O Sullivan: 289 books

"To this day, I’m still gobsmacked by some of the questions I get asked with respect to the Irish Muse stories. Many of them come from so far out of left-field I’m left wondering what kind of wierd, surreal or erotic notions people must think pass through my mind." [Brian O'Sullivan...

June O'Sullivan explores the concept of leadership, particularly with regards to leading Early Years centres. In line with government initiatives, there is growing pressure within the early years sector to create staff who can lead different types of childcare and family settings in order to...

Goodly Barrow is a long-unavailable classic that charts the history and character of Ireland's second-longest river, from the Slieve Bloom Mountains to the sea in Waterford. T.F. O'Sullivan's riverine narrative embraces legend and song, literature and anecdote, viewing Irish history through the prism...

The biography Bloodless Revolution considers the period 1878 -1885 in Sligo, Ireland, through the editorials and articles of Edward Gayer proprietor and editor of the Sligo Champion newspaper. Edward was invited to take on the challenge of turning the moribund, establishment-led newspaper into an...

“Riveting and comprehensive...a smart, deeply researched primer on the subject.”—The New York Times Book Review Windfall is the boldest profile of the world’s energy resources since Daniel Yergin’s The Quest, asserting that the new energy abundance—due to oil and gas resources once...

As Feminism destroys Western economies the ideological dominance of feminist driven narratives of transformation appears to be the way of the future. And as such seem to have a legitimate claim to be factored into all other contemporary political movements, tendencies and overarching stories. Yet...

In these 14 magnificent new stories from a New Zealand master, Vincent O’Sullivan exhibits a shrewd understanding that pierces to the heart of what it means to be human. O’Sullivan can mock, satirize, and laugh, but he also finds dignity in unexpected places. He is interested in the art of living and in the borderland where truth and lies meet, both in life and in fiction itself.

With the sensational arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998, the rise to prominence of universal jurisdiction over crimes against international law seemed to be assured. The arrest of Pinochet and the ensuing proceedings before the UK courts brought universal jurisdiction into...

Patrick Ahearne, His Majesty’s Inspector of Excise, has been sent to Ireland from HQ in London to investigate allegations of fraud at the Tullamore Distillery in his native Ireland.With his fellow inspector Whistler, he quickly decides that the local Excise man working at the distillery is...

Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by focusing primarily on written...

Casi todos aceptamos sin problema que el corazón palpite con fuerza cuando vemos a la persona que amamos secretamente, o la sudoración que brota en nuestra frente ante el nerviosismo que nos provoca tener que hablar en público. Pero lo que no somos capaces de imaginar es cuán dramática y exagerada...

Imagine paying a fine for walking across town. Or hiding an illegal marriage. Or losing your life for playing the harp. Strange crimes, dangerous activities, some from the not-so-distant past, return to life in Hidden in Crime. See why Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine says Fiction River’s crime volumes...

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved...

The House Sale - a romance set in London and Kinsale County Cork in 1989.Luke O’Brien is a successful 34 year old management consultant operating internationally out of his London base. Originally from Cork he decides he needs a base in Ireland and begins house hunting in Kinsale a fishing...