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A8 Terence MacSwiney The Hunger Strike that Rocked an Empire Dave Hannigan A gripping, dramatic and poignant account of one man’s courageous stand against the might of an empire. 336 pages/photographs ISBN 978-1-84717-182-5 €14.99 pb Rights available W Insider Gerry Bradley’s Life in the IRA Gerry Bradley with Brian Feeney For the first time, an IRA activist tells his life story without approval from the IRA, from his involvement as a young Belfast teenager to more serious activities. 360 pages/photographs €9.99 pb ISBN 978-1-84717-258-7 Rights available W First Citizen Mary McAleese and the Irish Presidency Patsy McGarry The remarkable story of a Belfast girl who became President of Ireland. Explores her achievements at home, including her involvement in the peace process, and her profile abroad. With family and formal photographs. 320 pages/full colour/€24.99 hb ISBN 978-1-84717-087-3/Rights available W Trading Paces From Rat Race to Hen Run Michael Kelly Michael Kelly and his wife were classic Celtic Cubs: now living happily in a leaky cottage in Dunmore East. A humorous and inspiring account of the ups and downs of letting go of the Tiger. 232 pages/photographs ISBN 978-1-84717-070-5 €9.99 pb/Rights available W Babyface Goes to Hollywood Fighters, Mobsters & Film Stars: The Jimmy McLarnin Story Andrew Gallimore Jimmy McLarnin, ‘The Baby-Faced Assassin’, embodied the American Dream – an Irish immigrant rising to be one of the Depression era’s greatest attractions. A true, rags-to-riches story. 336 pages/photographs/€11.99 pb ISBN 978-1-84717-116-0/Rights available W There’s an Egg in my Soup ... and other adventures of an Irishman in Poland Tom Galvin Queues for groceries, unfathomable bus timetables, inexplicable traditions and truly bizarre soup – Poland in the 1990s, viewed through the eyes of this Irish resident, was a very strange place indeed! 272 pages/ISBN 978-1-84717-048-4 €9.95 pb/Rights available W History’s Daughter Máire MacSwiney Brugha An intimate memoir from the only child of Terence MacSwiney, who died on hunger strike in 1920. Máire recalls her early childhood in Germany, her life in Ireland and her marriage to the son of Cathal Brugha. Includes rare photos, letters and documents. 320 pages/photographs/€14.95 pb ISBN 978-0-86278-986-2 Rights available W The Same Age as the State Máire Cruise O’Brien An eloquent and elegant memoir, spanning eighty-one years of the remarkable life of Máire Cruise O’Brien – poet, scholar and diplomat. 376 pages/photographs ISBN 978-0-86278-885-8/€17.95 pb ISBN 978-0-86278-799-8/€24.95 hb Rights available W/Rights sold US/CAN Our Lives Out Loud In Pursuit of Justice and Equality Katherine Zappone & Ann Louise Gilligan Recounts the love relationship of these two women who took a case for equality in marital recognition to the Irish Supreme Court. 312 pages/photographs ISBN 978-1-84717-066-8 €24.99 hb Rights available W Tales from the Home Farm Live More, Spend Less, Grow Your Own Food! Michael Kelly An invaluable guide to self-sufficiency at home – including growing your own food, cooking, storing, keeping animals, and lots more, dispensed with humour and tales of the author’s own successes and failures! 400 pages/ISBN 978-1-84717-168-9 €14.99 pb/Rights available W Kathleen Clarke Revolutionary Woman Kathleen Clarke A unique first-hand account of the most exciting period in Irish history. Widow, mother, revolutionary and Lord Mayor, this is the inside story of 1916, which Kathleen Clarke helped to plan alongside her husband, Tom Clarke. 368 pages/photographs/€12.99 pb ISBN 978-1-84717-059-0/Rights available W Reading the Water A Life Spent Fishing Darryl Grimason TV presenter Darryl Grimason conveys the passion for fishing that has inspired him since boyhood. From angling for wild brown trout on Lough Corrib to the capture of a Giant Bluefin Tuna off Donegal, his enthusiasm for the subject is infectious. 224 pages/drawings/ISBN 978-0-86278-914-5 €19.95 hb/Rights available W
The Will to Win Seán Boylan with John Quinn The story of manager Seán Boylan who made Meath a potent force in Gaelic Football – winning four All-Ireland titles. 288 pages/photographs ISBN 978-1-84717-004-0 €24.95 hb Rights available W Hidden Soldier An Irish Legionnaire’s Wars from Bosnia to Iraq Padraig O’Keeffe with Ralph Riegel The extraordinary story of life and training in the French Foreign Legion, UN and NATO missions in Cambodia and Bosnia, and security work in the killing fields of Iraq and Haiti. 336 pages/photographs ISBN 978-1-84717-032-3/€9.99 pb Rights available W All Hell Will Break Loose Austin Currie The fascinating story of a veteran of Irish and Northern Irish politics. Currie gives a behindthe-scenes account of the people and events that changed the history of Northern Ireland, and how violence affected his own family. 464 pages/photographs/€22.99 hb ISBN 978-0-86278-815-5/Rights available W Joe Cahill A Life in the IRA Brendan Anderson A unique inside story from a lifelong member of the IRA, revealing the workings of this paramilitary organisation over the past sixty years. 432 pages/photographs ISBN 978-1-84717-101-6 €12.95 pb/Rights available W Rights sold CR • I • US/CAN Mother from Hell Two Brothers. A Sadistic Mother. A Childhood Destroyed Ken Doyle & Patrick Doyle with Nicola Pierce The harrowing tale of two brothers subjected to deprivation, beatings and humiliation at the hands of their own mother, which continued despite numerous official reports of abuse. 256 pages/ISBN 978-1-84717-143-6 €11.99 pb/Rights available W/Rights sold B/C & EUxIR (EL) An Irish Voice Niall O’Dowd The remarkable account of an Irish emigrant to the US who became a publisher, a leading advocate for immigration reform, played a pivotal role in the Northern Ireland peace process, and became known as ‘the authentic voice of the Irish in America’. 320 pages/photographs/€12.99 pb ISBN 978-1-84717-223-5 Rights available W Staying the Distance Ronnie Delany In 1956 Ronnie Delany won the gold medal in the 1500m Olympic final in Melbourne, setting a new Olympic record in the process. The life and career of one of Ireland’s best-loved sportsmen written in his own engaging style. 208 pages/photographs ISBN 978-1-84717-044-6/€14.95 pb ISBN 978-0-86278-975-6/€24.95 hb Rights available W Oliver St. John Gogarty Ulick O’Connor An insightful biography of one of Ireland’s most exuberent characters: the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in Ulysses, a senator, playwright, champion athlete and surgeon, Gogarty was called ‘one of the greatest lyric poets of the age’ by Yeats. 328 pages/photographs ISBN 978-0-86278-597-0 €19.99 pb/Rights available W Young Tigers and Mongrel Foxes A Life in Politics Paddy Harte A frank account by the former Fine Gael TD. Tells of Harte’s efforts to bring about peace in Northern Ireland, and his role in the creation of a memorial in Belgium to the Irish who died in World War l. 360 pages/photographs ISBN 978-0-86278-865-0/€24.95 hb Rights available W Enemy of the Empire Life as an International Undercover IRA Activist Eamon McGuire Eamon McGuire’s IRA activities forced him to go on the run, hiding in remote parts of Africa. Captured by the CIA, he spent several years in various prisons in South Africa, Ireland and the US. 312 pages/photographs/€11.95 pb ISBN 978-0-86278-909-1/Rights available W Holy Terrors Michael Clemenger Chilling, passionate and unflinching, this is the story of how one boy survived the terrors of Ireland’s notorious institutions and made a real life for himself. ‘Harrowing’ The Kingdom 424 pages/photographs ISBN 978-1-84717-187-0 €11.99 pb Rights available W/Rights sold B/C & EUxIR (EL) John Charles McQuaid Ruler of Catholic Ireland John Cooney An important and revealing biography of the enigmatic cleric whose iron rule influenced all aspects of life in Ireland for three decades. 576 pages/photographs ISBN 978-0-86278-811-7 €29.99 pb Rights available W/Rights sold US/CAN A9
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