Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex
Eliza Pratt Greatorex (1819-1897) was America's most famous woman artist in the mid-nineteenth century, but today she is all but forgotten. Beginning with her Irish roots, this biography brings her art and life back into focus.
Katherine Manthorne
- University of California Press
- 9780520355507
- 352 pages
- €31.50
- Hardback
- United States
- Biography: arts & entertainment
Rememberings
An intimate and revelatory memoir from the iconic, acclaimed singer-songwriter.
Sinead O'Connor
- Sandycove
- 9781844885411
- 304 pages
- €23.17
- Hardback
- United Kingdom
- Memoirs
Reforming Senates: Upper Legislative Houses in North Atlantic Small Powers 1800-present
This new study of senates in small powers across the North Atlantic shows that the establishment and the reform of these upper legislative houses have followed remarkably parallel trajectories. Senate reforms emerged in the wake of deep political crises w
Nikolaj Bijleveld; Colin Grittner; David Smith; Wybren Verstegen
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- 9781032087719
- 274 pages
- €42.79
- Paperback / softback
- United Kingdom
- European history
The Ravenous Beast
The ravenous beast is hungry; he's hungry, hungry, hungry. But is he the hungriest animal of all? "Nonsense smonsense," scoff the other animals, "Hokum Pokum!" But they want to watch out or the ravenous beast might just gobble 'em up and swallow 'em down!
Niamh Sharkey; Niamh Sharkey
- Walker Books Ltd
- 9781529505351
- 32 pages
- €9.25
- Paperback / softback
- United Kingdom
- Picture storybooks
Pure Gold
Two boys set fires while their worlds fall apart. A couple embark on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage. A widow seeks a stranger’s help to bury her grief. A horse crashes a house party.
John Patrick McHugh
- Fourth Estate Ltd
- 9780008490652
- 256 pages
- €11.85
- Electronic book text
- United Kingdom
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Pure Gold
Two boys set fires while their worlds fall apart. A couple embark on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage. A widow seeks a stranger’s help to bury her grief. A horse crashes a house party.
John Patrick McHugh
- Fourth Estate Ltd
- 9780008490645
- 256 pages
- €15.05
- Hardback
- United Kingdom
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Property Rights and Social Justice: Progressive Property in Action
The book analyses the function and operation of constitutional property rights guarantees that mediate social justice and private ownership from theoretical and doctrinal perspectives. It draws lessons for the development of 'progressive property' theory
Rachael Walsh (Trinity College Dublin)
- Cambridge University Press
- 9781108426930
- 300 pages
- €99.20
- Hardback
- United Kingdom
- Constitutional & administrative law
The President’s Cat
The author of The President's Glasses is back with more stories about the president and this time he's left his cat behind on his holidays!
Peter Donnelly
- Gill Books
- 9780717192106
- 32 pages
- €8.99
- Board book
- Ireland
- Picture books: character books
A Portrait of the Artist and a Young Man
Both an insight into James Joyce's life and childhood, this novel is about sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to fully come into themselves.
James Joyce; Mint Editions
- Graphic Arts Books
- 9781513280684
- 208 pages
- €9.25
- Paperback / softback
- United States
- Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Political Economy and Imperial Governance in Eighteenth-Century Britain
This book examines the relationship between imperial governance and political economy in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in Canada and Ireland.
Heather Welland (Binghamton University, USA)
- Routledge
- 9780367901424
- 194 pages
- €139.07
- Hardback
- United Kingdom
- British & Irish history