Irish Biography

Why did they call Glenn Gannon the ‘miracle man’? Because, unlike most of his contemporaries, Glenn survived an avalanche of adversity in a rollercoaster life and emerged to become a playwright, composer and actor on the silver screen. This amazing memoir, a cocktail of human horror laced with humour, sees Glenn eventually triumph against all the odds. It is a modern parable for the marginalised, a story full of hope, spirit and compassion told in a beautiful lyrical style.

A young Listowel girl who happens to impress the world famous industrialist JP Morgan, with her cooking skills, while working in a hotel in Waterville, County Kerry, has her life transformed. Kathy Buckley travels to America to cook for Morgan and many other high powered families, before reaching the high point of her culinary career when she became the cook for three Presidents in the White House.

A first-person saga, recounting one man's life but relating the experience of many. Mike Carney, the oldest living native Blasket Islander, left in 1937 to seek a better future in Dublin and eventually America. This memoir is the last of a long line of books written by Blasket Islanders, incl Tomas O'Crohan, Micheal O'Sulleabhain and Peig Sayers.

In the wake of the EU referendum, the United Kingdom's border with Ireland has gained greater significance: it is set to become the frontier with the European Union. To uncover its secret landscape, with a troubled past and an uncertain future, Garrett Carr travelled Ireland's border on foot and by canoe.

Presents a collection of biographic stories of women in agriculture, suited to a rural and female audience. This book is a legacy from the IFA Equality Project, but more importantly it allows these 18 remarkable women to each tell her own story and share the trial and tribulations of living and working in rural Ireland, in 2005.

From 1940 to 1954, The Bell was notable as an outspoken liberal voice at a time of political and intellectual stagnation. While primarily a literary magazine, it is now mostly discussed in the context of its hard political criticism. Carson has unearthed a wealth of sources to put The Bell in its social as well as literary contexts. -- .

Do you know everything you need to know about the Irish? Well, this book gives you the A-Z of everything Irish and is filled to brim with fun and humour! This quirky Irish book is a must have for the Irish here, and abroad, as well as the perfect guide to the Irish for tourists.

The compelling and searingly honest autobiography of one of Gaelic football's all-time greats.

On July 29, 2013, Kathleen Chada's husband, Sanjeev brutally murdered their two sons, Eoghan (10) and Ruairi (5). The boys had been taken from their family home in Carlow. Kathleen waited, and searched, for almost 24 hours before her husband phoned her and told her, 'The boys are dead'. Now Kathleen has written the story of Eoghan and Ruairi. Everything is a beautiful though painful celebration of their young lives, but it is also a powerful and rewarding story of how a mother has attempted to build her life back into one piece after the devastation of their deaths.