Limerick Hurling Game of my Life

This is the Life is a book about the places the GAA comes from, the places it can take a person, and the things that make a local club worth fighting for.

Imagine if the everyday food you made at home, went from ordinary to extraordinary? By bringing restaurant know-how home, Mark's home cooking - as watched by hundreds of thousands on his hit RTE TV show - packs ordinary dishes so full of flavour, you just want to try them for yourself.

A Nation Is Born celebrates a formative period in the history of the Irish state: the fifteen years during which we emerged from the rubble of wars and violence and set up as a fledgling country while establishing a diplomatic presence on the world stage.