My own doctor sent me to see him. "You have an illness," he said that day, "that doesn't have a name. Doctor Áthas is very skilled in this sort of thing," he said. "I'm going to send you to him. He's a psychoanalyst." That's how this story begins; if it is a story. The first novel by Liam Mac Cóil, and the first Irish language book to be shortlisted for The Irish Times Literary Awards.
Nóra lives in her own fantasy world, and her family is at pains to preserve the false world she has created for herself. But when the pretence is too successful, and Nóra tries to make herr family work even harder for her, the young woman, Caitlín, puts her foot down, and announces that things will change in this house. And begod they do!
Micil and Nóra find themselves cut off at home by the rising seas. As the tide rises and the sea comes pouring in on the old couple, they find the time to debate the big questions: rising sea-levels and the receding Gaeltachts, cranky mná tí and gaeltacht colleges, Osama Bin Laden and the Ozone Layer, and, of course, LOVE. And then the man from the 'coláistí samhraidh' comes to rescuer them. Or does he?
Úrscéal a théann faoin gcraiceann, ó dhuine de na scríbhneoirí is cumasaí dár gcuid: ‘Chas Peadar Ó Luineacháin isteach i Sráid Dásoin. Chuir an róló seacláide deireanach ina bhéal is chaith an páipéar le casán....' Tá rud éigin cearr leis na príomhcharachtair san úrscéal seo. De réir mar a ghluaiseann an scéal ar aghaidh is ea a thuigimid gur scéal dorcha é seo. Úrscéal é seo atá i bhfad chun tosaigh (agus i bhfad níos fírinní) ná úrscéalta mórdhíola Richard Harris ar an ábhar céanna.
Paul Lodabo returns to Africa after spending some years studying in Europe. A stunning, multi-layered novel in a rich, pungent style all of is own.
Set in mid-17th century Ireland and Continental Europe, the narrative in An Cléireach is triggered by a single event that takes place during the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland, when a small band of the retreating Irishry gather on the side of a mountain and, despite the threat of massacre, for one night the rain lifts, the stars shine, and art and dreams take centre stage.
When Fionn mac Cumhaill and Diorraing go astray in the dark woods, they find themselves in the house of their enemy, thus beginning a night of storytelling that lasts to this very day, and a story culminating in a wedding feast arson and murder on the banks of Lough Derg.
Shortlisted for the IRISH BOOK AWARDS
One of the greatest epics ever written, now available in Modern Irish This is the story of Cú Chulainn, the Hound of Ulster, and of how he stood his ground, along with his charioteer Lao, against the great host of Ailill and Maeve. Here, we read of his youth, of how he got his name, of his single combat with Ferdia, and of the deadly quarrel between Ailill and Maeve which led to the taking of the Brown Bull of Cooley. Táin Bó Cuailnge was written in the 11th Century and was translated into Modern Irish by Darach Ó Scolaí.
