Founded in 1992, A. & A. Farmar publish mainly non-fiction books of Irish interest, including history, traveller, biography, business titles and food and drink. Book-lovers will appreciate our very high editorial, design and production standards, for which we have a well-established reputation. All the books listed here can be ordered directly from us, at a special discount—just click on 'Buy'.
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Forgotten Light
Memory PoemsLouise C. Callaghan (Ed.) The key to defining who we are is memory. This anthology draws together many aspects of memory in a moving and evocative collection sensitively selected by Louise Callaghan. Contributions include modern Irish poets such as Peter Fallon and Seamus Heaney but also reach back in time to Shakespeare, Keats and Walt Whitman. Published in aid of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland. 'A truly lovely, beautifully made book!' -- Macdara Woods 'A luminous and surprising collection' -- Niall MacMonagle About the author Louise C. Callaghan is a poet. She lives in Dublin € 12.99 160 pp pb ISBN: 978-1-899047-84-0 Buy Reviews |
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Love Nor Lack Of Love
Garret Baker
Gregory Beecham is stuck. Unable to put his past love behind him, he's jobless and reclusive. Things come to a head, however, when his best friend finally falls in love . . 'wonderfully observed...touchingly rendered' -- Pauline McLynn, Sunday Tribune About the author Garret Baker is a novelist, playwright and scriptwriter. € 9.45 176 pp pb ISBN: 978-1-899047-83-3 Buy Reviews |
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The Big House of Inver
E. OE. Somerville, Martin Ross
A wastrel planter family dwindles from riches and joy and beauty into pathos and squalor. Despite the efforts of his illegitimate half-sister Shibby to rescue the family fortunes, the beautiful Kit, descendant of generations of landlords, spirals to decay, watched over by the ghosts of his ancestors. '...a very fine achievement.' -- Ireland of the Welcomes About the authors E. OE Somerville (1858-1949) was from a prominent Anglo-Irish Ascendancy family. She formed a writing partnership with her cousin Martin Ross (Violet Martin). They are best known for their Irish R.M. stories. After Ross's death in 1915, Somerville continued to write and publish under both names, claiming that the partnership endured beyond the grave. Martin Ross (pseud. Violet Martin 1862-1915) was from a prominent Anglo-Irish Ascendancy family. She formed a writing partnership with her cousin Edith Somerville. Their Irish RM books are their best-known works. € 7.99 300 pp pb ISBN: 978-1-899047-48-2 Buy Reviews |
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The Dubbalin Man
A new selection of his Irish Press columns, with foreword by Anthony Cronin and decorations by Beatrice BehanBrendan Behan The more often celebrated, more visible side of Dublin life emerges in Brendan Behan's column which ran in The Irish Press from 1954 to 1956... The tone of his pieces is rare too (as are the illustrations, by his wife Beatrice, that accompany them). They are, his friend Anthony Cronin points out in a foreword, to some extent modelled on Myles na Gopaleen's 'Cruiskeen Lawn' in The Irish Times, but where the Myles column was savage, satirical and learned, Behan's style was more gentle... It's a language full of vanished vocabulary, some of it explained in extensive notes at the back, which follow the bonus of a little short story, 'Christmas Eve in the Graveyard', published here for the first time. -- The Sunday Tribune Ideal for a relaxed read. -- The Irish Times About the author Brendan Behan (1923-1964) house-painter, IRA man, Borstal boy, one of Ireland's most original writers and Dublin's greatest characters. His funeral in 1964 was the biggest in Dublin since the death of Michael Collins. € 7.99 168 pp pb ISBN: 978-1-899047-15-4 Buy Reviews |
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The Real Charlotte
E. OE. Somerville, Martin Ross
Pitting the light-hearted, pretty, and naive Francie Fitzpatrick against her scheming, plain, and embittered cousin Charlotte Mullen, The Real Charlotte brilliantly plays out its psychological drama in and around the picturesque west-of-Ireland town of Lismoyle Considered to be one of the greatest of Irish novels, it is a story of romantic intrigue and deception, containing some of the most vivid characters in Irish literature. '...unquestionably the finest Irish novel of the nineteenth century' -- Professor John Cronin About the authors E. OE Somerville (1858-1949) was from a prominent Anglo-Irish Ascendancy family. She formed a writing partnership with her cousin Martin Ross (Violet Martin). They are best known for their Irish R.M. stories. After Ross's death in 1915, Somerville continued to write and publish under both names, claiming that the partnership endured beyond the grave. Martin Ross (pseud. Violet Martin 1862-1915) was from a prominent Anglo-Irish Ascendancy family. She formed a writing partnership with her cousin Edith Somerville. Their Irish RM books are their best-known works. € 10.23 368 pp pb ISBN: 978-1-899047-47-5 Buy Reviews |
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The Runts of the Litter
Garret Baker
Two self-described artists somehow meander their way to the Aran Islands. 'A funny and sad book about the reality that is created when reality is avoided . . Comical, sharp perceptive and memorable' -- Brendan Kennelly About the author Garret Baker is a novelist, playwright and scriptwriter. € 9.99 256 pp pb ISBN: 978-1-899047-65-9 Buy Reviews |
A&A Farmar's World — Political correctness
In a contest for the least politically correct remark ever, this would do well— ‘We can see the value set on animals even by the barbarians of Tierra del Fuego, by their killing and eating their old women, in times of dearth, as of less value than their dogs.’ (Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species)