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Patsy Peril with Deirdre Nuttall - Swimming Upstream : One Man's Fight to Save Wild Atlantic Salmon

Patsy Peril was born in 1943 in Coonagh, a small fishing community on the Shannon, not far from Limerick. His family fished from a traditional gandelow boat, using hemp nets. Further upriver was Ardnacrusha, the enormous hydro-electric station, opened in...

Eric Haughan - Unbeatable - Dublin's Incredible Six in a Row - BRAND NEW - PB

In late August 2014, Donegal's footballers smashed and grabbed an All-Ireland semi-final victory from Jim Gavin's seemingly unstoppable Dublin team. It would be the last Championship game the Boys in Blue would lose for 2,540 days. Their hearts hardened...

David Burke - The Puppet Masters - PB - BRAND NEW

David Burke uncovers the clandestine activities of Patrick Crinnion, a Garda intelligence officer in the Republic of Ireland who secretly served the British Secret Service, MI6, during the initial years of the Troubles. At the same time, The Garda...

Edward Burke - Ghosts of a Family : Ireland’s Most Infamous Unsolved Murder and the Origins of the Troubles - PB - BRAND NEW

The gripping historical true crime story of Ireland’s most infamous unsolved murder, the sectarian massacre of six Catholic civilians in their north Belfast home in 1922.      At 1.20am on 24 March 1922, five men, four dressed in...

Paul Tweed - From Holywood to Hollywood : My Life as an International Libel Lawyer to the Rich and Famous - PB - BRAND NEW

  In this engrossing memoir, internationally-renowned libel lawyer Paul Tweed lays bare the reality of defending the world’s biggest names in the court of law. During his four-decade career, Tweed has successfully represented scores of A-list...

James Durney - Jailbreak : Great Irish Republican Escapes, 1865–1983 -BRAND NEW

  ‘What has taken place here today was a carefully planned exercise to secure the release of a substantial number of POWs. The block is now under our control.’ The infamous 1983 H-Block breakout, which saw 38 IRA prisoners escape from...

Fiona Neary - Parcels in the Post - Growing Up with Fifty Siblings - PB - BRAND NEW (MAY 2024 )

It’s the early 1980s, and Fiona and her family have recently moved back from England to the family farm in Mayo. Fiona’s huge-hearted mum decides to take in foster children, short term, through the local social services. It’s a decision...

Warren Farrell - So Once Was I : Tales From Glasnevin Cemetery - PB - BRAND NEW ( With author Signed adhesive bookplate)

‘Remember now as you go by, as you are now so once was I, and as I am now so you shall be, so prepare for death and follow me.’ Every grave has a story to tell. Glasnevin Cemetery is the final resting place of over one million souls, with...

Gillian Cottell - Gill's Cakes and Bakes - HB - BRAND NEW 2024

Tempt your taste buds with Gill Cottell's easy-to-follow recipes!  Gill Cottell is on a mission: to make the magical world of baking accessible to everyone. Her step-by-step instructions cater for all skill levels. Try sweet treats, like chocolate...

Martin Naughton ( & Joanna Marsden) - Never Know Your Place : Memoir of a Rulebreaker - PB - BRAND NEW 2024

Every young person is looking for freedom,but some have to fight harder than others … In 1960s Ireland there was a special place for disabled children: behind the walls of an institution, cut off from the rest of society. At just nine years old,...

John O'Beirne Ranelagh - The Irish Republican Brotherhood 1914-1924 - HB ( June 2024 )

Using original interviews with key figures from the era, and extensive  use of documentation from the UCD archives. Ranelagh unravels the true influence of the oath-bound society without which the 1916 Rising might have never taken shape.  This...

Michael O'Farrell - Fugitive : The Michael Lynn Story - PB - BRAND NEW ( April 2024)

Fugitive: The Michael Lynn Story is a fast-paced and thrilling journey into the mind of a reluctant fugitive brought down by his own insatiable greed. This is investigative journalism at its most compelling, placing the reader at the heart of the...

John Crotty - Spike Island - The Rebels, Residents and Crafty Criminals of Ireland's Historic Island - PB - BRAND NEW

A monastic outpost in the Celtic Sea, a fortress built to defend an Empire, a prison established to intern a nation; Spike Island’s remarkable 1300-year history far exceeds its modest acreage. No other place better encapsulates the Irish story...

Amanda Brown - No Peace Until He's Dead : My Story of Abuse at the Hands of Davy Tweed and My Journey to Recovery

In this candid memoir, Amanda Brown chronicles the unimaginable sexual abuse she suffered from the age of eight at the hands of her stepfather, Davy Tweed. No Peace Until He's Dead offers a raw and unflinching account of Amanda's childhood years marred...

Garry Bannister - What's That as Béarla - PB ( July 2024)

Latest in successful series of general introductions to Irish including What’s That As Gaeilge and Proverbs in Irish, as well as IBA-nominated Teasaras Gaeilge-Bearla. This book will improve and enrich your spoken and written Irish, and ideal for...

Pat Sheedy - A Hundred to One : A Devastating True Story of A Compulsive Gambler - PB - BRAND NEW ( February 2024)

Aged just 12, Patrick Sheedy placed his first bet for 10p and devised his first scam, marking the beginning of his life as a compulsive gambler and one of Ireland’s most notorious con artists. Nearly 40 years on, after accumulating almost 100...

Eamonn Mallie - Eyewitness to War and Peace - PB - BRAND NEW 2024

In this gripping memoir, Eamonn Mallie takes us on an extraordinaryjourney through his life as a journalist in Northern Ireland. From the frontlines of the Troubles to the corridors of power, Mallie’s fearless reporting and unrelenting pursuit of...

Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc - The Disappeared : Forced Disappearances in Ireland 1798-1998 - PB - BRAND NEW 2024

The spectre of ‘The Disappeared’, those abducted by the IRA, secretly executed and their bodies buried in remote bogs, lakes and woodlands, has overshadowed the debate around the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland for the last two...

Neil Brooks, Sandra Gleeson & Jill Kerby - TAB Guide to Money Pensions and Tax 2024 - PB - JAN 2024

In today’s Ireland the TAB Guide is essential reading.  A comprehensive annual guide to all your financial issues. The highly practical guide, written in a very accessible style is a “must have” book for those who want to make...

Gráinne Lyons - Wild Atlantic Women -PB - BRAND NEW

First published in larger format paperbackj by New Island in 2023. 2nd edition , in the standard ( B Format) paperback size.  At a crossroads in her life, Gráinne Lyons set out to travel Ireland’s west coast on foot. She set a simple...

John Clarke - Finucane and Me - My Life With Marian - HB - BRAND NEW

Marian Finucane was a trailblazing broadcaster, the first to champion women's issues on air, and respected for her fairness, empathy and doggedness. One of a small group of Irish people known simply by their first name, the nation mourned when she died...

Tony Bates - Breaking The Heart Open - The Shaping of a Psychologist - HB

Bestselling author and psychologist Tony Bates has spent his career seeking to understand the lives of others. Here he turns his therapeutic eye on himself and describes the events and people in his own life that have made him the insightful thinker and...

Gabriel Cooney - Death in Irish Prehistory - PB - BRAND NEW 2023 - RIA

This is a book about life and death over 8,500 years in Ireland. It explores the richness of the mortuary record that we have for Irish prehistory (8000 BC to AD 500) as a highlight of the archaeological record for that long period of time. Because we...

Manchán Magan - Thirty Two Words For Field - HB - BRAND NEW

  TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The Irish language has thirty-two words for field. Among them are: Geamhar – a field of corn-grass Tuar – a field for cattle at...

Thomas J Morrissey - The Most Estimable Of Men - Judge John O'Hagan : Patriot, Poet , Scholar , Lawyer - PB - BRAND NEW

Judge John O’Hagan was a Young Irelander, poet, educationist, and liberal scholar. Law lecturer, commissioner for National Education and later in charge of the Land Commission, he was a man ‘beloved and respected by all’. Thomas J...

David A Fleming - Edmund Sexten Pery : The Politics of Virtue and Intrigue in Eighteeenth Century Ireland

Edmund Sexten Pery was one of the great Irish parliamentarians of the eighteenth century. His political career, as a prominent patriot in the 1750s and 1760s and later as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons between 1771 and 1785, ensured that he was at...

John Colgan - Nathaniel Colgan 1851-1919 : The Life, Times and Genealogy of an Enigmatic Dubliner

Nathaniel Colgan MRIA, a self-taught botanist, was known for his research on the ‘real’ shamrock and for his encyclopaedic survey, The flora of the county Dublin. Little was known of his early life and family or of his interests beyond...

Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - All the Way by the Grand Canal - HB - BRAND NEW

All the Way by The Grand Canal Written by Jo Kerrigan ,  Photographs by Richard Mills, Hardback, illustrated throughout, BRAND NEW 2023 Stretching from Dublin right through the Midlands and west to the mighty Shannon, the Grand Canal was a...

Steven Davison - Dunlop Dynasty - The World’s Greatest Road Racing Family - HB - 2023

  This is the story of Northern Ireland’s motorcycle road racing legends, the extraordinary Dunlop family. Told through the photography of Stephen Davison, the world’s leading road racing photojournalist, The...

Micheál Ó Conghaile - An Island Christmas - HB - BRAND NEW ( Nollaig Oileanách )

In 'An Island Christmas - Nollaig Oileánach', celebrated Irish author Micheál Ó Conghaile takes readers on a heartfelt journey through his childhood memories of Christmas on the now-abandoned island of Inis Treabhair in...

Sandy Kelly - In My Own Words - HB - BRAND NEW - with SIGNED BOOKPLATE

Born in Sligo into a family of travelling entertainers, Sandy Kelly has become one of the top musical performers in Ireland.Sandy was co-opted into the family variety show from an early age. As a teenager she sang on the social club circuit in the UK,...

Eamon Carr - Showbusiness with Blood : A Golden Age of Irish Boxing - PB - BRAND NEW 2023

In Showbusiness with Blood, Eamon Carr beguiles the reader with an insightful account of the world’s greatest boxers, from Steve Collins to Mike Tyson to Tyson Fury and Katie Taylor. Boxing, Ireland’s most successful Olympic sport,...

David Blake Knox - Facedown : The Dissappearance of Thomas Niedermayer- PB - BRAND NEW 2023

On 27 December 1973 the nightmare began: late that night German businessman Thomas Niedermayer was kidnapped from his home in Belfast. Never seen alive again by his friends or family, he became one of the ‘disappeared’ and it seemed that no...

Stephen Walker - John Hume : The Persuader - HB - BRAND NEW 2023

Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What motivated the...

Kevin C Kearns - 1932 - A Year of Glory and Gold - Ireland's Jazz Age - HB - BRAND NEW 2023

The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a ‘new era’, was an early glimmer of the modernity that Ireland would later reach, with key...

Conor Spacey - Wasted ( Blasta Books ) - HB - BRAND NEW

Wasted is a capsule collection of recipes that have come from identifying some of the most wasted food items in our homes. This book will help you to stop wasting food and turn perfectly good ingredients into delicious dishes. And the key word here is...

Cathal Póirtéir ( Editor) / The Great Irish Famine ( Thomas Davis Lecture Series) -PB - BRAND NEW

This is the most wide-ranging series of essays ever published on the Great Irish Famine, and will prove of lasting interest to the general reader. Leading historians, economists and geographers – from Ireland, Britain and the United States –...

Carl Frampton - My Autobiography - HB - BRAND NEW ( WITH PAUL D GIBSON)

  Autobiography of Ireland’s only double-weight world champion. Covers his rise to success, growing up in a Unionist family but marrying across sectarian lines and finding support on both sides, the infamous falling out with promotor Barry...

Paul Rouse - Sport in Modern Irish Life - PB - BRAND NEW - ( June 2023)

  ‘Sport wraps itself around the emotions like bindweed. The meaning of sport lies in how it makes a person feel; sport which leaves you feeling nothing has no relevance.’ So begins Sport in Modern Irish Life, where leading...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of North Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2019 ( Murder Most Local - Book 2 )

This book, the second published in the ( ongoing) Murder Most Local Series, contains accounts of over 30 true life historical murders from the north Cork area ( The wide area from Mitchelstown in the east , westwards to the Kerry border) . Some are well...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of East Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2019 ( Murder Most Local - Book 1 )

This book, the first published in the (ongoing) Murder Most Local Series, contains accounts of 47 true life historical murders in East Cork , Some are well known cases that have lived on in folklore, others are long forgotten, only to be revealed in this...

Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW

This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to...

Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB

A classic of Irish maritime history.  The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship...

Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast 1105-1993 - Volume 1 - PB - SIGNED

A classic of Irish maritime history.  The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three volumes and a fourth illustrated volume. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries,  East india ship...