Irish Interest

A compelling account of why Ireland was so very Catholic for so long, why that changed - and what remains now that the special relationship has ended.

LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL is the story of two friends who ordinarily would remain uncelebrated. They change the world differently to the rest of us: we try and change it by effort and force; they change it by discovering the small things they can do well and offering them to others.

Winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year... A Dubray Staff Recommended Read... A fluid hybrid of essay and autofiction to explore the ways in which a life can be changed in response to the discovery of another's - in this case, Eibhli n Dubh Ni Chonaill's Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoghaire, famously referred to by Peter Levi as `the greatest poem written in either Ireland or Britain during the eighteenth century.'

A Dubray Staff Recommended Read... A true-life account of a lost child, a search for his mother, and a scandal that rocked a nation.

A lyrical reminder of Ireland's lost words that offer a different way of seeing the world.

Nora Ephron meets Bram Stoker in Sophie White’s vivid and ambitious literary non-fiction collection.

Naoise Dolan explodes onto the scene with Exciting Times, a slyly humorous and scorchingly smart modern love story