O'Brien Press Ltd

Do you know everything you need to know about the Irish? Well, this book gives you the A-Z of everything Irish and is filled to brim with fun and humour! This quirky Irish book is a must have for the Irish here, and abroad, as well as the perfect guide to the Irish for tourists.

What has Ireland really been talking about for the last forty years? Those iconic moments, controversies and unexpected fads that we just could not get enough of. From the team that brought you The A to Z of Being Irish and A-Z of an Irish Christmas, this is Irish culture with a light touch and lashings and lashings of rose-tinted nostalgia.

Everything you don't want foreigners to know about how we celebrate Christmas in Ireland. We can't be doing with Calling Birds, French Hens or Partridges in Pear Trees: but if it's Annuals, The Dinner, The Big Shop or The Wexford Carol you're looking for, you've come to the right book!

With a * click, clap, zap * the boring turns spectacular and anything is possible with a little imagination.

Dublin and the Viking World is a unique blend of the familiar and the unfamiliar, the broad generalisation and the rarefied detail, the well-known historical character and the ordinary Dubliner.

Dublin: The Making of a Medieval City is the story of a unique period in Irish history told with passion, imagination and accuracy.

A compelling and genuine first hand account of an activist during the most exciting and turbulent period of Irish history - the only first person account of 1916 ever published.

Everyone has their secrets, and they all lead back to Hyacinth House ...

The Lansdowne Road stadium was at the heart of so much of Irish sport for over a century -- from athletics to rugby and soccer it has seen the hopes of a nation raised and dashed: as well as the esctacy of victory! This lavishly-illustrated history covers it all, right up to the new Aviva stadium.

You may know all about the Easter Rising and the Good Friday Agreement, but did you know that the hypodermic needle was invented in Tallaght? Or that Dublin was the first city in the world to have a woman stockbroker, decades before London or New York? With one anniversary for each day of the year, discover the moments that make us who we are.

A vibrant miscellany of Irish life with an event for every day of the year, both recent - divorce, same-sex marriage & abortion referendums and Riverdance - and historical: the battles in Clontarf and the Boyne, Annie Moore's arrival on Ellis Island, and reading the Proclamation on Easter Monday, 1916.