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  • Colin Murphy's Political Plays

    100 Years of Irish History

    by Colin Murphy ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    "The approach of mixing the factual with the fictional works brilliantly in delivering a spectacle that pulls off the difficult task of being both hugely entertaining and yet remains, a rigorous work.” - Sunday IndependentColin Murphy is one of Ireland's most significant writers for stage, screen and documentary. In his first published play collection his work shows a history of Ireland from 1916 ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Most Famous Irish People You've Never Heard Of

    by Colin Murphy ...
    STORIES OF ADVENTURE & ACHIEVEMENTINVENTORS, GOLD-DIGGERS, MILITARY LEADERS, SPIES, RABBLE-ROUSERS, SOLDIERS, COURTESANS, ACE PILOTS DETECTIVES, ATHLETES, HEROESIrish people have left their mark on virtually every corner of the globe. This fascinating book tells the stories of the Irish who are justly celebrated in their adopted homelands, but virtually unknown in Ireland.William Melville from ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Priest Hunters

    The True Story of Ireland's Bounty Hunters

    by Colin Murphy ...
    A fascinating investigation the lives of four priest hunters – Sean na Sagart, Edward Tyrrell, Barry Lowe and John Garzia.Ireland in the aftermath of Cromwell – during this period Catholicism and Irish nationalism became inexorably linked and priests were outlawed. The Priest Hunters shines a light on these men who hunted them. Sean naSagart was Irishman who was been condemned to death for horse ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lost Voices

    An epic trilogy of ancient Pompeii

    by Colin C. Murphy ...
    Series Book 1 - The Lost Voices
    The year is 62AD. The place is Pompeii, a mere dot on the vast map of the Roman world. Its inhabitants go about their daily lives. Cygnia, the beautiful slave of cruel masters dreams of a better life. Publius, son of a baker, entertains youthful hopes of becoming a playwright. Epidius, moneylender, schemes ruthlessly in pursuit of his ambitions. Gnaeus, the town’s richest citizen and sponsor of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The United States vs Ulysses

    by Colin Murphy ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    The country's on fire! The Klan on the march again. Fascists organising - in America!And books are being burned.It's 1933, and James Joyce's sexually explicit Ulysses has been banned in the US for a decade. But now a hungry young publisher and an ambitious lawyer have teamed up to take on the puritans. Can they convince the judge that Ulysses is not obscene? And what will happen when Ulysses gets ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Who Gives a Focal?

    A Hundred Words and Phrases Ireland Gave the English Language

    by Colin Murphy, Donal O'Dea ...
    We Irish have enriched the English language with a slew of snazzy gems. Did you know we're the ones behind quarks , electrons and vectors , Sudocrem and Wellington boots? No surprise that we invented begrudgery , but croquet and Wunderkind were us too! So if some yahoo is getti... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Asylum Workshop

    by Colin Murphy ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    You think this is dignified? A bunch of students playing with someone's medical records?Why did 20th century Ireland lock up so many people?After all the scandals about Ireland's institutions - the industrial schools, the mother and baby homes, the Magdalene laundries - why have we still barely investigated the largest institutions of them all: the psychiatric hospitals?Today, Grangegorman is home ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Day in May

    by Colin Murphy ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    There's a million in the middle - and they might go either way.On May 22nd, 2015, the people of Ireland voted resoundingly for marriage equality - making Ireland the first country in the world to introduce gay marriage by popular vote.Little about Ireland's 20th-century history suggested that the country would find itself at the vanguard of LGBT+ rights. “Homosexual conduct may lead a mildly ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • A Feckin' Tour of Ireland

    50 Must Do Things

    by Colin Murphy ...
    The Emerald Isle has something for everyone, from the stupendous coastline and cliffs of the Wild Atlantic Way in the west to the culture and cuisine of the Ancient East; from the castles and forts of the historic north to the famed golden beaches of the beautiful south – and not forgetting the mighty craic and decent watering holes to be found everywhere in between!Humorous information about 50 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Boycott

    by Colin Murphy ...
    Boycott - a word whose meaning is known the world over. But it once belonged to a man.Two brothers, Owen and Thomas Joyce, barely survive the horror of the great famine that devastated Ireland in the 1840s. But it left a lasting effect on both of them. Three decades later they are thrown together during the Land War, when evictions and landlord cruelty reach an intolerable level. But Thomas places ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Big Pile of Blarney

    by Colin Murphy, Brendan O'Reilly ...
    The Irish are world masters at talking. The magic behind our silky, colourful (and non-stop) stories is a little thing called 'blarney', or 'the gift of the gab'. But what is it, you ask, and how can you get some for yourself?The hilarious A Big Pile of Blarney takes you through the history of Blarney Castle and the legend of the world-famous Blarney Stone (not to mention the famous lips that have ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In The Name of Jaysus!

    Stuff That Drives Irish People Round the Feckin' Bend

    by Colin Murphy ...
    Ever lose the head when the country grinds to a halt after two centimetres of snow?Do the parish-pump politicians, perennially pathetic health services and practically useless road signs drive you to drink?Are all these and a million other maddening quirks of Irish society sapping your will to live?In the Name of Jaysus is a hilarious rant about all things exasperating, irritating and downright ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus