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'I'd love to speak more Irish.' Does this sound familiar? Maybe you've lost the language over the years or perhaps you're eager to reconnect with your roots, but you don't know where to begin. Níl t……続きを見る

Ireland has always kept its dead close. The Great Book of Irish Ghosts is a powerful journey through the haunted traditions of Ireland, from banshee cries and fairy forts to phantom coaches, death r……続きを見る

The GAA is more than a sporting organisation. It is one of the great cultural machines of Irish life. From parish pitches to Croke Park, from county colours to All-Ireland final days, from hurling a……続きを見る

Hurling is one of Ireland's oldest, fastest and most distinctive sports. Played with a hurley, a sliotar and a level of speed that can astonish first-time viewers, hurling is more than a game. It is……続きを見る

The Maamtrasna Murders Ireland's Most Devastating Miscarriage of Justice On the night of August 17, 1882, five members of the Joyce family were killed in their cottage above Lough Mask in the remote……続きを見る

Gaelic football is more than a game. It is county colour, parish memory, club loyalty and Irish identity carried from local pitches to Croke Park. Played across Ireland and followed by communities a……続きを見る

Camogie is one of Ireland's fastest, proudest and most important women's sports. Played with a hurley, a sliotar and generations of local memory behind it, camogie is more than a companion to hurlin……続きを見る

Paul Cullen was without question the most important Irishman of his generation and a figure of global importance. He is also among the least understood. Examining every aspect of Cullen's life and c……続きを見る

Croke Park is more than a stadium. It is a national stage, a place of memory, a centre of power and one of the most important sporting spaces in Irish life. From All-Ireland finals and county colour……続きを見る

New York Times bestselling author Neal Bascomb delivers a taut and timely forgotten historyーequal parts Peaky Blinders and The Departedーof the Molly Maguires, the Irish secret society that terrori……続きを見る

The All-Ireland Championship is more than a competition. It is one of Ireland's great annual dramas: a road of counties, rivalries, memories, journeys and arguments that leads, again and again, towa……続きを見る

Lebor Gabála Érenn, the Book of the Taking of Ireland, is the closest thing Irish literature has to a national epic. Compiled by medieval scholars from verse, oral tradition, and Latin chronicles, i……続きを見る

A fundamental tenet of the GAA is under threat in a manner that has not happened in its 140-year history. For generations, the GAA club has been the beating heart of Irish communities - rooted in th……続きを見る

The construction principles of Celtic art were re-discovered in the middle of the 20th century by George Bain. Until his writing, the intricate knots, interlacings, and spirals used in illuminating ……続きを見る

This classic study by a distinguished scholar recounts the ancient tales of Ireland and Wales. Written in a highly readable style, it will delight neophytes as well as those well versed in Celtic fo……続きを見る

First published in 1879, this famous treasury of tales from Celtic mythology has long been regarded as a classic in the field. The book was compiled by a noted folklorist who selected and translated……続きを見る

Create airy and delicate lace designs for table, bed, and wardrobe using the time-honored technique of Irish crochet. This handsome handicraft, known for its raised floral motifs and intricate backg……続きを見る

Irish poet and mythologist Ella Young recounts 14 age-old yarns of ghosts, banshees, haunted castles, and mischievous sprites. Imaginatively illustrated by noted Irish artist and patriot Maud Gonne,……続きを見る

Compiled by noted Irish author Padraic Colum, this treasury of time-honored tales from the fairy-haunted folklore of the Emerald Isle includes these favorite stories: "Fedelma, the Enchanter's Daugh……続きを見る

Twenty folk tales representing hundreds of years of the collective Irish imagination transport readers to a world where everything is alive and anything can happen! Vivid descriptions of battles wit……続きを見る

Noted French scholar and linguist discusses the gods of the continental Celts, the beginnings of mythology in Ireland, heroes, and the two main categories of Irish deities: mother-goddesses ー local……続きを見る

The age-old charm of Irish folklore gives special sparkle to this collection of eight tongue-in-cheek tales. Wicked old hags, clever leprechauns, courageous tailors, evil giants, and other character……続きを見る

More than 1000 ripostes, paradoxes, and epigrams on sin, society, genius, wealth, men, women, religion, America, education, and smoking: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes," "I can resist ev……続きを見る

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) is deservedly famous for the brilliant plays and other works he wrote for adults. But he also was a wonderful writer for children, the author of two charming volumes of fairy……続きを見る

Experience the whimsy, charm and magic of the Celtic imagination in this captivating collection of timeless stories that have enchanted generations of youngsters and adults. Among the eight popular ……続きを見る

Although James Joyce began these stories of Dublin life in 1904, when he was 22, and had completed them by the end of 1907, they remained unpublished until 1914 ー victims of Edwardian squeamishness……続きを見る

Once upon a time all of the legends of Fin MacCool, an ancient hero of Gaelic mythology, were written down for posterity. Saint Patrick, however, was obliged to order two-thirds of them destroyed. T……続きを見る

Until a leading historian published this classic biography in 1905, the facts about St. Patrick, Ireland’s patron saint, were clouded by obscurity, controversy, and conjecture. This carefully resear……続きを見る

"O grandson of Conn, O Cormac," said Carbre, "what do you deem the worst thing you have seen?" "Not hard to tell," said Cormac, "Faces of foes in a battle-field." Cormac Mac Airt, a third-century hi……続きを見る

In recent years Irish crochet lace has enjoyed a tremendous revival among needleworkers. Nearly lost in the early twentieth century when machines took over the manufacture of most lace, the craft is……続きを見る