Irish Biography

Part memoir, part documentary written by a founding member of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement (IWLM)

A memoir of childhood, school, and growing up in Ireland in the 1950's and 1960's, with some dramatic discoveries along the way. Things look different looking back, when you know the story.

Growing up in Findlater Street, Glasthule. Martin Swords is a Poet and Short Story writer. He is also a freelance Tour Guide in the beautiful valley of Glendalough in the heart of The Wicklow Mountains in County Wicklow in Ireland. He is a long standing member of Wicklow Writers Group in Wicklow Town, a group of writers who like to write, learn, and talk about writing ( too much talking! ).

Features revealing interviews with Francis Bacon that was conducted over a period of 25 years by a distinguished art critic. In this book, Bacon considers the problems of realism, sheds new light on aspects of his life, talks about his aims as a painter and ways in which he works.

Records the author's visits to the Aran Islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged "The Playboy of the Western World" and his other major dramas.

Clash Of The Clans is a story that traces the emergence of the Irish mafia from the streets of Dublin to the highest echelons of global organised crime and right into the heart of professional boxing.

Written as a challenge to Christian churches' rigid focus on doctrine and practice, Rainbows & Windmills offers an introduction to personal spirituality.

Some people are home alone by choice, while others, like Alice, journeyed into it through a change of circumstances. Alice discovers the challenges and pleasures of living alone.

Alice Taylor takes a journey back to the 1940s and 1950s in rural Ireland through the well-used schoolbooks that she has kept from that time. Poetry, legends, stories and history evoke a way of life, and pace of life, that's long changed.

Infused with wit and lyricism, this memoir centres on the 1950's when the author and her friends were teenagers. She describes the past vividly and without complaint as the years of hard labour for herself, parents and siblings, were also filled with fun in the close knit community.

Join Alice Taylor this Christmas as she welcomes us into her home and shows us the traditions of her family's Christmas. Alice looks back over her past Christmases and prepares for this Christmas.