Irish Biography

Margaret Cousins, born in Boyle, Roscommon, in 1878 was co-founder if the Irish Women's Franchise League together with the Sheehy-Skeffingtons in 1908. She spent a month in Tullamore Jail for breaking the windows of Dublin Castle. She worked with Emmeline Pankhurst in England as well as bringing her to Cork and Derry amongst other places to speak on suffrage issues. She was airbrushed from Irish history when she and her husband James emigrated to India where she founded the All India Women's Conference and managed to achieve votes for women in India. Now is the time to bring her out of the shadows and restore her to her rightful place within the annals of Irish history.

Margaret Cousins, born in Boyle, Roscommon, in 1878 was co-founder if the Irish Women's Franchise League together with the Sheehy-Skeffingtons in 1908. She spent a month in Tullamore Jail for breaking the windows of Dublin Castle. She worked with Emmeline Pankhurst in England as well as bringing her to Cork and Derry amongst other places to speak on suffrage issues. She was airbrushed from Irish history when she and her husband James emigrated to India where she founded the All India Women's Conference and managed to achieve votes for women in India. Now is the time to bring her out of the shadows and restore her to her rightful place within the annals of Irish history.

This revised edition of Victor Bewley’s Memoirs, which includes a new foreword, gives a frank account of his life, revealing why in 1972 he and his brothers handed over Bewley’s cafés to the staff, what drove him to dedicate great time and energy to improving the lives of many, why he described parts of his life as ‘undiluted hell’ and how he ended up carrying secret messages from the IRA to the British government.

The remarkable stories of Winifred Carney, James Connolly's secretary, and George McBride, a staunch unionist, and how they fell in love.

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Ireland in the aftermath of Cromwell - during this period Catholicism and nationalism became linked and priests were outlawed. The Priest Hunters shines a light on four of the men who hunted them: Sean na Sagart, Edward Tyrrell, Barry Lowe and John Garzia, the most hated men in Ireland.

For 23 years, Declan has been unable to tell his story, to bring to words existence on the frontier between life and death, to describe the incredible bond between man and horse. But now, in an extraordinary collaboration with Ami Rao, she has helped him find those words, a way to piece together what happened before, during and after, what it all meant and what it means to us all. It is a story of triumph, fear, love and loss, by turns primal, heartbreaking and inspirational, and ultimately, it is the story of hope, and of life.