Merrion Press

Jason O'Toole - The Gilligan Tapes : Ireland's Most Notorious Crime Boss in His Own Words - PB - BRAND NEW

John Gilligan is no altar boy, by his own admission. One of Ireland’s most infamous criminals and drug lords, and widely believed in the court of public opinion to have ordered the cold-blooded...

John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour ( Book 1 ) - PB - BRAND NEW

Old Ireland in Colour celebrates the rich history of Ireland and the Irish through the colour restoration of stunning images of all walks of Irish life, and the Irish abroad, throughout the...

John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley - Old Ireland in Colour 2 - HB - BRAND NEW 2021

In Old Ireland in Colour 2, the much-anticipated sequel to their beloved bestseller, John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley have dug even deeper into Ireland's historical archives to uncover captivating...

John Crawley - The Yank : My Life as a Former US Marine in the IRA - PB - BRAND NEW

THE YEAR IS 1975. A young Irish-American is on a mission to enlist in an elite unit of the US Marine Corps. His goal: to receive the most intensive military training possible and then go to Ireland...

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...

Jonathan Trigg - Death in the Fields : The IRA in East Tyrone - PB - BRAND NEW 2023

  ‘In Belfast the Provos were trying to make the 6 o’clock news, in East Tyrone they were trying to kill you.’ With the advent of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the...

Karsten Krieger - The Whispering Land : Myths Legends and Lore from the Wild Atlantic Way - PB - BRAND NEW 2024

Ireland’s landscape is steeped in folklore and history, and the untamed Atlantic seaboard is no exception. Stretching from the Inishowen Peninsula in Donegal to Kinsale in Cork, the Wild...

Malachi O'Doherty - Can Ireland Be One? - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022

Can this deeply divided island ever be united? Malachi O’Doherty’s ground-breaking new book explores this salient question and many more. Considering centuries of history alongside...

Martin Doyle - Dirty Linen : The Troubles in My Home Place - HB - BRAND NEW 2023

  Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles seen through the microcosm of a single rural parish, his own, part of both the Linen...

Martin Doyle - Dirty Linen : The Troubles in My Home Place - PB - BRAND NEW

  Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles seen through the microcosm of a single rural parish, his own, part of both the Linen...

Meleady, Dermot - John Redmond : Selected Letters and Memoranda 1880-1918 - HB - 2018

Irish nationalist leader John Redmond left no diaries or memoirs, but was a prolific letter-writer. In John Redmond: Selected Letters and Memoranda, 1880–1918, Dermot Meleady skilfully...

Michael Fewer - A Natural Year - PB - Illustrated - BRAND NEW

In A Natural Year, critically acclaimed travel writer Michael Fewer celebrates the everyday wonder of Irish nature in these beautifully written diaries, observed from his homes in south Dublin...