This book argues that we have got it wrong in the West in our pursuit of what we consider to be 'self': an autonomous, self-driven, entrepreneurial entity, always on, always positive and always improving. This is a neoli ...Quick View

COMPELLING STORIES OF THE IRISH FOOTBALLERS who journeyed beyond the safety net of the UK and Ireland in search of opportunity and adventure The vast majority of elite soccer players from the island of Ireland end up ...Quick View

A hopeful history - charting 100 years of the Irish State through facts and stats.If you follow the headlines, you could be forgiven for thinking that things in Ireland in 2021 are worse than ever. In fact, we live longe ...Quick View

The latest book in the Gill Books series of important topics tackled by experts, this engaging guide demystifies political systems, elections, voting and government, and explores issues including human rights, freedom of ...Quick View

A magical illustrated collection of Irish words for the natural world from the author of the bestseller, 32 Words for Field.'In Irish there are so many great rain words and magic words and highly specific natural words ( ...Quick View

What is life like at the edge of science in a pandemic? World renowned immunologist Professor Luke O'Neill tells all, sharing his diaries from the front-line of the scientific fight for a vaccine as the world grappled wi ...Quick View

The Garden Awakening is a garden design book with a difference. Mary re-imagines the garden for the times we live in, looking at land the way a parent looks at a child as a gift and a responsibility. Learn how to design ...Quick View

This volume contains shorter prose works from throughout Patrick Kavanagh's career: the autobiographical pieces and rural reminiscences and a selection of Kavanagh's penetrating, sometimes scabrous, literary and cultural ...Quick View

All the parts of everyday life are unclothed and transformed in Catching Bats Takes Patience. Mary Kennelly looks at the routine of domestic life and motherhood and picks it apart, revealing a hidden layer of emotion and ...Quick View

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‘Soon the summer storms became mainly man-made, rumbling and crackling their way up from the terraces and rolling in from the sprawling new estates. Troubles had come again to Belfast, this city of history, hard men an ...Quick View

Pat Egan is a pioneering music and concert promoter; the first ever to stage arena concerts in Ireland with Queen in 1979 at the RDS. He is also the man behind Ireland’s first major outdoor music festival headlined by ...Quick View

Between the years of the mid thirties through to 1960, independent Ireland suffered from economic stagnation, and also went through a period of intense cultural and psychological repression. While external circumstances ...Quick View

During the Irish War of Independence, fighting also took place in the pages of newspapers on both sides. Inevitably, journalists and newspapers became not just chroniclers of events but participants. This is a clear acco ...Quick View

In this rapturous story collection we encounter a ragbag of west of Ireland characters, many on the cusp between love and catastrophe, heartbreak and epiphany, resignation and hope. These stories affirm Kevin Barry as on ...Quick View