NON FICTION
THE BOOK OF CELTIC WISDOM
The Book of Celtic Wisdom is a collection of that oral tradition. Here are the folktales and legends, poems and proverbs, triads and blessings of the Celtic people some of which are almost a thousand years old yet are as relevant today as they were at theof the First Millennium.
“There is no bone in the tongue, and yet the same did often break a man’s head.” “Speak slowly, think swiftly, and act wisely.” “There is no secret that is known by three.” No single book can encompass the wisdom of the Celts. This was a race which loved language, which held the Bard and the Poet to be the equals of Kings. This was also a race without a written language, where the teachings were committed to memory and passed down in an oral tradition which is very much alive today. |
CELTIC WISDOM FOR BUSINESS
Edited by Michael Scott
WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE
Are you one of the 850,000 addicts who tune in weekly to RTE for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?The game that has captured the nation’s imagination can now be played in your own home. With Gay Byrne as your host, the excitement and tension of the TV show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? is now available on your PC allowing you to become a virtual millionaire.
Here is your ultimate challenge. Test yourself against the question masters and see if you can achieve what no one else has done before on Irish television-answer 15 questions correctly and win €1,000,000. As the book contains almost 1,000 questions written exclusively for it by the Irish question masters you can now recreate the magic of this gripping show. Are you really as clever as you think you are? You will be tested to your limits, but you will have three lifelines (including an audience you can ask at any time, day or night!)Compiled in an easy-to-play format you are dared to show your greatness-from the comfort of your armchair. |
OPEN HOUSE YEARBOOK & DIARY
TV TIE-IN
Presented by Marty Whelan and Mary Kennedy. Open House is RTE’s popular daytime magazine programme, broadcasting five days a week, The Open House Yearbook & Diary 2003 brings together a selection of advice, fun, tips and time-saving tricks from the programme’s regular and best-loved contributors, featuring a week-to-view diary and comprehensive sections on gardening, cookery, beauty, astrology, fashion, health and much, much more, the Open House Yearbook & Diary is the essential companion for 2003, every day of the week, every week of the year.
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DERMOT GARDENS
TV TIE-IN
Dermot O’Neill has been gardening on RTE since 1982, and the Open House gardener for the past four years. Now, in Dermot Gardens, he has put together the definitive guide to everything you need to know to create the perfect garden, from Lawns to roses, from climbers to borders.Illustrated with Dermot’s own colour photographs throughout, this is a book that will be enjoyed and appreciated by both beginner and expert alike.
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NEVEN COOKS
Neven Maguire is the popular cook on Open House, RTE’s daily magazine programme. Neven Cooks brings together for the first time a selection of his best loved recipes. This is not just another cookbook – this is the only cookbook you will ever need! Delicious food, simply explained, beautifully illustrated.
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Neven Maguire, the award-winning chef on RTE’s Open House, returns with a second all-new collection of mouthwatering recipes. Using readily available ingredients, and written in Nevens trademark simple style, Neven Cooks 2 brings together some old favourites as well as exciting new ideas. Delicious food, simply explained, beautifully illustrated.
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HALL'S IRELAND
AN IRISH HERBAL
First published in 1735, The Botanalogia Universalis Hibernica, A General Irish Herbal, quickly established itself as a standard work.Here is an edited version for the modern reader, retaining the style of John K’Eogh’s original whilst modernizing spelling and syntax and translating Latin and Irish words and phrases.
The herbal contained an alphabetical listing of the plants, herbs, flowers, hurbs, and trees of Ireland and the uses to which each could be put in the formation of cures. The present abridgement offers a wealth of enchanting folklore on a wide range of plants and trees from Agrimony and Alder to Yarrow and Yew. Illustrated throughout, An Irish Herbal makes fascinating-and still practical-reading for anyone interested in herbal medicine and in the natural history of Ireland. |
Contributions
THE BFI COMPANION TO HORROR
In one volume, the BFI Companion to Horror offers a complete concordance to one of the most lasting genres of popular entertainment, focusing of course on the cinema but also taking in literature, television, radio, popular music, history and folklore. Covering great artists like Boris Karloff and Edgar Allan Poe and humble toilers like Edward D. Wood and John Carradine, this book provides a history of the horror genre from its pre-cinema beginnings in the eighteenth-century gothic novel and the Victorian ghost story through a hundred years of fevered activity, spotlighting not only mainstream horror producers such as Hammer Films and Alfred Hitchcock but also less expected names (Franz Kafka and Ingmar Bergman).In addition to entries on actors, directors, writers and technicians associated with horror, and all horror-themed film and television series, there are insightful essays on classic horror characters like Frankenstein and Dracula, on recurrent situations like decapitation and body-snatching, even on often-horrific portions of the body like eyes and brains. Among the experts who have contributed are Mark Ashworth, Anne Billson, Jeremy Clarke, Christopher Frayling, Neil Gaiman, Phil Hardy, Peter Hutchings, Tom Hutchinson, Alan Jones, Stephen Jones, Mark Kermode, Tim Lucas, Maitland McDonagh, David Prothero, Mark Salisbury, Michael Scott, Philip Strick, Steve Thrower and Linda Ruth Williams.
Kim Newman, the editor, regularly broadcasts on radio and TV, writes on film for Sight and Sound and Empire and is working on screen adaptations of several of his novels and stories. He is author of the studies Niare Movies and W ild We st Movies and the bestselling novels The Night Mayor, Bad Dreams, Jago, Anno Dracula, The Quorum and The Bloody Red Baron. His short stories are collected in The Original Dr Shade and Famous Monsters. |
MAKING CONTACT
The crucial point here is to be organized beforehand, stay calm during the event, and report it accurately afterward. It is just such reports that will gradually turn the tide of public and official skepticism and hopefully create a path to a truly open and scientific study of the body of evidence that img-lefty indicates that we are not alone.
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IRELAND
LIFELINES 3
Letters from famous people about their favourite poem.This third remarkable collection has been compiled once more by the students of Wesley College, Dublin, with the help of their English teacher Niall MacMonagle, whose previous collections Lifelines (1992) and Lifelines 2 (1994) have already resulted in thousands of pounds being donated to Concern and other Third World charities.
Like Seamus Heaney and Paul Durcan before her, Eavan Boland seeks in her foreword to analyse what this anthology means to her and in doing so ‘trusts the choices of the contributors, being too personal, quirky and definite to be anything but true’. There are 182 contributors to Lifelines 3 including Eileen Battersby, Niamh Bhrcathnach, Tony Blair Paul Brady, Roddy Doyle, Alex Ferguson, Gary Lineker, Frank McCourt, Arthur Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, Feargal Quinn, Michael Smurfit, and CoIm Tóibin and their choices and reasons will confirm for the reader all the pleasures received in Lifelines and Lifelines 2. |
STOP
MATHS 100 ODYSSEY - Volumes 1,2&3
Ireland is a least for the eyes and for the spirit. For more than six thousand years, this island set like a jewel at the edge of the Atlantic has been inhabited by people who appreciated its special qualities, both physical and spiritual. Here is a land where the past is more than palpable.The past is to be seen, touched, climbed, explored and experienced. Glen and mountain and valley are peopled with memories that will not die, and spirits that are not extinguished. In a world which seems constantly in flux, some aspects of Ireland are changeless.
Dublin is a modern European city, yet only a few miles away, the wind blows across Tara hill as it has done since before the dawn of history, and sheep graze on the grass where once walked the magic People, the Tuatha De Danann.
Dublin is a modern European city, yet only a few miles away, the wind blows across Tara hill as it has done since before the dawn of history, and sheep graze on the grass where once walked the magic People, the Tuatha De Danann.