Irish Fields

Art teacher Angie Newcastle’s life is all monotone. She wasn’t always this dull. She’d been an up-and-coming artist with the world at her feet. But after contracting the Wrong Man Syndrome and spending years doubting herself, she no longer recognizes herself. When she loses her job, she can’t afford to keep ignoring the obvious: Her life needs a serious overhaul. And she knows exactly where to start: in Ireland, teaching art classes to her ex-pat cousin’s village community.

This is not a collection of gentle fairy tales. The folklore of Ireland has been systematically sanitized for global consumption. The ancient Irish did not view the supernatural as a safe or romantic escape. They saw it as a tangible, high-velocity threat that shared their physical geography. The Irish Otherworld is a restoration of the dark, predatory, and profound realities of Celtic myth. In this A to Z field guide, you will dig beneath the pavement of modern tropes to understand the psychological architecture of the ancient Irish people. These stories were originally designed as a ...

The Irish language has thirty-two words for field. Among them are: Geamhar – a field of corn-grass Tuar – a field for cattle at night Reidhlean – a field for games or dancing Cathairin – a field with a fairy-dwelling in it. The richness of the Irish language is closely tied...

Inspired by one of Ireland’s most haunting ballads… The Fields of Athenry – An Gorta Mór is a sweeping Irish historical novel of love, exile, and survival during the Great Famine. Michael is an ordinary Irish husband and father whose only crime is trying to feed his starving family. For that desperate act, he is arrested and transported across the world to Australia — a land so distant it might as well be the end of the earth. In a single moment, his family is torn apart. Left behind in a country hollowed by hunger, Mary must fight to keep their child alive as Ireland collapses ...

As a boy growing up on a small farm in County Cavan, Michael McGovern never imagined that his life would take him deep beneath the streets of London. But like thousands of young Irish emigrants, he left home in the 1950s with little more than a cardboard suitcase and hope for something better. In London, Michael became one of the Tunnel Tigers — the fearless Irish labourers whose back-breaking work built the city’s underground tunnels. Facing danger, hardship and exile, he forged a new life while raising a young family in England. Years later, with his wife and children, he returned to ...

An exquisite short story collection from 'one of the greatest Irish writers' (Cillian Murphy). The jilted lover in a Dublin pub on a summer evening; the bitter climax between a father and son as a marriage begins; the fortunes and misfortunes of an Irish family; the memories of an ageing priest...

Brought to you by Penguin. Hurling is Ireland’s national game – a source of fascination and pride, even to people who have never played it. Ciarán Murphy, a lifelong club footballer, used to be one of those people. Then he spent a summer trying to play hurling with a tiny club in the West...

The iconic debut novel by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Tóibín). Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own...

A gripping investigation into one of Irish history's greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals the true story behind one of the most significant political assassinations to ever have been committed on British soil. On 22 June 1922, Sir Henry Wilson—the former head of the British army and one of those credited with winning the First World War—was shot and killed by two veterans of that war turned IRA members in what was the most significant political murder to have taken place on British soil for more than a century. 

Bloomsbury presents Kyan Green Battles the Multiverse by Colm Field, read by Toyin Omari-Kinch. It’s time to race across the multiverse and save not just one world, but all of them! Kyan Green is getting the hang of racing through the multiverse in the Infinite Race. If he’s driving a...

Bloomsbury presents Kyan Green and the Infinity Racers by Colm Field, read by Theo Solomon. The first book in a fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat adventure series from exciting debut author Colm Field. Fans of Danny Wallace, Ben Miller and Rob Biddulph's Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City will...

In The Silent Field we can be anything. We can exist in a photograph, lose ourselves in a dream and enter a space within, to explore the pain, excitement and utter hilarity of life on Earth. This is a place of riddles and escape, where the landscape of love, loneliness and regret is examined while an old lady rocks on a fireside chair, a heartbroken lover says goodbye to someone forever and a tiny ballerina escapes the confines of her music box. It is also a place where transformation can happen; a place of passing from one thing to the next.

America, 1890 After the death of her beloved father, Irish immigrant Katherine Murphy is consumed by one singular goal. She will keep her promise to protect the family and save their Iowa homestead. Worlds away in New York City, Jonathan Schoon’s controlling father has groomed him to take over the family business, a stifling future that gives Jonathan neither peace nor purpose. This summer, he will have one last adventure. During a visit with Uncle Heinrick on the Schoon family farm in Iowa, he plans to make enough memories to last a lifetime. When Katherine meets Jonathan in the town ...