Irish Biography

Everything you will need for the perfect cycling holiday: detailed maps, accommodation, travel advice and all you need to know for an unforgettable trip. Taking a route from Belfast to Dublin through the most spectacular scenery and routes that Ireland has to offer.

Charles Stewart Parnell is the most enigmatic figure in Irish history. An Anglo-Irish landlord from a distinguished and long-established Wicklow family; he became the most unlikely leader of Irish nationalism imaginable. This is the first major biography of Parnell in 30 years.

The full story of Winston Churchill's lifelong engagement with Ireland and the Irish. A long overdue book which at last addresses the most neglected part of Churchill's legacy, on both sides of the Irish Sea.

Ireland's best-known artist celebrates her eightieth birthday with a refreshingly honest memoir of an extraordinary life. From growing up in County Kerry to becoming an internationally successful artist, Bewick remains an intregral part of Ireland's cultural legacy.

An important, enlightening, celebratory book about being who you are, not who you are expected to be and why that is key to maintaining your own identity.

A poignant and introspective memoir from Irish journalist and broadcaster Charlie Bird.

A poignant and introspective memoir from Irish journalist and broadcaster Charlie Bird.

SUNDAY TIMES 2014 LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR! The extraordinary and exhilarating story of James Joyce's 15-year battle to publish his masterpiece, Ulysses.

This is the gripping inside story of Sean Quinn, Ireland’s bankrupt billionaire, who went from rags to riches, then gambled his fortune on Anglo Irish Bank shares and became the world’s biggest personal loser of the economic collapse of 2008.

10... 9... 8... 7... 6... That's about as far as you get, counting backwards, as you wait for surgery to begin - and that's all most people know about what I do.