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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 21 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick
    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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  • Cover image of book Where Grieving Begins: Building Bridges After the Brighton Bomb: A Memoir by Patrick Magee
    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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  • Cover image of book James Joyce by Edna O
    James Joyce - by Edna O'Brien

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781474614450 | ISBN 10: 1474614450

    Edna O’Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works ‘to bestir the hearts of men and angels’.   The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth, his lofty courtship of No ... more

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  • Cover image of book A 1950s Irish Childhood: From Catapults to Communion Medals by Ruth Illingworth
    A 1950s Irish Childhood: From Catapults to Communion Medals - by Ruth Illingworth

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780750983549 | ISBN 10: 075098354x

    1950s Ireland was the age of De Valera and John Charles McQuaid. It was the age before television, Vatican II, and home central heating. A time when motor cars and public telephones had wind-up handles, when boys wore short trousers and girls wore ri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love by Fergal Keane
    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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  • Cover image of book The Company of Trees: A Year in a Lifetime
    The Company of Trees: A Year in a Lifetime's Quest - by Thomas Pakenham

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781474606790 | ISBN 10: 1474606792

    Acclaimed historian and bestselling author Thomas Pakenham shares his profound love of trees and reverence for nature, rooted in the family estate of Tullynally in Ireland.   Thomas Pakenham is an indefatigable champion of trees. In The Co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life After Life: A Guildford Four Memoir by Paddy Armstrong, with Mary-Elaine Tynan
    Life After Life: A Guildford Four Memoir - by Paddy Armstrong, with Mary-Elaine Tynan

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780717172474 | ISBN 10: 0717172473

    Looking back over the last six, almost seven decades, the images that flash through my mind are hardly believable – sometimes, it feels like I’m remembering someone else’s life. The truth is, I’ve lived three very different lives: the one bef ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women of the Irish Revolution by Liz Gillis
    Women of the Irish Revolution - by Liz Gillis

    £16.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781781174654 | ISBN 10: 1781174652

    Women of the Irish Revolution tells the story of the role that women played both directly and indirectly in the Irish revolution.  These women were vital to the revolutionary movement. They were part of a generation who made a conscious decision t ... more

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  • Cover image of book To School Through the Fields by Alice Taylor
    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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  • Cover image of book One Bold Deed of Open Treason: The Berlin Diary of Roger Casement 1914-1916 by Angus Mitchell
    One Bold Deed of Open Treason: The Berlin Diary of Roger Casement 1914-1916 - by Angus Mitchell

    £16.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785370564 | ISBN 10: 1785370561

    Roger Casement is an intriguing figure in Irish history who played a crucial role in the 1916 Rising. His Berlin Diary is an astonishingly candid insight into his mind and motives during his last acts before the Easter Rising and his execution.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book 1916: Portraits and Lives by James Quinn, Lawrence William White and David Rooney
    1916: Portraits and Lives - by James Quinn, Lawrence William White and David Rooney

    £28.00   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908996381 | ISBN 10: 1908996382

    This book is a selection of 40 articles from the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography, dealing with 42 men and women whose careers, in one way or another, were deeply involved with the Easter rising of 1916.   The biographies ... more

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  • Cover image of book Michael Collins: A Biography by Tim Pat Coogan
    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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  • Cover image of book James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner by Alfonso Zapico, translated by David Prendergast
    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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  • Cover image of book The Rising: Easter 1916 by Fearghal McGarry
    The Rising: Easter 1916 - by Fearghal McGarry

    £14.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199605972 | ISBN 10: 0199605971

    The Easter Rising of 1916 not only destroyed much of the centre of Dublin - it changed the course of Irish history. But how did it achieve this? What role did people from ordinary backgrounds play in the making of the Irish revolution and what motiva ... more

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  • Cover image of book Patrick Pearse: The Making of a Revolutionary by Joost Augusteijn
    Patrick Pearse: The Making of a Revolutionary - by Joost Augusteijn

    £25.00   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780230277656 | ISBN 10: 0230277659

    Patrick Pearse was not only the leader of the 1916 Easter Rising but also one of the main ideologues of physical-force nationalism in Ireland. For a long time, his ideas have either been dismissed or portrayed as dubious because of his association wi ... more

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  • Cover image of book I
    I'll Tell Me Ma: A Childhood Memoir - by Brian Keenan

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099428152 | ISBN 10: 0099428156

    A touching, moving memoir of boyhood memoir by the author of the huge bestseller An Evil Cradling.  Local rather than international, the dramas and privations described in this memoir are not the stuff of headlines. This is the story of a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beyond Belief by Colm O
    Beyond Belief - by Colm O'Gorman

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780340925287 | ISBN 10: 0340925280

    Abused by his priest, betrayed by his church: the story of the boy who sued the Pope. `I was living in a world where a priest who spoke the words of God used me for sex, and there was no-one to tell. The world where this horror happened didn`t exist ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes by Martha Long
    Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes - by Martha Long

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781845963132 | ISBN 10: 184596313x

    'Then I heard the most beautiful music, an suddenly I was outa me body an flyin. An I wanted te cry inside meself. I wasn't dead any more, I was lifted away, far away. I can do anythin. I can be somebody, I can be beautiful, I can be gentle, I can be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Michael Collins: The Lost Leader by Margery Forester
    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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  • Cover image of book Angela
    Angela's Ashes - by Frank McCourt

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780007205233 | ISBN 10: 0007205236

    Angela's Ashes was a true publishing phenomenon. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Royal Society of Literature Award (amongst others), this lyrical and poignant memoir topped bestseller charts the world ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Left Foot by Christy Brown
    My Left Foot - by Christy Brown

    £8.99   paperback   (1990) - ISBN 13: 9780749391775 | ISBN 10: 0749391774

    The autobiography of Christy Brown, a victim of cerebral palsy who was born and raised in Dublin, and died in 1981.  He recounts his childhood struggle to learn to read, write, paint and finally type, with the toe of his left foot. ... more

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