Mercier Press

C.J McCanney - True Dublin - HB 2015- Historical Photography

Using photographs, postcards and other rare documents, True Dublin provides a unique glimpse into life in Dublin at a time of great social and political change, during the final decades of the...

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...

Chris Larkin - West Cork Railways : Birth , Beauty and Betrayal - HB 2022

Rail enthusiast and historian Chris Larkin warmly remembers the lifetime of the West Cork Railway system in this travelogue, allowing readers to hop onto a West Cork train and savour the journey of a...

Dermot Keogh & Andrew McCarthy - Limerick Boycott 1904 - Anti-Semitism In Ireland

Published by Mercier Press, Cork, 2005, a detailed study of what became known as the Limerick Boycott , that started when incendiary speeches by a Redemptorist priest, Fr John Creagh, stirred up a...

Doyle, Tom - The Summer Campaign in Kerry 1922 - ( Mercier Military History of The Irish Civil War ) - PB - BRAND NEW

Follows the military course of the Civil War in Kerry in August and September 1922, focusing on specific engagements and tactics. Because of the defence line of the Munster Republic overland during...

E. R. Murray - The Book of Learning : Nine Lives Trilogy Part 1 - BRAND NEW

The exciting adventures of Ebony Smart, a twelve-year-old girl who discovers she is part of a special tribe of reincarnated people - and a terrible curse. Ebony has just one week to break the curse...

Eric Cross - The Tailor and Ansty - PB - BRAND NEW

As bizarre as it now seems, this book was banned by the absurd Censorship Laws in Ireland on initial publication in 1942. This edition has an introduction by Frank O'Connor, as well as an afterword...

Fiann Ó Nualláin - 52 Proverbs to build Resilience against Anxiety and Panic - PB - BRAND NEW

Fiann Ó Nualláin brings the ancient wisdom of Irish proverbs to life with the help of modern techniques like mindfulness, positive psychology, and cognitive behavioral therapy. In...

Florence O'Donoghue - IRA Jailbreaks 1918-1921 - PB - BRAND NEW

IRA Jailbreaks 1918-1921 features the factual accounts of 25 daring rescues, rescue attempts and jailbreaks which raised the morale of nationalist Ireland and brought world-wide ridicule and...

Francis MacManus - Men Withering ( Vintage PB 1969) ( Originally 1936)

There is little need to introduce the writing of Francis MacManus. For many years his books have charmed all who have gently relaxed into his world of Irish rural life. For over three decades, he...

Joe Ambrose - Seán Treacy and the Tan War - PB - 2007

The opening shots of the War of Independence were fired by the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, led by the charismatic Seán Treacy. He was a gifted guerrilla fighter and an inspirational...

John B. Keane - Sive ( New Edition with Notes) - PB - BRAND NEW

This is a story of greed, sex and bitterness, of a scheming matchmaker and a resentful woman forcing a beautiful young girl to marry an old man for money. Sive is a young and beautiful orphan who...