Merrion Press

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 - PB - 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...

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...

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...

Mike Cronin & Mark Duncan - Revolutionary Times – Ireland 1913-23: The Forging of a Nation

Ireland during the period 1913–1923 was a nation in constant flux. Spanning a pivotal era marked by the Dublin Lockout, the Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the birth of the Irish...

Nicola Hanney - Stronger - BRAND NEW ( September 2024)

    In 2017, against all odds, Nicola Hanney survived a terminal cancer diagnosis and marched on to live life. When she matched with Garda Paul Moody on a dating app, she thought her...

O'Malley, Cormac & Martin, Harry - Ernie O'Malley : A Life - PB - BRAND NEW 2021

This is the extraordinary life story of Ernie O’Malley (1897-1957), one of Ireland’s most complex and influential Republican figures, and later a hugely successful writer. Born in...

Owen O'Shea - Ballymacandy : The Story of A Kerry Ambush - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021

On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in...

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...