Kennys Books of the Year
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Kennys Books of the Year
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Footnote
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781804441183
- ISBN
- 9781804441183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.03
€ 20.99
€ 16.03
Paperback.
Signed by the Author
‘O’Malley is a true artist in sketching the beautiful, small details without which the essence of place, and the identity dependent on it, can be all too easily erased.’ – EAVAN BOLAND
The poems of The Shark Nursery respond to a disturbed world. The experience of lockdown, of lives lived in an online reality, and of the animal world are the interlocking parts of the poems’ world. The animal poems draw on the tradition of animals in Irish poetry and myth. From the wolf’s touch to the rat’s tweet, animals and fish refuse the roles human beings impose on them. O’Malley’s animals find new language in the face of contemporary perils.
In fusing mythic with modern elements, The Shark Nursery is marked by rigorous attention to language and tone. Its poems weave between human, animal and metaphysical realms. In a space before noise begins, tigers visit cities and a white leopard sits on a lawn in Suburbia. In the strange, sealed off world portrayed in the ‘The Ballad of Googletown’ – an eerie, genuine ballad, where the familiar tropes and refrains of ballad are hung out to dry – lives are lived online and social interaction is unnecessary:
The cars are in the drive
And the bees are in the hive
They say the kids are safe inside
In Googletown
This new book promises, as Joseph O’Connor has written, all those things ‘we go to Mary O’Malley for: truthfulness, seriousness, playfulness, too, and then a particular sort of hesitating and hard-won wisdom, a pushback against nonsense or sentiment or fakery, the beauty of plain words placed in careful order, carefully – and always, the bliss of musicality.’
Signed by the Author
‘O’Malley is a true artist in sketching the beautiful, small details without which the essence of place, and the identity dependent on it, can be all too easily erased.’ – EAVAN BOLAND
The poems of The Shark Nursery respond to a disturbed world. The experience of lockdown, of lives lived in an online reality, and of the animal world are the interlocking parts of the poems’ world. The animal poems draw on the tradition of animals in Irish poetry and myth. From the wolf’s touch to the rat’s tweet, animals and fish refuse the roles human beings impose on them. O’Malley’s animals find new language in the face of contemporary perils.
In fusing mythic with modern elements, The Shark Nursery is marked by rigorous attention to language and tone. Its poems weave between human, animal and metaphysical realms. In a space before noise begins, tigers visit cities and a white leopard sits on a lawn in Suburbia. In the strange, sealed off world portrayed in the ‘The Ballad of Googletown’ – an eerie, genuine ballad, where the familiar tropes and refrains of ballad are hung out to dry – lives are lived online and social interaction is unnecessary:
The cars are in the drive
And the bees are in the hive
They say the kids are safe inside
In Googletown
This new book promises, as Joseph O’Connor has written, all those things ‘we go to Mary O’Malley for: truthfulness, seriousness, playfulness, too, and then a particular sort of hesitating and hard-won wisdom, a pushback against nonsense or sentiment or fakery, the beauty of plain words placed in careful order, carefully – and always, the bliss of musicality.’
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Carcanet
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781800174146
- ISBN
- 9781800174146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.59
€ 14.99
€ 12.59
Board Book. Manchán Magan is fascinated by words, particularly Irish words, and their connections to the natural world. Having enjoyed great success with the bestselling Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature, he now brings his infectious wonder and enthusiasm for the Irish language to an even younger audience with this board book featuring simple translations for favourite animals, birds, fish and insects. The accompanying stunning black-line illustrations will transfix even the littlest reader. Teach your little one a cúpla focail from the get-go.
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Gill Books Dublin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781804581957
- ISBN
- 9781804581957
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.63
€ 10.99
€ 10.63
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Tramp Press DUblin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781915290137
- ISBN
- 9781915290137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.19
€ 18.99
€ 15.19
Trade Paperback.
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781035051052
- ISBN
- 9781035051052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.99€ 15.29
€ 22.99
€ 15.29
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- General
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781844886616
- ISBN
- 9781844886616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.21
€ 31.21
![Kevin Barry - The Heart In Winter [Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition] - 9781837263035 - 9781837263035](https://www.kennys.ie/products/thumbs/9781837263035.jpg "Kevin Barry - The Heart In Winter [Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition] - 9781837263035 - 9781837263035")
Hardback. This is a limited edition, signed and numbered by the author. This edition also includes exclusive sprayed edges and endpapers. ***THIS IS A PRE-ORDER TO BE SHIPPED ON OR AROUND THE PUBLICATION DATE IN JUNE 2024***
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Canongate
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781837263035
- ISBN
- 9781837263035
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.99
€ 23.99
€ 21.99
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780376868
- ISBN
- 9781780376868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.20
€ 16.99
€ 13.20
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781844885206
- ISBN
- 9781844885206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 22.37
€ 31.99
€ 22.37
Hardcover. Signed by the Author. John Creedon is a renowned storyteller. Following on from the sensational success of An Irish Folklore Treasury, here he seeks to capture the folklore of his own childhood. This Boy’s Heart is set in a city-centre household bursting with humanity, with a cast of a dozen children and another dozen adults, including beloved aunts, an American writer, an African doctor and a Scottish bookie. The streets outside are teeming with brewery horses, Christian Brothers, beat clubs, dance halls, a Turkish Delight shop -- and a pub where a child could sit up on a high stool and smoke his cigarette in peace. Summers are spent farmed out to friends and family in the countryside, with hilarious tales of donkey derbies and cow chases. Set in wildly contrasting worlds — from urban exotica to spacious meadows, from the classroom of fifty boys to the open road — these stories of friendship, fun, family and folklore take you on a heart-warming journey into an Irish childhood.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Gill Books Dublin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781804580486
- ISBN
- 9781804580486
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99
€ 24.99
Paperback. *The richly atmospheric new Strafford and Quirke mystery, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow. ‘He had seen drowned people. A sight not to be forgotten.’ 1950s, rural Ireland. A loner comes across a mysteriously empty car in a field. Knowing he shouldn’t approach, but unable to hold back, he soon finds himself embroiled in a troubling missing person’s case, as a husband claims his wife may have thrown herself into the sea. Called in from Dublin to investigate is Detective Inspector Strafford, who soon turns to his old ally - the flawed but brilliant pathologist Quirke - a man he is linked to in increasingly complicated ways.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571370825
- ISBN
- 9780571370825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.53
€ 17.99
€ 14.53
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Gill Books Dublin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781804580837
- ISBN
- 9781804580837
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 19.68
€ 24.99
€ 19.68
Hardcover. Signed by the author
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- General
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241639580
- ISBN
- 9780241639580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.00€ 20.14
€ 25.00
€ 20.14
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008579685
- ISBN
- 9780008579685
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.85
€ 19.99
€ 15.85
Hardcover. Explore the changing face of Ireland, using real numbers and data from the official census!
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Gill Books Dublin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781804581780
- ISBN
- 9781804581780
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.44
€ 19.99
€ 16.44
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241651964
- ISBN
- 9780241651964
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.99
€ 17.99
€ 13.99
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780008617264
- ISBN
- 9780008617264
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.92
€ 15.99
€ 12.92
hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- New Island Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781835940037
- ISBN
- 9781835940037
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.65
€ 27.99
€ 19.65
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Hodder London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781529391459
- ISBN
- 9781529391459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.69
€ 19.99
€ 14.69
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Fig Tree
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241667224
- ISBN
- 9780241667224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Eriu
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781804189023
- ISBN
- 9781804189023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.54
€ 18.99
€ 16.54
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Hachette Ireland Dublin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781399725606
- ISBN
- 9781399725606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 21.63
€ 30.99
€ 21.63
Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives: 13 (Atlas Series)
Edited By Hélène O’keeffe, John Crowley, ...
hardcover. This new volume in the award-winning Atlas Series presents fresh perspectives on, and a nuanced understanding of, the history of the Irish Civil War (1922–3). The centenary of the Civil War has prompted wide-ranging research into that tumultuous and complex period in Irish history. Featuring contributions from over ninety leading scholars from a range of disciplines, this book provides new insights into the conflict’s regional, national and international dimensions. It includes the first-ever listing of Civil War fatalities and original explorations of issues including propaganda, gender, trauma, culture, labour, land and class. Produced in partnership with the National Library of Ireland with support from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, the Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New perspectives is richly illustrated with over 400 photographs, archival documents and a series of newly created original maps. From the research team that produced the widely acclaimed Atlas of the Irish Revolution, this volume represents a major and accessible contribution to the historiography of a conflict that has cast a long shadow over Irish life
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781782055921
- ISBN
- 9781782055921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.99€ 67.99
€ 69.99
€ 67.99