Declan: 93 books

Political failures and globalization have eroded Ireland’s sovereignty—a decline portended in Irish literature. Surveying the bleak themes in thirty works by modern writers, Declan Kiberd finds audacious experimentation that embodies the defiance and resourcefulness of Ireland’s founding spirit—and a strange kind of hope for a more open nation.

East Asia: the world's most dangerous flash point brought to life by a true insider. Once a political and economic powerhouse, Japan now finds herself severely weakened and in a very troubling situation with a belligerent and expansionist China on one side and a still–influential but distant...

Japan's national economy: understanding the history of the current crisis and proposing a path forward The consistent failure of the Japanese bureaucracy and business establishment to meet proper management and regulatory standards has made America's premier ally in Asia a major source of financial...

A fresh and radical approach to acting by a world-famous director. 'This new "Advice to the Players" cuts open every generalisation about acting and draws out gleamingly fresh specifics. Behind the joy and humour of the writing, Declan Donnellan is subtly leading young actors to an...

“Ed Loy is…more than worthy of a place among the great creations of Chandler and Hammett. Hughes is simply the best Irish crime novelist of his generation.” —John Connolly   Shamus Award winner and Edgar® Award nominee Declan Hughes does for Dublin what Dennis Lehane...

After two recently laid-off suburban dads decide to steal a vanload of counterfeit Viagra from a mob-connected businessman, their easy-money plan gets a whole lot harder. Hard Stop is a comic crime novel set amid a soft housing market and a flaccid economy, where desperate times lead to bad behavior...

Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 — the formal end-point of the thirty-year modern ‘Troubles’ — contemporary visual artists have offered diverse responses to post-conflict circumstances in Northern Ireland. In Ghost-Haunted Land — the first book-length examination of...

This book, the eight and final one in its series, gives an A-Z summary of the Syrian crisis. I hope it will lead to bigger and better efforts in the future that will help give the Syrian people and those of other Arab countries currently under NATO's cosh the peace and prosperity they richly...

A new cultural icon strode the world stage at the turn of the twenty-first century: the celebrity scientist, as comfortable in Vanity Fair and Vogue as Smithsonian. Declan Fahy profiles eight of these eloquent, controversial, and compelling sellers of science to investigate how they achieved celebrity...

This, the sixth and final part of my six volume series on NATO's war against Syria, is a book of two halves: this short introduction and a subsequent section, which is a compendium of the previous five volumes. Together, they explain how and why we must make a contract with Syria, with the Syrian...

A fishing holiday on Lough Arrow outside of Boyle, in Co.Roscommon turns into a murder investigation. A car crash which the authorities claim is a suicide, attracts the attention of a retired Irish army special forces officer. Pat Farrell starts to dig deep into a billion euro financial scam, which...

What's in a name? Apparently everything for Ed Loy, because that's the only information Father Vincent Tyrrell, brother of prominent racehorse trainer F. X. Tyrrell, offers when he asks for Ed's help in finding a missing person. Even the best private eye needs more than just a name, but hard times...

Declan Lynch recalls the great moments — Packie’s save and his leap into immortality; Pavarotti’s ‘Nessun Dorma’ and U2’s ‘Put ’Em Under Pressure’; Kevin Sheedy’s sweet strike; and all that drinking. Days of Heaven is full of hilarious accounts of how the Irish abandoned reality in that glorious time called Italia 90.

This, my seventh short e booklet on Syria, is comprised mostly of photographs, which I took myself, augmented by others, which I took from the Internet to make the important points I adumbrate below. Those points are, in essence, lessons from my four or so recent visits to the Syrian Arab Republic...