Quick view Road to Repeal by Therese Caherty & Pauline Conroy & Derek Speirs (editors) Now: $27.50 MSRP: Was: Road to Repeal: 50 Years of Struggle in Ireland for Contraception and Abortion opens in 1970 when the Irish Women's Liberation Movement burst onto the streets and screens of a society bewildered by women demanding equal status in … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Can Ireland Be One? by Malachi O'Doherty Now: $20.63 MSRP: Was: Ireland has changed radically in a generation. Today both parts of the island define themselves by or against the narrative of a freedom struggle. Could they conceivably put that behind them, regard it as closed, and if so, how wo… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view We Don't Know Ourselves : A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 by Fintan O'Toole Now: $16.49 MSRP: $17.88 Was: We Don't Know Ourselves is a very personal vision of recent Irish history from the year of O'Toole's birth, 1958, down to the present. Ireland has changed almost out of recognition during those decades, and Fintan O'Toole's life c… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Year's Turning by Michael Viney Now: $24.75 MSRP: Was: Michael Viney and his wife Ethna lived in the city, had successful jobs in the media and had just turned forty when they made a life-changing decision: to give up everything for a self-reliant existence on a remote cottage farm in… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A State of Emergency: The Story of Ireland's Covid Crisis by Richard Chambers Now: $13.19 MSRP: Was: The incendiary untold story of Ireland's response to the most significant public health emergency of the past century, woven from a wealth of original research and dozens of interviews with ministers, politicians, public health ex… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Men Who Stare at Hens by Simon Leyland Now: $5.50 MSRP: $13.75 Was: Have you heard of Frederick Hervey, the atheist Bishop of Derry who hated church bells? What about Samuel Boyce, the poet who couldn't afford trousers? Not even Mary Monckton, who once stole a live hedgehog from a dinner party? Th… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Ireland's Suffragettes by Sarah-Beth Watkins Now: $10.99 MSRP: $21.99 Was: Ireland's Suffragettes is a collection of biographical essays introducing the suffragettes who influenced Ireland's struggle for women's rights. Many of the women were political activists while others became militant suffragettes … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Unlocked: An Irish Prison Officer's Story by David McDonald & Mick Clifford Now: $18.15 MSRP: $20.63 Was: For over thirty years, David McDonald worked in Ireland's three biggest prisons. This is his story. As a young officer, McDonald got a baptism by fire when he started in Mountjoy in 1989. It was a chaotic, smelly and overcrowded p… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Fastnet: The Final Challenge by Stephen Redmond & Mary O'Donovan Now: $22.00 MSRP: Was: Stephen Redmond was the first swimmer ever to complete the Oceans Seven, a series of grueling cross-channel swims in different parts of the world, and yethis greatest challenge has been right on his doorstep - a 44-kilometre swim … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Birds of County Cork by Patrick Smiddy & Mark Shorten & Russ Heselden Now: $42.90 MSRP: Was: This is book is a history of the birds of County Cork from the earliest times to the present. It provides a comprehensive account of the ecology of all species known to have occurred in the county, with an emphasis on distribution… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Troubles with Us: One Belfast Girl on Boys, Bombs and Finding Her Way by Alix O'Neill Now: $13.75 MSRP: Was: Growing up on the Falls Road in 1990s Belfast, Alix O'Neill has seen it all - burnt-out buses blocking the route to school, the police mistaking her father for a leading terrorist and a classmate playing hide and seek with her dad… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Punters: How Paddy Power Bet Billions and Changed Gambling Forever by Aaron Rogan Now: $13.75 MSRP: Was: The story of Paddy Power's growth from a small chain of Irish bookies to the biggest gambling company in the world. Flutter Entertainment, the parent company of Paddy Power, is the largest gambling business in the world. The evide… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War by Diarmaid Ferriter Now: $13.75 MSRP: Was: In June 1922, just seven months after Sinn Fein negotiators signed a compromise treaty with representatives of the British government to create the Irish Free State, Ireland collapsed into civil war. While the body count suggests … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? by Seamas O'Reilly Now: $12.38 MSRP: $13.75 Was: THE IRISH TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER AN POST BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR Seamas O'Reilly's mother died when he was five, leaving him, his ten brothers and sisters and their beloved father in their sprawling bungalow in rural Derry. It was t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Game: A Journey Into the Heart of Sport by Tadhg Coakley Now: $18.69 MSRP: Was: Novelist, Sportswriter and All-Ireland minor hurling winner Tadhg Coakley ruminates on the importance of sport in his life. He reflects on the joys of sport, as player and fan, and sport’s pervasive influence, good and bad, on hum… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view United Nation: The Case for Integrating Ireland by Frank Connolly Now: $18.69 MSRP: Was: One hundred years after the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition, after 30 years of Troubles, the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit, the debate on Irish unity has intensified. But what could a united Ireland look like, and what would i… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Gas Man by Colin Black Now: $13.75 MSRP: Was: 10... 9... 8...7... 6... That's about as far as you get, counting backwards, as you wait for surgery to begin - and that's all most people know about what I do. But what happens between you conking out and waking up? And what does… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Independence Memories by Valerie Cox Now: $13.75 MSRP: Was: Independence Memories is a fascinating social history, from living and inherited memory, of the period surrounding Irish Independence and the Civil War. It was a time of violence, of death, of emigration, of families divided into … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Darkness into Light by Joan Freeman Now: $18.69 MSRP: Was: Darkness into Light: A Nation’s Response tells the story of the birth of a national and international movement that, every year, brings hundreds of thousands of people together to walk and remember those who have died by sui… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Ranger 22: Lessons from the Front by Ray Goggins Now: $14.29 MSRP: Was: 'The path I have travelled, the things I have done and the people I have met in crisis situations have given me a window into those qualities that make us perform. My military training created a mindset, an outlook and skills that… Add to Cart The item has been added