Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master
By: Paddy Hayes
16 Nov 2015 - Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
From living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar-es- Salaam to becoming Baroness Park of Monmouth, Daphne Park led a most unusual life - one that consisted of a lifelong love affair with the world of Britain's secret servi ...Quick View
The result of over a decade of exclusive interviews with U2’s closest friends and business associates, this is the most explosive and comprehensive biography of the biggest—and most secretive—rock-an ...Quick View
The author his childhood in rural county Meath ...Quick View
Brendan Behan’s genius was to strike a chord between critic and common man. When he died, at the age of 41, he was arguably the most celebrated Irish writer of the twentieth century. ...Quick View
J Ernest Grubb, Quaker, Industrialist, landowner, and currency issuer. ...Quick View
As lead singer of The Pogues and as a solo artist, Shane MacGowan is a defining figure of modern Irish music. ...Quick View
Domhnall Ua Buachalla: Rebellious Nationalist, Reluctant Governor
11 May 2015 - Irish Academic Press / Merrion
This is the first biography of Domhnall Ua Buachalla, a cultural nationalist, Gaelic Leaguer and friend of Pádraig Pearse, who became an Irish Volunteer leader in North Kildare, organising and arming the Maynooth rebels ...Quick View
An illustrated biography of Irish singer/songwriter Sinead O'Connor, who broke into the mainstream of British pop music with the number one hit single "Nothing Compares 2 U", written by Prince. ...Quick View
From a near-fatal attempt to disrupt the British Grand Prix at Silverstone to his infamous rugby tackle on a Brazilian athlete at the 2004 Athens Olympics, Horan has gained the attention of world media, police authoritie ...Quick View
Maeve Brennan: Wit, Style and Tragedy - An Irish Writer in New York
By: Angela Bourke
04 Aug 2005 - Pimlico
The first book about Maeve Brennan, the recently rediscovered New Yorker writer from Ireland, who wrote like an angel, and looked like a fashion model, but became homeless in Manhattan in the 1970s and died forgotten in ...Quick View
Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives from History
2nd edition
By: Marian Broderick
29 Jun 2012 - O'Brien Press
From patriots to pirates, warriors to writers, and mistresses to male impersonators, this book looks at the unorthodox lives of inspiring Irish women. In times when women were expected to marry and have children, they ...Quick View
Arthur Fields didn't plan to become the unofficial family photographer of a city. The Dublin-born son of Ukrainian emigrants fleeing anti-Semitism, he was a street photographer on O'Connell Bridge for fifty years. He too ...Quick View