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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 7 books in this booklist
£10.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9780241994320 | ISBN 10: 0241994322
'A captivating account of lives previously ignored' Sunday Independent 'An important, impeccably researched though eminently readable book that charts new territory' Irish Examiner Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth cen ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781780277158 | ISBN 10: 1780277156
In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O'Malley, daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She soon had a fleet of galleys under her commander, but her three decades of plunderi ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241984123 | ISBN 10: 0241984122
Until alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting in concert with the Irish state, operated a network of institutions for the concealment, punishment and exploitation of 'fallen women'. In the Magdalene laundries, girls and women were incarcer ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781783525164 | ISBN 10: 1783525169
Abortion is illegal in almost every circumstance in Ireland, making it the only democracy in the western world to have such a constitutional ban. This anthology, a national bestseller, is the definitive collection of the writing and art inspired by t ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780600116 | ISBN 10: 1780600119
At the height of The Troubles, Dervla Murphy bicycled to Northern Ireland to try to understand the situation by speaking to people on either side of the divide. She also sought to interrogate her own opinions and emotions. As an Irishwoman and travel ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781906011475 | ISBN 10: 1906011478
Over the summer of 2011, in her eightieth year, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Used to western reporters dashing in and out of the Strip in times of crisis, th ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780340993484 | ISBN 10: 0340993480
Since she rose to international fame in 1985 with her seminal Irish jazz album Tired and Emotional, Mary Coughlan's battles with addiction, the problems in her personal life and career have been well documented. But until now she has never spoken of ... more
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