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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 5 books in this booklist
£21.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781477325704 | ISBN 10: 1477325700
A stirring defense of Sinéad O’Connor’s music and activism, and an indictment of the culture that cancelled her. In 1990, Sinéad O’Connor’s video for “Nothing Compares 2 U” turned her into a superstar. Two years later, an appea ... more
View book details£15.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781848892873 | ISBN 10: 184889287x
This lively collection uncovers for the first time how great Irish love songs came to be, and includes engaging biographies of the songwriters and their muses. This is for anyone who ever wondered who the ‘Galway Girl’ was, or if there was ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781848271883 | ISBN 10: 1848271883
For the last thirty years, singer Mary Black has been a dominant presence on the Irish music scene, an award-winning artist with many bestselling albums to her name. Now, in this long-awaited memoir, Mary takes us back to the roots of her musical her ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571253975 | ISBN 10: 0571253970
October, 1984: Wham!, Culture Club and Status Quo dominate the top ten when The Pogues barrel out from the backstreets of Kings Cross, a furious, pioneering mix of punk energy, traditional melodies and the powerfully poetic song-writing of Shane MacG ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780340993484 | ISBN 10: 0340993480
Since she rose to international fame in 1985 with her seminal Irish jazz album Tired and Emotional, Mary Coughlan's battles with addiction, the problems in her personal life and career have been well documented. But until now she has never spoken of ... more
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