Merrion Press

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...

Tadhg Coakley - The Game - A Journey Into the Heart of Sport - PB - BRAND NEW

Why is sport so important to us?Is it because we make it so important to us?Something so silly and worthless, but at the same time so vital.What’s that all about? The Game is a...

Trevor Birney - Quinn - PB - BRAND NEW

This is the definitive story of Sean Quinn, Ireland’s bankrupt billionaire, who went from rags to riches, then gambled his fortune on Anglo Irish Bank shares and became the world’s...

W.J Mc Cormack - The Dublin Paper War 1786-1788 : A Bibliographical and Critical Enquiry - HB -1993

A Bibliography and Critical Inquiry, Including an Account of the Origins of Protestant Ascendancy and Its Baptism in 1792 - Hardback, published by Irish Academic Press.  The long and...

Willie McGee - Tales From the Fraud Squad - PB - BRAND NEW

Tales from the Fraud Squad takes the reader on a journey from Willie McGee’s childhood in Mayo to the mean streets of Dublin as a fresh-faced officer in the late seventies, before rising...

Arthur Mathews - Walled in by Hate - Kevin O'Higgins : His Friends and Enemies - BRAND NEW 2024

In July 1927, government minister Kevin O'Higgins was assassinated near his home in Booterstown, Dublin. Appointed Minister for Home Affairs in 1922 at the height of the Irish civil war, he had...

Cristín Leach - Negative Space - PB - BRAND NEW

In a series of loosely linked essays, Cristín Leach writes about the gaps between reality and perception, about writing and anxiety, body and brain, breaking and making, succeeding and...

Dave Hannigan - The Big Fight : When Ali Conquered Ireland - BRAND NEW (March 2025)

In 1972, Killorglin-born circus strongman and London publican Michael "Butty" Sugrue put up £300,000 and persuaded the renowned American boxing champion Muhammad Ali to make his first visit to...

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...

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...

Jonathan Trigg - Death in Derry: Martin McGuinness and the Derry IRA’s War Against the British - PB - BRAND NEW

When civil rights protests in the 1960s gave way to armed struggle, the Provisional IRA in Derry – both city and county – led the fight against the British security forces. In the city...

Martin Dillon - The Sorrow and the Loss: The Tragic Shadow Cast by the Troubles on the Lives of Women - BRAND NEW

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Martin Dillon returns to shine a light on the role of women in the Troubles, amplifying voices long silenced by the din of history. Through raw and...