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'.
The story of a Dublin merchant family, 1823-2001
Alex Findlater
 | Irish Times
Kevin Myers Alex Findlater's new history of the family and its role in the commerce of the city is without question the most important book about Dublin to have appeared this year, or indeed in recent years. For it is not just a history of a few shops and the things people bought, but it is also a history of the people from which Alex comes, and which is now on the verge of extinction: the old Protestant, unionist community, which once filled Rathgar and Rathmines, Sandymount, Ailesbury Road, Blackrock and Dun Laoghaire, and which is now almost no more. It is not merely a hugely entertaining and ravishingly illustrated account of a commercial caste which is now all but gone - the pictures alone merit its purchase; but it is also a seriously important insight into a neglected part of Irish history over the 19th and 20th centuries.' € 35 400 pp hb ISBN: 978-1-899047-69-7 Buy |
A&A Farmar's World — Life goes on
Ethiopia 1985. A famine camp at Harbu in the north. Extremely hot, dusty, dry—thousands of starving men, women and children. So many that they had, shockingly, to be controlled by guards with sticks and guns. Each is given water and food and a blanket. And in the midst of this horror, one women returns her blue blanket—she would prefer a red one. (Deirdre Purcell, Ethiopia—the dark hunger)