Item category 1: Research Lending

Just as an infinity pool gives the illusion of one invisible edge, the dividing line between poems and the world they process can be magically tricky to discern. 'Infinity Pool', Vona Groarke's ninth poetry collection and fifteenth book, tests the limits of spaces poems make for themselves. In la...

Irish history and folklore is rich with proverbs and sayings of old, full of timeless wisdom that still has resonence and truth today. This book brings together a whole host of these sayings and proverbs on topics as diverse as aging, the seasons, fate and nature.

The GAA has long been at the heart of Irish life, nurturing our culture and communities and fostering powerful social bonds. However, as sectarian conflict intensified in the North, the GAA became the object of animosity and surveillance by loyalist paramilitaries and Crown forces. Clubhouses and...

On 7 May 1915, one of the most beloved and legendary liners of the North Atlantic was torpedoed by a German U-boat, taking 1187 of her passengers and crew to an untimely demise. She had become a victim of WWI. A comprehensive two-part look at her entire story, from her origins in the shipyards of...

In life and in death, Roger Casement appears to contain many contradictions: decorated British diplomat, Irish Protestant and martyred Irish nationalist. He was a humanitarian, essayist and sometime poet, a public gentleman and a private lover. Over the years, Roger Casement's ghost has been the ...

Important themes include the role of the Catholic Church; political divisions and partition; censorship; economic and political stagnation; the Emergency years; poverty, T.B. and emigration; the Swinging Sixties and the Lemass/Whitaker era; the Troubles; Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Moveme...

Michael Harding was 23 when his father died; a parent who was sometimes distant and aloof, yet had a profound effect on the writer's life. In the summer of 2023, Harding took a short holiday in Spain, walking the Camino de Santiago, during which he began to unpack the long ago trauma of losing a ...

This tells the story of Miami Massacre survivor Des Lee. From humble beginnings in Belfast to playing in Carnegie Hall, it records the heady days of the ballroom era, the greed culture in the business, the horrific events of 31 July 1975, the decline of the showband industry, the psychological ef...

Anne Marie Allen was fifteen when she was accepted onto a cookery school course that promised real qualifications and a future in the career of her dreams. Seeking a better life, she moved to the calm and peaceful countryside of the west of Ireland. Her happiness was short-lived as it became clea...