Merrion Press

Trevor Birney / Quinn (Large Paperback)

This is the gripping inside story of Ireland’s bankrupt billionaire, Sean Quinn, who went from rags to riches before gambling it all 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...

Gerard Shannon - Liam Lynch : To Declare a Republic - PB - BRAND NEW

The first major academic study on a pivotal figure in Ireland's revolutionary era, Liam Lynch.  General Liam Lynch was a key figure in the Irish Revolution and remains one of the most...

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...

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...

Owen O'Shea - No Middle Path : The Civil War in Kerry ( PB ) - BRAND NEW

The violence and divisions caused by the Civil War in County Kerry in 1922-23 were more vicious, bitter, and protracted than anywhere else in Ireland. For generations, the fratricide, murder, and...

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...