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Irish Home Essentials

Séamus Ó Conaill author Emma Byrne illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:O'Brien Press Ltd

Published:4th Jul '22

Should be back in stock very soon

Irish Home Essentials cover

What makes an Irish home? Is it the neatly folded wrapping paper saved for another Christmas? Or the pressure cooker that you can’t throw out but you haven’t used since 1987?

Séamus Ó Conaill, author of You Know You’re Irish When ..., examines the artifacts of an Irish home, from ash trays on back windowsill to the potpourri gathering dust in the ‘good room’. The list includes many newer objects that make our 21st century homes more Irish as ever!  

So, is your home as truly Irish as you think?

the flash backs from reading this little book had me in stitches!

-- Real Tasty Pages

cleverly put-together and well-illustrated pocket edition … a tongue-in-cheek rundown on all of the strange things that Irish people are so attached to

-- Clondalkin, Lucan, Rathcoole, Saggart, Tallaght News

Irish Home Essentials by Seamus O'Conaill is a collection of all the wonderful - and sometimes weird - things we have in our houses

-- Irish Daily Mirror

a tongue-in-cheek look at the common artifacts found in an Irish home

-- Sunday World

stocking filler … a bit of a cackle!

-- East Coast FM’s Morning Show

hilarious

-- Vale Star, Mallow Star and Weekly Observer

comic (and slightly comforting) … a pocket book ideal for the Irish abroad

-- Sunday World

Seamus O Conaill has distilled our very nature into the pages

-- Irish Daily Mirror

He’s compiled a list of things that are unique to us Irish - and he’s nailed it!

-- Today FM’s Early Breakfast

ISBN: 9781788493765

Dimensions: 132mm x 99mm x 8mm

Weight: 81g

160 pages