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  Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women - by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick

  £10.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9780241994320 | ISBN 10: 0241994322

  'A captivating account of lives previously ignored' Sunday Independent   'An important, impeccably researched though eminently readable book that charts new territory' Irish Examiner   Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth cen ... more

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  Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

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  All Down Darkness Wide - by Sean Hewitt

  £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529114478 | ISBN 10: 1529114470

  A luminous memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a tender exploration of queer identity.  'Beautiful' Colm Tóibín 'Rapturous' New York Times 'Extraordinary' Observer 'Stunning' Sunday T ... more

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  by Sean Hewitt

  
  

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  Where Grieving Begins: Building Bridges After the Brighton Bomb: A Memoir - by Patrick Magee

  £16.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780745341774 | ISBN 10: 0745341772

  An enduring peace is only possible through a genuine understanding of the past. To understand the Troubles is to set them in the context of the historical root causes of the conflict, in order to grapple with its pain and its horrors; to grieve and t ... more

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  Where Grieving Begins: Building Bridges After the Brighton Bomb: A Memoir

  by Patrick Magee

  
  

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  A James Connolly Reader - by James Connolly

  £16.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781608466467 | ISBN 10: 1608466469

  A stirring collection of James Connolly's most important speeches and writing.  Considered by many Ireland's most important revolutionary, James Connolly devoted his life to struggles against exploitation, oppression, and imperialism. Active ... more

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  Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love - by Fergal Keane

  £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008189273 | ISBN 10: 0008189277

  A family story of blood and memory and the haunting power of the past.   2018 WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE NON-FICTION IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  After nearly three de ... more

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  To School Through the Fields - by Alice Taylor

  £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781847178237 | ISBN 10: 1847178235

  "A delightful evocation of Irishness and of the author's deep-rooted love of the very fields of home"(Publishers Weekly) Alice Taylor’s classic account of growing up in the Irish countryside, the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland.   ... more

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  Michael Collins: A Biography - by Tim Pat Coogan

  £10.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784753269 | ISBN 10: 1784753262

  When President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord Birkenhead, 'I may have signed my actual death warrant.' And in August 1922 during the Irish Civil War, that prophecy came true - ... more

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  James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner - by Alfonso Zapico, translated by David Prendergast

  £16.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847173638 | ISBN 10: 1847173632

  A complete account of the life and times of James Joyce in the form of a graphic novel.  From his earliest days and school career, through to meetings with all the literary greats of the day, this story is dotted with anecdotes, as well as a cap ... more

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  Michael Collins: The Lost Leader - by Margery Forester

  £14.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780717140145 | ISBN 10: 0717140148

  Margery Forester's life of Michael Collins has been in print continuously for more than thirty years and is long established as one of the major biographical works on the 'Big Fellow'. Unlike more recent biographers, the author was able to interview ... more

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  Memoir - by John McGahern

  £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571228119 | ISBN 10: 0571228119

  This is the story of John McGahern's childhood; of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement, and his own discovery of literature."Long before Frank McCourt made an entire industry out of twinkly eyed accounts of the povery and institutio ... more

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  Memoir - by John McGahern

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