Bígí linn i gcóir seoladh cnuasach filíochta nua dár dteideal ‘Résheoid’ le Doireann Ní Ghríofa anseo i Scéal Eile Books ar an 14 Bealtaine óna 17:30 – 18:30. Fáilte roimh chách! Come along to the launch of the new poetry…
“Vegetables for the Irish Garden” by Klaus Laitenberger
We are delighted to have in stock copies of Klaus Laitenberger’s book “Vegetables for the Irish Garden”. The author is well known to gardening enthusiasts from his work as Head Gardener at the Organic Centre in Co. Leitrim, and his…
Eddie Stack: A Reading
Scéal Eile Books presents an evening’s entertainment with the renowned short-fiction writer and American Small Press of the Year Award recipient Eddie Stack, who will read from his own work. Described by the New York Times Book Review as “…variously…
Books on County Clare, Ireland, History and People
Are you looking for a specific history book on County Clare? Do you have ancestors from this area? Would you like to discover more about them, the way of life they would have lead, the folk tales they would have…
“Outsider : The Life and Times of a Latter Day Hunter Gatherer” by Del Harding
“This book is not for the politically correct. Nor is it for the po-faced, the nit-pickers, or the followers of the ‘straight and narrow’. On the other hand, the free spirits among us will welcome it, the older ones with…
Eddie Lenihan – Storyteller.
In these days of deepest gloom and doom, when the radio or television can’t be turned on for fear of hearing about the recession, a volcano eruption or (perhaps strangest of all!) an earthquake in West Clare, what better way…
Launch of “Sliabh Aughty Ramble” – by Gerard Madden
I was delighted to be invited to the launch of a new book on County Clare last week. Ger Madden is a well-known local historian. His previous titles include “A History of Tuamgraney and Scariff Since Earliest Times” , “History…
Thoughts on the Riches of Ireland
” Our object in building up the country economically must not be lost sight of. That object is not to be able to boast of enormous wealth or of a great volume of trade for their own sake. It is…
Ré Ó Laighléis and Fred Johnston Read Multi-lingually in Scéal Eile Books – Ennis Bookclub Festival 2010
Ré Ó Laighléis reads at Scéál Eile Books This clip features Ré Ó Laighléis reading from “The Great Book of the Shapers” as part of the Ennis Bookclub Festival, 6-8th March 2010. Fred Johnston also read at this event which…
A New Decade, A Blank Page
One good thing about facing into the New Year is that we are all in the same boat: between the past- and future-tense, in the dead centre of nowhere, held transfixed in liminality. To be honest, I’ve always felt comfortable…