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Immerse in Irish culture with this book, an inspiring mix of songs, stories, poems, and more. Ideal for bedtime reading or travel. A true gem for those who value Ireland's rich heritage.

Prose tales of ancient Ireland and pre-Christian gods, the Ulster cycle of tales of great warriors, the Fenian cycle and the kingly cycle vested with the immortality of legend.

An illustrated and comprehensive account of the Sheela-na-gigs (carvings of female images) of Britain and Ireland.

This work gives an account of the secret schools set up by conquered people, determined to maintain their traditional scholarship.

A classic work on the fascinating subject of traditional wakes in Ireland.

In his inimitable style, gifted folklorist Kevin Danaher invites the reader to call on people of a former generation in their homes, to sit around the hearth, to listen to their tales and gossip and sample their food and drink, to marvel at their implements, to meet a water diviner, to join a faction fight, hurry to a wedding and bow down in remembrance of the dead. For over thirty years, this book has charmed, informed and surprised successive generations of readers, in Ireland and abroad.

Famine in Cork City sheds light on the horrific physical conditions of the inmates in one such workhouse, Cork Workhouse (now St Finbarr's Hospital), and explores the tragic effects of the famine as they unfolded in the city.

A collection of short biographies of some of the most admirable Irishmen and women in history. Designed to inform and entertain it includes, among others, Constance Markievicz, Patrick Pearse, Brian Boru, Michael Collins, Daniel O'Connell, Cú Chulainn, Liam Lynch and Theobald Wolfe Tone, Éamon de Valera, Douglas Hyde and Nano Nagle.

This is the story of the most astonishing act of piracy carried out in Ireland in the last two hundred years. It was an operation that changed the course of the Irish Civil War. The Ballycotton Job brings this long forgotten story dramatically back to life.

The Great Irish Famine drove huge numbers of Irish men and women to leave the island and pursue their survival in foreign lands.This is tragic tale of the sinking of the famine ship, the St. John in Massachusetts Bay in 1849. For those who died, there was nothing to mark their last resting place; no name, no memory of them ever having existed.