Dingle has a wealth of home produced literature, local authors and publishers. Dingle Bookshop holds a large stock of these, from memoirs of the Blasket Islands to photographic voyages of discovery. Take a look at our locally produced section.
The Discovery of the Dingle Diamond
CPR May
Banton Press 2007
€15.00 paperback
ISBN 9781656521789
A journey of discovery from the pre-historic shores of Ireland to the heart of stone-age
Europe .
Murphy's Ice Cream Book of Sweet Things
Seán and Kieran Murphy
Mercier Press
€19.99 paperback
ISBN 9781856355841
The story of how two American brothers came to be making and selling award winning ice cream in Kerry, including recipes old and new.
West Kerry Camera: Ceamara Chorca Dhuibhne
Padraig Tyers
Collins Press 2007
ISBN 9781905172306
€24.95 Hardback
A photographic record going back to the earliest days of photography.
Ireland’s High Places from the Mountains to the Sea
Rob Beighton
Collins Press 2008
ISBN 978-1905172450
€28.95 hardcover
A book of mesmerizing colour images to delight the thousands who visit Ireland’s mountains.
The Dingle Peninsula History Folklore Archaeology
Steve MacDonogh
Brandon Press 1993
€9.99 paperback
ISBN: 9780863222696
‘Far and away the best of the many books written about the area’. Examiner.
Bibeanna: Memories from a Corner of Ireland
Brenda Ní Shúilleabhain
€19.99 Paperback
ISBN 9781856355438
Mercier Press 2007
Twenty women from the Dingle gaeltacht look back on their lives and the changes they have witnessed from childhood to the present day. In Irish and English. Shortlisted as Best First Book in the Irish Language category of The Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards 2007.
Peig
The autobiography of Peig Sayers
Paperback €15.70
ISBN 9780861674404
An Old Woman’s Reflections
Peig Sayers
Paperback €8.50
Twenty Years A-Growing
Maurice O’Suilleabhain
Paperback €9.99
The Islandman
Tomas O’Crohan
Paperback €9.99
Blaskets People and Literature
Muiris O Conghail
Paperback special price €9.99
Pity Youth Does Not Last
Micheál O Guiheen
Paperback €8.50
Blasket Memories
Edited by Padraig Tyers
Paperback €11.99
Blasket Islands: Next Parish America
Ray Stagles €14.99
Inish Mhic Uillean
Micheál O’Dubhshláine
The history of the island owned by Charlie Haughey
Irish language €14.99
Island Home
George Thomson
Paperback €10.99
Meini Blasket Nurse
Leslie Matson
Paperback €11.99
Hungry for Home
Cole Moreton
Paperback €14.99
Poetry and Poets of the Great Blasket
€19.95
Inspiration in Stone
Antonio Fazio
A beautifully illustrated guide to the work of this unique artist in stone, originally from Sicily but now living in Co Kerry.
Hardback €14.95