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'.
Garret Baker
 | 'The two self described artists, who suffer that ever so common malady of never being compensated for their work, stumble around Dublin, meet an old yuppie friend and somehow meander their way to the Aran Islands . . . told with a great deal of humour and not a little irony this well composed first novel would probably have had even Flann O'Brien in stitches' Trinity News 'This is a funny book which captivated me from the start. Ernest and Jon take themselves far too seriously, but their sardonic wit . . . will make you laugh out loud.'The Big Issues € 9.99 256 pp pb ISBN: 978-1-899047-65-9 Buy |
A&A Farmar's World — What a charmer
Lord John Russell, whose ideological reluctance to interfere with the mechanism of the market lead to hundreds of thousands of Irish deaths during the Famine of the 1840s, was a small, awkward, charmless person. ‘On one occasion he described to a friend how at a party he had left the Duchess of Inverness to talk to the Duchess of Sutherland because she was sitting farther from the fire and he felt hot. “I hope you told the Duchess of Inverness why you left her” said the friend. “No”, said Sir John “ But I did tell the Duchess of Sutherland.”’ (D. Cecil, Lord M)