True Stories

Kieran Fagan - The Framing of Harry Gleeson - PB - BRAND NEW

In November 1940 the body of Moll McCarthy, an unmarried mother, was found in a field in the Marlhill/ New Inn area of South Tipperary She had been shot. The man who reported the discovery was neighbor Harry Gleeson. Although Harry had an alibi, he was...

Theresa O'Donohoe - Ireland at the Crossroads : Lisdoonvarna, Direct Provision and the Far Right - PB - BRAND NEW

Confusion, anger, and division set in as news leaked that a Direct Provision centre for 115 asylum seekers was being opened in Lisdoonvarna in February 2018. Stories of robbery and rape, along with videos of riots and destruction, were fuelling racism...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of Central Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2023 ( Murder Most Local - Book 6 )

This is the 6th book in the Murder Most Local Series of County Cork. This covers all the remaining county From Ballincollig to Mallow, Glanmire to Fermoy and everywhere in between. Like the books for the rest of Cork, this book tells the stories of...

Nell McCafferty - A Woman to Blame : The Kerry Babies Case, PB BRAND NEW Attic Press ( Originally 1985)

A paperback reprint edition, 2024 , Attic Press, ( the original imprint from 1985)  of journalist Nell McCafferty's A Woman To Blame   Nell McCafferty was rarely better than her detailed and devastating account of the madness of the Kerry...

Nicola Hanney - Stronger - BRAND NEW

PAPERBACK - BRAND NEW,  2024. In 2017, against all odds, Nicola Hanney survived a terminal cancer diagnosis and marched on to live life. When she matched with Garda Paul Moody on a dating app, she thought her dreams had come true, but never did she...

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...

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...

Gwen Wilkinson - The Waters and the Wild - PB - BRAND NEW 2023

In 2019, Gwen Wilkinson set herself the challenge of building a canoe and paddling it the length of Ireland, along a network of inland waterways. She set out from the shores of Lough Erne and navigated a 400km journey to the tidal waters of the River...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of South Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 ( Murder Most Local - Book 4 )

This book, the fourth published in the ( ongoing) Murder Most Local Series, contains accounts of a large number of true life historical murders from the south Cork area .  This is true crime at a local level. 36 real life true historical murders in...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of West Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2020 ( Murder Most Local - Book 3 )

This book, the third published in the ( ongoing) Murder Most Local Series, contains accounts of a large number of true life historical murders from the west Cork area . True crime meets local history. This book contains 39 true historical murders in...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of North Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2019 ( Murder Most Local - Book 2 )

This book, the second published in the ( ongoing) Murder Most Local Series, contains accounts of over 30 true life historical murders from the north Cork area ( The wide area from Mitchelstown in the east , westwards to the Kerry border) . Some are well...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of Mid Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 ( Murder Most Local - Book 5 )

This book, the fifth published in the ( ongoing) Murder Most Local Series, contains accounts of 36 true life historical murders in mid Cork ( broadly covering the area bound by millstreet , Macroom, kanturk to Gougane barra)  , Some are well known...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of East Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2019 ( Murder Most Local - Book 1 )

This book, the first published in the (ongoing) Murder Most Local Series, contains accounts of 47 true life historical murders in East Cork , Some are well known cases that have lived on in folklore, others are long forgotten, only to be revealed in this...