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A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... 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MSRP: Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Algernon Blackwood - The Lure of the Unknown : Essays on the Strange “Every thing possible to be believ’d is an image of truth.” – William Blake The Lure of the Unknown is a collection of Algernon Blackwood’s essays, talks, reviews and anecdotes exploring encounters with the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Frank O'Mara - Bend, Don't Break : A Memoir of Endurance- PB - BRAND NEW ‘Victory is a life well lived or a day enjoyed.’ Limerick man Frank O’Mara had the athletics career most only dream of, competing for Ireland in three Olympic Games and breaking Irish and world records. After his retirement from... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Somerville Press Colbert Kearney - Down by the Liffeyside - PB - BRAND NEW MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: BNL114 Flavin , Timmy - At the Water's Edge - Two Boats ( Around Ireland by Kayak) - PB - 2019 - BRAND NEW MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Tramp Press | sku: BN483 Sophie White - Corpsing : My Body and Other Horror Shows - PB - BRAND NEW MSRP: €16.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Pat Doran - A Clune's Lane Fisherman : My Life as a Shannon Estuary Fisherman & Boatbuilder - PB - LImerick City - 2008 MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Jackie Elger & Patricia Sheehan - Three Men From Clare - ( George Casey, Tom Cusack and Morgie O'Connell) - PB LOCAL HISTORY Kildysart - BRAND NEW MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Ó Neachtain, Seán - Ón Spidéal go Strasbourg : Cuimhní Cinn - PB - Politics - As Gaeilge - BRAND NEW MSRP: Now: €18.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: BN408 Peadar O'Donnell- Salud ! : An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Crosbie, Paddy - Your Dinner's Poured Out ! : Boyhood in the 20's in a Dublin that has Dissappeared- HB - MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details O'Donoghue, David J - Life of William Carleton - Vol 1 -1896 HB Literary Biography MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Royal Irish Academy Diarmaid Ferriter - Judging Dev - The Life and Legacy of Eamon de Valera - HB 2007 MSRP: €30.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Fiona Neary - Parcels in the Post - Growing Up with Fifty Siblings - PB - BRAND NEW (MAY 2024 ) It’s the early 1980s, and Fiona and her family have recently moved back from England to the family farm in Mayo. 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. 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A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. 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A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. 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A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: BN105 Judith Mok - The State of Dark - PB -2022 - BRAND NEW Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... 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A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press John Hall - Fair Faces : Images From a Dissappearing Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW Only in Ireland will you come across events where a goat can be crowned king, where “straw boys” roam the streets freely, where men sip whiskey on horseback or where Barak Obama was found hanging out with a busker in Co. Kerry. These are... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, T.E - Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph - Vintage HB -1955 Reprint - Arabia WW1 This is a 1955 reprint edition, lacking the original dustjacket, but solid in pale blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, and crossed dwords motif embossed to front covers. Rubbing and edgewear to the outer covers. There is a date on the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Fiona’s huge-hearted mum decides to take in foster children, short term, through the local social services. It’s a decision... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Denis Bradley - Peace Comes Dropping Slow : My Life in the Troubles - PB - BRAND NEW ( April 2024) Denis Bradley was born and raised in Buncrana, just 12 miles from the border with Northern Ireland. On joining the priesthood he found himself assigned to the cathedral parish in Derry city, arriving in the summer of 1970 as the streets were descending... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tramp Press | sku: BN1127 Sara Baume / handiwork - PB - BRAND NEW In this contemplative short narrative, artist and acclaimed writer Sara Baume charts the daily process of making and writing, exploring what it is to create and to live as an artist. Elegantly encompassing images and in itself a significant... 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MSRP: €21.95 Now: €21.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Moseley, Dominic - Betjeman in Ireland - BRAND NEW 2023 - SIGNED As an undergraduate at Oxford University, John Betjeman first visited Ireland in 1925 and was entranced by the country. He was to pay frequent visits over the next five decades, staying in stately homes, and making enduring friendships, these decades... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russell, R.B - Fifty Forgotten Books - PB - SIGNED 2022 Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Phil Quinlan - And a Bang on the Ear - 2023 BRAND NEW Philip Quinlan was a promising 15-year-old athlete who packed his bags one Sunday morning in November 1989 to play a game of football. A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Fiona’s huge-hearted mum decides to take in foster children, short term, through the local social services. It’s a decision... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Denis Bradley - Peace Comes Dropping Slow : My Life in the Troubles - PB - BRAND NEW ( April 2024) Denis Bradley was born and raised in Buncrana, just 12 miles from the border with Northern Ireland. On joining the priesthood he found himself assigned to the cathedral parish in Derry city, arriving in the summer of 1970 as the streets were descending... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tramp Press | sku: BN1127 Sara Baume / handiwork - PB - BRAND NEW In this contemplative short narrative, artist and acclaimed writer Sara Baume charts the daily process of making and writing, exploring what it is to create and to live as an artist. Elegantly encompassing images and in itself a significant... MSRP: Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Algernon Blackwood - The Lure of the Unknown : Essays on the Strange “Every thing possible to be believ’d is an image of truth.” – William Blake The Lure of the Unknown is a collection of Algernon Blackwood’s essays, talks, reviews and anecdotes exploring encounters with the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Frank O'Mara - Bend, Don't Break : A Memoir of Endurance- PB - BRAND NEW ‘Victory is a life well lived or a day enjoyed.’ Limerick man Frank O’Mara had the athletics career most only dream of, competing for Ireland in three Olympic Games and breaking Irish and world records. After his retirement from... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Martin Naughton ( & Joanna Marsden) - Never Know Your Place : Memoir of a Rulebreaker - PB - BRAND NEW 2024 Every young person is looking for freedom,but some have to fight harder than others … In 1960s Ireland there was a special place for disabled children: behind the walls of an institution, cut off from the rest of society. At just nine years old,... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €16.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press 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 most compelling, placing the reader at the heart of the... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press George Hamilton - The Hamilton Notes - HB - BRAND NEW ( March 2024) The incomparable George Hamilton returns with a superb offering of travails and anecdotes spanning his five decades on our airwaves and on our screens, always at the heart of Irish culture. Picking up where his first offering, The... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Amanda Brown - No Peace Until He's Dead : My Story of Abuse at the Hands of Davy Tweed and My Journey to Recovery In this candid memoir, Amanda Brown chronicles the unimaginable sexual abuse she suffered from the age of eight at the hands of her stepfather, Davy Tweed. No Peace Until He's Dead offers a raw and unflinching account of Amanda's childhood years marred... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Gill Books Pat Sheedy - A Hundred to One : A Devastating True Story of A Compulsive Gambler - PB - BRAND NEW ( February 2024) Aged just 12, Patrick Sheedy placed his first bet for 10p and devised his first scam, marking the beginning of his life as a compulsive gambler and one of Ireland’s most notorious con artists. Nearly 40 years on, after accumulating almost 100... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books John Clarke - Finucane and Me - My Life With Marian - HB - BRAND NEW Marian Finucane was a trailblazing broadcaster, the first to champion women's issues on air, and respected for her fairness, empathy and doggedness. One of a small group of Irish people known simply by their first name, the nation mourned when she died... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Tony Bates - Breaking The Heart Open - The Shaping of a Psychologist - HB Bestselling author and psychologist Tony Bates has spent his career seeking to understand the lives of others. Here he turns his therapeutic eye on himself and describes the events and people in his own life that have made him the insightful thinker and... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Micheál Ó Conghaile - An Island Christmas - PB - BRAND NEW ( Nollaig Oileanách ) In 'An Island Christmas - Nollaig Oileánach', celebrated Irish author Micheál Ó Conghaile takes readers on a heartfelt journey through his childhood memories of Christmas on the now-abandoned island of Inis Treabhair in... 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Covers his rise to success, growing up in a Unionist family but marrying across sectarian lines and finding support on both sides, the infamous falling out with promotor Barry... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press 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 through the ranks to become Head of the Garda Fraud... MSRP: €16.95 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Maureen Sullivan - The Girl in the Tunnel - PB - BRAND NEW When Maureen Sullivan was just twelve years old, she confided in her teacher that she was being physically and sexually abused by her stepfather. Never, in her darkest imaginings, could she have dreamt that she would be the one who would face harrowing... 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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: BN105 Judith Mok - The State of Dark - PB -2022 - BRAND NEW Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €21.95 Now: €21.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Moseley, Dominic - Betjeman in Ireland - BRAND NEW 2023 - SIGNED As an undergraduate at Oxford University, John Betjeman first visited Ireland in 1925 and was entranced by the country. He was to pay frequent visits over the next five decades, staying in stately homes, and making enduring friendships, these decades... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russell, R.B - Fifty Forgotten Books - PB - SIGNED 2022 Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Phil Quinlan - And a Bang on the Ear - 2023 BRAND NEW Philip Quinlan was a promising 15-year-old athlete who packed his bags one Sunday morning in November 1989 to play a game of football. A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press John Hall - Fair Faces : Images From a Dissappearing Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW Only in Ireland will you come across events where a goat can be crowned king, where “straw boys” roam the streets freely, where men sip whiskey on horseback or where Barak Obama was found hanging out with a busker in Co. Kerry. These are... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, T.E - Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph - Vintage HB -1955 Reprint - Arabia WW1 This is a 1955 reprint edition, lacking the original dustjacket, but solid in pale blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, and crossed dwords motif embossed to front covers. Rubbing and edgewear to the outer covers. There is a date on the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. 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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: BN105 Judith Mok - The State of Dark - PB -2022 - BRAND NEW Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... 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A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press John Hall - Fair Faces : Images From a Dissappearing Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW Only in Ireland will you come across events where a goat can be crowned king, where “straw boys” roam the streets freely, where men sip whiskey on horseback or where Barak Obama was found hanging out with a busker in Co. Kerry. These are... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, T.E - Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph - Vintage HB -1955 Reprint - Arabia WW1 This is a 1955 reprint edition, lacking the original dustjacket, but solid in pale blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, and crossed dwords motif embossed to front covers. Rubbing and edgewear to the outer covers. There is a date on the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details O'Donoghue, David J - Life of William Carleton - Vol 1 -1896 HB Literary Biography MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Royal Irish Academy Diarmaid Ferriter - Judging Dev - The Life and Legacy of Eamon de Valera - HB 2007 MSRP: €30.00 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Fiona Neary - Parcels in the Post - Growing Up with Fifty Siblings - PB - BRAND NEW (MAY 2024 ) It’s the early 1980s, and Fiona and her family have recently moved back from England to the family farm in Mayo. Fiona’s huge-hearted mum decides to take in foster children, short term, through the local social services. It’s a decision... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Denis Bradley - Peace Comes Dropping Slow : My Life in the Troubles - PB - BRAND NEW ( April 2024) Denis Bradley was born and raised in Buncrana, just 12 miles from the border with Northern Ireland. On joining the priesthood he found himself assigned to the cathedral parish in Derry city, arriving in the summer of 1970 as the streets were descending... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tramp Press | sku: BN1127 Sara Baume / handiwork - PB - BRAND NEW In this contemplative short narrative, artist and acclaimed writer Sara Baume charts the daily process of making and writing, exploring what it is to create and to live as an artist. Elegantly encompassing images and in itself a significant... MSRP: Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Algernon Blackwood - The Lure of the Unknown : Essays on the Strange “Every thing possible to be believ’d is an image of truth.” – William Blake The Lure of the Unknown is a collection of Algernon Blackwood’s essays, talks, reviews and anecdotes exploring encounters with the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Frank O'Mara - Bend, Don't Break : A Memoir of Endurance- PB - BRAND NEW ‘Victory is a life well lived or a day enjoyed.’ Limerick man Frank O’Mara had the athletics career most only dream of, competing for Ireland in three Olympic Games and breaking Irish and world records. After his retirement from... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Martin Naughton ( & Joanna Marsden) - Never Know Your Place : Memoir of a Rulebreaker - PB - BRAND NEW 2024 Every young person is looking for freedom,but some have to fight harder than others … In 1960s Ireland there was a special place for disabled children: behind the walls of an institution, cut off from the rest of society. At just nine years old,... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Amanda Brown - No Peace Until He's Dead : My Story of Abuse at the Hands of Davy Tweed and My Journey to Recovery In this candid memoir, Amanda Brown chronicles the unimaginable sexual abuse she suffered from the age of eight at the hands of her stepfather, Davy Tweed. No Peace Until He's Dead offers a raw and unflinching account of Amanda's childhood years marred... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Gill Books Pat Sheedy - A Hundred to One : A Devastating True Story of A Compulsive Gambler - PB - BRAND NEW ( February 2024) Aged just 12, Patrick Sheedy placed his first bet for 10p and devised his first scam, marking the beginning of his life as a compulsive gambler and one of Ireland’s most notorious con artists. Nearly 40 years on, after accumulating almost 100... 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MSRP: €24.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Stephen Walker - John Hume : The Persuader - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What motivated the... MSRP: €27.99 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Carl Frampton - My Autobiography - HB - BRAND NEW ( WITH PAUL D GIBSON) Autobiography of Ireland’s only double-weight world champion. Covers his rise to success, growing up in a Unionist family but marrying across sectarian lines and finding support on both sides, the infamous falling out with promotor Barry... 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MSRP: €21.95 Now: €21.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Moseley, Dominic - Betjeman in Ireland - BRAND NEW 2023 - SIGNED As an undergraduate at Oxford University, John Betjeman first visited Ireland in 1925 and was entranced by the country. He was to pay frequent visits over the next five decades, staying in stately homes, and making enduring friendships, these decades... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russell, R.B - Fifty Forgotten Books - PB - SIGNED 2022 Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Phil Quinlan - And a Bang on the Ear - 2023 BRAND NEW Philip Quinlan was a promising 15-year-old athlete who packed his bags one Sunday morning in November 1989 to play a game of football. A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Amanda Brown - No Peace Until He's Dead : My Story of Abuse at the Hands of Davy Tweed and My Journey to Recovery In this candid memoir, Amanda Brown chronicles the unimaginable sexual abuse she suffered from the age of eight at the hands of her stepfather, Davy Tweed. No Peace Until He's Dead offers a raw and unflinching account of Amanda's childhood years marred... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Gill Books Pat Sheedy - A Hundred to One : A Devastating True Story of A Compulsive Gambler - PB - BRAND NEW ( February 2024) Aged just 12, Patrick Sheedy placed his first bet for 10p and devised his first scam, marking the beginning of his life as a compulsive gambler and one of Ireland’s most notorious con artists. Nearly 40 years on, after accumulating almost 100... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Micheál Ó Conghaile - An Island Christmas - PB - BRAND NEW ( Nollaig Oileanách ) In 'An Island Christmas - Nollaig Oileánach', celebrated Irish author Micheál Ó Conghaile takes readers on a heartfelt journey through his childhood memories of Christmas on the now-abandoned island of Inis Treabhair in... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Sandy Kelly - In My Own Words - HB - BRAND NEW - with SIGNED BOOKPLATE Born in Sligo into a family of travelling entertainers, Sandy Kelly has become one of the top musical performers in Ireland.Sandy was co-opted into the family variety show from an early age. As a teenager she sang on the social club circuit in the UK,... 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MSRP: €21.95 Now: €21.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Moseley, Dominic - Betjeman in Ireland - BRAND NEW 2023 - SIGNED As an undergraduate at Oxford University, John Betjeman first visited Ireland in 1925 and was entranced by the country. He was to pay frequent visits over the next five decades, staying in stately homes, and making enduring friendships, these decades... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russell, R.B - Fifty Forgotten Books - PB - SIGNED 2022 Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Phil Quinlan - And a Bang on the Ear - 2023 BRAND NEW Philip Quinlan was a promising 15-year-old athlete who packed his bags one Sunday morning in November 1989 to play a game of football. A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view New Island Publishing Fiona Neary - Parcels in the Post - Growing Up with Fifty Siblings - PB - BRAND NEW (MAY 2024 ) It’s the early 1980s, and Fiona and her family have recently moved back from England to the family farm in Mayo. Fiona’s huge-hearted mum decides to take in foster children, short term, through the local social services. It’s a decision... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press Denis Bradley - Peace Comes Dropping Slow : My Life in the Troubles - PB - BRAND NEW ( April 2024) Denis Bradley was born and raised in Buncrana, just 12 miles from the border with Northern Ireland. On joining the priesthood he found himself assigned to the cathedral parish in Derry city, arriving in the summer of 1970 as the streets were descending... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tramp Press | sku: BN1127 Sara Baume / handiwork - PB - BRAND NEW In this contemplative short narrative, artist and acclaimed writer Sara Baume charts the daily process of making and writing, exploring what it is to create and to live as an artist. Elegantly encompassing images and in itself a significant... MSRP: Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Algernon Blackwood - The Lure of the Unknown : Essays on the Strange “Every thing possible to be believ’d is an image of truth.” – William Blake The Lure of the Unknown is a collection of Algernon Blackwood’s essays, talks, reviews and anecdotes exploring encounters with the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Frank O'Mara - Bend, Don't Break : A Memoir of Endurance- PB - BRAND NEW ‘Victory is a life well lived or a day enjoyed.’ Limerick man Frank O’Mara had the athletics career most only dream of, competing for Ireland in three Olympic Games and breaking Irish and world records. After his retirement from... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Martin Naughton ( & Joanna Marsden) - Never Know Your Place : Memoir of a Rulebreaker - PB - BRAND NEW 2024 Every young person is looking for freedom,but some have to fight harder than others … In 1960s Ireland there was a special place for disabled children: behind the walls of an institution, cut off from the rest of society. At just nine years old,... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €16.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press 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 most compelling, placing the reader at the heart of the... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press George Hamilton - The Hamilton Notes - HB - BRAND NEW ( March 2024) The incomparable George Hamilton returns with a superb offering of travails and anecdotes spanning his five decades on our airwaves and on our screens, always at the heart of Irish culture. Picking up where his first offering, The... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Amanda Brown - No Peace Until He's Dead : My Story of Abuse at the Hands of Davy Tweed and My Journey to Recovery In this candid memoir, Amanda Brown chronicles the unimaginable sexual abuse she suffered from the age of eight at the hands of her stepfather, Davy Tweed. No Peace Until He's Dead offers a raw and unflinching account of Amanda's childhood years marred... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Gill Books Pat Sheedy - A Hundred to One : A Devastating True Story of A Compulsive Gambler - PB - BRAND NEW ( February 2024) Aged just 12, Patrick Sheedy placed his first bet for 10p and devised his first scam, marking the beginning of his life as a compulsive gambler and one of Ireland’s most notorious con artists. Nearly 40 years on, after accumulating almost 100... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books John Clarke - Finucane and Me - My Life With Marian - HB - BRAND NEW Marian Finucane was a trailblazing broadcaster, the first to champion women's issues on air, and respected for her fairness, empathy and doggedness. One of a small group of Irish people known simply by their first name, the nation mourned when she died... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Tony Bates - Breaking The Heart Open - The Shaping of a Psychologist - HB Bestselling author and psychologist Tony Bates has spent his career seeking to understand the lives of others. Here he turns his therapeutic eye on himself and describes the events and people in his own life that have made him the insightful thinker and... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Micheál Ó Conghaile - An Island Christmas - PB - BRAND NEW ( Nollaig Oileanách ) In 'An Island Christmas - Nollaig Oileánach', celebrated Irish author Micheál Ó Conghaile takes readers on a heartfelt journey through his childhood memories of Christmas on the now-abandoned island of Inis Treabhair in... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Sandy Kelly - In My Own Words - HB - BRAND NEW - with SIGNED BOOKPLATE Born in Sligo into a family of travelling entertainers, Sandy Kelly has become one of the top musical performers in Ireland.Sandy was co-opted into the family variety show from an early age. As a teenager she sang on the social club circuit in the UK,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Stephen Walker - John Hume : The Persuader - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What motivated the... MSRP: €27.99 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Carl Frampton - My Autobiography - HB - BRAND NEW ( WITH PAUL D GIBSON) Autobiography of Ireland’s only double-weight world champion. Covers his rise to success, growing up in a Unionist family but marrying across sectarian lines and finding support on both sides, the infamous falling out with promotor Barry... 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A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... 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It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Merrion Press Denis Bradley - Peace Comes Dropping Slow : My Life in the Troubles - PB - BRAND NEW ( April 2024) Denis Bradley was born and raised in Buncrana, just 12 miles from the border with Northern Ireland. On joining the priesthood he found himself assigned to the cathedral parish in Derry city, arriving in the summer of 1970 as the streets were descending... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tramp Press | sku: BN1127 Sara Baume / handiwork - PB - BRAND NEW In this contemplative short narrative, artist and acclaimed writer Sara Baume charts the daily process of making and writing, exploring what it is to create and to live as an artist. Elegantly encompassing images and in itself a significant... 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MSRP: €19.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press George Hamilton - The Hamilton Notes - HB - BRAND NEW ( March 2024) The incomparable George Hamilton returns with a superb offering of travails and anecdotes spanning his five decades on our airwaves and on our screens, always at the heart of Irish culture. Picking up where his first offering, The... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Amanda Brown - No Peace Until He's Dead : My Story of Abuse at the Hands of Davy Tweed and My Journey to Recovery In this candid memoir, Amanda Brown chronicles the unimaginable sexual abuse she suffered from the age of eight at the hands of her stepfather, Davy Tweed. No Peace Until He's Dead offers a raw and unflinching account of Amanda's childhood years marred... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Gill Books Pat Sheedy - A Hundred to One : A Devastating True Story of A Compulsive Gambler - PB - BRAND NEW ( February 2024) Aged just 12, Patrick Sheedy placed his first bet for 10p and devised his first scam, marking the beginning of his life as a compulsive gambler and one of Ireland’s most notorious con artists. Nearly 40 years on, after accumulating almost 100... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books John Clarke - Finucane and Me - My Life With Marian - HB - BRAND NEW Marian Finucane was a trailblazing broadcaster, the first to champion women's issues on air, and respected for her fairness, empathy and doggedness. One of a small group of Irish people known simply by their first name, the nation mourned when she died... 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A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Tramp Press | sku: BN1127 Sara Baume / handiwork - PB - BRAND NEW In this contemplative short narrative, artist and acclaimed writer Sara Baume charts the daily process of making and writing, exploring what it is to create and to live as an artist. Elegantly encompassing images and in itself a significant... MSRP: Now: €13.00 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Algernon Blackwood - The Lure of the Unknown : Essays on the Strange “Every thing possible to be believ’d is an image of truth.” – William Blake The Lure of the Unknown is a collection of Algernon Blackwood’s essays, talks, reviews and anecdotes exploring encounters with the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Frank O'Mara - Bend, Don't Break : A Memoir of Endurance- PB - BRAND NEW ‘Victory is a life well lived or a day enjoyed.’ Limerick man Frank O’Mara had the athletics career most only dream of, competing for Ireland in three Olympic Games and breaking Irish and world records. After his retirement from... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Martin Naughton ( & Joanna Marsden) - Never Know Your Place : Memoir of a Rulebreaker - PB - BRAND NEW 2024 Every young person is looking for freedom,but some have to fight harder than others … In 1960s Ireland there was a special place for disabled children: behind the walls of an institution, cut off from the rest of society. At just nine years old,... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €16.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press 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 most compelling, placing the reader at the heart of the... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press George Hamilton - The Hamilton Notes - HB - BRAND NEW ( March 2024) The incomparable George Hamilton returns with a superb offering of travails and anecdotes spanning his five decades on our airwaves and on our screens, always at the heart of Irish culture. Picking up where his first offering, The... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Amanda Brown - No Peace Until He's Dead : My Story of Abuse at the Hands of Davy Tweed and My Journey to Recovery In this candid memoir, Amanda Brown chronicles the unimaginable sexual abuse she suffered from the age of eight at the hands of her stepfather, Davy Tweed. No Peace Until He's Dead offers a raw and unflinching account of Amanda's childhood years marred... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Gill Books Pat Sheedy - A Hundred to One : A Devastating True Story of A Compulsive Gambler - PB - BRAND NEW ( February 2024) Aged just 12, Patrick Sheedy placed his first bet for 10p and devised his first scam, marking the beginning of his life as a compulsive gambler and one of Ireland’s most notorious con artists. Nearly 40 years on, after accumulating almost 100... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books John Clarke - Finucane and Me - My Life With Marian - HB - BRAND NEW Marian Finucane was a trailblazing broadcaster, the first to champion women's issues on air, and respected for her fairness, empathy and doggedness. One of a small group of Irish people known simply by their first name, the nation mourned when she died... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Tony Bates - Breaking The Heart Open - The Shaping of a Psychologist - HB Bestselling author and psychologist Tony Bates has spent his career seeking to understand the lives of others. Here he turns his therapeutic eye on himself and describes the events and people in his own life that have made him the insightful thinker and... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Micheál Ó Conghaile - An Island Christmas - PB - BRAND NEW ( Nollaig Oileanách ) In 'An Island Christmas - Nollaig Oileánach', celebrated Irish author Micheál Ó Conghaile takes readers on a heartfelt journey through his childhood memories of Christmas on the now-abandoned island of Inis Treabhair in... 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Covers his rise to success, growing up in a Unionist family but marrying across sectarian lines and finding support on both sides, the infamous falling out with promotor Barry... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press 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 through the ranks to become Head of the Garda Fraud... MSRP: €16.95 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Maureen Sullivan - The Girl in the Tunnel - PB - BRAND NEW When Maureen Sullivan was just twelve years old, she confided in her teacher that she was being physically and sexually abused by her stepfather. Never, in her darkest imaginings, could she have dreamt that she would be the one who would face harrowing... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Kathy Donaghy - Finding My Wild - How A Move to the Edge Brought Me Home - PB - BRAND NEW 2023 ‘Life had brought me to the edge of myself and here I was feeling like I was on the edge of the world.’ After moving back to her homeplace on the Inishowen Peninsula in Donegal with her young family, journalist Kathy Donaghy’s life... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: BN1032 Paul Brady - Crazy Dreams - BRAND NEW - PB ( MAY 2023) Crazy Dreams is the compelling and highly anticipated autobiography from Paul Brady, a musician whose remarkable career has spanned six decades and who is indisputably one of Ireland’s greatest living songwriters. This evocative memoir... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: BN105 Judith Mok - The State of Dark - PB -2022 - BRAND NEW Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €21.95 Now: €21.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Moseley, Dominic - Betjeman in Ireland - BRAND NEW 2023 - SIGNED As an undergraduate at Oxford University, John Betjeman first visited Ireland in 1925 and was entranced by the country. He was to pay frequent visits over the next five decades, staying in stately homes, and making enduring friendships, these decades... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russell, R.B - Fifty Forgotten Books - PB - SIGNED 2022 Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Phil Quinlan - And a Bang on the Ear - 2023 BRAND NEW Philip Quinlan was a promising 15-year-old athlete who packed his bags one Sunday morning in November 1989 to play a game of football. A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press John Hall - Fair Faces : Images From a Dissappearing Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW Only in Ireland will you come across events where a goat can be crowned king, where “straw boys” roam the streets freely, where men sip whiskey on horseback or where Barak Obama was found hanging out with a busker in Co. Kerry. These are... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, T.E - Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph - Vintage HB -1955 Reprint - Arabia WW1 This is a 1955 reprint edition, lacking the original dustjacket, but solid in pale blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, and crossed dwords motif embossed to front covers. Rubbing and edgewear to the outer covers. There is a date on the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Swan River Press Algernon Blackwood - The Lure of the Unknown : Essays on the Strange “Every thing possible to be believ’d is an image of truth.” – William Blake The Lure of the Unknown is a collection of Algernon Blackwood’s essays, talks, reviews and anecdotes exploring encounters with the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Frank O'Mara - Bend, Don't Break : A Memoir of Endurance- PB - BRAND NEW ‘Victory is a life well lived or a day enjoyed.’ Limerick man Frank O’Mara had the athletics career most only dream of, competing for Ireland in three Olympic Games and breaking Irish and world records. After his retirement from... 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MSRP: €19.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press George Hamilton - The Hamilton Notes - HB - BRAND NEW ( March 2024) The incomparable George Hamilton returns with a superb offering of travails and anecdotes spanning his five decades on our airwaves and on our screens, always at the heart of Irish culture. Picking up where his first offering, The... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Amanda Brown - No Peace Until He's Dead : My Story of Abuse at the Hands of Davy Tweed and My Journey to Recovery In this candid memoir, Amanda Brown chronicles the unimaginable sexual abuse she suffered from the age of eight at the hands of her stepfather, Davy Tweed. No Peace Until He's Dead offers a raw and unflinching account of Amanda's childhood years marred... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Gill Books Pat Sheedy - A Hundred to One : A Devastating True Story of A Compulsive Gambler - PB - BRAND NEW ( February 2024) Aged just 12, Patrick Sheedy placed his first bet for 10p and devised his first scam, marking the beginning of his life as a compulsive gambler and one of Ireland’s most notorious con artists. Nearly 40 years on, after accumulating almost 100... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books John Clarke - Finucane and Me - My Life With Marian - HB - BRAND NEW Marian Finucane was a trailblazing broadcaster, the first to champion women's issues on air, and respected for her fairness, empathy and doggedness. One of a small group of Irish people known simply by their first name, the nation mourned when she died... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Tony Bates - Breaking The Heart Open - The Shaping of a Psychologist - HB Bestselling author and psychologist Tony Bates has spent his career seeking to understand the lives of others. Here he turns his therapeutic eye on himself and describes the events and people in his own life that have made him the insightful thinker and... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Micheál Ó Conghaile - An Island Christmas - PB - BRAND NEW ( Nollaig Oileanách ) In 'An Island Christmas - Nollaig Oileánach', celebrated Irish author Micheál Ó Conghaile takes readers on a heartfelt journey through his childhood memories of Christmas on the now-abandoned island of Inis Treabhair in... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Sandy Kelly - In My Own Words - HB - BRAND NEW - with SIGNED BOOKPLATE Born in Sligo into a family of travelling entertainers, Sandy Kelly has become one of the top musical performers in Ireland.Sandy was co-opted into the family variety show from an early age. As a teenager she sang on the social club circuit in the UK,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Stephen Walker - John Hume : The Persuader - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What motivated the... MSRP: €27.99 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Carl Frampton - My Autobiography - HB - BRAND NEW ( WITH PAUL D GIBSON) Autobiography of Ireland’s only double-weight world champion. Covers his rise to success, growing up in a Unionist family but marrying across sectarian lines and finding support on both sides, the infamous falling out with promotor Barry... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press 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 through the ranks to become Head of the Garda Fraud... MSRP: €16.95 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Maureen Sullivan - The Girl in the Tunnel - PB - BRAND NEW When Maureen Sullivan was just twelve years old, she confided in her teacher that she was being physically and sexually abused by her stepfather. Never, in her darkest imaginings, could she have dreamt that she would be the one who would face harrowing... 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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: BN105 Judith Mok - The State of Dark - PB -2022 - BRAND NEW Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €21.95 Now: €21.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Moseley, Dominic - Betjeman in Ireland - BRAND NEW 2023 - SIGNED As an undergraduate at Oxford University, John Betjeman first visited Ireland in 1925 and was entranced by the country. He was to pay frequent visits over the next five decades, staying in stately homes, and making enduring friendships, these decades... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russell, R.B - Fifty Forgotten Books - PB - SIGNED 2022 Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Phil Quinlan - And a Bang on the Ear - 2023 BRAND NEW Philip Quinlan was a promising 15-year-old athlete who packed his bags one Sunday morning in November 1989 to play a game of football. A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press John Hall - Fair Faces : Images From a Dissappearing Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW Only in Ireland will you come across events where a goat can be crowned king, where “straw boys” roam the streets freely, where men sip whiskey on horseback or where Barak Obama was found hanging out with a busker in Co. Kerry. These are... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, T.E - Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph - Vintage HB -1955 Reprint - Arabia WW1 This is a 1955 reprint edition, lacking the original dustjacket, but solid in pale blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, and crossed dwords motif embossed to front covers. Rubbing and edgewear to the outer covers. There is a date on the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view O'Brien Press Frank O'Mara - Bend, Don't Break : A Memoir of Endurance- PB - BRAND NEW ‘Victory is a life well lived or a day enjoyed.’ Limerick man Frank O’Mara had the athletics career most only dream of, competing for Ireland in three Olympic Games and breaking Irish and world records. After his retirement from... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Martin Naughton ( & Joanna Marsden) - Never Know Your Place : Memoir of a Rulebreaker - PB - BRAND NEW 2024 Every young person is looking for freedom,but some have to fight harder than others … In 1960s Ireland there was a special place for disabled children: behind the walls of an institution, cut off from the rest of society. At just nine years old,... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €16.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press 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 most compelling, placing the reader at the heart of the... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press George Hamilton - The Hamilton Notes - HB - BRAND NEW ( March 2024) The incomparable George Hamilton returns with a superb offering of travails and anecdotes spanning his five decades on our airwaves and on our screens, always at the heart of Irish culture. Picking up where his first offering, The... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Amanda Brown - No Peace Until He's Dead : My Story of Abuse at the Hands of Davy Tweed and My Journey to Recovery In this candid memoir, Amanda Brown chronicles the unimaginable sexual abuse she suffered from the age of eight at the hands of her stepfather, Davy Tweed. No Peace Until He's Dead offers a raw and unflinching account of Amanda's childhood years marred... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Gill Books Pat Sheedy - A Hundred to One : A Devastating True Story of A Compulsive Gambler - PB - BRAND NEW ( February 2024) Aged just 12, Patrick Sheedy placed his first bet for 10p and devised his first scam, marking the beginning of his life as a compulsive gambler and one of Ireland’s most notorious con artists. Nearly 40 years on, after accumulating almost 100... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books John Clarke - Finucane and Me - My Life With Marian - HB - BRAND NEW Marian Finucane was a trailblazing broadcaster, the first to champion women's issues on air, and respected for her fairness, empathy and doggedness. One of a small group of Irish people known simply by their first name, the nation mourned when she died... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Tony Bates - Breaking The Heart Open - The Shaping of a Psychologist - HB Bestselling author and psychologist Tony Bates has spent his career seeking to understand the lives of others. Here he turns his therapeutic eye on himself and describes the events and people in his own life that have made him the insightful thinker and... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Micheál Ó Conghaile - An Island Christmas - PB - BRAND NEW ( Nollaig Oileanách ) In 'An Island Christmas - Nollaig Oileánach', celebrated Irish author Micheál Ó Conghaile takes readers on a heartfelt journey through his childhood memories of Christmas on the now-abandoned island of Inis Treabhair in... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Sandy Kelly - In My Own Words - HB - BRAND NEW - with SIGNED BOOKPLATE Born in Sligo into a family of travelling entertainers, Sandy Kelly has become one of the top musical performers in Ireland.Sandy was co-opted into the family variety show from an early age. As a teenager she sang on the social club circuit in the UK,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Stephen Walker - John Hume : The Persuader - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What motivated the... MSRP: €27.99 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Carl Frampton - My Autobiography - HB - BRAND NEW ( WITH PAUL D GIBSON) Autobiography of Ireland’s only double-weight world champion. Covers his rise to success, growing up in a Unionist family but marrying across sectarian lines and finding support on both sides, the infamous falling out with promotor Barry... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press 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 through the ranks to become Head of the Garda Fraud... MSRP: €16.95 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Maureen Sullivan - The Girl in the Tunnel - PB - BRAND NEW When Maureen Sullivan was just twelve years old, she confided in her teacher that she was being physically and sexually abused by her stepfather. Never, in her darkest imaginings, could she have dreamt that she would be the one who would face harrowing... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Kathy Donaghy - Finding My Wild - How A Move to the Edge Brought Me Home - PB - BRAND NEW 2023 ‘Life had brought me to the edge of myself and here I was feeling like I was on the edge of the world.’ After moving back to her homeplace on the Inishowen Peninsula in Donegal with her young family, journalist Kathy Donaghy’s life... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: BN1032 Paul Brady - Crazy Dreams - BRAND NEW - PB ( MAY 2023) Crazy Dreams is the compelling and highly anticipated autobiography from Paul Brady, a musician whose remarkable career has spanned six decades and who is indisputably one of Ireland’s greatest living songwriters. This evocative memoir... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: BN105 Judith Mok - The State of Dark - PB -2022 - BRAND NEW Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... MSRP: €21.95 Now: €21.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Moseley, Dominic - Betjeman in Ireland - BRAND NEW 2023 - SIGNED As an undergraduate at Oxford University, John Betjeman first visited Ireland in 1925 and was entranced by the country. He was to pay frequent visits over the next five decades, staying in stately homes, and making enduring friendships, these decades... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russell, R.B - Fifty Forgotten Books - PB - SIGNED 2022 Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Phil Quinlan - And a Bang on the Ear - 2023 BRAND NEW Philip Quinlan was a promising 15-year-old athlete who packed his bags one Sunday morning in November 1989 to play a game of football. A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press John Hall - Fair Faces : Images From a Dissappearing Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW Only in Ireland will you come across events where a goat can be crowned king, where “straw boys” roam the streets freely, where men sip whiskey on horseback or where Barak Obama was found hanging out with a busker in Co. Kerry. These are... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, T.E - Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph - Vintage HB -1955 Reprint - Arabia WW1 This is a 1955 reprint edition, lacking the original dustjacket, but solid in pale blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, and crossed dwords motif embossed to front covers. Rubbing and edgewear to the outer covers. There is a date on the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view O'Brien Press Martin Naughton ( & Joanna Marsden) - Never Know Your Place : Memoir of a Rulebreaker - PB - BRAND NEW 2024 Every young person is looking for freedom,but some have to fight harder than others … In 1960s Ireland there was a special place for disabled children: behind the walls of an institution, cut off from the rest of society. At just nine years old,... MSRP: €17.99 Now: €16.50 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press 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 most compelling, placing the reader at the heart of the... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Merrion Press George Hamilton - The Hamilton Notes - HB - BRAND NEW ( March 2024) The incomparable George Hamilton returns with a superb offering of travails and anecdotes spanning his five decades on our airwaves and on our screens, always at the heart of Irish culture. Picking up where his first offering, The... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Amanda Brown - No Peace Until He's Dead : My Story of Abuse at the Hands of Davy Tweed and My Journey to Recovery In this candid memoir, Amanda Brown chronicles the unimaginable sexual abuse she suffered from the age of eight at the hands of her stepfather, Davy Tweed. No Peace Until He's Dead offers a raw and unflinching account of Amanda's childhood years marred... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Gill Books Pat Sheedy - A Hundred to One : A Devastating True Story of A Compulsive Gambler - PB - BRAND NEW ( February 2024) Aged just 12, Patrick Sheedy placed his first bet for 10p and devised his first scam, marking the beginning of his life as a compulsive gambler and one of Ireland’s most notorious con artists. Nearly 40 years on, after accumulating almost 100... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books John Clarke - Finucane and Me - My Life With Marian - HB - BRAND NEW Marian Finucane was a trailblazing broadcaster, the first to champion women's issues on air, and respected for her fairness, empathy and doggedness. One of a small group of Irish people known simply by their first name, the nation mourned when she died... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Tony Bates - Breaking The Heart Open - The Shaping of a Psychologist - HB Bestselling author and psychologist Tony Bates has spent his career seeking to understand the lives of others. Here he turns his therapeutic eye on himself and describes the events and people in his own life that have made him the insightful thinker and... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Micheál Ó Conghaile - An Island Christmas - PB - BRAND NEW ( Nollaig Oileanách ) In 'An Island Christmas - Nollaig Oileánach', celebrated Irish author Micheál Ó Conghaile takes readers on a heartfelt journey through his childhood memories of Christmas on the now-abandoned island of Inis Treabhair in... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Sandy Kelly - In My Own Words - HB - BRAND NEW - with SIGNED BOOKPLATE Born in Sligo into a family of travelling entertainers, Sandy Kelly has become one of the top musical performers in Ireland.Sandy was co-opted into the family variety show from an early age. As a teenager she sang on the social club circuit in the UK,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Stephen Walker - John Hume : The Persuader - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What motivated the... MSRP: €27.99 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Carl Frampton - My Autobiography - HB - BRAND NEW ( WITH PAUL D GIBSON) Autobiography of Ireland’s only double-weight world champion. Covers his rise to success, growing up in a Unionist family but marrying across sectarian lines and finding support on both sides, the infamous falling out with promotor Barry... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press 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 through the ranks to become Head of the Garda Fraud... MSRP: €16.95 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Maureen Sullivan - The Girl in the Tunnel - PB - BRAND NEW When Maureen Sullivan was just twelve years old, she confided in her teacher that she was being physically and sexually abused by her stepfather. Never, in her darkest imaginings, could she have dreamt that she would be the one who would face harrowing... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Merrion Press George Hamilton - The Hamilton Notes - HB - BRAND NEW ( March 2024) The incomparable George Hamilton returns with a superb offering of travails and anecdotes spanning his five decades on our airwaves and on our screens, always at the heart of Irish culture. Picking up where his first offering, The... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Amanda Brown - No Peace Until He's Dead : My Story of Abuse at the Hands of Davy Tweed and My Journey to Recovery In this candid memoir, Amanda Brown chronicles the unimaginable sexual abuse she suffered from the age of eight at the hands of her stepfather, Davy Tweed. No Peace Until He's Dead offers a raw and unflinching account of Amanda's childhood years marred... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Gill Books Pat Sheedy - A Hundred to One : A Devastating True Story of A Compulsive Gambler - PB - BRAND NEW ( February 2024) Aged just 12, Patrick Sheedy placed his first bet for 10p and devised his first scam, marking the beginning of his life as a compulsive gambler and one of Ireland’s most notorious con artists. Nearly 40 years on, after accumulating almost 100... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books John Clarke - Finucane and Me - My Life With Marian - HB - BRAND NEW Marian Finucane was a trailblazing broadcaster, the first to champion women's issues on air, and respected for her fairness, empathy and doggedness. One of a small group of Irish people known simply by their first name, the nation mourned when she died... 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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Sandy Kelly - In My Own Words - HB - BRAND NEW - with SIGNED BOOKPLATE Born in Sligo into a family of travelling entertainers, Sandy Kelly has become one of the top musical performers in Ireland.Sandy was co-opted into the family variety show from an early age. As a teenager she sang on the social club circuit in the UK,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Stephen Walker - John Hume : The Persuader - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What motivated the... MSRP: €27.99 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Carl Frampton - My Autobiography - HB - BRAND NEW ( WITH PAUL D GIBSON) Autobiography of Ireland’s only double-weight world champion. Covers his rise to success, growing up in a Unionist family but marrying across sectarian lines and finding support on both sides, the infamous falling out with promotor Barry... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press 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 through the ranks to become Head of the Garda Fraud... MSRP: €16.95 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Maureen Sullivan - The Girl in the Tunnel - PB - BRAND NEW When Maureen Sullivan was just twelve years old, she confided in her teacher that she was being physically and sexually abused by her stepfather. Never, in her darkest imaginings, could she have dreamt that she would be the one who would face harrowing... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Kathy Donaghy - Finding My Wild - How A Move to the Edge Brought Me Home - PB - BRAND NEW 2023 ‘Life had brought me to the edge of myself and here I was feeling like I was on the edge of the world.’ After moving back to her homeplace on the Inishowen Peninsula in Donegal with her young family, journalist Kathy Donaghy’s life... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €16.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: BN1032 Paul Brady - Crazy Dreams - BRAND NEW - PB ( MAY 2023) Crazy Dreams is the compelling and highly anticipated autobiography from Paul Brady, a musician whose remarkable career has spanned six decades and who is indisputably one of Ireland’s greatest living songwriters. This evocative memoir... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: BN105 Judith Mok - The State of Dark - PB -2022 - BRAND NEW Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... 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A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press John Hall - Fair Faces : Images From a Dissappearing Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW Only in Ireland will you come across events where a goat can be crowned king, where “straw boys” roam the streets freely, where men sip whiskey on horseback or where Barak Obama was found hanging out with a busker in Co. Kerry. These are... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, T.E - Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph - Vintage HB -1955 Reprint - Arabia WW1 This is a 1955 reprint edition, lacking the original dustjacket, but solid in pale blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, and crossed dwords motif embossed to front covers. Rubbing and edgewear to the outer covers. There is a date on the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Merrion Press Amanda Brown - No Peace Until He's Dead : My Story of Abuse at the Hands of Davy Tweed and My Journey to Recovery In this candid memoir, Amanda Brown chronicles the unimaginable sexual abuse she suffered from the age of eight at the hands of her stepfather, Davy Tweed. No Peace Until He's Dead offers a raw and unflinching account of Amanda's childhood years marred... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view Gill Books Pat Sheedy - A Hundred to One : A Devastating True Story of A Compulsive Gambler - PB - BRAND NEW ( February 2024) Aged just 12, Patrick Sheedy placed his first bet for 10p and devised his first scam, marking the beginning of his life as a compulsive gambler and one of Ireland’s most notorious con artists. Nearly 40 years on, after accumulating almost 100... 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Gill Books John Clarke - Finucane and Me - My Life With Marian - HB - BRAND NEW Marian Finucane was a trailblazing broadcaster, the first to champion women's issues on air, and respected for her fairness, empathy and doggedness. One of a small group of Irish people known simply by their first name, the nation mourned when she died... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Tony Bates - Breaking The Heart Open - The Shaping of a Psychologist - HB Bestselling author and psychologist Tony Bates has spent his career seeking to understand the lives of others. Here he turns his therapeutic eye on himself and describes the events and people in his own life that have made him the insightful thinker and... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Micheál Ó Conghaile - An Island Christmas - PB - BRAND NEW ( Nollaig Oileanách ) In 'An Island Christmas - Nollaig Oileánach', celebrated Irish author Micheál Ó Conghaile takes readers on a heartfelt journey through his childhood memories of Christmas on the now-abandoned island of Inis Treabhair in... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Sandy Kelly - In My Own Words - HB - BRAND NEW - with SIGNED BOOKPLATE Born in Sligo into a family of travelling entertainers, Sandy Kelly has become one of the top musical performers in Ireland.Sandy was co-opted into the family variety show from an early age. As a teenager she sang on the social club circuit in the UK,... 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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: BN105 Judith Mok - The State of Dark - PB -2022 - BRAND NEW Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... 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A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press John Hall - Fair Faces : Images From a Dissappearing Ireland - HB - BRAND NEW Only in Ireland will you come across events where a goat can be crowned king, where “straw boys” roam the streets freely, where men sip whiskey on horseback or where Barak Obama was found hanging out with a busker in Co. Kerry. These are... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lawrence, T.E - Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph - Vintage HB -1955 Reprint - Arabia WW1 This is a 1955 reprint edition, lacking the original dustjacket, but solid in pale blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, and crossed dwords motif embossed to front covers. Rubbing and edgewear to the outer covers. There is a date on the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Devlin, Polly - The Far Side of the Lough : Stories From an Irish Childhood - HB - Illustrated - 1983 This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Donovan, Donal - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and one woman - (who is a nun!) . includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US Irish... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Gill Books Tony Bates - Breaking The Heart Open - The Shaping of a Psychologist - HB Bestselling author and psychologist Tony Bates has spent his career seeking to understand the lives of others. Here he turns his therapeutic eye on himself and describes the events and people in his own life that have made him the insightful thinker and... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Micheál Ó Conghaile - An Island Christmas - PB - BRAND NEW ( Nollaig Oileanách ) In 'An Island Christmas - Nollaig Oileánach', celebrated Irish author Micheál Ó Conghaile takes readers on a heartfelt journey through his childhood memories of Christmas on the now-abandoned island of Inis Treabhair in... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Sandy Kelly - In My Own Words - HB - BRAND NEW - with SIGNED BOOKPLATE Born in Sligo into a family of travelling entertainers, Sandy Kelly has become one of the top musical performers in Ireland.Sandy was co-opted into the family variety show from an early age. As a teenager she sang on the social club circuit in the UK,... MSRP: €24.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books Stephen Walker - John Hume : The Persuader - HB - BRAND NEW 2023 Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What motivated the... MSRP: €27.99 Now: €22.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Carl Frampton - My Autobiography - HB - BRAND NEW ( WITH PAUL D GIBSON) Autobiography of Ireland’s only double-weight world champion. 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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: BN105 Judith Mok - The State of Dark - PB -2022 - BRAND NEW Like many children of Holocaust survivors, born in a postwar Holland to Jewish parents trying to rebuild their shattered lives, Judith Mok was raised with the emotional trauma of having no extended family. Despite the constant presence of the past in... MSRP: €16.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing Flor McCarthy - The President's Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW 2022 With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents’ Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde... 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A day later, his mother was told he had a 25% chance to live. Full of hope and humour, rage and... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Van Gelderen, Gerrit - To The Waters and the Wild : Adventures of a Travelling Wildlife Film maker 1985 Published by Brandon Books , 1985, this is an illustrated biograPhy by Dutch born Irish resident Gerrit Van Gelderen, for many years a nature and wildlife filmmaker. This is an account of his life, seen through his work, with a concentration on Ireland,... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Bairnsfather, Bruce - Fragments From His Life , Collected by a Friend- HB 1919 - WW1 - Illustration Undated, but first published by Hodder & Stoiughton UK 1919 of the first biography of the British Great War cartoonist whose comic creation 'Old Bill' made a fortune for the 'Bystander' magazine in which he first appeared. This tribute is written by... 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It is an engaging and idiosyncratic approach to social and literary history and the... MSRP: Now: €13.50 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press Katherine Everett - Bricks and Flowers : An Anglo -Irish Memoir - PB 2018 ( Originally 1949) - BRAND NEW BRICKS AND FLOWERS -AN ANGLO-IRISH MEMOIRby Katherine Everett Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett was originally published in 1949 and received excellent reviews. This extraordinary memoir tells of the author’s difficult upbringing in... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view León Ó Broin - Frank Duff - A Biography - PB - 1982 Published shortly after Duff's death, this is Leon ó Broin's account of the founder of one of the largest orgainsations in Itreland in teh early 20t Century - The Legion of Mary. initially foundec in 1921 to counter the then widespread... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL91 Desmond Fennell - About Being Normal - PB - BRAND NEW - Autobiography ABOUT BEING NORMAL MY LIFE IN ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES An autobiography by Desmond Fennell ‘…one of the outstanding original thinkers of our time…’ Desmond Fennell has been a major force in the intellectual life of... MSRP: €20.00 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Somerville Press | sku: BNL90 Craig, Patricia - Bookworm : A Memoir of Childhood Reading- PB - BRAND NEW BOOKWORM is a memoir of childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses into the world of children’s books and libraries in 1950s’ Belfast. 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