Irish Biography

Professor Seamas O Cathain, former Director of the National Folklore Collection, writes of his schooling just north of the border in Tyrone: "I learned little or nothing about the island of Ireland, but could soon list by heart the rivers of England." To learn Irish, he crossed the border to the then unchanged Donegal Gaeltacht of "Na Cruacha".

The Shoemaker and His Daughter is an epic story spanning the Second World War to the fall of the Soviet Union, taking in eighty years of Soviet and Russian history, from Stalin to Putin.

"Enda O'Coineen's remarkable story of taking risk to the limit in his solo global navigation and also in business. Enda O'Coineen sails on a sea of obsession - guided on his voyages by the goals he sets for himself. When he failed at his first attempt to sail solo around the world due to a broken mast, his default mode was to honour his initial goal and succeed second time around. During four months at sea, the Irish entrepreneur used his battles against the elements to strengthen his belief that for every risk, there is potential for reward. The trick is knowing the balance both in adventure, in life and in work. In his one-man floating universe where he felt both free and shackled at the same time, it occurred to him that modern life has become more restraining on our basic freedoms. He also discovered that money creates rather than fills vacuums in life. This made Enda all the more determined to ensure that his 'Journey To the Edge' would fuel his desire ""to put something back into society."" Enda's book is therefore more than just a faithful recording of time and place; it is an exploration of the maze life puts before us from which we can learn and grow.

Cuimhní cinn / memoir.

The Personals reveals how classified ads are not just a few commercial lines of text in print or online - they can be a treasure trove of fascinating human stories; stories of love, loss, loneliness, redemption and hope.

Irish Working Lives is the story of the encounters – by turns candid and lyrical – that illuminate the ways in which these individuals perceive their chosen occupation, its day-to-day demands and the inextricable relationship between work life and spiritual life.

What does it mean to write about a killer? From an award-winning author comes a tale of a notorious double-murder, a political scandal, and a writer who found himself entangled in this strange, true story.

The remarkable story of Patrick O'Connell, the former Ireland and Manchester United captain who saved Barcelona from extinction died destitute in London, where he lies in an unmarked grave.