Orpen Press

As an adoptive mother, Mari Gallagher charts her personal experience of intercountry adoption in Russia and Kazakhstan, also a journey of personal growth, introspection, and reflection, in "Becoming a Mother". With a mix of personal insight, views and theories from psychologists, authors, adoptive parents and adoptees, both in Ireland and abroad.

This book is directed at everyone who has chosen to live on this island and who wishes to join us of our long rocky road toward diversity and a better life for all.

Local Heroes: A Celebra.on of Sligo Sport features more than sixty essays across 15 separate sports, illuminatng a vast array of events, personalises and glorious victories which have punctuated the county’s rich sportng history. With a foreword by former RTE journalist and Sligo natve Tommie Gorman, the book casts a new spotlight on the county’s big occasions at iconic venues, but there’s also a deep dive into the local cauldron of sportng actvity, highlightng events and characters who could only be found in a dedicated Sligo book.

Compelling and insightful, and illustrated with photographs from the campaign, It s a Yes! is for anyone interested in learning more about the campaign behind the most seismic shift in Irish society in the past three-and-a-half decades.

When you are going through separation or divorce it can often feel like there is no way through the pain and conflict. No small light twinkling at the end of the tunnel. Part personal story, part expert guide, Untying the Knot takes you through the process of separation as both parents and friends. From the very first days of unfathomable heartache, through telling the children, what to do with the family home and dealing with conflicts, to finding yourself, coming out the other side and much more.

The Irish Lights were for many years seen as a benign organisation, just going about their duties of providing aids to marine navigation. As the lightkeepers were made redundant and are fading away, a new interest has emerged about their hermetic and sometimes dangerous lifestyle. This has been awakened by the new documentaries which have just been shown on RTE.