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.
Here is the story of Ireland's Civil War in colour for the first time. The events of 1922-1923 are revealed using photographs painstakingly hand-coloured by John O'Byrne. Many of these photographs have never been published before. They carry informative captions by Michael B. Barry, based on extensive historical research.
Bestselling author and psychologist Tony Bates has spent his career seeking to understand the lives of others. Here he turns his therapeutic eye on himself and describes the events and people in his own life that have made him the insightful thinker and teacher that he is today. He recalls traumatic events in his childhood that reverberated throughout his life and how, with therapy and time, he was eventually able to heal.
Now You’re Cooking! Recipe and Evaluation Handbook facilitates comprehensive preparation for the Junior Cycle Home Economics food literacy brief (CBA 2) and practical food skills examination.
Charles Stewart Parnell is the most enigmatic figure in Irish history. An Anglo-Irish landlord from a distinguished and long-established Wicklow family; he became the most unlikely leader of Irish nationalism imaginable. This is the first major biography of Parnell in 30 years.
Cliste! - a three-book series for 4th, 5th and 6th Class - takes a carefully scaffolded approach to equip pupils with the foundations of Irish grammar.