Books Related to Ireland

Alice's garden is her refuge. Inherited from Uncle Jacky, she introduces the great variety of plants and objects she has gathered - everything, of course, with its own unique and fascinating story, brought to life by a master storyteller.

The Irish nana is a repository of family history, memory and lore. Alice celebrates her own nanas, part of the generation born after the Great Famine. She herself is now a nana too, and explores the old and the new, the 'then' and 'now', the nana of yesteryear and of today, with her characteristic empathy and love.

We all need to sit and rest from time to time. To think, ponder, hope, pray. In this lovely and thoughtful book, Alice invites the reader to share these moments of contemplation in their own time and in their own way.

Reading this collection reminded me once more of how significant and multi-faceted Jim Kemmy's legacy is.

Between 1864 and 1867 the author made many trips to Ireland. In this book, she offers an eye-witness account of her visits to the many Irish Catholic religious orders and their institutions: these include Magdalene homes, reform schools, lunatic asylums, orphanages, workhouses, infirmaries and schools.

On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, MI5's top-secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to Ireland.

Oíche Shamhna 1996 a tháinig TG4 ar an aer agus tá sé ag treabhadh leis ó shin, is cinnte go mbeidh an-tóir ar an leabhar seo. Halloween 1996 is when it all began for TG4 now 25 years later it’s still going strong.

The great English writer W.M.Thackeray visited Dublin in 1842 and this is what he found...