Irish Biography

Bernie Nolan's heartbreaking story of her battle against incurable cancer.

Since bursting into the spotlight aged nine, Coleen Nolan has experienced more highs and lows than most people have had hot dinners. Now she's ready to share the lessons she's learned along the way. From the good, the bad and the ugly (otherwise known as love and marriage) to career tips, lifestyle hacks and motherhood, Coleen covers everything you need to know.

In From My Heart, Linda writes honestly about growing up in her big Irish family and finding fame with her sisters in The Nolans and reveals the shocking family secrets and feuds that threatened to tear them apart. She also describes her original battle with breast cancer and how the death of her husband left her deeply depressed, to the point of feeling suicidal. Just as she’d learned to embrace life again, and even to start dating, the cancer came back . . .

In these pages, David Norris reveals for the first time the full, no-holds-barred story of his presidential campaign, and of how he recovered from the turmoil.A Kick Against the Pricks is a brilliant, deeply revealing autobiography, a remarkable journey from the margins to the centre of Irish society.

Nano Nagle: The Life and the Legacy throws opens a new window on an unknown aspect of Irish social history, while also demonstrating Ireland’s significant contribution to the global history of female education.

A biography of Sean O Riordain detailing his difficult life and his journey to becoming a pre-eminent Irish-language poet.

THE INSPIRATIONAL recordings of the Ballyvourney singer Elizabeth “Bess” Cronin (1879-1956) are combined together with an exhaustive collection of her words and music in this beautiful large format book.

Seosamh Ó Cuinneagáin’s account of the work of charitable organisations in India and internationally to help those in poverty.