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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 39 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement by Roland Philipps
    Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement - by Roland Philipps

    £25.00   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781847927071 | ISBN 10: 1847927076

    Pioneering human rights campaigner, patriot, romantic, traitor, LGBTQ+ martyr: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century’s most complex and compelling figures.  'A book of met­iculous sensitivity and research' TELEGRAPH& ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Down Darkness Wide by Sean Hewitt
    All Down Darkness Wide - by Sean Hewitt

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529114478 | ISBN 10: 1529114470

    A luminous memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a tender exploration of queer identity.  'Beautiful' Colm Tóibín 'Rapturous' New York Times 'Extraordinary' Observer 'Stunning' Sunday T ... more

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  • Cover image of book Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? by Seamas O
    Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? - by Seamas O'Reilly

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780708899236 | ISBN 10: 0708899234

    THE IRISH TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER AN POST BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR  ‘Gorgeous’ Pandora Sykes  ‘A rare and beautiful book’ Marian Keyes  ‘Tender, sad and side-splittingly funny’ Annie MacManus  ‘A delight†... more

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  • Cover image of book Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
    Diary of a Young Naturalist - by Dara McAnulty

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529109603 | ISBN 10: 1529109604

    Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries about his c ... more

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  • Cover image of book James Joyce by Edna O
    James Joyce - by Edna O'Brien

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781474614450 | ISBN 10: 1474614450

    Edna O’Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works ‘to bestir the hearts of men and angels’.   The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth, his lofty courtship of No ... more

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  • Cover image of book War And An Irish Town by Eamonn McCann
    War And An Irish Town - by Eamonn McCann

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781608469741 | ISBN 10: 1608469743

    War and an Irish Town is Eamonn McCann's classic account of growing up Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto.   McCann’s account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto — first published in 1974 — quickly becam ... more

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  • Cover image of book A 1950s Irish Childhood: From Catapults to Communion Medals by Ruth Illingworth
    A 1950s Irish Childhood: From Catapults to Communion Medals - by Ruth Illingworth

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780750983549 | ISBN 10: 075098354x

    1950s Ireland was the age of De Valera and John Charles McQuaid. It was the age before television, Vatican II, and home central heating. A time when motor cars and public telephones had wind-up handles, when boys wore short trousers and girls wore ri ... more

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  • Cover image of book A James Connolly Reader by James Connolly
    A James Connolly Reader - by James Connolly

    £16.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781608466467 | ISBN 10: 1608466469

    A stirring collection of James Connolly's most important speeches and writing.  Considered by many Ireland's most important revolutionary, James Connolly devoted his life to struggles against exploitation, oppression, and imperialism. Active ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love by Fergal Keane
    Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love - by Fergal Keane

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008189273 | ISBN 10: 0008189277

    A family story of blood and memory and the haunting power of the past.   2018 WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE NON-FICTION IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  After nearly three de ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Company of Trees: A Year in a Lifetime
    The Company of Trees: A Year in a Lifetime's Quest - by Thomas Pakenham

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781474606790 | ISBN 10: 1474606792

    Acclaimed historian and bestselling author Thomas Pakenham shares his profound love of trees and reverence for nature, rooted in the family estate of Tullynally in Ireland.   Thomas Pakenham is an indefatigable champion of trees. In The Co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bobby Sands: Freedom Fighter by Gerry Hunt
    Bobby Sands: Freedom Fighter - by Gerry Hunt

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781847178152 | ISBN 10: 1847178154

    Bobby Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze. He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special C ... more

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  • Cover image of book To School Through the Fields by Alice Taylor
    To School Through the Fields - by Alice Taylor

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781847178237 | ISBN 10: 1847178235

    "A delightful evocation of Irishness and of the author's deep-rooted love of the very fields of home"(Publishers Weekly) Alice Taylor’s classic account of growing up in the Irish countryside, the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eamon de Valera: A Will to Power by Ronan Fanning
    Eamon de Valera: A Will to Power - by Ronan Fanning

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571312061 | ISBN 10: 0571312063

    Éamon de Valera is the most remarkable man in the history of modern Ireland. Much as Churchill personified British resistance to Hitler and de Gaulle personified the freedom of France, de Valera personified Irish independence.  From his emerg ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bobby Sands: Nothing But an Unfinished Song by Denis O
    Bobby Sands: Nothing But an Unfinished Song - by Denis O' Hearn

    £16.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780745336336 | ISBN 10: 0745336337

    This is the best-selling biography of the IRA resistance fighter and hunger-striker, Bobby Sands. In this updated, new edition, Denis O'Hearn draws from a wealth of interviews with friends, comrades, fellow prisoners and prison wardens, to provide a ... more

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  • Cover image of book 1916: Portraits and Lives by James Quinn, Lawrence William White and David Rooney
    1916: Portraits and Lives - by James Quinn, Lawrence William White and David Rooney

    £28.00   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908996381 | ISBN 10: 1908996382

    This book is a selection of 40 articles from the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography, dealing with 42 men and women whose careers, in one way or another, were deeply involved with the Easter rising of 1916.   The biographies ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sons + Fathers: An Anthology of Words and Images by Kathy Gilfillan (Editor), with an Introduction by Colm Toibin
    Sons + Fathers: An Anthology of Words and Images - by Kathy Gilfillan (Editor), with an Introduction by Colm Toibin

    £14.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780091959043 | ISBN 10: 0091959047

    Sons + Fathers brings together a remarkable array of politicians and world leaders, writers and musicians, cultural icons and actors in this collection dedicated to fathers. A moving, fascinating and often funny collection of portraits, this antholog ... more

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  • Cover image of book Michael Collins: A Biography by Tim Pat Coogan
    Michael Collins: A Biography - by Tim Pat Coogan

    £10.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784753269 | ISBN 10: 1784753262

    When President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord Birkenhead, 'I may have signed my actual death warrant.' And in August 1922 during the Irish Civil War, that prophecy came true - ... more

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  • Cover image of book Down the Crooked Road: My Autobiography by Mary Black
    Down the Crooked Road: My Autobiography - by Mary Black

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781848271883 | ISBN 10: 1848271883

    For the last thirty years, singer Mary Black has been a dominant presence on the Irish music scene, an award-winning artist with many bestselling albums to her name. Now, in this long-awaited memoir, Mary takes us back to the roots of her musical her ... more

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  • Cover image of book Granuaile: Queen of Storms by Dave Hendrick, illustrated by Luca Pizzari
    Granuaile: Queen of Storms - by Dave Hendrick, illustrated by Luca Pizzari

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781847176714 | ISBN 10: 1847176712

    It is a time of invasion, it is a time of adventure.   In the sixteenth century, Granuaile, warrior and leader, was the terror of the North Atlantic and the most feared woman in Ireland, controlling huge parts of the west coast in defiance of ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Short History of Ireland
    A Short History of Ireland's Rebels - by Morgan Llywelyn

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847173706 | ISBN 10: 1847173705

    The stirring story of eighteen of Ireland's greatest rebels, from the sixteenth century to today.   From the daring pirate-queen Grace O’Malley, to the fiery Protestant lawyer Theobald Wolfe Tone, and the courageous priest-patriot Fr John Murp ... more

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  • Cover image of book Big Jim: Jim Larkin and the 1913 Lockout by Rory McConville, illustrated by Paddy Lynch
    Big Jim: Jim Larkin and the 1913 Lockout - by Rory McConville, illustrated by Paddy Lynch

    £13.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847173065 | ISBN 10: 1847173063

    The story of Jim Larkin and the lockout of Dublin workers in 1913 led by William Martin Murphy, told in graphic novel form.   On August 26th 1913, the trams of Dublin stopped. The Great Dublin Lockout had begun. Over the next four months, Jame ... more

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  • Cover image of book Everybody Matters: A Memoir by Mary Robinson
    Everybody Matters: A Memoir - by Mary Robinson

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781444723335 | ISBN 10: 1444723332

    Moving memoir from the first female President of Ireland, and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson. Shortlisted for the Political Book Awards 2013 Political Book of the Year   The first woman President of Ireland, ... more

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  • Cover image of book James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner by Alfonso Zapico, translated by David Prendergast
    James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner - by Alfonso Zapico, translated by David Prendergast

    £16.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847173638 | ISBN 10: 1847173632

    A complete account of the life and times of James Joyce in the form of a graphic novel.  From his earliest days and school career, through to meetings with all the literary greats of the day, this story is dotted with anecdotes, as well as a cap ... more

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  • Cover image of book Show Me the Prisoner - And I
    Show Me the Prisoner - And I'll Show You a Young Man: A Memoir - by Patricia Farren

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781780880518 | ISBN 10: 1780880510

    Show Me the Prisoner is written from the perspective of a prison teacher who later served on the prison monitoring body. It covers a 15-year period of involvement in two of Northern Ireland’s prisons during the troubles, when terrorists hogged ... more

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  • Cover image of book Paperboy: An Enchanting True Story of a Belfast Paperboy Coming to Terms with the Troubles by Tony Macaulay
    Paperboy: An Enchanting True Story of a Belfast Paperboy Coming to Terms with the Troubles - by Tony Macaulay

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007449231 | ISBN 10: 0007449232

    It’s Belfast, 1975. The city lies under the dark cloud of the Troubles, and hatred fills the air like smoke. But Tony Macaulay has just turned twelve and he’s got a new job. He’s going to be a paperboy. And come rain or shine – or bombs and mortar – ... more

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  • Cover image of book Voices from the Grave: Two Men
    Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland - by Ed Moloney

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780571251698 | ISBN 10: 0571251692

    Ed Moloney’s A Secret History of the IRA is the best-informed account yet written of the IRA’s evolution from ruthless guerrilla army into governmental party. But reconciliation between political figures who until very recently wished each other dea ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rising: Easter 1916 by Fearghal McGarry
    The Rising: Easter 1916 - by Fearghal McGarry

    £14.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199605972 | ISBN 10: 0199605971

    The Easter Rising of 1916 not only destroyed much of the centre of Dublin - it changed the course of Irish history. But how did it achieve this? What role did people from ordinary backgrounds play in the making of the Irish revolution and what motiva ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where are You Really From? Kola Kubes and Gelignite, Secrets and Lies by Tim Brannigan
    Where are You Really From? Kola Kubes and Gelignite, Secrets and Lies - by Tim Brannigan

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780856408533 | ISBN 10: 0856408530

    Born into a devoutly Catholic Belfast family, Peggy Brannigan was devastated when she became pregnant as a result of an extra-marital affair with a black junior doctor. Unwilling to have an abortion or to have the baby adopted, Peggy came up with an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beyond Belief by Colm O
    Beyond Belief - by Colm O'Gorman

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780340925287 | ISBN 10: 0340925280

    Abused by his priest, betrayed by his church: the story of the boy who sued the Pope. `I was living in a world where a priest who spoke the words of God used me for sex, and there was no-one to tell. The world where this horror happened didn`t exist ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bloody Mary: My Life and Times by Mary Coughlan
    Bloody Mary: My Life and Times - by Mary Coughlan

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780340993484 | ISBN 10: 0340993480

    Since she rose to international fame in 1985 with her seminal Irish jazz album Tired and Emotional, Mary Coughlan's battles with addiction, the problems in her personal life and career have been well documented. But until now she has never spoken of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Once Upon a Hill: Love in Troubled Times by Glenn Patterson
    Once Upon a Hill: Love in Troubled Times - by Glenn Patterson

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596752 | ISBN 10: 0747596751

    A twentieth century Irish love story between Protestant and Catholic.  What happens when history tries to squeeze itself into a town of ten thousand people, most of them related somewhere down the line? For Glenn Patterson’s grandparents, Jac ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes by Martha Long
    Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes - by Martha Long

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781845963132 | ISBN 10: 184596313x

    'Then I heard the most beautiful music, an suddenly I was outa me body an flyin. An I wanted te cry inside meself. I wasn't dead any more, I was lifted away, far away. I can do anythin. I can be somebody, I can be beautiful, I can be gentle, I can be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fear of the Collar: The True Story of the Boy They Couldn
    Fear of the Collar: The True Story of the Boy They Couldn't Break - by Patrick Touher

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780091917661 | ISBN 10: 0091917662

    Sent to Artane Industrial School, Dublin, at seven years of age, Patrick Touher was soon to learn the tough ways of the regime of education and training, prayer and punishment, strict discipline and fearful nights. No allowances were made for emotion ... more

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  • Cover image of book Memoir by John McGahern
    Memoir - by John McGahern

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571228119 | ISBN 10: 0571228119

    This is the story of John McGahern's childhood; of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement, and his own discovery of literature."Long before Frank McCourt made an entire industry out of twinkly eyed accounts of the povery and institutio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Barefoot in Mullyneeny: A Boy
    Barefoot in Mullyneeny: A Boy's Journey Towards Belonging - by Bryan Gallagher

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780007220885 | ISBN 10: 000722088x

    Barefoot in Mullyneeny is Bryan Gallagher's evocative tale of a childhood remembered through the people and landscape of County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. Whether relating tales of murderous bicycle chases through the darkened streets of Cav ... more

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  • Cover image of book Running to Stand Still: The Compassionate Heart of a Violent Man - A Unique Account of Abuse by Bearnard O
    Running to Stand Still: The Compassionate Heart of a Violent Man - A Unique Account of Abuse - by Bearnard O'Riain

    £14.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781770090781 | ISBN 10: 1770090789

    Running to Stand Still is a moving testament to enduring love, the hazards of history, the telling of stories and the power of truth. O'Riain tells an extraordinary tale of a family at war with one another and the bitterness that lurks behind their l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Angela
    Angela's Ashes - by Frank McCourt

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780007205233 | ISBN 10: 0007205236

    Angela's Ashes was a true publishing phenomenon. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Royal Society of Literature Award (amongst others), this lyrical and poignant memoir topped bestseller charts the world ... more

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  • Cover image of book Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
    Borstal Boy - by Brendan Behan

    £9.99   paperback   (1990) - ISBN 13: 9780099706502 | ISBN 10: 0099706504

    'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.'   So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and literary legend, of the episode that coloured his lif ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Left Foot by Christy Brown
    My Left Foot - by Christy Brown

    £8.99   paperback   (1990) - ISBN 13: 9780749391775 | ISBN 10: 0749391774

    The autobiography of Christy Brown, a victim of cerebral palsy who was born and raised in Dublin, and died in 1981.  He recounts his childhood struggle to learn to read, write, paint and finally type, with the toe of his left foot. ... more

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