Irish Biography

HISTORY OF POLICING AND SECURITY IN IRELAND

Published late 2021. This volume contains 10 essays on Women in Ireland over a 135-year period.

Irishman Mark O'Brien became one of Derby County's youngest ever footballers when his life was turned upside down. Following heart surgery, Mark defied a bleak prognosis to enjoy a successful career, with Derby and Newport County.

An accessible book that places O'Casey in his context, the frontier between literature and politics

Keane: Origins charts Keane's journey from an economically-ravaged Cork to a spectacular three-season spell under Brian Clough at Nottingham Forest via a memorable stint on a government-funded training scheme and brief spell in the League of Ireland.

An inspiring and insightful memoir about the importance of holding on to hope - from Number One bestselling author Gareth O'Callaghan

A biography of Con Colbert, member of Na Fianna Eireann, the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Colbert commanded forces at Watkins' brewery and Jameson's distillery during the Easter Rising. He faced the firing squad at Kilmainham Gaol on 8 May 1916, aged twenty-seven.

In his own unique voice, Brendan O'Carroll strings together the threads of his life, a helter-skelter story tracing the helter-skelter journey of a scrawny kid from Finglas, Dublin to TV screens around the world, told with warmth, humour, a touch of mischievousness - and more than a few coincidences