Irish Biography

As a POW of the Japanese for 42 months in Singapore and Japan between 1942 and 1945, the author’s father – Major Francis J. Murray – kept a secret diary in the form of love letters to the woman who was to become his wife. In 2017 his son Paul used this diary to follow in his father’s footsteps to both countries and, with the help of a guide and an interpreter, visited what remains of the six camps on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido where the men were imprisoned.

An inspiring solo road trip of discovery through the Americas.

A memoir like no other, passionate, intelligent and revealing of both the age and the individual.

Constance Markievicz, a woman with a huge heart, battled all her adult life to establish an Irish republic based on co-operation and equality for all. Her message is as relevant today as it was a century ago.

In 1960s Ireland there was a special place for disabled children: behind the walls of an institution, cut off from the rest of society. Martin Naughton was one of those children, but he refused to be sidelined. With the help of some unexpected characters, he began to change the way a generation of young disabled people saw themselves.

Filled with pathos and humour, Parcels in the Post is both a memoir of a loving household and snapshot of the fostering system in Ireland, from someone at the very heart of it all.

Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart of Ireland. They were looking for a home, somewhere to stay put. What followed was a year of many changes.

A lyrical and captivating meditation on nature, time and the meaning of home from the acclaimed author of Thin Places

A breathtaking mix of memoir, nature writing and history: this is Kerri ni Dochartaigh's story of a wild Ireland, an invisible border, an old conflict and the healing power of the natural world

Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize, this lyrical and captivating meditation on nature, time and the meaning of home is the second book from the acclaimed author of Thin Places

William "Willie" Pearse was a younger brother of Patrick Pearse, a leader of the Rising. He followed his brother into the Irish Volunteers and the Republican movement, taking part in the Easter Rising in 1916 at the General Post Office. Following the surrender he was court-martialled and sentenced to be shot. He was executed on the 4 May 1916.