationalist leader John Dillon, kept a diary from the age of 14 until her death aged 42 in 1904 following the birth stillborn of her seventh child. Her diaries portray a Victorian upbrin...

On average, there were twenty Jesuits on the Irish mission who ran houses in towns and cities across the island as well as embarking on frequent preaching expeditions. Despite their small numbers these were confident and detailed observers of conditions in Ireland during one of its most violent a...

The latest installment from always funny, sometimes bizarre comic David Sedaris.

Tom Bower, Britain's leading investigative biographer, unpicks the tangled web surrounding the Sussexes and their relationship with the royal family. From courtroom dramas to courtier politics, using extensive research, expert sourcing and interviews from insiders who have never spoken before, th...

Assistant District Attorney Kaj Cordozo's life is thrown upside down when two masked men attempt to kidnap his son, Elijah. Given the high-profile case Kaj is working on, he's not about to take any more risks. When Val Sorensen of Burke Broussard Private Investigation Agency is assigned as Elijah...