Item category 1: Local Studies

This is the second collection in the 'Washing Windows' series featuring poetry in both English and Irish by contemporary Irish women writers, compiled in honour of pioneering poet Eavan Boland and Catherine Rose, Ireland’s first feminist publisher.

Agus í amuigh ag iascaireacht lena daid, cluineann Muireann scairt ar chuidiú. Ta bean agus a cuid páistí i seanbhád atá ar tí dul go tóin poill! Nuair a chuidíonn Muireann leo teacht i dtír agus nuair a thugann sí bia agus foscadh dóibh don oíche, faigheann sí amach go bhfuil na strainséirí ar l...

In October 2021 a delegation of men and women, nominated by Dáil Éireann, left Dublin to travel to London. Their mission: to meet the representatives of Great Britain and try to negotiate a peace treaty which would put an end to centuries of conflict in Ireland. This commemorative volume - writte...

Molly and her dad rescue three people in trouble from a small boat off the coast. Though they speak different languages, the new arrivals quickly make friends with the islanders, who offer them somewhere to stay and some clothes and food. Just a few weeks later, a new challenge threatens this rel...