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  • 2 Jun 2008 - Transworld Publishers Ltd

    Founded on Fear

    By Peter Tyrrell

    A tormented childhood in Letterfrack industrial school with the Christian Brothers left an enduring mark on Peter Tyrrell. Ignored by the authorities and distressed by his memories, he later burned hi...

  • 16 Sep 2009 - Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd

    An Irish Country Village

    By Patrick Taylor

    Patrick Taylor first charmed readers with An Irish Country Doctor, a warm and enchanting novel in the tradition of James Herriot and Jan Karon. Now Taylor returns to the colorful Northern Ireland comm...

  • 8 Oct 2013 - The Collins Press

    Forging a Kingdom: The GAA in Kerry 1884-1934

    By Richard McElligott

    Forging A Kingdom charts the development of the GAA in Kerry and how it became the county's most popular sporting organisation. This is an absorbing insight into the world of the GAA in Kerry from its...

  • 14 Dec 2000 - O'Brien Press Ltd

    Joey Dunlop: King of the Roads

    By Stephen Davison

    Joey Dunlop was born in Ballymoney, County Antrim, on 25 February 1952. Joey's racing career began in 1969, and his yellow helmet and number three bike became synonymous with high-octane wins. Joey wa...

  • 19 Aug 2005 - O'Brien Press Ltd

    'Last Man Standing: Hurling Goalkeepers'

    'What is it that makes a hurling goalie tick? Why would anybody be mad enough to take the loneliest position on the pitch? With unique access to many of Ireland's top players, Christy O'Connor reveals...

  • 1 Mar 2009 - O'Brien Press Ltd

    Belfast: Titanic City

    'This photographically-led souvenir of the city and surroundings provides an overview of Belfast's history, attractions, famous landmarks and today's city. With internet links. This photographically-l...

  • 7 Feb 2011 - O'Brien Press Ltd

    Heirs to the Kingdom: Kerry's Political Dynasties

    By Owen O'Shea

    An account of political dynasties in Kerry, focusing on a number of families who have successfully held political power, both locally and in the national parliament, with first-hand interviews with di...

  • 1 Oct 2012 - MOININ

    Flying the Banner: Short Stories from Clare's Teenage Writers

    By Authors Various, Ré Ó Laighléis

    Flying the Banner a collection of short stories written by their fellow students in St. Patrick’s and St. Caimin’s schools. Flying the Banner was compiled and edited by Ré Ó Laighléis and he...

  • 31 Aug 2008 - The Collins Press

    Birds of Ireland: Facts, Folklore and History

    By Glynn Anderson

    Irish bird names are rich and full of meaning. This book focuses on our interaction with birds, covering mythology and folklore, birds as omens, harbingers and food, and bird-related beliefs, proverbs...

  • 15 Aug 2016 - O'Brien Press Ltd

    Mad Grandad and the Flying Saucer

    By Oisín McGann

    Lenny and Mad Grandad take their new flying saucer for its first flight. Getting into space is easy: getting home alive might be harder! Lenny and Mad Grandad buy a flying saucer and shoot into space ...

  • 6 Sep 2007 - Penguin Books Ltd

    Eleven Houses: A Memoir of Childhood

    By Christopher Fitz-Simon

    Christopher Fitz-Simon was born into an Irish family, with Daniel O'Connell on one side and Ulster Protestants on the other, and his childhood coincided with the Second World War. This book is a memoi...

  • 31 Aug 2016 - Four Courts Press Ltd

    The World of Thomas Ward: Sex and Scandal in late-seventeenth century Co. Antrim

    By Eamon Darcy

    Part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History series. Why do a number of children look like the local dean? Did you hear that the bishop did not like the communion wine and spat it out, exclaiming "th...

  • 8 Oct 2012 - O'Brien Press Ltd

    And Time Stood Still

    By Alice Taylor

    An extended memoir with reminiscences about the Author's friends, family members and even beloved animals that have passed away. A therapeutic book demonstrating a compassionate way of dealing with be...

  • 14 Sep 1999 - Mount Eagle Publications Ltd

    Open Cut - New edition

    By J. M. O'Neill

    The story of a man living in that part of London respectable people are careful not to see; a bleak, desolate world of whisky-dulled pain, casual brutality and corruption.

  • 15 Jun 2000 - O'Brien Press Ltd

    The Giant's Causeway: And the North Antrim Coast

    By Philip Watson

    The Giant's Causeway takes the reader on an illustrated tour of the history, folklore, people, geology, wildlife, and stunning landscape of this unique place. The Giant's Causeway on Ireland's north A...

  • 19 Mar 2016 - Elizabeth Watson

    Flying by the Seat of My Knickers

    By Eliza Watson

    Why run from your troubles when you can fly instead? When Caity Shaw is fired from her first job that doesn’t require an elf uniform, her older sister, Rachel, an event planner, hires her to work a ...

  • 5 Mar 2018 - O'Brien Press Ltd

    'The Giant's Causeway: And the North Antrim Coast 4th Revised edition'

    By Philip Watson

    'The Giant's Causeway takes the reader on an illustrated tour of the history, folklore, people, geology, wildlife, and stunning landscape of this unique place. New updated edition. The Giant's Causewa...

  • 7 Feb 2019 - Hachette Books Ireland

    Violet Hill

    By Henrietta McKervey

    December 1918: Post-War London is grieving, the city a wound whose dressing was taken off too soon. Violet Hill, the only female private detective in the city, is hired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's bus...

  • 18 Apr 2016 - Amberley Publishing

    Belfast Through Time

    By Aidan Campbell

    Belfast (Irish: Beal Feirste ‘mouth of the sandbank ford’) is the capital city of Northern Ireland. The site of Belfast has been described as ‘not built on a perfect site’ given that the origi...

  • 27 Sep 2017 - New Island Books

    Bang Bang: & other Dublin Monologues

    By Dermot Bolger

    In blind old age, Dublin’s most famous gunslinger, the legendary street character Bang Bang, recalls decades roaming the streets of Dublin, which became Dodge City in his mind as he fought imaginary...

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