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Mary OBrien has been setting the daily Irish Times Simplex crossword for almost thirty years. An institution in Irish life and in The Irish Times, Simplex is the most popular crossword in Ireland. This latest collection of 100 puzzles from Ireland...

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Onion OBrien is in trouble, again. This time he and the rest of the Five Os are trying to stop the destruction of the Valley, the local wasteland where they hang out. But Mayor Ronald Bump has other ideas he wants to build new apartments there, so...

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Onion and the gang are at it again. This time theyve stumbled across a Russian scientist at an old folks home whose crazy experiments are causing all kinds of confusion in Ballinalud. Suddenly there are old people acting strangely all over suburbi...

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Mrs Byrne, youve a beautiful, very pale, ginger-haired baby boy, with a wonky eye. So begins Jason Byrnes hilarious childhood memoir of his adventures as an accident-prone youngster in 1970s and 1980s Dublin. Life in the Byrne household is never b...

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Roz Purcells approach to cooking is simple: use whole foods to live a whole life. Having developed a negative relationship with food that led her to make unhealthy choices, she changed her lifestyle by rediscovering her love of cooking. Roz used h...

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We all have dreams, but what do they mean? Your dreams hold the secrets of your unconscious thoughts and understanding their hidden meaning can guide you in your daily life. The author analyses people's dreams, most of them common ones, and s...

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The concluding volume of David McCullaghs new life of Eamon De Valera. In this, the concluding volume of David McCullaghs monumental new biography of the revolutionary and statesman, we join de Valera in 1932 as he takes the reins of power in the ...

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Based on the popular Facebook page, which regularly reaches over 500,000 people, The Rory's Stories Guide to the GAA sends up a certain kind of lad obsessed with the GAA calendar, his local club and county team above everything else. This hil...

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I wish you all, young and old, great adventures with this most welcome work. Sabina Coyne Higgins Step into the unknown and venture deeper into the word-forest of your soul. Read the wondrous folk tales and learn about the innovative ideas of dari...

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The stories of Irelands best-known castles. Majestic and magnificent, designed to both intimidate and inspire, castles are a common feature across Irelands landscape, with over 1000 examples remaining some intact, some in ruins, all awesome. This ...

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The perfect introduction to Irelands dramatic fight for sovereignty Gaining independence from British rule has dominated Irish history since the plantation of Ulster. This book focuses on the lead up to the 1916 Rising, and especially its aftermat...

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More of the greatest Irish stories from the producers of the Pocket series. Kings and farmers, monsters and fairies, magic and mayhem all the ingredients of classic legends are to be found between the pages of this book. Packed with 19 age-old tal...

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The Great Famine, an Gorta Mr in Irish, was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. Often referred to as the Irish Potato Famine, particularly outside Ireland, as around forty percent of the population...

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Oscar Wilde was one of Ireland's finest and most prolific 19th-century writers and a celebrated wit. He became a popular playwright in the early 1890s and is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, the cir...

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People have been sharing their life stories with psychologist Allison Keating for the past eighteen years, and the words she hears most often are I feel overwhelmed, followed by I thought Id have it figured out by now. Adulthood is tough. As we tr...

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That spider needs a good squishing! Spuds is just an ordinary, everyday leprechaun, living life quietly with his wife, Rose. Hes not easily upset. In fact, theres only one thing that Spuds hates, and thats spiders. So he wasnt at all happy when Le...

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Taking us on an incredible journey across centuries and galaxies, accompanied by his characteristic wit, Professor Luke ONeill explains how it all began, how it all will end and everything in between. Readers will benefit from Lukes insatiable cur...

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This beautifully illustrated book of days contains some of the finest paintings from the Chester Beatty Library's collection. Featuring 56 carefully reproduced works in a week-to-view format, it highlights the best of the world's art and...

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Hundreds of thousands of people in Ireland suffer from panic attacks and anxiety, but many struggle to access any meaningful help for these conditions. Prompted by years of working with patients suffering from panic attacks and struck by just how ...

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The first history of the special relationship between Ireland and Scotland from acclaimed historian Jonathan Bardon, based on his BBC Radio series Based on the popular BBC Ulster radio series of the same name, A Narrow Sea traces the epic sweep of...

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Get ready to go back to school with Neven Maguire and discover Home Economics for Life! Cant cook? Wont cook? This fantastic new cooking bible presents Nevens selection of the only 50 recipes you need to know and how to make them right. Youll disc...

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The paths of a secret paramour, a jilted lover and a reluctant hangman cross in one fateful winter week in Galway, 1885 James Berry was the notorious hangman who ended the lives of over 100 criminals in Victorian Britain and Ireland. Tortured by n...

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A Teacher's Life is a collection of over 140 cartoons based on the popular Facebook page that hilariously captures the ups and down of life as a teacher. Filled with funny observations of classroom antics, this book will have you smiling in s...

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Whether you are already a committed vegan or just curious about this increasingly popular diet which has so many health and environmental benefits, allow Holly White to take you on a mouth-watering journey through her own slow conversion to a plan...

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Parenting is for life 7 days a week, 24 hours a day and while it is one of the most rewarding experiences life can offer it can also be frustrating when faced with challenging behaviour. But what if just 15 minutes of mindful playtime each day in ...

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Theres nothing the Irish like more than talking about the weather! Here meteorologist Joanna Donnelly explains what weather is and how it happens. From cold fronts to climate change, satellites to storms, this book contains everything youve ever w...

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We live in an era of yes, I can. We tell ourselves that whatever we want to achieve, if we work hard enough, we can do it. But sometimes this results in something very different indeed a severe case of no, I really, really cant. Burnout is a state...

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BGE Irish Sports Book of the Year and eir Sports Book of the Year In The Choice Dubs star Philly McMahon shares the deeply personal story of his brother, John, a heroin addict who died at the age of 31. Structured as a series of choices in sport, ...

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In The Source, theologian, spiritual teacher and kinesiologist Judith McAdam blends her broad knowledge of world religions to reveal her ground-breaking principles for creating your own reality and living out your life's purpose. You will lea...

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Over 200,000 people in Ireland suffer from type 2 diabetes and are dependent on medication to manage it. Most health professionals consider it a chronic disease for which medication is the only solution. But there is an alternative. Dr Eva Orsmond...

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