CONTENTS Introduction
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Literature and Fiction
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Children’s
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History
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Biography and Memoir
36
Sport
40
Business
42
Politics and Current Affairs 43 Humour
45
Food and Drink
48
MBS/Religion
50
Irish Interest
52
Rights Highlights
56
Index
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INTRODUCTION Welcome to another year of great new titles from Mercier Press. 2008 was an exciting year for us, with the successful launch of new Irish authors in both fiction and non-fiction, and as we look to 2009 we are delighted to offer innovative new titles across a broad range of subjects.
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
David McCullough, Pulitzer Prizewinner
Our history can teach us so much about ourselves, where we have come from and how we came to be the nation we are today. It is our mission at Mercier to ensure that Irish history is presented to the contemporary reader from all perspectives and in all guises, in an accessible and engaging manner. For example The Curious Case of the Mayo Librarian by Pat Walsh illustrates the nature of social conflict and the relationship between church and state in 1930s Ireland, while Pearse Lawlor’s The Burnings describes how the killing of Tomás MacCurtain in Cork in 1920 led to three months of sectarian riots and burnings in Counties Down and Antrim. Liam & John Nolan’s Secret Victory is an account of the forgotten history of Ireland’s vital role in an event that shaped the world, the First World War. We continue to develop our children’s list, firm in the belief that strong children’s publishing is vital to Irish kids’ experience of childhood and nurtures a love of books and reading that will be taken into adulthood. In a quirky take on the traditional fairytale format, S. E. Connolly’s Damsel takes the young reader away to a fantasy world where happily ever after doesn’t necessarily include a handsome prince and the Damsel does the rescuing rather than languishing in a state of distress! Penny in Space sees the fifth instalment in the hugely popular Penny the Pencil series by Eileen O’Hely, but this time our heroine finds herself doing battle with her arch rival in outer space … In a new addition to our extensive list of Irish fiction authors, we are very excited to introduce Gemma Mawdsley’s The Pauper’s Graveyard, a thriller with a supernatural dimension which also describes the tragedy of the famine in Ireland in the nineteenth century. A must read. This is just a snapshot of our great new titles and further information on all new titles for 2009 can be found in the following pages or on our website, www.mercierpress.ie. Our website is the most up to date resource for finding information about our titles, stocklists, contact details and general information.
Clodagh Feehan Managing Director
Literature and Fiction The Paupers’ Graveyard
In Too Deep
Gemma Mawdsley
and other short stories
978 1 85635 617 6
Billy O’Callaghan
PB – All rights except US
978 1 85635 633 6
B format
PB – All rights available
€10.99
Publication date: March 2009
B format
Just when you think there is nothing new in the world of the suspense novel, along comes The Paupers’ Graveyard. Brilliantly written and scary as hell.
Publication date: June 2009
Despite the horror of famine and the oppression of a people, friendship blossoms in the unlikeliest of places. Amidst the squalor of the workhouse, a fugitive lady of the manor and a young farm labourer rescue orphaned local children, and do their best to give them a home and save them from the fate of the pauper’s graveyard. More than 150 years later, the new houses at Hillcrest should have been every couple’s dream home, but they are built on tainted ground. When the earthmovers disturb the bones of the famine dead during construction, the resurrection of the malevolence and evil buried among the unmarked, overgrown graves results in a series of inexplicable but very real tragedies for the new homeowners. The Paupers’ Graveyard is a bone-chilling debut novel, full of suspense as the legacy of the Great Famine collides with modern Ireland and the ‘dream homes’ become the stuff of nightmares.
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€14.99
I read and re-read, on and on until the darkness settled thick enough around me that I could no longer see the large-printed words on the gaudily illustrated pages, and then I clambered from the attic and threw myself into the story again while seated beside the fire. The wind carved elegiac plunder in the chimney and every banshee wail exploded awake a freshly forgotten colour in my mind. Children see the world in different lights, the brilliance of which is far too easily given up. This time, discovering them anew, I held fast and determined that I’d never again let go. With its stories of lost love and shared secrets, tender moments and little victories, In Too Deep is a wonderful follow-up to Billy’s bestselling collection In Exile.
NEW TITLES Sive John B. Keane With introduction and commentary by Joanna Keane O’Flynn 978 1 85635 651 0 PB – All rights available B Format
Literature and Fiction Short Stories of John B. Keane John B. Keane 978 1 85635 344 1 PB – All rights except US B Format
€10.99
€9.99
Publication date: May 2009 Sive is a young and beautiful orphan who lives with her uncle Mike, his wife Mena and his mother Nanna. A local matchmaker, Thomasheen Seán Rua, wants Sive to marry an old man called Seán Dóta. Thomasheen convinces Mike and Mena to organise the marriage. They will receive a sum of two hundred pounds as soon as she marries him. However, Sive is in love with a young man, Liam Scuab. But Liam is not suitable and is refused permission to marry Sive. Sive is distraught, but is forced to do the will of her uncle and his bitter wife. Faced with an unthinkable future she takes the only choice left to her. Set against the harsh poverty and difficult times of 1950s Ireland, Sive caused considerable controversy on its debut in February 1959. Since then it has become an established part of Ireland’s theatrical canon.
There are more shades to John B. Keane’s humour than there are colours in the rainbow. Compassion, shrewdness and a glorious sense of fun and roguery are evident in this collection, which brings together John B. Keane’s short stories. Included are gems such as ‘The Hanging’, a tale of accusation by silence in a small village, which shows both the comic and tragic effects of small-town gossip, and ‘Guaranteed Pure’, which concerns the innocence of bachelor Willie Ramley who is seeking an unsullied bride in Ireland. Keen but never unkind, the attention of Ireland’s best-loved writer falls on human vanities and frailties of all kinds. Listowel man John B. Keane was an Irish literary legend: dramatist, novelist, raconteur and wit, his numerous works continue to delight his reading public.
RECOMMEND ED BACKLIST
Literature and Fiction An Béal Bocht
J. M. Synge’s Aran Islands and Connemara
Myles Na gCopaleen
J. M. Synge
978 1 85635 284 0 PB – Irish rights only
€9.99
978 1 85635 599 5
Brilliant satire on the Gaeltacht and lugubrious Gaeltacht memories.
PB – All rights available
Best of John B. Keane, The
Poems from the Irish
John B. Keane
Gabriel Fitzmaurice
978 1 85635 265 9 PB – All rights except US
€12.99
A classic of Irish travel writing in a beautiful new edition.
978 1 86023 156 8 €16.95
PB – No rights available
€12.99
This collection represents the experience of a funny, witty, wise and passionate observer of the bright tapestry of Irish life.
Old favourites and cutting-edge contemporary poems sit easily together in this collection of Irish poetry from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Illustrated Favourite Poems We Learned in School
Superchick
Thomas F. Walsh PB – No rights available
Stephen J. Martin 978 1 85635 464 6
978 1 85635 241 3 €14.99
All those half-remembered verses of childhood days illustrated with a selection of charming old photographs.
ESSENTIAL BACKLIST
PB – All rights available except Australia €9.99 Jimmy Collins’ hilarious quest for the mythical babe who’s got it all.
Literature and Fiction
BACKLIST Clifford, Sigerson / Ballads of a Bogman
Farrell, Bernard / Kevin’s Bed
Fitzmaurice, Gabriel / I and the Village
978 1 85635 010 5 / PB / All rights available / €8.88 The author displays a true gift for ballad poetry in this charming collection.
978 1 85635 286 4 / PB / English language rights only / €11.41 Commissioned by the Abbey Theatre, this is Bernard Farrell’s play of nostalgia, expectations and broken dreams.
978 1 86023 149 0 / PB / All rights available / €9.95 An outstanding collection of poetry drawing inspiration from folklore and ballad-singing.
Clifford, Sigerson / Irish Short Stories 978 0 85342 882 4 / PB / All rights available / €9.99 A fine collection of classic tales of Irish country life.
Farrell, Bernard / All the Way Back 978 0 90796 099 7 / PB / English language rights only / €7.61 A classic comedy of survival in suburbia.
Farrell, Bernard / Canaries 978 1 87322 365 9 / PB / English language rights only / €7.61 A hilarious comedy about Tommy, Marie and Marie’s father on holiday in the Canary Islands.
Farrell, Bernard / Forty-Four Sycamore, Last Apache Reunion 978 1 85635 124 9 / PB / English language rights only / €10.15 For the first time in print two plays by one of Ireland’s leading dramatists.
Farrell, Bernard / Happy Birthday, Stella by Starlight 978 1 85635 180 5 / PB / English language rights only / €14.95 Two plays about two very different women.
Farrell, Bernard / I Do Not Like Thee, All in Favour! 978 1 85635 227 7 / PB / English language rights only / €12.68 Two outstanding plays from one of Ireland’s leading dramatists.
Farrell, Bernard / Lovers at Versailles, Spirit of Annie Ross 978 1 85635 390 8 / PB / English lang. rights only / €12.95
Farrell, Bernard / Many Happy Returns 978 1 85635 525 4 / PB / English lang. rights only / €12.99 A Christmas comedy from the acclaimed playwright Bernard Farrell.
Farrell, Bernard / Say Cheese 978 1 87322 331 4 / PB / English language rights only / €7.61 A satiric swipe at contemporary Irish life, letting us into the murky secrets which surround the man and his wife who have been selected ‘Ireland’s Happiest Couple’.
Farrell, John / Wormdigger’s Daughter, The 978 1 85635 574 2 / PB / All rights available / €10.99 The story follows the desperate struggle of a couple labouring on one of the estates owned by the landed aristocracy in Ireland to protect their daughter.
Fitzmaurice, Gabriel / Boghole Boys, The 978 1 86023 158 2 / PB / All rights available / €12.95 Lyricism, humour, simplicity and pure beauty in this wonderful collection.
Fitzmaurice, Gabriel / Essential Gabriel Fitzmaurice 978 185635 592 6 / HB / All rights available / €14.99 A collection of the best works of one of Ireland’s greatest living poets. Beautifully illustrated gift hardback.
Keane, John B. / Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane 978 1 85635 156 0 / PB / All rights available / €16.95 Collection of letters from the country’s favourite Kerryman.
Keane, John B. / Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane. Vol. 2 978 1 85635 297 0 / PB / All rights available / €16.95
Literature and Fiction Keane, John B. / Chastitute, The
Keane, John B. / Street, The
978 0 85342 643 1 / PB / All rights available / €7.61 This play tells of one man’s many endeavours to find a mate and the end result.
978 1 85635 415 8 / PB / All rights available / €9.95 A collection of many well-known John B. Keane poems and, for the first time, his songs, selected by his daughter Joanna.
Keane, John B. / Contractors, The
Keane, John B. / Three Plays: The Year of the Hiker, The Change in Mame Fadden, The Highest House on the Mountain
978 1 85635 058 7 / PB / All rights available / €10.95 John B. Keane captures the turbulent, bawdy, anarchic life of Irish contractors as they try to make it big in England.
Keane, John B. / Durango 978 1 85635 001 3 / PB / All rights available / €12.99 A hilarious adventure story about life in rural Ireland during the Second World War.
Keane, John B. / Three Plays: The Field, Sive, Big Maggie
Keane, John B. / Field, The
Keane, John B. / Three Plays: Many Young Men of Twenty/Moll/The Chastitute
978 0 85342 976 0 / PB / All rights available / €7.99 A fascinating play about a man’s greed for land.
978 0 85342 907 4 / PB / All rights available / €16.99
A celebration of the unexpected in poetry, a collection of anarchic, irreverent and unsettling pieces from the best contemporary writers.
MacMonagle, Niall / Slow Time 978 1 86023 130 8 / HB / No rights available / €12.99 A collection of poems to aid relaxation and meditation.
MacNamara, Brinsley / Valley of the Squinting Window 978 0 94796 201 2 / PB / All rights available / €14.00 The controversial novel of small town Irish life that was banned on first publication and led to the author’s family being ostracised from their community.
978 1 85635 264 2 / PB / All rights available / €12.68
Keane, John B. / High Meadow
Kennelly, Brendan / Moloney Up and At It
978 1 85635 090 7 / PB / All rights available / €10.99 A novel depicting the turbulent relationships in a small rural community.
978 1 85635 129 4 / PB / All rights available / €8.88 A collection of comic poems with a central character, Moloney, who tells of his experiences of, for the most part, sex and death.
Keane, John B. / Little Book of John B. Keane
Kennelly, Paddy / Disciples
978 1 85635 321 2 / PB / All rights available / €6.34 The best and most humorous lines in all of John B. Keane’s writings, selected by himself and presented in this convenient small format.
978 1 86023 159 9 / PB / All rights available / €12.95 Humorous novel in verse.
Keane, John B. / Sharon’s Grave
978 1 85635 365 6 / PB / All rights available / €14.99 Three classic plays in one volume.
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Kennelly, Paddy / Place Too Small for Secrets, A
Martin, Stephen J. / Ride On
978 1 89817 502 5 / PB / All rights available / €7.99 This play deals with a man’s ruthless lust for land.
978 1 86023 146 9 / PB / All rights available / €9.95 This comic novel tells the story of the village of Knockore in a series of short poems.
978 1 85635 529 2 / PB / All rights available / €9.99 Jimmy’s has writer’s block, an absent bass player and a disastrous love life ... and now it looks like his drummer has gotten on the wrong side of a stalker.
Keane, John B. / Sive
MacMonagle, Niall / Off the Wall
978 1 89817 500 1 / PB / All rights available / €7.99
Martin, Stephen J. / Rock and a Hard Place
978 1 86023 151 3 / PB / No rights available / €12.95
978 1 85635 549 0 / PB / All rights available / €9.99
Literature and Fiction
BACKLIST Being a rock star was all Jimmy ever wanted, but it was supposed to happen when he was seventeen, not in his thirties. Now it’s happening and Jimmy doesn’t know what to do.
power to touch the heart with its story of the blighting of young love.
Merriman, Brian & Power, Patrick C. (translator) / Midnight Court (bilingual)
978 0 85342 448 2 / PB / All rights available / €7.61 This collection of short stories displays the rich poetical language of the Gaeltacht and the life of the people who lived there.
978 1 85635 280 2 / PB / All rights available / €9.99 Lively and faithful version of Merriman’s classic.
Neeson, Eoin / An Táin 978 0 95337 887 6 / HB / All rights available / €25.00
Neeson, Eoin / An Táin 978 0 95337 886 9 / PB / All rights available / €17.99 The complete narrative of the immortal epic from Ireland’s great literary heritage is fully fleshed out as an historical novel.
Ó Grianna, Séamus / Cith is Dealán
Ó Scannláin, Séamas (ed.) / Poets and Poetry of the Great Blasket
978 1 85635 598 8 / PB / All rights available / €12.99 A collection of short stories from the pen of one of Ireland’s most talented emerging writers.
Pearse, Pádraic & Maguire, Desmond (translator) / Short Stories of Pádraic Pearse (bilingual)
O’Donnell, Peadar / Islanders 978 1 85635 472 1 / PB / All rights except Irish and Polish language / €9.99 A powerful novel of life in a small island community.
Ó Grianna, Séamus / Caisleáin Óir 978 1 85635 278 9 / PB / All rights available / €12.99 Though it is more than seventy years since it was first written, Caisleáin Óir, Séamus Ó Grianna’s best-known novel, still has the
Tracey, Monica / Unweaving the Thread 978 1 86023 140 7 / PB / All rights except Poland / €12.95 A gripping account of family and personal life – searing yet often funny.
Ó Tuairisc, Eoghan / L’Attaque
O’Callaghan, Billy / In Exile – Short Stories
978 1 85635 283 3 / PB / All rights available / €10.99 These eight stories are among the most remarkable of the whole Gaelic Revival.
978 0 85342 406 2 / PB / All rights available / €5.99 Synge’s masterpiece about a father, a son, a woman in love and a tragedy.
978 1 85635 416 5 / PB / All rights available / €9.95 Presented in English and Irish, these classic works paint a picture of a way of life that has almost disappeared from Ireland.
978 0 85342 545 8 / PB / All rights except Czech Republic / €10.99 Charts the effect of revolutionary fighting on peasant life.
Ó Conaire, Pádraic / An Chéad Chloch
Synge, J. M. / Playboy of the Western World, The
978 0 85342 883 1 / PB / All rights available / €8.99 Five stories demonstrating Pearse’s deep compassion for the Irish people of his time.
Rice, David / Pompeii Syndrome, The 978 1 85635 534 6 / PB / All rights except Italy / €8.99 Three people thrown together by a common fear, desperate to expose a terrorist plot that could lead to global disaster.
Showers, Brian J. / Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories, The 978 1 85635 578 0 / HB / All rights available / €14.99 Brian Showers’ The Bleeding Horse and other Ghost Stories infests his own Dublin neighbourhood with an authentic population of ghosts, ghouls and goblins.
Walsh, Thomas F. / Favourite Poems We Learned in School 978 1 85635 051 8 / PB / No rights available / €9.99 A collection of over eighty poems – all those half-remembered verses of childhood days.
Walsh, Thomas F. / Favourite Poems We Learned in School as Gaeilge 978 1 85635 106 5 / PB / All rights available / €12.99 Favourite Poems in the Irish language.
Walsh, Thomas F. / More Favourite Poems We Learned in School 978 1 85635 087 7 / PB / No rights available / €9.99 A further collection of the poems we all learned in school.
Children’s G.F. Woz Ere Gabriel Fitzmaurice Illustrated by Stella Macdonald 978 1 85635 622 0 PB – All rights available 180 x 135mm
€7.99
Children’s Gift Publication date: February 2009 From the author of Really Rotten Rhymes comes a new collection of poems for older children facing the challenges of growing up.
LET THEM LAUGH They laugh at me because I try To show up good at school, They laugh at me because I try (They think it isn’t cool); They laugh at me because I try To do the best I can But let them scoff, I’ll have the laugh When I grow up a man.
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Children’s
Damsel S. E. Connolly 978 1 85635 618 3 PB – No rights available B format
€8.99
Children aged 8-12 Publication date: March 2009
‘But I thought you were a hero!’ said Roger. ‘Well I’m not,’ said Annie, ‘there were no heroes available.’ ‘So you’re just a girl,’ said Roger. ‘Just a girl who saved YOU from a giant spider,’ snapped Annie. Can a damsel ever be the one to do the rescuing? Annie Brave thinks so. Her father, one of the most famous heroes of them all, is missing, presumed eaten. With no heroes available to rescue him from the evil wizard Greenlott, Annie sets off on a rescue mission. Teaming up with Roger of Rockfield, an honourable liar, she embarks on a series of adventures which are far from traditional. From the perils of fighting dragons or dealing with the amorous advances of a prince frog (not to be confused with a frog prince) every incident leads them further into adventure they never expected.
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Children’s Colm and the Lazarus Key Kieran Mark Crowley 978 1 85635 646 6 PB – All rights available B format
€8.99
Children aged 8-12 Publication date: June 2009 Colm thinks that spending a fortnight with his cousin – The Brute – is the worst thing that can happen to him this summer. He’s about to find out he’s wrong. While driving The Brute home, Colm and his parents stop for the night at a quiet old hotel. When strange things begin to happen, Colm finds himself in the middle of an adventure. Colm and The Brute must overcome their dislike of each other and work together if they’re going to find Colm’s parents and solve the mystery of the Lazarus Key.
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Children’s
Penny in Space Eileen O’Hely Illustrated by Nicky Phelan 978 1 85635 571 1 PB – All rights available B format
€8.99
Children aged 5-8 Publication date: June 2009 The fifth book in the enormously popular Penny the Pencil series sees our heroine on a new adventure that’s out of this world. It’s space week at Ralph’s school and with the chance to attend a space camp and build a real test rocket up for grabs, rivalry reaches fever pitch. With the help of Gloop, space-pen Sputnik (the new arrival in the pencil case) and all the other pencils, Penny is stretched to the limit to prevent her arch enemy Black Texta destroying Ralph’s chances. But even if they succeed, can Penny keep Ralph on course through space camp and just how far will Black Texta go?
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ESSENTIAL BACKLIST
Annie Moore: First in Line for America Eithne Loughrey
PB – All rights except Korea €8.99 €7.99
Children aged 5-8
Children aged 8-12
First in the series of the adventures of Penny the Pencil.
Fictionalised account of the story of the young Irish girl who was the first immigrant to land on Ellis Island, New York.
Really Rotten Rhymes
Irish Leprechaun Stories
Gabriel Fitzmaurice
Bairbre McCarthy
978 1 85635 544 5
978 1 85635 229 1
PB – All rights available
PB – All rights except Czech Republic €7.99
Children aged 5-8
Children aged 8-12
Naughty but nice rhymes on everything from puke to pooh, from knickers to spiders, and beyond.
This collection of ten stories sheds light on the mischievous figure known as the leprechaun.
Irish Tales of Mystery and Magic Eddie Lenihan HB – All rights available
€7.99
Tír na nÓg – A New Adventure William Henry 978 1 85635 597 1
978 1 85635 519 3
PB – All rights available €20.00
Children’s Gift Beautifully illustrated collection of strange and enchanting Irish tales.
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Eileen O’Hely 978 1 85635 475 2
978 1 85635 245 1 PB – All rights available
Penny the Pencil
€14.99
Children’s Gift Illustrated adventure story about a visit to a magical island which appears at a certain time, on a certain day, every seven years.
Children’s
BACKLIST Gift Books
Farrell, Liam / True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The
Fitzmaurice, Gabriel / I’m Proud to be Me!
978 1 90173 735 6 / PB / All rights available / €5.50 How Thomas Blake-Burke Wolfe was framed by the three little pigs.
978 1 85635 474 5 / PB / All rights available / €7.99 A collection of poems which provides great insights into the minds of children.
Fitzmaurice, Gabriel & Rosenstock, Gabriel / Rhino’s Specs, The / Spéaclaí an tSrónbheannaigh 978 1 85635 382 3 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 Funny and charming fully illustrated selection of Irish poems for children, wittily translated.
Reddin, Brian / What do Rabbits Think and other Fun Poems for Kids
Farrell, Liam / Trial of the Big Bad Wolf, The 978 1 90173 740 0 / PB / All rights available / €5.50 Big Bad Wolf versus the Three Little Pigs. Willie the Weasel and Sly Fox battle it out before Judge ‘Necessity’ Boar.
Farrell, Liam / Return of the Big Bad Wolf
O’Hely, Eileen / Penny the Athlete 978 1 85635 570 4 / PB / All rights except Korea / €8.99 Penny must sacrifice her dreams of Pencilympic glory to defeat her old enemy.
O’Hely, Eileen / Penny the Star 978 1 85635 542 1 / PB / All rights except Korea / €8.99 Third in the Penny the Pencil series, the first of which was a Children’s Books Ireland/Bisto Award 2006 Honour Award winner.
Moore, Tessa / A Horse called Harry
978 1 90173 748 6 / PB / All rights available / €5.50 Further adventures of the misrepresented Mr T.B.B. Wolfe.
978 1 90173 755 4 / PB / All rights available / €5.99 Another adventure from the author of Dad and the Mad Cow Roundabout.
Harrison, Cora / Two Mad Dogs
Moore, Tessa / Dad & the Mad Cow Roundabout
978 1 85635 517 9 / PB / All rights available / €9.99 Naughty, nonsense and fun poems for kids. From the serious to the surreal, these poems will make you smile!
978 1 90173 744 8 / PB / All rights available / €5.50 Dad says Tim’s new pups are mad. How do they win him round?
978 1 90173 754 7 / PB / All rights available / €5.50 A fun story set in a very familiar Ireland.
Hickey, Tony / Where’s Jacko?
Moore, Tessa / Flash Fox and Bono Bear
Children aged 5-8
978 1 90173 747 9 / PB / All rights available / €5.50 A story for younger readers from the author of the Flip ’n’ Flop and Granny Green books.
978 1 90173 743 1 / PB / All rights available / €5.50 Bono bear’s mother forces him to apply for a job in Flash Fox’s corner shop.
Devine, Pauline / Hungry Horse, The
Keilty, Derek / Back up the Beanstalk
Mulligan, Frank / Cookie and Curley
978 1 90173 733 2 / PB / All rights available / €5.50 Two Kings who hate each other, a magnificent racehorse, a witch who puts a curse on him and the boy who can save him.
978 1 90173 745 5 / PB / All rights available / €5.50 What happened after Jack cut the beanstalk and the giant went splat?
978 1 90173 738 7 / PB / All rights available / €5.50 How does Cookie the Cat cope when a new kitten is adopted?
Farrell, Liam / Goldilocks: The Babysitter from Hell
O’Hely, Eileen / Penny Goes Undercover
978 1 90173 757 8 / PB / All rights available / €5.99 A new perspective on the well-known fairytale.
978 1 85635 518 6 / PB / All rights except Korea / €8.99 Penny goes undercover to find out who is committing dastardly deeds!
978 1 90173 734 9 / PB / All rights available / €5.50 Cookie the cat has an easy life, but the next door neighbours want to change that …
Mulligan, Frank / Cookie the Cat
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BACKLIST
Ward, Noel / Jitter in the Jungle
Arrigan, Mary / Spirits of the Attic, The
Feehan, Mary / Irish Leprechaun Book, The
978 1 90173 742 4 / PB / All rights available / €5.50 A boxing match in the jungle with one fighter answerable to Big Sid the Crocodile and the other backed by the Gorilla twins.
978 1 90173 727 1 / PB / All rights available / €6.50 A ghostly mystery involving an old sketchbook and a girl in a blue dress.
978 1 85635 089 1 / PB / All rights except US / €7.99 Great stories about the elusive Irish sprite.
Bradshaw, Paul / Circle of Daredevils
Children aged 8-12 Arrigan, Mary / Dead Monks and Shady Deals 978 0 94796 291 3 / PB / All rights available / €6.50 Maeve thinks a holiday in Kildioma will be boring until she meets gorgeous Fergus and discovers something strange is going on in the nearby Abbey.
Bradshaw, Paul / Circle of Suspicion
Arrigan, Mary / Landscape with Cracked Sheep
Danaher, Kevin / Children’s Book of Irish Folktales
978 0 94796 297 5 / PB / All rights available / €6.50 Maeve and friends get involved in the search for a lost family heirloom.
978 0 85342 718 6 / PB / All rights except Germany / €9.99 The special magic of the Irish imagination shines forth in these authentic folktales.
Arrigan, Mary / Maeve and the Goodnight Trail
Devine, Pauline / Best Friends
978 1 90173 720 2 / PB / All rights available / €6.50 Another adventure for Maeve, Leo and Jimmy.
978 0 94796 279 1 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 Sarah, her pony Bluebell, triumph, near-tragedy and the shifting world of young friendships.
Arrigan, Mary / Maeve and the Long-Arm Folly 978 1 90173 731 8 / PB / All rights available / €6.50 Maeve, Leo and Jimmy go to Kildare where they decide to help an Australian looking for his roots.
Arrigan, Mary / Seascape with Barber’s Harp 978 1 90173 702 8 / PB / All rights available / €6.50 Maeve and friends are in Baltimore where they encounter two mysterious Spaniards.
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978 1 90173 725 7 / PB / All rights available / €6.50 Three boys and two girls play dares and end up on a remote beach where the water comes in faster than a galloping horse.
978 1 90173 739 4 / PB / All rights available / €6.50 The daredevils investigate a winking light in the spooky deserted house high on the cliffs.
Devine, Pauline / Best Friends Again 978 1 90173 714 1 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 Sarah and Paula are getting their horses ready for the Junior Hunt when a newcomer turns their world upside down.
Devine, Pauline / Riders by the Grey Lake 978 0 94796 299 9 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 Eithne escapes from problems at home and in school into a mysterious world with a strange boy on a magnificent white horse.
Hassett Henry, Terry / Witch at Batsford Castle, The 978 0 94796 263 0 / PB / All rights available / €5.99 Petunia Pennefeather the witch inherits a castle, but finds life at the top isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Hickey, Tony / Flip ’n’ Flop and the Movies 978 1 90173 705 9 / PB / All rights available / €5.99 Flip ’n’ Flop help new dog in town Thunder the Brave live up to his name.
Hickey, Tony / Flip ’n’ Flop in Kerry 978 0 94796 293 7 / PB / All rights available / €5.99 The border pups investigate the mysterious disappearance of Plucky the wolfhound.
Hickey, Tony / Granny and the American Witch 978 1 90173 713 4 / PB / All rights available / €5.99 Is the strange woman who has moved in down the road a witch, and what does she know about Spit’s disappearance?
Hickey, Tony / Granny Green: Flying Detective 978 1 90173 723 3 / PB / All rights available / €5.99 Granny investigates mysterious disappearances in the Valley of the Crows.
Hickey, Tony / Granny Learns to Fly 978 1 90173 796 8 / PB / All rights available / €5.99 Granny Green has a black cat, a small red car, and an attic where she finds an old book – which leads to some strange happenings in the Valley of the Crows.
Children’s
BACKLIST Hickey, Tony / Matchless Mice in Space
Loughrey, Eithne / Annie Moore: New York City Girl
McCaughren, Tom / Children of the Forge
978 0 94796 210 4 / PB / All rights available / €3.99 Another fun story from the author of the Flip ’n’ Flop and Granny Green books.
978 1 85635 348 9 / PB / All rights available / €7.99 Final part of the Annie Moore trilogy. Annie is back in New York and has difficult, life-altering choices to make.
978 0 94796 269 2 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 Another great adventure from this favourite author.
Jones, Sheelagh / Save the Unicorns
Lynch, Patricia / Tales Of Irish Enchantment
978 0 94796 250 0 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 A fantasy story of a plan to move the last herd of unicorns to a remote island off the north coast of Ireland.
978 0 85342 790 2 / PB / All rights available / €7.95 Classic folk tales, retold by Patricia Lynch.
978 0 94796 289 0 / PB / All rights available / €7.99 The 1798 rebellion as seen through the eyes of two boys in Ballymena.
MacGrory, Yvonne / Ghost of Susannah Parry
McCaughren, Tom / Legend of the Corrib King
978 0 94796 290 6 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 Brian emerges transformed after two hours in the old deserted house. What has this got to do with Susannah Parry, who is said to haunt it?
978 0 94796 260 9 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 Cowlick’s Uncle Pakie has disappeared and the only clue is the cryptic poem he left behind.
Leamy, Edmund / Irish Fairy Tales 978 0 85342 917 3 / PB / All rights available / €7.99 A collection of spellbinding and enchanting tales.
Lenihan, Eddie / Humorous Irish Tales for Children 978 1 85635 238 3 / PB / All rights available / €7.99 Hilarious stories about the Fianna, Ireland’s mythical band of heroes.
Lenihan, Eddie / Stories of Old Ireland for Children 978 0 85342 927 2/ PB / All rights available except Germany / €7.99 Further adventures of Fionn and the Fianna.
Lenihan, Eddie / Strange Irish Tales for Children 978 0 85342 833 6 / PB / All rights available / €7.99 A collection of four exciting stories about the adventures of the Fianna.
Loughrey, Eithne / Annie Moore: Golden Dollar Girl 978 1 85635 296 3 / PB / All rights available / €7.99 Second book in the Annie Moore trilogy, which sees Annie finding her feet and romance in the New World.
MacGrory, Yvonne / Martha and the Ruby Ring 978 0 94796 277 7 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 Lucy’s grandmother tells her about the time she used the ruby ring and found herself back in the Dublin of 1798.
MacGrory, Yvonne / Secret of the Ruby Ring, The 978 0 94796 264 7 / PB / All rights except US / €6.99 The original award-winning novel in the time travel adventure series.
MacGrory, Yvonne / Quest for the Ruby Ring, The 978 1 90173 715 8 / PB / All rights except US / €6.99 The ring brings self-centred Emma back in time to post-Famine Ireland.
MacHale, Des / Puzzleology 978 1 85635 508 7 / PB / All rights available / €9.99 Includes picture puzzles, mazes, maths tests, lateral thinking and visual reasoning puzzles.
McCaughren, Tom / In Search of the Liberty Tree
McCaughren, Tom / Legend of the Golden Key 978 0 94796 236 4 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 Adventure set against a background of a castle, a fairy fort, a local legend of the ‘running dead man’, missing gold and star-crossed lovers.
McCaughren, Tom / Legend of the Phantom Highwayman 978 0 94796 258 6 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 The phantom of Hugh Rua rides again in the Glens of Antrim – is it connected to the smuggling, or the ‘quare stuff’ from down the mountains?
McCaughren, Tom / Rainbows of the Moon 978 0 94796 251 7 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 A story of two teenage boys, one protestant and one catholic, drawn together when danger strikes.
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Children’s McCaughren, Tom / Ride a Pale Horse
Meyler, Terry / Drawing Made Easy
Regan, Peter / Riverside: Exit Point
978 1 90173 709 7 / PB / All rights available / €7.99 Fast-moving story of two boys on opposing sides during the rebellion of 1798 in Leinster.
978 0 94796 294 4 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 A step-by-step guide from one of Ireland’s top illustrators.
978 1 90173 759 2 / PB / All rights except Norwegian / €5.99 Another adventure for Jimmy and the team he coaches.
Mullins, Tom / Irish Stories for Children
Regan, Peter / Riverside: Loot!
978 1 85635 027 3 / PB / No rights available / €7.99 Stories from some of Ireland’s finest writers.
978 1 90173 719 6 / PB / All rights except Norwegian / €5.99 Mad Victor, Flintstone and Jimmy make a find that changes their lives.
McCaughren, Tom / Silent Sea, The 978 0 94796 220 3 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 A great adventure set on an island off the Irish coast.
McMahon, Kate / Timber Twig 978 1 90173 701 1 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 Clare’s first show is a disaster, but Nick offers to help her and her pony Timber Twig to beat Kelly and her champion Moonstepper.
McMahon, Kate / That Touch of Magic
Newman, Roger C. / Murtagh the Warrior 978 0 94796 298 2 / PB / All rights available / €5.99 Back from Norway, Murtagh tells the High King of impending Viking raids. But is there treachery among those closest to the king?
Ní Dheirg, Iosold / Story of Michael Collins, The
Regan, Peter / Riverside: Scout 978 1 90173 722 6 / PB / All rights except Norwegian / €5.99 Jimmy is having trouble with his two top players, but there’s talk of a scout coming from an English club …
Regan, Peter / Riverside: Setbacks
978 1 90173 760 8 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 Another horse adventure from the Galway-based author.
978 185635 595 7 / HB / All rights available / €9.99 In this short biography, Iosold Ní Dheirg, brings the life of Collins into perspective for young readers.
Macken, Ultan / Story of Daniel O’Connell, The
Pettigrew, Vera / Fionuala the Glendalough Goat
978 185635 596 4 / HB / All rights available / €9.99 This short biography will open up this fascinating figure to younger readers.
978 0 94796 243 2 / PB / All rights available / €5.99 Fionuala’s adventures when she leaves the farm and goes to meet her cousins the Tannenbergs of Lara.
Regan, Peter / Riverside: Soccer Samba
McCarthy, Bairbre / Favourite Irish Legends in English & Irish
Pettigrew, Vera / Henry & Sam Special Agents
Regan, Peter / Riverside: Spring Fever
978 0 94796 272 2 / PB / All rights available / €4.99 Adventure from the author of Fionuala the Glendalough Goat.
978 1 90173 756 1 / PB / All rights except Norwegian / €5.99 More adventures with Jimmy and the boys.
Regan, Peter / Riverside: The Street League
Regan, Peter / Riverside: The Croke Park Conspiracy
978 1 85635 186 7 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 A collection of much-loved legends, simply retold in Irish and English.
McCarthy, Bairbre / Keeper of the Crock of Gold – Irish Leprechaun Stories 978 1 85635 564 3 / HB / All rights except Czech Rep. / €14.99 A delightful and magnificently illustrated collection of tales that brings the Irish leprechaun to life for readers of all ages.
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978 1 90173 746 3 / PB / All rights except Norwegian / €5.99 The first book in the soccer series introducing Jimmy, Chippy, Flintstone, Mad Victor and of course Mrs O’Leary.
978 1 90173 732 5 / PB / All rights except Norwegian / €5.99 Nothing but setbacks for Mad Victor, Jimmy and the U-10s. Enter Hot Pursuit, disguised as an angel.
978 1 90173 758 5 / PB / All rights except Norwegian / €5.99 A soccer camp brings great excitement to the boys.
978 1 90173 704 2 / PB / All rights except Norwegian / €5.99 The Riverside boys versus the GAA.
Regan, Peter / Riverside: Dynamo Rouge
Regan, Peter / Riverside: The Curse
978 1 90173 721 9 / PB / All rights except Norwegian / €5.50 Can Jimmy, trainer of the new U-10 team in the Street League, lick them into shape and win the Brendan O’Leary perpetual trophy?
978 1 90173 746 2 / PB / All rights except Norwegian / €5.99 Can Jimmy work a miracle with the U-10s? They’re losing matches all over the place.
Children’s
BACKLIST Regan, Peter / Riverside: The London Trip
Regan, Peter / Teen Glory
Webb, Sarah / Children’s Parties
978 1 90173 716 5 / PB / All rights except Norwegian / €5.99 The boys (robbed on the Underground, lost in transit) are in London, where they find they are due to play rugby!
978 0 94796 278 4 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 The sequel to Urban Heroes. Second book in the soccer trilogy.
978 1 90173 718 9 / PB / All rights available / €7.99 Everything you need to know about invitations, costumes, decorations, music, name-badges, table settings, games and food.
Regan, Peter / Riverside: The Movie 978 1 90173 750 9 / PB / All rights except Norwegian / €5.99 The team get involved in the making of a movie.
Regan, Peter / Riverside: The Spy 978 1 90173 753 0 / PB / All rights except Norwegian / €5.99 Peter Regan’s popular soccer series continues.
Regan, Peter / Riverside v City Slickers 978 1 90173 707 3 / PB / All rights except Norwegian / €5.99 The U-14s are now in the Dublin league. Can they beat Bees Knees United?
Regan, Peter / Shannon Harps 978 1 90173 741 7 / PB / All rights available / €5.99 First in the Gaelic football series from Peter Regan.
Regan, Peter / Young Champions 978 0 94796 292 0 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 The third book in Peter Regan’s soccer trilogy.
Webb, Sarah / Kids Can Cook
Sharkey, Niamh / Irish Legends for the Very Young
978 1 90173 703 5 / PB / All rights available / €5.99 Yummy easy-to-read and easy-to-do recipes tested by a panel of under 10s.
978 1 85635 144 7 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 Simple retelling of favourite legends, illustrated by the author.
Webb, Sarah / Kids Can Cook around the World
Wall, Bill / Powder Monkey, The
978 1 90173 726 4 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 Step-by-step recipes from around the world for kids to cook.
978 1 85635 154 6 / PB / No rights available / €6.99 A compelling seafaring adventure story set in the troubled days of the 1798 rebellion.
Wall, Bill / Slave Coast
West, Annie / Moxie the Underdog 978 185635 582 7 / PB / All rights available / €9.99 A delightful tale for children. Everyone loves the underdog and Moxie carries a positive message about coping with bullying.
978 1 85635 196 6 / PB / No rights available / €6.34 Thrilling sequel to The Powder Monkey.
Regan, Peter / Shannon Harps 2: Something New 978 1 90173 752 3 / PB / All rights available / €5.99 A new adventure for the boys and girls of the Shannon Harps Gaelic Football team.
Regan, Peter / Shannon Harps 3: A Fresh Start 978 1 90173 749 3 / PB / All rights available / €5.99 The third adventure of the Shannon Harps football club.
Regan, Peter / Urban Heroes 978 0 94796 262 3 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 First book in Peter Regan’s soccer trilogy.
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NEW TITLES
The Curious Case of the Mayo Librarian
Michael Collins
Pat Walsh
T. Ryle Dwyer
978 1 85635 615 2
978 1 85635 625 1
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Publication date: January 2009 In July 1930, Letitia Dunbar Harrison was chosen by an interview panel for the post of Mayo county librarian. However, Mayo County Council refused to endorse her appointment, defying a specific instruction from the Local Government Department. Such was the heat generated by the dispute that it almost brought down the Cumann na nGaedheal government. Why would such a seemingly minor appointment drive a government to the brink and set church and state against each other so heavily? Letitia was a Protestant and a Trinity graduate, and thus considered unsuitable for a public post in a large Catholic county.
The Man Who Won The War
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Publication date: January 2009 What was Michael Collins’ real role in the fight for Ireland’s independence? How could Arthur Griffith refer to him as ‘the man who won the war’, yet Cathal Brugha question whether ‘he had ever fired a shot at an enemy of Ireland’? In this fully revised and updated analysis of Michael Collins’ role in the War of Independence, T. Ryle Dwyer depicts Collins as both saint and sinner. Using newly available material from the Bureau of Military History, particularly witness statements from many people who were actively involved in the War, this book provides a new perspective on the man behind the myth. It also helps explain why Griffith and Brugha came to such strongly differing opinions about one of Ireland’s most recognisable historical figures.
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History
NEW TITLES The Burnings 1920
Blood on the Banner
Pearse Lawlor
The Republican Struggle in Clare
978 1 85635 612 1
Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc
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978 1 85635 613 8
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Publication date: February 2009
215 x 135mm
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Publication date: February 2009 In March 1920 the republican lord mayor of Cork, Tomás MacCurtain was shot dead in his home. Blaming the RIC for his death, IRA members followed District Inspector Swanzy, believed to have ordered the killing, to his new posting in Lisburn and shot him dead. Furthermore, Banbridge man, Lt Colonel Smyth, was killed for introducing to the RIC a policy of shooting any Irishman found carrying a gun who refused to surrender immediately. As a result the towns of Banbridge, Dromore and Lisburn erupted in anti-catholic violence. Catholic businesses and homes were torched, and families forced to flee. In The Burnings, Pearse Lawlor peels away the myth that enveloped these events and exposes the real reasons for the violence.
Between 1918 and 1925, fifty-three republicans from Clare gave their lives in the struggle for independence and in the subsequent Civil War. In the first book to focus exclusively on Clare’s republican history, Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc explores the story of Clare’s republicans from the events of 1798 to the end of the Civil War. The legends that have grown up around the activities of the Clare republican fighters have long warranted investigation, as have the claims of the crown forces who operated in the county, where fighting on the ground was often bloody and brutal. The author re-examines this long struggle and casts light upon the true course of events, as well as remembering the victims from both sides of the fight.
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NEW TITLES
50 Things you didn’t know about 1916
Our Struggle for Independence
Mick O’Farrell
Eyewitness accounts from the pages of An Cosantóir
978 1 85635 619 0 PB – All rights available A format
€7.99
Publication date: March 2009
Terence O’Reilly 978 1 85635 614 5 PB – All rights available 215 x 135mm
Fifty incredible facts about the Easter Rising 1916 that you probably didn’t know. Even those who know a great deal about the Easter Rising may not know that there were temporary ceasefires in the St Stephen’s Green area to allow the park attendants to feed the Green’s ducks. Few realise that the first shots of the Rising were actually fired near Portlaoise and not in Dublin, or that both sides issued receipts: the Rebels for food, the British for handcuffs. Featuring the story of how rebel communications (being sent in a tin can from rooftop to rooftop) were interrupted by a British crackshot sniper and many other remarkable incidents, 50 Things you didn’t know about 1916 is a treasure trove of fascinating and surprising facts.
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Publication date: March 2009 From the first shots of the War of Indep endence at Soloheadbeg, through the many ambushes, raids and actions, to the disaster of the Customs House, Our Struggle for Independence gives the views and analyses of the men who fought for Irish freedom. Some of the men who fought in the War of Independence went on to form the core of the Irish Army. Using articles taken from An Cosantóir, the magazine of the Irish armed forces, this book provides a real insight into their experiences of combat. Some of the accounts remain controversial even now, while others offer fresh perspective on Irish tactics in the struggle for independence.
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History
NEW TITLES Freney the Robber
Secret Victory
The Noblest Highwayman in Ireland
Ireland & the War at Sea 1914–1918
Michael Holden
Liam Nolan & John E. Nolan
978 1 85635 620 6
978 1 85635 621 3
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Publication date: April 2009
Publication date: March 2009
Freney the Robber was something of an Irish Robin Hood and in this new book Michael Holden has sifted through the evidence, the legend and the heroic tales to bring to life one of Kilkenny’s most interesting folk heroes.
Between 1915 and the entry of the United States into the war in 1917, merchant shipping was badly shaken by German submarine attacks. In 1915 losses were exceeding the replacement rate of ships and Britain’s supply lines were seriously threatened.
His name has lived on in folklore over the centuries and the highest mark of Kilkenny’s esteem has often been the plaudit, ‘As bold as Freney the Robber.’ He is often referred to as the noblest of all Irish highwaymen owing to his tact and polished politeness in dealing with the many victims that he accosted on the roads of Ireland. His striking at the very heart of Ireland’s oppressors, plundering their secure and guarded homes wielding a sledge-hammer, and sharing his spoils with the poor, catapulted him into the limelight as a local hero.
There was a brief respite when unrestricted submarine warfare was suspended following the sinking of the Lusitania. However, shipping losses were still high and the Kaiser agreed to allow the submarines to return to unrestricted attacks in 1917. Only the entry of the US and the pursuit of a convoy system saved the British supply lines from total strangulation. Cobh played a crucial and largely forgotten role in this battle for the Atlantic. It was from its secure harbour that British and American naval forces battled the German Empire’s submarines and navy. Liam Nolan looks at this crucial role and at the startling characters who commanded the navies and crewed the ships.
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Coffin Ship
The Last Man Hanged in Ireland
The Wreck of the Brig St. John
Dermot Walsh
William Henry
978 1 85635 627 5
978 1 85635 631 2
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Publication date: April 2009 She struggled. She tried to cry out. Manning stuffed a sod of earth into her mouth. But her cries were heard. A local professional man and his wife out walking decided to return to their nearby home, take their car and drive it to the scene so that they could use the car lights to check out their fears. When the lights focused on the place they had seen the figures, a man jumped up and ran away. Catherine Cooper was dead from suffocation. Michael Manning was a newly married man and a cartman of Limerick. On that Wednesday in November his life took a series of turns that would lead to the brutal death of a 65-year-old nurse and his hanging in early 1954. In this new book exploring the murder and the events that led to it, Dermot Walsh brings to light new information from the original garda file and interviews with the original investigation team. Beneath the eye of Cannock’s Clock, chance and happenstance combined to ill effect.
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Illustrations: 8pp b&w section Publication date: May 2009 The famine drove huge numbers of Irish men and women to leave the island and pursue their survival in foreign lands. In 1847, some 200,000 people sailed for Boston alone. Of this massive group, 20,000 never made it to their destination, dying from disease and hunger during the voyages, their remains consigned to a watery grave. The sinking of the brig St. John off the coast of Massachusetts in October 1849, was only one of many tragic events to occur during the mass exodus from Ireland triggered by the Great Famine. The passengers on the St. John had made it to within sight of the New World before their ship went down and they were abandoned by their captain, who denied that there had been any survivors when he and some of his crew made it ashore. For those who died in the seas off Massachusetts, there was nothing to mark a last resting place; they became just another statistic in a terrible tragedy.
History
NEW TITLES The Donegal Awakening
Petticoat Rebellion
Donegal & The War of Independence
The Anna Parnell story
Liam Ó Duibhir
Patricia Groves 978 1 85635 648 0
978 1 85635 632 9
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Publication date: July 2009
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Illustrations: 8pp b&w section Publication date: June 2009 In this new book, Liam Ó Duibhir charts the struggle for independence in Donegal, both militarily and politically, from before the events of Easter 1916 until the truce in 1921. Donegal has long been seen as one of the quietest counties during the War of Independence, but this reputation belies an intriguing story of how republican sentiment grew in the county. From the first mention of Sinn Féin, through the conscription crisis and the success of the 1918 elections, Ó Duibhir charts the rise of the new political leadership in Donegal and how they built their own system of justice and local government. Alongside the practical politics, he also highlights the role of the IRB and the activities of the Volunteers in resisting and thwarting British efforts to retain control and impose order. Featuring new information, The Donegal Awakening offers an updated account of this crucial period.
€14.99
In the late nineteenth century, before women had the vote, a group of respectable ladies operated outside the law to fight for the rights of the landless poor in Ireland. These women were feared by both the British government and Irish nationalists. They were considered too militant and because they were women, even the law couldn’t stop them. They were the Ladies’ Land League, founded in January 1881 by Miss Anna Stewart Parnell. When the male leaders of the original Land League were imprisoned by the British, the Ladies League took over their work. Exploiting loopholes in the law, they soon became more successful than the men. But when Anna started questioning the men’s political strategies instead of merely distributing alms, she became a threat to more than the British – she became a threat to the nationalist movement itself. There was only one man who could silence her: her brother, Charles Stewart Parnell. And he did.
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NEW TITLES
Kerry’s Fighting Story
Limerick’s Fighting Story
Told By The Men Who Made It
Told By The Men Who Made It
978 1 85635 641 1
978 1 85635 642 8
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PB – All rights available
215 x 135mm
215 x 135mm
€24.99
Illustrations: 16pp b&w section
Publication date: July 2009
Publication date: July 2009
The Tralee prisoners were warned by the officer in command that if there was any attempt at rescue, his men were to shoot to kill. This warning was hardly necessary, as the entire town was held by the military. Originally published by The Kerryman in the 1940s, this is one of the four titles in the ‘Fighting Stories’ Series. It records the events of the War of Independence in the words of the people who fought it and those who wrote about it at the time. Featuring reports of the ambushes, battles, successes and failures, Kerry’s Fighting Story is a treasure trove of information and intriguing detail.
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Seán Riordan, with the most conspicuous bravery, personally covered the retreat of the others in the direction of Garryspillane. Fighting every inch of the way, he continued to engage the very large British force until every one of his comrades had got away unscathed. Although he received mortal wounds in the course of the action he nevertheless managed to evade the enemy and reached Garryspillane where he immediately collapsed. Originally published by The Kerryman in the 1940s, this is one of the four titles in the ‘Fighting Stories’ Series. It records the events of the War of Independence in the words of the people who fought it and those who wrote about it at the time. Featuring reports of the ambushes, battles, successes and failures, Limerick’s Fighting Story is a treasure trove of information and intriguing detail.
History
NEW TITLES Rebel Cork’s Fighting Story
Dublin’s Fighting Story
Told By The Men Who Made It
Told By The Men Who Made It
978 1 85635 644 2
978 1 85635 643 5
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Illustrations: 16pp b&w section
Illustrations: 16pp b&w section
Publication date: September 2009
Publication date: September 2009
The difficulties faced by the IRA in operating in the city in this period were immense. Enemy forces had barracks in all parts of the city; they were equipped with fast cars, lorries and armoured cars, in which they could swoop on any part of the city at short notice. They were of course vastly superior in numbers and armament to the IRA. One thing they lacked which the IRA had in generous measure – the cooperation of the people.
It was about 11.30 a.m., Easter Monday, when the 2nd Battalion of the Dublin Brigade mobilised at Stephen’s Green West under Comm. Thomas MacDonagh. A section of the Citizen Army having arrived there later, the 2nd Battalion proceeded to the positions assigned to them, their ultimate strength being about 150 men. The main body halted at Bishop Street, where they made the Jacob’s biscuit factory their headquarters.
Originally published by The Kerryman in 1947, this is one of the four titles in the ‘Fighting Stories’ Series. It records the events of the War of Independence in the words of the people who fought it and those who wrote about it at the time. Featuring reports of the ambushes, battles, successes and failures, Rebel Cork’s Fighting Story is a treasure trove of information and intriguing detail.
Originally published by The Kerryman in 1947, this is one of the four titles in the ‘Fighting Stories’ Series. It records the events of the War of Independence in the words of the people who fought it and those who wrote about it at the time. Featuring reports of the ambushes, battles, successes and failures, Dublin’s Fighting Story is a treasure trove of information and intriguing detail.
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NEW TITLES
Rebel Heart
Mná na hÉireann
George Lennon: Flying Column Commander
Women Who Shaped Ireland
Terence O’Reilly
978 1 85365 645 9
978 1 85635 649 7
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HB – All rights available
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215 x 135mm
Illustrations: b&w throughout
€19.99
€24.99
Publication date: August 2009
Publication date: October 2009
George Lennon was the youngest commander of a flying column during the War of Independence and fought for the anti-treaty side during the Civil War.
For too long when people have discussed Irish heroes and important figures in our history, only men have been cited. Mná na hÉireann addresses that tendency and offers an impressive array of women who have brought change and progress to Ireland.
When he finally laid down his weapons and surrendered to Free State forces in the burning ruins of Waterford in 1922, he started on a path that would take him far away from the country he fought for and very far from the path of violence. Before he died, George had converted to Buddhism, written a play about his experiences and become as much a rebel of peace as he had been a fighting rebel.
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Nicola Depuis
From the mythical era, through the Middle Ages, the Plantation, the Famine, the struggle for independence and the early years of the state, right up to the twenty-first century, Mná na hÉireann profiles over fifty formidable Irish women, including Mary Robinson, Dr Kathleen Lynn, Granuaile, Constance Markievicz, Veronica Guerin, Bernadette Devlin, Anna Parnell and many more.
History
NEW TITLES In Search of The Promised Land The Politics of Post-War Ireland, 1945–1961 Professor Gary Murphy 978 1 85635 638 1
Hidden Cork Charmers, Chancers and Cute Hoors Michael Lenihan 978 1 85635 637 4 HB – All rights available
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Publication date: November 2009
Publication date: November 2009
Post Second World War, changes in thinking at both a governmental and a non-governmental level, led Ireland to adopt an interdependent approach to economic policymaking.
In this collection, Michael Lenihan delves into the rich tapestry of Cork history to reveal some of its most bizarre events and strangest characters. From quack doctor Baron Spolasco, to the outlaw Airt Ó Laoghaire, Cork has seen some eccentric, wonderful and downright nasty people.
While some policy-makers were reluctant to accept any form of multilateral trading arrangements which would alter protected industry and the country’s privileged access to British markets, the severe economic crisis that affected Ireland throughout the 1950s led to the adoption of fresh economic thinking both within and outside the civil service. Such thinking eventually led the government to seek entry to the EEC in 1961 and to eventual membership twelve years later.
With revelations of mass graves in Bishop Lucey Park and how Jonathan Swift was awarded the freedom of the city, and stories of the Gas Works’ strike and the trams of the city, Hidden Cork opens the door on history, dumps the boring bits and brings to life the flow of time through the streets of Cork. Accompanied by a selection of evocative pictures of olde Cork, Hidden Cork will make a great Christmas gift!
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Course of Irish History, The
Hitler’s Irishmen
T. W. Moody/F. X. Martin
Terence O’Reilly
978 1 85635 370 0
978 185635 589 6
PB – All rights except Hungary, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Poland, Croatia, Serbia, US and Korea €20.00
PB – All rights available
The classic general history of Ireland, covering the economic, social and political development of the island from prehistoric times to the present day.
Michael Collins – A Life in Pictures
Fenian Anthology, The
Chrissy Osborne
Joe Ambrose
978 1 85635 563 6
978 1 85635 607 7 HB – All rights available
HB – All rights available €24.99
Excerpts from the speeches of many of Ireland’s political heroes, the Marx family on the Fenians, rebel songs and extracts from classic revolutionary texts.
A unique collection of photographs that catalogue the life of this great man.
Squad, The T. Ryle Dwyer
Sean McMahon
978 1 85635 469 1
978 1 85635 611 4
PB – All rights available €19.99
From Collins to Cúchulainn, Dev to Daniel O’Connell, life stories of the most admirable Irishmen and women in history.
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€25.00
The Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins
Great Irish Heroes
HB – All rights available
€16.99
The remarkable story of two Irish adventurers who found themselves fighting for the Germans on the Eastern Front in the last days of the Second World War.
€12.99
Based on recently released interviews, The Squad throws a considerable amount of new light on the intelligence operations of Michael Collins.
History
ESSENTIAL BACKLIST Tom Barry
Dan Breen and the IRA
IRA Freedom Fighter
Ambrose, Joe
Ryan, Meda
978 1 85635 506 3 PB – All rights available
978 1 85635 480 6 PB – All rights available
€12.99
Controversial biography of this ruthless Republican activist.
The story of the man who fired the first shot of the Irish War of Independence: one of the toughest and most able soldiers of the revolution.
Pirate Queen
Short History of Ireland, A
€14.99
The Life of Grace O’Malley
McMahon, Sean
Cook, Judith
978 1 85635 137 9 PB – All rights except US
978 1 85635 443 1 PB – No rights available
€12.99
The sensational story of Grace O’Malley, terror of the seas, from piracy to murder and rescue by Queen Elizabeth.
A concise and even-handed account of the history of Ireland since the earliest times.
Great Irish Famine, The
Decoding the IRA
Póirtéir, Cathal (ed.)
Mahon, Thomas G. & Gillogly, James
978 1 85635 111 9 PB – All rights except US
978 1 85635 604 6 PB – All rights available
€16.99
Newly decoded secret documents reveal the mindset of the IRA between 1920 and 1930.
€12.99
€12.99
Leading historians, economists, geographers have assembled the most up-to-date research to give the fullest account yet of the background and consequences of the Famine.
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History Ambrose, Joe / Seán Treacy and the Tan War
Doyle, Tom / Civil War in Kerry
978 1 85635 554 4 / PB / All rights available / €12.99 A major re-evaluation of the events and personalities of the War of Independence in Tipperary.
978 1 85635 590 2 / PB / All rights available / €14.99 A fresh look at the key role played by Kerry in the Civil War.
Barry, Anthony / No Lovelier City 978 1 85635 458 5 / PB / All rights available / €17.95 Photographs of every aspect of Cork city in the 1950s and 1960s, a nostalgic look at how immeasurably the city has changed.
Boran, Pat / Short History of Dublin, A 978 1 85635 298 7 / PB / All rights available / €10.99 A canter through Dublin in all the ages of prehistory and history.
De Paor, Liam (ed.) / Milestones in Irish History 978 1 85635 217 8 / PB / All rights available / €10.99 This book goes beyond the ‘what’ and ‘when’ to elucidate the ‘why’ of the troubled, but fascinating, course of Irish history.
Deasy, Liam / Brother Against Brother 978 1 85635 266 6 / PB / All rights available / €10.99 An account of the Civil War that gives a rare and profound insight into the brutal, suicidal war that set father against son and brother against brother.
Deasy, Liam / Towards Ireland Free 978 0 94664 514 5 / PB / All rights available / €19.95 An account of the War of Independence by the commander of the West Cork Brigade.
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Dwyer, T. Ryle / I Signed my Death Warrant – Michael Collins and the Treaty 978 1 85635 526 1 / PB / All rights available / €12.99 To Michael Collins the signing of the treaty between Ireland and Britain in 1921 was a ‘stepping stone’. Eamon de Valera called it ‘treason’.
Dwyer, T. Ryle / Tans, Terror & Troubles: Kerry’s Real Fighting Story 978 1 85635 353 3 / PB / All rights available / €20.00 Provides a broad look at events in Kerry from November 1913 to the ending of the Civil War in April 1923.
Fealy, Gerard M. (ed.) / Care to Remember: History of Nursing & Midwifery in Ireland 978 1 85635 456 1 / PB / All rights available / €20.00 Explores the diverse aspects of Irish nursing history.
Furlong, Nicholas / Diarmait King of Leinster 978 1 85635 505 6 / PB / All rights available / €14.99 The first and only biography of one of the most misjudged and damned, but dominant figures in Irish history.
Gallagher, Frank / Days of Fear: Diary of a 1920s Hunger Striker
Doherty, Gabriel & Keogh, Dermot (eds) / 1916: The Long Revolution
978 185635 586 5 / PB / All rights available / €12.99 A record of spiritual strength, suffering and fear.
978 1 85635 545 2 / PB / All rights available / €20.00 An examination of the 1916 Rising and its place as a revolutionary turning point for Ireland.
Healy, Sarah / Compact History of Ireland 978 1 85635 274 1 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 This convenient, readable volume covers all the key aspects of the
history of Ireland, drawing on recent scholarship in a manner that the general reader will relish.
Henry, William / Forgotten Heroes – Galway Soldiers of the Great War 1914–1918 978 1 85635 556 8 / PB / All rights available / €20.00 Forgotten Heroes is a meticulously researched record of Galwaymen who fought and died in the Great War.
Henry, William / Galway & The Great War 978 1 85635 524 7 / PB / All rights available / €19.99 Examines Galway’s remarkable contribution to the First World War.
Henry, William / Supreme Sacrifice: The Story of Éamonn Ceannt 978 1 85635 466 0 / PB / All rights available / €16.95 Life of Éamonn Ceannt from his schooldays in County Galway to his execution on 7 May 1916 in Dublin.
Hickey, Patrick / Famine in West Cork 978 1 85635 388 5 / HB / All rights available / €40.00 An original, detailed study of the Famine, its antecedents and its aftermath in West Cork.
Kennedy, Patricia / Motherhood in Ireland 978 1 85635 422 6 / PB / All rights available / €20.00 Critical writing on aspects of motherhood, with contributors such as Máire Mhac an tSaoi and Patricia Burke-Brogan.
Keogh, Clare / Over the Counter 978 1 85635 605 3 / HB / All rights available / €35.00 A beautiful photographic tribute to Cork’s lost and rapidly disappearing retail heritage.
History
BACKLIST Keogh, Dermot & Doherty, Gabriel (eds) / De Valera’s Irelands
Lacey, Jim / Candle in the Window: History of the Barony of Castleknock
McMahon, Sean / Rebel Ireland: From Easter Rising to Civil War
978 1 85635 414 1 / PB / All rights available / €15.95 Re-examines and re-evaluates the influence of De Valera in postindependence Ireland.
978 1 85635 552 0 / PB / All rights available / €14.99 Castleknock and its environs have been home to Celts, Norse, Welsh, Normans, English and the scattering of other nationalities, which make up the gene pool of today’s Irish.
978 1 85635 498 1 / PB / All rights available / €11.99 Brings together the three key events from which the Republic of Ireland evolved – the Easter Rising of 1916, the War of Independence of 1921 and the Civil War of 1922.
MacCurtain, Fionnuala / Remember its for Ireland: Family memoir of Tomás MacCurtain
Molony, Senan / Lusitania – An Irish Tragedy
Keogh, Dermot & O’Driscoll, Mervyn / Ireland in World War Two 978 1 85635 445 5 / PB / All rights available / €16.95 Deals with Ireland in the war years, covering such areas as home front, war front, preparation, espionage and diplomacy.
Keogh, Dermot & Doherty, Gabriel / Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State 978 1 85635 512 4 / PB / All rights available / €14.99 Brings to light Collins’ multifaceted and complex character.
978 1 85635 523 0 / HB / All rights available / €24.99 A family memoir of Tomás MacCurtain, Lord Mayor of Cork, who was shot dead in his own house in 1920.
MacCurtain, Fionnuala / Remember its for Ireland: Family Memoir of Tomás MacCurtain 978 1 85635 573 5 / PB / All rights available / €14.99
Keogh, Dermot & McCarthy, Andrew / Making of the Irish Constitution, 1937, The
Mangan, James J. / Robert Whyte’s Famine Ship Diary 1847
978 1 85635 561 2 / HB / All rights available / €30.00 An authoritative account of the drafting of the Irish constitution in which the country’s fundamental laws are enshrined.
978 1 85635 091 4 / PB / All rights except US and Israel / €9.99 The voyage of the ‘coffin ship’ the Ajax, from Dublin to Grosse Île, the Canadian quarantine station.
Keogh, Niall / Con Cremin; Ireland’s Wartime Diplomat
Mansergh, Martin / Legacy of History, The
978 1 85635 497 4 / PB / All rights available / €20.00 A leading Irish diplomat who served in France and Germany during the Second World War.
978 1 85635 389 2 / PB / All rights available / €20.00 A collection of thought-provoking historical pieces by a leading player in north-south relations and the peace process.
Kiely, Benedict / Counties of Contention
McLoughlin, Peter / Cromwell’s Revenge
978 1 85635 430 1 / PB / All rights available / €12.95 First published in 1945, this book deals with how Ireland was divided.
978 1 85635 436 3 / PB / All rights available / €13.95 True story of one family’s struggle for survival through this dark period in Irish history.
978 1 85635 452 3 / HB / All rights available / €11.99 Tells the story of numerous Irish passengers and crew who were aboard the doomed vessel.
Molony, Senan / Phoenix Park Murders, The 978 1 85635 511 7 / PB / All rights available / €12.99 A gripping true story of assassination, conspiracy, intrigue, executions and revenge, Phoenix Park Murders tells the story of the most infamous crime in nineteenth-century Ireland.
Murray, Helen / What Lies Beneath: Women and their Underwear 978 1 85635 477 6 / PB / All rights except China / €14.99 Underwear has changed from being a set of purely functional garments to become a symbol of female empowerment and sexuality.
Nolan, Aengus / Joseph Walshe – Irish Foreign Policy 1922–1946 978 1 85635 580 3 / PB / All rights available / €19.99 A fascinating examination of the career of Ireland’s longest serving general secretary of Foreign Affairs.
O’Brien, Caimin / Stories from a Sacred Landscape 978 1 85635 489 9 / HB / All rights available / €40.00 Explores the folklore, history, poetry, art and architecture of Offaly’s Christian past.
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O’Brien, Paul / Blood on the Streets: 1916 and the Battle for Mount St Bridge 978 1 85635 576 6 / PB / All rights available / €12.99 The true story of the bloodiest battle of the 1916 Rising
O’Faolain, Seán / Great O’Neill, The 978 0 85342 769 8 / PB / All rights except US / €14.99 The Great O’Neill first appeared in 1942 and the intervening years have confirmed the book’s standing as a modern classic.
Osborne, Chrissy / Michael Collins: Himself 978 1 85635 407 3 / PB / All rights available except Poland / €12.99 Michael Collins, Himself focuses on the man behind the mask. Not the soldier, statesman or guerilla fighter, but the real, human, Michael Collins.
Redican, Noel / Shadows of Doubt
O’Farrell, Mick / Walk Through Rebel Dublin 1916
978 185635 594 0 / PB / All rights available / €14.99 A story of betrayal, conflict and murder that shines a light on the underworld of Republican activity in post-Civil War Ireland.
978 1 85635 276 5 / PB / All rights available / €12.99 Pictorial account of the 1916 Rising in Dublin with accompanying text.
Richardson, Hilary & Scarry, John / Introduction to Irish High Crosses
Ó Gadhra, Nollaig / Civil War in Connaught
978 0 85342 954 8 / PB / All rights available / €14.99 Descriptions of all high crosses in Ireland.
978 1 85635 281 9 / PB / All rights available / €12.95 Fascinating account of the Civil War in the west of Ireland.
O’Mahony, Michelle / Famine in Cork City 978 1 85635 455 4 / PB / All rights available / €16.95 Aspects of life in the workhouse are examined, including medicine, lifestyle, economics, politics and diet.
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Roberts, Jack & McMahon, Joanne / Sheela-naGigs of Ireland and Britain, The 978 1 85635 294 9 / PB / All rights available / €15.99 An illustrated and comprehensive account of the sheela-na-gigs (carvings of female images).
Ryan, Meda / Michael Collins and the Women who Spied for Ireland 978 1 85635 513 1 / PB / All rights available / €12.99 Deals with the crucial role played by women in Collins’ personal and working life.
Ryan, Meda / Real Chief, Liam Lynch 978 1 85635 460 8 / PB / All rights available / €15.99 Traces the turbulent career of one of Ireland’s greatest guerilla commanders.
Thomas, N.L. / Irish Symbols of 3500 BC 978 0 85342 856 5 / PB / All rights available / €15.99 An interpretation of the riddle of the inscriptions at Newgrange and other ancient sites.
White, Gerry & O’Shea, Brendan / Baptised in Blood: The Formation of the Cork Brigade 978 1 85635 465 3 / PB / All rights available / €14.99 Baptised in Blood records the formation of the Cork Brigade of Irish Volunteers during the turbulent years 1913–1916.
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White, Gerry & O’Shea, Brendan / Burning of Cork, The 978 1 85635 522 3 / PB / All rights available / €14.99 Looking at the newly refurbished Saint Patrick’s Street it is difficult to believe that shortly before dawn, on 12 December 1920, Cork city with its many historic buildings, was destroyed by flames.
Harrington, Niall / Kerry Landing
O’Malley, Ernie / Raids & Rallies
978 0 94796 270 8 / PB / All rights available / €14.00 The classic account of the Civil War in Kerry.
978 1 90173 728 8 / PB / All rights available / €14.00 First person account of nine distinct engagements in the War of Independence.
O’Connor, John / Proclamation of 1916, The
O’Malley, Ernie / Singing Flame, The
ANVIL
978 1 90173 711 0 / PB / All rights available / €8.00 A history of the document that set Ireland on the violent road to Independence.
Barry, Tom / Guerilla Days In Ireland
O’Connor, John / Workhouses of Ireland, The
Roche, Richard / Norman Invasion Of Ireland
978 0 94796 234 0 / PB / All rights except US / €15.00 Fascinating memoir of the Irish struggle for independence from the commander of the Third West Cork Flying Column.
978 0 94796 271 5 / PB / All rights available / €15.00 A social history of Ireland in the era of the famine.
978 0 94796 281 4 / PB / All rights available / €15.00 Fully illustrated classic text on the period.
Breen, Dan / My Fight For Irish Freedom
O’Malley, Ernie / On Another Man’s Wound
978 0 94796 233 3 / PB / All rights available/ €15.00 The memoir of the man who fired the first shot in the War of Independence, leader of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade.
978 1 90173 737 0 / PB / All rights available / €15.00 Memoir of a medical student who joined the Irish volunteers in 1916 and fought in the War of Independence.
Corkery, Tom / Tom Corkery’s Dublin
O’Malley, Ernie / On Another Man’s Wound
978 0 90006 875 1 / PB / All rights available / €12.00 A true Dubliner reveals the spirit of his native city.
978 1 90173 736 3 / HB / All rights except US / €25.00
978 0 94796 232 6 / PB / All rights available / €15.00 The second volume of O’Malley’s memoirs covers the period of the Civil War.
Trant, Kathy / Blessington Estate 1667-1908, The 978 1 90173 751 6 / PB / All rights available / €15.99 A history of the County Wicklow estate.
White, Terence de Vere / Kevin O’Higgins 978 0 94796 211 8 / PB / All rights available / €14.00 Classic biography of one of the founding fathers of modern Ireland.
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Biography and Memoir Róise Rua
Walter Macken
An Island Memoir
Dreams on Paper
Pádraig Ua Cnáimhsí (Translated by J. J. Keaveney)
Ultan Macken
978 1 85635 624 4
HB – All rights available
978 1 85635 630 5
PB – English language rights only
215 x 135mm
215 x 135mm
Illustrations: 8pp b&w section
€19.99
€29.99
Publication date: April 2009
Publication date: September 2009
Róise recounts her experiences on Arranmore island and details with great vividness her teenage years in the Lagan area, the great farming region in Tyrone, Derry and east Donegal. Her work on the potato farms of Scotland, the hardship and commitment that ‘tatie-hoking’ entailed – all this is brought into sharp focus. Journeys to and from Scotland are memorably depicted.
This new biography sheds light on the private life of one of Ireland’s foremost writers, through his many unpublished and privately held papers and letters. Walter Macken was born in Galway in 1915 and died there in 1967. Originally an actor, principally with the Taidhbhearc in Galway and The Abbey Theatre, he played lead roles on Broadway and also acted in films, notably in Brendan Behan’s The Quare Fellow.
Her personality, her delight in song and dance mark many sections of the book and an account of her wedding day is one of many intriguing highlights. Through her widowed mother’s remarriage we are introduced to ‘the Butcher’ – an iconic character. Through him we learn about shipwrecks, secret societies and folklore from pre-Famine times. Róise’s recollections of both world wars are fascinating, as are her comments on the many changes she has witnessed. Spanning several generations, it is a refreshing record of life on a Donegal island.
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With the success of his third book, Rain on the Wind, he became a full-time writer. His novels include Rain on the Wind and The Bogman, but he is probably best known for his trilogy Seek the Fair Land, The Silent People and The Scorching Wind. He also published a number of books for children.
ESSENTIAL BACKLIST Blasket Memories
Love Story of W. B. Yeats & Maud Gonne
Pádraic Tyers
Marjorie Brady
978 1 85635 230 7 PB – All rights available
Biography and Memoir
€11.99
978 0 85342 935 7
An account of life on the Blasket Island and of the island community’s eventual demise.
PB – All rights except Korea and Greece €9.99
It’s a Long Way from Penny Apples
A dramatic and compelling story of the great love of W. B. Yeats for Maud Gonne, the woman he immortalised in his poetry.
Bill Cullen
Nine Lives
978 1 85635 400 4 PB – No rights available
David Courtney €13.99
An autobiographical account of incredible poverty and deprivation in the Dublin slums where one of Ireland’s most famous and successful businessmen grew up.
Good Times and Bad
978 1 85635 602 2 PB – All rights available
A dramatic memoir of life as a helicopter rescue pilot in Ireland.
From the Coombe to the Kremlin
Rory Gallagher
Seamus Martin
Jean-Noël Coghe
978 1 85635 577 3 PB – All rights available
€16.99
978 1 85635 387 8 €19.99
Good Times and Bad is a fascinating picture of a changing world as seen through the eyes of one of Ireland’s most resourceful journalists, retired international editor of the Irish Times, Seamus Martin.
PB – English language rights only
€14.99
Biography of the innovative and gifted guitarist from Cork who laid the foundations for the development of Irish rock and blues.
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Biography and Memoir
De Bhaldraithe, Tomás (ed.) / Diary of an Irish Countryman
Fitzpatrick, Richard / Where Clare Leads, Ireland Follows
Keogh, Dermot & Whelan, Diarmuid / Gerald Goldberg: A Tribute
978 1 85635 547 6 / PB / All rights except Irish language / €12.99 The diary of Humphrey O’Sullivan is both a fascinating local history and a self portrait of a Irish gentleman living in County Kilkenny between 1827 and 1835.
978 1 85635 606 0 / HB / All rights available / €24.99 Profiles of some of Clare’s most famous sons and daughters.
978 185635 581 0 / PB / All rights available / €19.99 Recollections from a variety of writers, historians, artists and politicians on the life of the ex-Lord Mayor of Cork, polymath and lawyer Gerald Goldberg.
Feehan, John M. / My Village, My World 978 0 94664 515 2 / PB / All rights available / €10.99 A lively and affectionate account of growing up in a village in County Tipperary.
Fitzgibbon, Barbara / Going West: Two Years Sailing Around the World 978 1 85635 357 1 / PB / All rights available / €12.68 An enthralling story of a fifty-year-old couple and their voyage around the world.
Fitzmaurice, Gabriel / Beat the Goatskin Till the Goat Cries 978 1 85635 500 1 / PB / All rights available / €12.99 A account of rural Ireland; its customs, education, sport, literature, music and song.
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Hawkins, Margaret / Restless Spirit: The Story of Rose Quinn 978 1 85635 496 7 / PB / All rights available / €12.99 Rose died in an asylum and for more than 100 years her fate had been kept a secret.
Kavanagh, Ray / Mamie Cadden – Backstreet Abortionist 978 1 85635 459 2 / PB / All rights available / €12.95 Cadden ran a busy abortion service in Dublin and ended her days in jail.
MacManus, Gerry / Dark Corners 978 1 85635 585 8 / PB / All rights available / €12.99 A story of corruption, racism, injustice and violence from Dundalk to South Asia and beyond.
Marcus, David / Buried Memories: David Marcus Autobiography 978 1 86023 157 5 / PB / All rights available / €12.95 Stunning conclusion to Marcus’ two-part autobiography.
Kenneally, Christy / Small Wonders
Matson, Leslie / Méiní, the Blasket Nurse
978 1 85635 482 0 / PB / All rights available / €14.99 Unforgettable story of laughter, sorrow and an occasional miracle.
978 1 85635 133 1 / PB / All rights available / €11.99 The biography of a nurse and a compelling reconstruction of the Blasket way of life.
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McVeigh, Joe / Taking a Stand 978 1 85635 593 3 / PB / All rights available / €19.99 The life story of one of Ireland’s most politically active priests and human rights campaigners.
Murphy, Michael / Gerry Fitt – A Political Chameleon 978 1 85635 531 5 / PB / All rights available / €20.00 Gerry Fitt, a founding member of the SDLP, was virtually canonised on death and this book sets out to explore some of the myths about him – warts and all.
Ní Shúilleabháin, Eibhlís / Letters from the Great Blasket 978 0 85342 848 0 / PB / All rights available / €8.99 A strange and different way of life emerges.
O’Doherty, Malachi / I Was A Teenage Catholic 978 1 86023 155 1 / PB / No rights available / €12.95 A witty and readable story by a religious sceptic.
O’Mahony Walters, Johanna / Close the Wicket Gate
Pettigrew, Vera / Where The River Flows; Annamoe Rectory
978 1 85635 533 9 / PB / All rights except large print in the English language / €12.99 An evocative and touching account of the joys and struggles of a small community and a way of life that has now disappeared.
978 1 90173 712 7 / PB / €12.00 Memoir of a Wicklow clergyman’s wife.
Ó Sé, Maidhc Dainín / House, Don’t Fall On Me (A Thig Ná Tit Orm) Translated by Gabriel Fitzmaurice 978 1 85635 550 6 / PB / All rights except Irish language / €12.99 This is the story of a young boy growing up in the West Kerry Gaeltacht in the 1940s and 1950s.
O’Sullivan, J. J. / Breaking Ground: The Story of William T. Mulvany 978 1 85635 427 1 / PB / All rights available / €14.95 The fascinating story of Ireland’s little known, but most outstanding, entrepreneur of the nineteenth century.
Rynne, Dr Andrew / Vasectomy Doctor, The – A Memoir 978 1 85635 483 7 / PB / All rights available / €14.99 Life story of the first doctor in Ireland to carry out a vasectomy.
Semple, Pat / Rector Who Wouldn’t Pray for Rain, The 978 1 85635 560 5 / PB / All rights except Poland / €14.99 The intriguing story of a former clergyman who no longer believes the basic doctrines of Christianity.
Smith, Gus & Hickey, Des / John B. 978 1 85635 431 8 / PB / All rights available / €15.95 This biography charts the progress of Keane’s drama and explores the man behind the work.
O’Sullivan, Patrick / I Heard the Wild Birds Sing 978 0 94796 255 5 / PB / €10.00 Memoir of a Kerry childhood.
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NEW TITLES
In Praise of Football
Tadhg Kennelly
Gabriel Fitzmaurice
with Scott Gullan
Foreword by Tom Humphries
978 1 85635 639 8
978 1 85635 640 4 HB – All rights available B format
€12.99
Publication date: August 2009 A collection of poems about points, pints, goals, blockdowns, yellow cards, fans, saves, cheers, fouls, boots, trains, crowds, captains and managers ... You’ll also see referees that can’t count, magic sponges, useless goalies, lucky half forwards, obsessive parents, supportive families, dream teams, wet Saturdays in February, sunny Sundays in September, rabbits chasing foxes, and a game of two halves in a sport that has been described as ‘martial arts for Irish farmers’. The book also features some of the classic quotes of sporting history. A superb selection of poems which, while incredibly diverse, all have an enthusiasm, passion and insight that it is a pleasure to share.
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PB – Irish rights only 215 x 135mm
€19.99
Illustrations: 16pp colour section Publication date: October 2009 Born in Listowel, County Kerry, Tadhg Kennelly is the son of a Kerry football star and grew up playing GAA both for local and county teams. Having played at inter-county level for Kerry, in 1999 he made the momentous decision to move to Australia to play Aussie Rules football. He debuted for the Sydney Swans in 2001 and went on to become one of their star players. In 2005 he won an AFL Premiership medal with the Swans, and was the first Irishman to do so. In 2009 his contract with the Swans will end and he will return to Ireland to play GAA once more, fighting for a place on the Kerry senior team.
SPORT
ESSENTIAL BACKLIST Sea Angling in Ireland
30 Irish Adventures
John Rafferty
Padraic Woods
978 1 85635 553 7
978 185635 587 2
PB – All rights available
€20.00
Sea Angling in Ireland is a comprehensive guide to catching the biggest – and best – fish in Irish waters. A must-have for all sea angling enthusiasts, it will also provide invaluable advice to beginners and professionals alike. Beautifully illustrated with stunning photos of the Irish coast and pictures of all manner of fish, this easy-to-use guide covers all aspects of sea angling. The top species from Irish waters are described in detail, from their specimen weight and habitat, to the tactics that work best for catching them. This in-depth guide outlines the best bait for sea fishing; how, when and where to collect it yourself and what species each bait will attract, as well as the rods, reels, line and hooks that are used to catch fish. Sea Angling in Ireland is the ideal companion for any fishing trip.
PB – All rights available
€19.99
A fully illustrated guide to thirty of Ireland’s top adventure activities, with maps, guides and detailed information about each one. 30 Irish Adventures explores the many fun adventures you can experience in Ireland. Climb Ireland’s highest mountain, kayak around West Cork’s numerous islands, experience the thrill of mountain boarding, learn how to surf, or explore the Irish landscape on horseback. These activities will get you out and about in the Irish countryside, again and again, the whole year round. Some are physically demanding while others are more relaxed and allow you to take in the beauty surrounding you. Several of them are to be found in remote locations while others begin right on your doorstep. Whatever your fitness level or age, there is an adventure here for you. 30 Irish Adventures will inspire you to get off the couch, pack your bags and experience all that Ireland has to offer.
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ESSENTIAL BACKLIST
Ireland’s IFSC
Don’t Leave it to the Children
A Story of Global Financial Success
Starting, Building and Sustaining a Family Business
Fiona Reddan
Alan Crosbie
978 1 85635 603 9 HB – All rights available
€30.00
The story of the IFSC from its conception, through delivery and onto its success in the years of the Celtic Tiger and beyond.
PB – All rights except Russia and India €14.95 Starting, building and sustaining a family business.
That’ll Never Work
Quick Thinking on Your Feet
Success Stories From Private Irish Business
Valerie Pierce
Mike Gaffney & Colm O’Brien 978 1 85635 569 8 PB – Irish rights only
€14.99
That’ll Never Work is a collection of anecdotes and interviews with some of Ireland’s most successful business people.
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978 1 86023 115 5
978 1 85635 409 7 PB – All rights except Japan, India, Taiwan, China, Indonesia and US €14.99 A practical guide to help you bring clear and critical thinking to any situation.
NEW TITLES
Politics & Current Affairs
Brian Cowen
The Dáil in the 21st Century
In his own words
Anthony O’Halloran
Johnny Fallon
978 1 85635 636 7
978 1 85635 647 3
HB – All rights available
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233 x 152mm
215 x 135mm
Publication date: November 2009
€24.99
€29.99
Publication date: May 2009 This book is based on a study of Cowen’s statements in the Dáil since 1984. From his early work as a constituency politician, through parliamentary questions, it looks at how leading figures in the 1980s often tried to dismiss him as a ‘young lad’ during debates and at his efforts to establish himself. Taking his most memorable quips and contributions to debates, and examining his policies and statements across a range of issues throughout his career from backbencher to taoiseach, this biography assesses how he sees the issues and presents himself at a time when his views have become the most important ones in the country.
Challenging the received wisdom and conventional media narratives, this book argues that the position of Dáil Éireann, far from declining, has actually been enhanced, particularly since the mid 1980s. Dáil Éireann’s position in Irish politics has improved significantly over time. Coming from a weak base since its establishment, it has acquired a strong institutional identity, with improved resourcing and parliamentary professionalisation giving it a stronger voice. This book suggests a future role for the Lower House, extending its democratic reach to areas such as social partnership. Texts on the Dáil are rare, particularly work which examines the Dáil in the context of the fundamental shifts which have occurred in contemporary Irish politics.
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Politics & Current Affairs Choosing a School
One Day in My Life
Deirdre Raftery and Catherine KilBride
Bobby Sands
978 1 85635 530 8
978 1 85635 349 6
PB – All rights available
€16.99
PB – All rights except Italy and France €10.99
A comprehensive guide to help parents choose the best school for their child.
A day in the life of Bobby Sands while he was imprisoned in Long Kesh.
Cleared for Disaster
State Violence
Ireland’s Most Horrific Air Crashes
Northern Ireland 1969–1997
Michael O’Toole
Raymond Murray
978 1 85635 510 0
978 1 85635 235 2
PB – All rights available
€12.99
Explores the mysteries and stories behind the most notorious air crashes in Ireland.
Haughey’s Forty Years of Controversy
PB – All rights available
€12.68
A chronicle of the abuse by the British state of emergency laws.
Writings from Prison Bobby Sands
T. Ryle Dwyer
978 1 85635 220 8
978 1 85635 426 4
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€14.95
An up-to-date reassessment of the man whose name has always been synonymous with controversy.
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A testament to the political prisoners’ courage and their indomitable struggle for recognition and freedom.
Humour
NEW TITLES Head Rambles With Ireland’s Most Cantankerous Auld Fella Richard O’Connor 978 1 85635 616 9 PB – All rights available B format
€9.99
Publication date: January 2009 The internet is for young people, but nobody told Grandad! Grandad is Ireland’s most cantankerous auld fella. His problem is that he is getting old, increasingly grumpy and even little things are driving him mad. To get things off his chest, Grandad started to write posts on his blog, headrambles.com, and in this book he offers readers some of the best and funniest of those daily messages. From anti-smoking legislation to the eccentricities of the local council’s roadworks, Head Rambles is a must-read for everyone who enjoys a good grumble. Grandad, aka Richard O’Connor, is a Wicklow-living, tourist-hating malcontent. He worked for many years at RTÉ, before retiring and setting up his own business. He lives in a small cottage with Herself, enjoys his pipe, the odd pint of Guinness and blogging.
The Culchie’s Guide to Dublin Jim Connolly 978 1 85635 635 0 HB – All rights available B format
€10.99
Illustrations: b&w line drawings Publication date: September 2009 Everything a culchie needs to know about Dublin and Dubliners is in here – where to pick up a nurse or a guard; the closing times of the most salubrious kebab joints; which bus routes to avoid at all costs; how to follow a Dub’s directions; how to get inside a Dub’s mind; and of course what sights to see. Few things are certainties in life, but this is one – if you read all of this book you’ll know more about Dublin than most Jackeens. Even though Jim Connolly is a confirmed Dub, he offers The Culchies Guide to Dublin as THE MOST HONEST guide there is to date, useful to true Dubs as well as new arrivals.
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Book of Irish Children’s Jokes, The
Book of Kerryman Jokes, The
Feehan, Mary
MacHale, Des
978 1 85635 258 1
978 1 85635 259 8
PB – All rights available
PB – All rights available
€4.50
Have you heard about the Kerryman who damaged his health by drinking milk? The cow fell on him!
Jokes from the Pubs of Ireland
Irish Wit
Healy, James N.
MacHale, Des 978 1 85635 461 5
978 1 85635 263 5 PB – All rights available
PB – All rights except UK
€4.99
‘Notice hung in Harry’s the other night. Honest Workman with corkscrew would like to hear from a widow with a pub!’
A collection of wit, humour and Irish wisdom – the best of Wilde, Swift, Shaw, Behan, Milligan and many more.
Magrath, Myler
MacHale, Des
978 1 85635 261 1
978 1 85635 492 9 HB – All rights except Australia
€9.99
Book of Irish Limericks, The
A Decapitated Coffee Please
€9.99
Hilarious examples of slips of the tongue made in everyday conversation.
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A true classic for children of all generations to enjoy.
PB – All rights available
€4.99
The funniest ever book of five liners!
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Bolger, Joan / Don’t Call Me Boy! Hot Names for Cool Dogs Illustrated by Philip Barrett 978 1 85635 476 9 / PB / All rights available / €9.99 An informative, highly illustrated resource with useful, practical ideas to help dog owners pick that perfect name.
MacHale, Des / Book of Cavan Man Jokes, The 978 1 85635 516 2 / PB / All rights available / €4.99 The biggest and best collection of Cavan Man jokes ever published!
MacHale, Des / Bumper Book of Kerryman Jokes, The 978 1 85635 470 7 / PB / All rights available / €9.99 Hundreds of jokes, riddles, one-liners, stories and inventions to thrill even the most politically correct among us.
MacHale, Des / Jesus Jokebook, The
Riddle, Prof. Jimmy / Joy of Pissing, The
978 1 85635 562 9 / HB / All rights available / €9.99 For the first time ever, a book dedicated to jokes about Jesus.
978 0 95264 105 6 / PB / All rights except UK / €9.99 Celebrates our experience as a persistently urinating species from an Irish viewpoint.
MacHale, Des / Paddy the Englishman, Paddy the Irishman, Paddy the Scotsman Jokes 978 1 85635 262 8 / PB / All rights available / €4.99 This book is a celebration of jokes about all three Paddies, the Irishman, Englishman and Scotsman.
MacHale, Des / Póg Mo Stone 978 1 85635 565 0 / HB / All rights available / €9.99 A hilarious collection of jokes, stories and anecdotes about Cork and the Corkman from one of Ireland’s finest humour writers.
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FOOD & DRINK Full & Plenty
Good Mood Food
Classic Irish Cooking
Donal Skehan
Maura Laverty
978 1 85635 629 9
978 1 85635 634 3
HB – UK and Irish rights only
HB – All rights available
235 x 165mm
B Format
Illustrations: Full colour throughout
€14.99
Illustrations: b&w line drawings Publication date: September 2009 The original Full & Plenty was published as a single volume book in 1960. It was the definitive reference book in every Irish kitchen. In this newly formatted and redesigned hardback, Mercier Press now brings the best of these classic Irish recipes to a whole new audience. Including the best 150 classic Irish recipes with everything from wholemeal brown bread to lamb stew, Full & Plenty: Classic Irish Cooking is an excellent addition to the cookery book shelf of any kitchen.
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€29.99
Publication date: September 2009 If you could improve your mood, *Not final jacket sleeping patterns, energy levels, and mental state tomorrow, in one quick and simple step, you would right? Well eating the right foods can do that and more for you. Keeping an open mind and a positive approach to what you eat is one of the most important steps when it comes to improving your health. The Good Mood approach to cooking is straightforward and full of health benefits. Food has long been used as a natural healer and treating common ailments with it can be much easier then you thought.
FOOD & DRINK
ESSENTIAL BACKLIST Irish B&B Cookbook, The Ann Mulligan
Sean & Kieran Murphy
978 1 85635 583 4 PB – All rights available
€9.99
A selection of traditional recipes with a modern twist that have been used in the author’s award-winning B&B, ‘An Bohreen’ in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.
Irish Cookbook, The Carla Blake
978 185635 584 1 PB – all English Language rights except North America and Canada €19.99 The Murphy’s Ice Cream Book of Sweet Things is a treasure trove for fans of ice cream, organic produce, desserts and Irish cookery.
Our Grannies’ Recipes
978 1 85635 504 9 PB – All rights available
Murphy’s Ice Cream Book of Sweet Things
€9.99
A selection of recipes to delight both the beginner and the accomplished cook.
Eoin Purcell (ed.) 978 1 85635 610 7 HB – All rights available
€14.99
A collection of the best traditional favourites handed down from generation to generation.
Full & Plenty Vol. 2 Maura Laverty 978 1 90173 730 1 PB – All rights available
€10.00
The classic cookery reference book on Meat and Fish.
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MBS & Religion Beyond Prozac
I’ll Stop Tomorrow
Healing Mental Suffering Without Drugs
Paul Campbell
Dr Terry Lynch
978 1 85635 538 4 PB – All rights available except Russia €12.99
978 1 85635 471 4 PB – No rights available
The story of a man who chose booze ahead of everyone and everything. In the end it cost him everyone and everything and forced him to take the road to recovery.
€15.95
Healing mental suffering without drugs.
Conspiracy of Silence
Life After Loss
UFOs in Ireland
Helping the Bereaved
Dermot Butler & Carl Nally
Christy Kenneally
978 1 85635 509 4 PB – All rights available
978 1 85635 243 7
€12.99
Examines how many ordinary people in Ireland have seen extraordinary things in our skies.
PB – All rights available
€12.99
This is not just a book for the bereaved but for everyone who is unsure how to act and what to say when faced with people who have been bereaved.
Depression: an Emotion not a Disease
Preschooler’s Busy Book, The
Áine Tubridy & Michael Corry
Trish Kuffner, Foreword by Mark Cagney 978 1 85635 502 5
978 1 85635 479 0 PB – All rights except Turkey
€14.99
This book offers hope and understanding, and effective ways to create a new identity, rooted in self-acceptance.
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PB – No rights available
€14.99
Hundreds creative games and activities to keep your 3 to 6 year old busy.
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BACKLIST
Alcock, Anne / Woman in Search of Wholeness
Healy, Audrey & Mullan, Don / Contacted
Masterson, John / Working It Out
978 1 85635 391 5 / PB / All rights available / €10.95 Body-mind-spirit reflections on the story of the Samaritan woman.
978 1 85635 478 3 / PB / All rights available / €12.99 A compilation of stories from people who have communicated with those who have ‘passed over’.
978 1 85635 447 9 / PB / All rights except Korea / €12.95 From his hugely successful column in the Sunday Independent, Masterson enables people to look afresh at aspects of their lives.
Hughes, Willie / Do You Want a Miracle?
Moore-Groarke, Dr Gillian & Nerney, Teresa / Watch Your Weight
Callanan SJ, John / Watering the Desert with Tony de Mello 978 1 85635 444 8 / PB / All rights except Spain and Italy / €12.95 A hands-on book to help the individual develop their own prayer lives.
978 1 85635 575 9 / PB / All rights available / €12.99 This book teaches us how to still our minds and bodies and leave ourselves open to the experience of peace. It gives us the courage to believe there is always hope of a miracle.
978 1 85635 433 2 / PB / All rights except India / €9.95 Helping you understand why your past attempts at dieting have failed and giving you the tools to succeed now.
Kuffner, Trish / Toddlers Busy Book, The
O’Hanlon, Lani / Dancing the Rainbow
Gallagher, Lynne / Psychic Kids
Foreword by Mark Cagney
978 1 85635 551 3 / PB / All rights except Italy / €12.99 Deals with a broad range of children’s psychic abilities in a thoughtprovoking and down-to-earth manner.
978 1 85635 539 1 / PB / No rights available / €14.99 Hundreds of fun, creative games and activities to keep your 1½ to 3 year old busy.
978 1 85635 546 9 / PB / All rights available except Spanish language / €16.99 This book asks if dance, voice and movement could be more than an expression of creativity and also a way of healing?
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Irish Interest Get Rid of Your Bin and Save Money Féidhlim Harty
Irish Ghost Stories Patrick Byrne 978 1 85635 285 7
978 1 85635 626 8
PB – All rights available
PB – All rights available
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A format
€9.99
€8.99
Publication date: January 2009 Reduce, reuse and recycle your way to a better environment and a fatter wallet Did you know that there is no such thing as ‘rubbish’ in nature? Surely there is room for improvement on the widespread use of the bin … Get Rid of your Bin is the new bible for saving money AND helping the planet. Whether your motives are financial or ecological, the cost of refuse collection and disposal is a growing concern. Featuring easy-tofollow and practical guidelines for all areas of your home and life, Féidhlim Harty shows you how to maximise your savings and help sustain our planet for future generations.
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There is a strong and ancient tradition of ghostly appearances in Ireland. The country is full of old castles with secret rooms and while some of the stories are obviously figments of lively imaginations, there are other tales that cannot easily be explained away. Of the many bizarre occurrences related in this collection, perhaps the strangest is the case of the Gormanstown Foxes: on the death of a Viscount Gormanstown, groups of foxes would gather around the castle and sit there untouched by hounds until the funeral rites were over. Irish Ghost Stories contains stories that tell of spooky goings-on in almost every part of the country. They include the tales of the Wizard Earl of Kildare, the Scanlan Lights of Limerick, Buttoncap of Antrim, Maynooth College’s haunted room, Loftus Hall in Wexford, and an account of how the poet Francis Ledwidge appeared to an old friend in RECOMMEND County Meath. ED BACKLIST
Irish Interest
ESSENTIAL BACKLIST Bibeanna
Ireland’s Master Storyteller
Brenda Ní Shúilleabháin
Éamon Kelly
978 1 85635 543 8
978 1 86023 080 6
PB – All rights available
€19.99
Dual language stories charting Ireland’s progress from a poor rural society to today’s modern, affluent society.
Celtic Myths and Legends Eoin Neeson
PB – All rights available
Irish Names for Children Peg Coghlan
978 1 85635 222 2 PB – All rights except US, Bulgaria and Spanish language in South America €9.99 A collection of legends from early Christian times.
978 1 85635 214 7 PB – All rights available
Seascapes
Deadbeats, Dossers and Decent Skins
Tom MacSweeney
Frank Hopkins
978 185635 600 8
978 1 85635 591 9
HB – All rights available €12.99
A gripping collection of true stories that create a vivid picture of the scandalous and fantastic lives of infamous criminals and other leading Dublin personalities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
€6.99
Lists and explains meanings of Gaelic names.
Hidden Dublin
PB – All rights available
€16.99
A wonderful collection of some of the best stories by this master writer, actor and seanchaí (traditional storyteller).
€24.99
Seascapes has been broadcast on RTÉ radio for twenty years and in this book, Tom MacSweeney, RTÉ marine correspondent and presenter of the programme, includes some of the fascinating stories to feature in the show over those years.
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Bluett, Anthony / Things Irish
Evans, Mark / InQUIZition
978 1 85635 079 2 / PB / All rights available / €9.99 Things Irish provides the reader with an entertaining and informative view of Ireland.
978 1 85635 555 1 / PB / English language rights only / €12.99 Everyone has a quiz story. Usually it refers to a great question or a funny answer. InQUIZition is a quiz story about quizzes.
Cross, Eric / Tailor and Ansty, The 978 0 85342 050 7 / PB / All rights except France / €10.99 The Tailor and Ansty was banned soon after its first publication in 1942 and became the subject of much bitter controversy. It has become a modern Irish classic, promising to make immortal the Tailor and his irrepressible wife, Ansty.
Danaher, Kevin / In Ireland Long Ago 978 0 85342 781 0 / PB / All rights available / €10.95 The classic account of Irish folk life by a great folklorist.
Danaher, Kevin / Irish Customs and Beliefs 978 1 85635 442 4 / PB / All rights available / €9.95 Irish Customs and Beliefs is a book of stories and beliefs of all kinds of things to do with old Ireland: highwaymen and travelling people, the Irish Whiteboys, lost and hidden treasures.
Donegan, Maureen / Fables and Legends of Ireland 978 1 85635 441 7 / PB / All rights available / €9.99 In an Ireland much changed since giants and heroes strode across it, these tales of the bravery, cunning and heroism of some of Ireland’s favourite mythological characters are much in demand.
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Feehan, John M. / Secret Places of the Burren
Pirates executed in St Stephen’s Green; Mother Bungy’s ‘sink of sin’ in what is now Temple Bar; the Viking thingmote in College Green where human sacrifices took place; hidden holy wells under the city streets; these are just some of the things uncovered by Dubliner Frank Hopkins in this surprising and entertaining book.
Lenihan, Eddie / Defiant Irish Women
978 0 94664 505 3 / PB / All rights available / €10.99 John M. Feehan searches out the hidden corners of the Burren, those secluded places where time stands still and where nature speaks its secret language to the human spirit.
978 1 85635 188 1 / PB / All rights available / €9.99 This book tells the story of five Irish women who were unusual in a variety of ways – mostly because of their ruthlessness, political cunning or merely because they rebelled violently against the repressive mores of their times.
Feehan, John M. / Secret Places of the Shannon
Lenihan, Eddie / Devil is an Irishman, The
978 0 94664 509 1 / PB / All rights available / €10.99 John M. Feehan seeks out the secret places of the countryside dominated by the majestic River Shannon.
978 1 85635 609 1 / PB / All rights available / €9.99 Whether one is a night-rambler, a fisherman, a gambler or a plain ordinary farmer, there are certain things one does not do, certain conventions that must be obeyed, such as not fishing on Good Friday or talking to spectral figure in graveyards in the dead hours of the night.
Feehan, John M. / Secret Places of the West Cork Coast 978 0 94664 511 4 / PB / All rights available / €10.99 Cork has hundreds of miles of indented coastline and is regarded as one of the scenic jewels of the country.
Hopkins, Frank / Rare Old Dublin – Heroes, Hawkers and Whores 978 1 86023 154 4 / PB / All rights available / €12.99
Lenihan, Eddie / In Search of Biddy Early 978 0 85342 820 6 / PB / All rights available / €9.99 The very mention of Biddy Early’s name in any part of Ireland, especially in County Clare, releases an astonishing amount of stories about her cures, her magic bottle, her gift of prophecy and her many other curious talents.
Irish Interest
BACKLIST Lenihan, Eddie / In the Tracks of the West Clare Railway 978 1 85635 579 7 / PB / All rights available / €14.99 In the Tracks of the West Clare Railway paints an evocative picture of a time when the railway breathed life into West Clare.
Lenihan, Eddie / Long Ago by Shannonside 978 1 85635 392 2 / PB / All rights except Poland / €9.95 A heart-warming collection of colourful folk tales and stories which were told around the turf fire in days gone by.
Lyons, James / Legends of Cork 978 0 94796 267 8 / PB / All rights available / €10.00 A collection of the best folk tales from County Cork.
McMahon, Sean / Story of the Claddagh Ring, The 978 1 85635 473 8 / PB / All rights except Poland / €9.99 The Claddagh ring is a sought-after piece of jewellery and a symbol of romance the world over.
Merne, John G. / Handbook of Celtic Ornament, The 978 0 85342 403 1 / PB / All rights available / €9.99 A complete course in the construction and development of Celtic ornament with over 700 illustrations.
Murphy, Pat / Toss the Feathers: Irish Set Dancing 978 1 85635 115 7 / PB / All rights available / €14.99 This is the most comprehensive paperback ever published on set dancing. It contains sixty-one complete set dances.
Murphy, Pat / Flowing Tide: More Irish Set Dancing 978 1 85635 308 3 / PB / All rights available / €14.95 This book provides a selection of set dances, including some from the United States and Canada.
Murphy, Victoria / Ireland: Then and Now
O’Sullivan, Patrick / Country Diary: Year In Kerry
978 1 85635 608 4 / HB / All rights available / €24.99 Stunning photographic views of Ireland now and 100 years ago.
978 0 94796 276 0 / PB / All rights available / €10.00 A chronicle of the changing year in nature, along with tradition, legend, stories and anecdotes.
Ó Donnchadha, Diarmuid / Irish Phrasebook, The 978 0 85342 752 0 / PB / All rights available / €6.99 This little book is designed to help those who have some Irish but who are not confident.
O’Farrell, Padraic / Irish Blessings, Toasts & Curses 978 1 85635 463 9 / PB / All rights available / €9.99 The Irish had blessings, toasts and curses for every occasion, this collection reproduces them in all their charming glory.
O’Farrell, Padraic / Irish Proverbs and Sayings 978 0 85342 846 6 / PB / All rights available / €7.99 Padraic O’Farrell has gathered a rich harvest of wise sayings from the Irish countryside, the lips of great men, and the unspoilt fount of Irish folklore and legend.
O’Farrell, Padraic / Superstitions of Irish Country People 978 1 85635 440 0 / PB / All rights available / €9.95 Living in its fullest sense is still dear to the Irish country folk and is reflected in their customs. Going to work, to sea, to weddings, wakes – at all of these there are fascinating customs to be observed.
Ó Lubhaing, Bearnard / Ventry Calling 978 1 85635 481 3 / PB / All rights except Irish language / €12.99 A loving, frank look at life as Bearnard saw it in the village of his youth.
Rosenstock, Gabriel / Irish Proverbs in Irish and English 978 1 85635 282 6 / PB / All rights available / €7.99 Translated by poet Gabriel Rosenstock, these proverbs reveal the wit and wisdom of the Irish mind.
Ryan, Meda / Biddy Early: Wise Woman of Clare 978 1 85635 316 8 / PB / All rights available / €8.99 Arguments still persist as to whether Biddy was a witch or a person of God, because she possessed powers and natural gifts beyond the comprehension of those who knew her personally.
Sheehan, Seán / Dictionary of Irish Quotations, The 978 1 85635 052 5 / PB / All rights available / €9.95 This book contains a highly enjoyable and varied selection of interesting, informative, intriguing, infuriating – and sometimes just witty – remarks made by Irish people on a number of topical subjects.
Verling, Martin / Beara Woman Talking 978 1 85635 417 2 / PB / English language rights only / €14.95 This book is based on a collection of folklore taken down in 1950, 1951 and 1952 by Tadhg Ó Murchú, from Peig Minihane-O’Driscoll from the Beara Peninsula.
White, Carolyn / History of Irish Fairies 978 1 85635 009 9 / PB / All rights except US / €9.99 Whether you believe in fairies or not you cannot ignore them and here for the first time is a history of fairy life in Ireland.
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Rights highlights The Paupers’ Graveyard Gemma Mawdsley 978 1 85635 617 6
Féidhlim Harty
PB – All rights except US
978 1 85635 626 8
B format
PB – All rights available
€10.99
The Paupers’ Graveyard is a bonechilling debut novel, full of suspense as the legacy of the Great Famine collides with modern Ireland and ‘dream homes’ become the stuff of nightmares.
Working It Out John Masterson
A format
€8.99
Reduce, reuse and recycle your way to a better environment and a fatter wallet. Get Rid of your Bin is the new bible for saving money AND helping the planet.
Decoding the IRA
978 1 85635 447 9
Mahon, Thomas G. & Gillogly, James
PB – All rights except Korea
978 1 85635 604 6
B format
PB – All rights available
€12.95
From his hugely successful column in the Sunday Independent, Masterson enables people to look afresh at such topics as: office dynamics, confidence, motivation, change, finding yourself and daily mental work-outs.
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Get Rid of Your Bin and Save Money
215 x 135mm
€16.99
The authors have broken the IRA’s secret communications code, used to pass messages back and forth between Ireland and America from the 1920s until the 1930s – the results are explosive.
Rights highlights Riverside: The Street League
Penny the Pencil
Peter Regan
Eileen O’Hely
978 1 90173 746 3
978 1 85635 475 2
PB – All rights except Norwegian
PB – All rights except Korea
B Format
B Format
€5.99
€8.99
The first book in this highly popular soccer series introducing Jimmy, Chippy, Flintstone, Mad Victor and of course Mrs O’Leary. A hilarious account of one woman’s crusade to keep the neighbourhood children busy during the summer.
First in the award-winning series of the adventures of a clever little pencil called Penny. She is very good at spelling, maths and fighting off her arch enemy, the evil Black Texta!
Secret of the Ruby Ring, The
Moxie the Underdog
Yvonne MacGrory
Annie West
978 0 94796 264 7
978 185635 582 7
PB – All rights except US
PB – All rights available
B Format
250 x 250mm
€6.99
The original award-winning novel in the time travel adventure series. When she makes a wish on a special ring, elevenyear-old Lucy is transported from the present to a somewhat turbulent time in Ireland in 1885, where she must work as a servant until she can find a way back home.
€9.99
Everyone loves the underdog and Moxie carries a positive message about coping with bullying. Moxie the Underdog is a heartwarming story of courage against all odds.
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INDEX 1916: The Long Revolution 32
Bibeanna 53
Burning of Cork, The 35
30 Irish Adventures 41
Biddy Early: Wise Woman of Clare 55
Burnings 1920, The 21
50 Things you didn’t know about 1916
Big Maggie 8
Butler, Dermot 50
Clifford, Sigerson 7
Blake, Carla 49
Byrne, Patrick 52
Close the Wicket Gate 39
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Blasket Memories 37
A Alcock, Anne 51 All in Favour! 7 All the Way Back 7 Ambrose, Joe 30, 31, 32 Annie Moore: First in Line for America 14 Annie Moore: Golden Dollar Girl 17 Annie Moore: New York City Girl 17 Arrigan, Mary 16
The 9 Blessington Estate 1667-1908, The 35 Blood on the Banner, The Republican Struggle in Clare 21 Blood on the Streets: 1916 and the Battle for Mount St Bridge 34 Bluett, Anthony 54 Boghole Boys, The 7
Horrific Air Crashes 44
Coffin Ship, The Wreck of the Brig St.
C Caisleáin Óir 9 Callanan SJ, John 51 Campbell, Paul 50 Canaries 7 Candle in the Window: History of the Barony of Castleknock 33 Care to Remember: History of Nursing & Midwifery in Ireland 32
John 24 Coghe, Jean-Noël 37 Coghlan, Peg 53 Colm and the Lazarus Key 12 Compact History of Ireland 32 Con Cremin; Ireland’s Wartime Diplomat 33 Connolly, Jim 45 Connolly, S. E. 10
Bolger, Joan 47
Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane 7
Back up the Beanstalk 15
Book of Cavan Man Jokes, The 47
Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane.
Ballads of a Bogman 7
Book of Irish Children’s Jokes, The 46
Baptised in Blood: The Formation of the
Book of Irish Limericks, The 46
Celtic Myths and Legends 53
Contractors, The 8
Book of Kerryman Jokes, The 46
Change in Mame Fadden, The 8
Cook, Judith 31
Barry, Anthony 32
Boran, Pat 32
Chastitute, The 8
Cookie and Curley 15
Barry, Tom 35
Bradshaw, Paul 16
Chéad Chloch, An 9
Cookie the Cat 15
Béal Bocht, An 6
Brady, Marjorie 37
Children’s Book of Irish Folktales, The 16
Corkery, Tom 35
Beara Woman Talking 55
Breaking Ground: The Story of William T.
Children’s Parties 19
Corry, Michael 50
Children of the Forge 17
Counties of Contention 33
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Cork Brigade 34
Beat the Goatskin Till the Goat Cries 38
Mulvany 39
Vol 2 7
Conspiracy of Silence: UFO’s in Ireland 50 Contacted 51
Breen, Dan 35
Choosing a School 44
Country Diary: Year In Kerry 55
Brian Cowen: In his own Words 43
Circle of Daredevils 16
Course of Irish History, The 30
Best Friends 16
Brother Against Brother 32
Circle of Suspicion 16
Courtney, David 37
Best of John B. Keane, The 6
Bumper Book of Kerryman Jokes, The 47
Cith is Dealán 9
Cromwell’s Revenge 33
Beyond Prozac: Healing Mental Suffering
Buried Memories: David Marcus
Civil War in Connaught 34
Crosbie, Alan 42
Civil War in Kerry 32
Cross, Eric 54
Beneath Cannock’s Clock: The Last Man Hanged in Ireland 24
Without Drugs 50
58
Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories,
Cleared for Disaster: Ireland’s Most
Autobiography 38
INDEX Crowley, Kieran Mark 12
Diary of an Irish Countryman 38
Farrell, Liam 15
Culchie’s Guide to Dublin, The 45
Dictionary of Irish Quotations, The 55
Favourite Irish Legends in English &
Cullen, Bill 37
Disciples 8
Curious Case of the Mayo Librarian,
Doherty, Gabriel 32, 33
The 20
Don’t Call Me Boy! Hot Names for Cool Dogs 47
D Dad & the Mad Cow Roundabout 15
Don’t Leave it to the Children: Starting,
Dáil in the 21st Century, The 43 Damsel 10 Danaher, Kevin 16, 54 Dan Breen and the IRA 31 Dancing the Rainbow 51 Dark Corners 38 Days of Fear: Diary of a Hunger Striker 32 Dead Monks and Shady Deals 16 Deasy, Liam 32 De Bhaldraithe, Tomás 38 Decapitated Coffee Please, A 46 Decoding the IRA 31, 56 Defiant Irish Women 54 De Paor, Liam 32 Depression: an Emotion not a Disease
Irish 18 Favourite Poems We Learned in School 9 Favourite Poems We Learned in School as Gaeilge 9
G G.F. Woz Ere 11 Gaffney, Mike 42 Gallagher, Frank 32 Gallagher, Lynne 51 Galway & The Great War 32 Gerald Goldberg: A Tribute 38
Building and Sustaining a Family
Fealy, Gerard M. 32
Gerry Fitt - A Political Chameleon 39
Business 42
Feehan, John M. 38, 54
Get Rid of Your Bin and Save Money
Donegal Awakening, The: Donegal & The War of Independence 25
52, 56
Feehan, Mary 16, 46 Fenian Anthology, The 30
Ghost of Susannah Parry 17
Donegan, Maureen 54
Field, The 8
Gillogly, James 31, 56
Doyle, Tom 32
Fionuala the Glendalough Goat 18
Going West: Two Years Sailing Around
Do You Want a Miracle? 51
Fitzgibbon, Barbara 38
Drawing Made Easy 18
Fitzmaurice, Gabriel 6, 7, 11, 14, 15,
Dublin’s Fighting Story 27
38, 39, 40
Durango 8
Fitzpatrick, Richard 38
Dwyer, T. Ryle 20, 30, 32, 44
Flash Fox and Bono Bear 15
E Essential Gabriel Fitzmaurice, The 7 Evans, Mark 54
F
Flip ’n’ Flop and the Movies 16 Flip ’n’ Flop in Kerry 16 Flowing Tide: More Irish Set Dancing 55 Forgotten Heroes – Galway Soldiers of the Great War 1914–1918 32
the World 38 Goldilocks: The Babysitter from Hell 15 Good Mood Food 48 Good Times and Bad: From the Coombe to the Kremlin 37 Granny and the American Witch 16 Granny Green: Flying Detective 16 Granny Learns to Fly 16 Great Irish Famine, The 31 Great Irish Heroes 30 Great O’Neill, The 34
Fables and Legends of Ireland 54
Forty-Four Sycamore 7
Depuis, Nicola 28
Fallon, Johnny 43
Freney the Robber: The Noblest
De Valera’s Irelands 33
Famine in Cork City 34
Devil is an Irishman, The 54
Famine in West Cork 32
Full & Plenty: Classic Irish Cooking 48
Devine, Pauline 15, 16
Farrell, Bernard 7
Full & Plenty Vol. 2 49
H
Diarmait King of Leinster 32
Farrell, John 7
Furlong, Nicholas 32
Handbook of Celtic Ornament, The 55
50
Highwayman in Ireland 23
Groves, Patricia 25 Guerilla Days In Ireland 35 Gullan, Scott 40
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INDEX Happy Birthday 7
Hughes, Willie 51
Irish B&B Cookbook, The 49
Jokes from the Pubs of Ireland 46
Harrington, Niall 35
Humorous Irish Tales for Children 17
Irish Blessings, Toasts & Curses 55
Jones, Sheelagh 17
Harrison, Cora 15
Hungry Horse, The 15
Irish Cookbook, The 49
Joseph Walshe – Irish Foreign Policy
Harty, Féidhlim 52, 56 Hassett Henry, Terry 16
I
Haughey’s Forty Years of Controversy 44
I’ll Stop Tomorrow 50
Hawkins, Margaret 38
I’m Proud to be Me! 15
Head Rambles: With Ireland’s Most
I and the Village 7
Cantankerous Auld Fella 45
I Do Not Like Thee 7
Healy, Audrey 51
I Heard the Wild Birds Sing 39
Healy, James N. 46
Illustrated Favourite Poems we Learned
Healy, Sarah 32
in School 6
Henry & Sam Special Agents 18
In Exile 9
Henry, William 14, 24, 32
In Ireland Long Ago 54
Hickey, Des 39
In Praise of Football 40
Hickey, Patrick 32
InQUIZition 54
Hickey, Tony 15, 16, 17
In Search of Biddy Early 54
Hidden Cork: Charmers, Chancers and
In Search of the Liberty Tree 17
Cute Hoors 29 Hidden Dublin: Deadbeats, Dossers and Decent Skins 53 Highest House on the Mountain, The 8 High Meadow 8
In Search of The Promised Land, The Politics of Post-War Ireland, 19451961 29 In the Tracks of the West Clare Railway 55
Irish Fairy Tales 17 Irish Ghost Stories 52 Irish Legends for the Very Young 19 Irish Leprechaun Book, The 16 Irish Leprechaun Stories 14 Irish Names for Children 53 Irish Phrasebook, The 55 Irish Proverbs and Sayings 55 Irish Proverbs in Irish and English 55 Irish Short Stories 7 Irish Stories for Children 18 Irish Symbols of 3500 BC 34 Irish Tales of Mystery and Magic 14 Irish Wit 46 I Signed my Death Warrant, Michael Collins and the Treaty 32 Islanders 9 It’s a Long Way from Penny Apples 37 I Was A Teenage Catholic 39
History of Irish Fairies 55
In Too Deep 4
Hitler’s Irishmen 30
Introduction to Irish High Crosses 34
J
Holden, Michael 23
Ireland: Then and Now 55
J. M. Synge’s Aran Islands and
Hopkins, Frank 53, 54
Ireland’s IFSC: A Story of Global Financial
Horse called Harry, A 15 House, Don’t Fall On Me (A Thig Ná Tit Orm) 39
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Irish Customs and Beliefs 54
1922–1946 33 Joy of Pissing, The 47
K Kavanagh, Ray 38 Keane, John B. 5, 6, 7, 8 Keane O’Flynn, Joanna 5 Keaveney, J.J. 36 Keeper of the Crock of Gold, The 18 Keilty, Derek 15 Kelly, Éamon 53 Kenneally, Christy 38, 50 Kennedy, Patricia 32 Kennelly, Brendan 8 Kennelly, Paddy 8 Kennelly, Tadhg 40 Keogh, Clare 32 Keogh, Dermot 32, 33, 38 Keogh, Niall 33 Kerry’s Fighting Story 26 Kerry Landing 35 Kevin’s Bed 7
Connemara 6
Kevin O’Higgins 35 Kids Can Cook 19
Jesus Jokebook, The 47
Kids Can Cook around the World 19
Ireland’s Master Storyteller 53
Jitter in the Jungle 16
Kiely, Benedict 33
Ireland in World War Two 33
John B. 39
KilBride, Catherine 44
Success 42
INDEX Kuffner, Trish 50, 51
M
L
MacCurtain, Fionnuala 33
L’Attaque 9
MacGrory, Yvonne 17, 57
Mawdsley, Gemma 4, 56
Moore-Groarke, Dr Gillian 51
McCarthy, Andrew 33
More Favourite Poems We Learned in
McCarthy, Bairbre 14, 18
School 9
MacHale, Des 17, 46, 47
McCaughren, Tom 17, 18
Motherhood in Ireland 32
Macken, Ultan 18, 36
McLoughlin, Peter 33
Moxie the Underdog 19, 57
MacManus, Gerry 38
McMahon, Joanne 34
Mullan, Don 51
Last Apache Reunion 7
MacMonagle, Niall 8
McMahon, Kate 18
Mulligan, Ann 49
Laverty, Maura 48, 49
MacNamara, Brinsley 8
McMahon, Sean 30, 31, 33, 55
Mulligan, Frank 15
Lawlor, Pearse 21
MacSweeney, Tom 53
McVeigh, Joe 39
Mullins, Tom 18
Leamy, Edmund 17
Maeve and the Goodnight Trail 16
Méiní, the Blasket Nurse 38
Murphy, Kieran 49
Legacy of History, The 33
Maeve and the Long-Arm Folly 16
Merne, John G. 55
Murphy, Michael 39
Legend of the Corrib King 17
Magrath, Myler 46
Merriman, Brian 9
Murphy, Pat 55
Legend of the Golden Key 17
Maguire, Desmond 9
Meyler, Terry 18
Murphy, Professor Gary 29
Legend of the Phantom Highwayman 17
Mahon, Thomas G. 31, 56
Michael Collins: A Life in Pictures 30
Murphy, Sean 49
Legends of Cork 55
Making of the Irish Constitution, 1937,
Michael Collins: Himself 34
Murphy, Victoria 55
Michael Collins: The Man Who Won The
Murphy’s Ice Cream Book of Sweet
Lacey, Jim 33 Landscape with Cracked Sheep 16
Lenihan, Eddie 14, 17, 54, 55 Lenihan, Michael 29 Letters from the Great Blasket 39 Life After Loss: Helping the Bereaved 50 Limerick’s Fighting Story 26 Little Book of John B. Keane 8 Long Ago by Shannonside 55 Loughrey, Eithne 14, 17 Lovers at Versailles 7 Love Story of W.B Yeats & Maud Gonne
The 33 Mamie Cadden – Backstreet Abortionist 38 Mangan, James J. 33 Mansergh, Martin 33 Many Happy Returns 7
War 20 Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State 33 Michael Collins and the Women who Spied for Ireland 34
Many Young Men of Twenty 8
Midnight Court 9
Marcus, David 38
Milestones in Irish History 32
Martha and the Ruby Ring 17
Mná na hÉireann, Women Who Shaped
Martin, F. X. 30
Ireland 28
Things 49 Murray, Helen 33 Murray, Raymond 44 Murtagh the Warrior 18 My Fight For Irish Freedom 35 My Village, My World 38
N Na gCopaleen, Myles 6
Martin, Seamus 37
Moll 8
Nally, Carl 50
Martin, Stephen J. 6, 8
Moloney Up And At It 8
Neeson, Eoin 9, 53
Lusitania – An Irish Tragedy 33
Masterson, John 51, 56
Molony, Senan 33
Nerney, Teresa 51
Lynch, Dr Terry 50
Matchless Mice in Space 17
Moody, T. W. 30
Newman, Roger C. 18
Lynch, Patricia 17
Matson, Leslie 38
Moore, Tessa 15
Ní Dheirg, Iosold 18
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INDEX Nine Lives 37
O’Sullivan, J. J. 39
Ní Shúilleabháin, Brenda 53
O’Sullivan, Patrick 39, 55
Ní Shúilleabháin, Eibhlís 39
O’Toole, Michael 44
Pettigrew, Vera 18, 39
Real Chief, Liam Lynch 34
Nolan, Aengus 33
Ó Conaire, Pádraic 9
Phoenix Park Murders, The 33
Really Rotten Rhymes 14
Nolan, John E. 23
Ó Donnchadha, Diarmuid 55
Pierce, Valerie 42
Rebel Cork’s Fighting Story 27
Nolan, Liam 23
Ó Duibhir, Liam 25
Pirate Queen, The Life of Grace O’Malley
Rebel Heart: George Lennon: Flying
No Lovelier City 32
Off the Wall 8
Norman Invasion Of Ireland 35
Ó Gadhra, Nollaig 34
Place Too Small for Secrets 8
Ó Grianna, Séamus 9
Playboy of the Western World, The 9
Ó Lubhaing, Bearnard 55
Poems from the Irish 6
On Another Man’s Wound 35
Poets and Poetry of the Great Blasket 9
O O’Brien, Caimin 33 O’Brien, Colm 42 O’Brien, Paul 34 O’Callaghan, Billy 4, 9 O’Connor, John 35 O’Connor, Richard 45 O’Doherty, Malachí 39 O’Donnell, Peadar 9 O’Driscoll, Mervyn 33 O’Faolain, Seán 34 O’Farrell, Mick 22, 34
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One Day in My Life 44 Ó Ruairc, Pádraig Óg 21 Osborne, Chrissy 30, 34 Ó Scannláin, Séamas 9 Ó Sé, Maidhc Dainín 39 Ó Tuairisc, Eoghan 9 Our Grannies’ Recipes 49 Our Struggle for Independence 22 Over the Counter 32
Petticoat Rebellion, The Anna Parnell story 25
31
Rare Old Dublin - Heroes, Hawkers and Whores 54
Column Commander 28 Rebel Ireland: Easter Rising to Civil War 33 Rector Who Wouldn’t Pray for Rain, The 39
Póg Mo Stone 47
Reddan, Fiona 42
Póirtéir, Cathal 31
Reddin, Brian 15
Pompeii Syndrome, The 9
Redican, Noel 34
Powder Monkey, The 19
Regan, Peter 18, 19, 57
Power, Patrick C. 9
Remember its for Ireland: Family Memoir
Preschooler’s Busy Book, The 50
of Tomás MacCurtain 33
Proclamation of 1916, The 35
Restless Spirit 38
Psychic Kids 51
Return of the Big Bad Wolf 15
Purcell, Eoin 49
Rhino’s Specs, The 15
Puzzleology 17
Rice, David 9
Q
Richardson, Hilary 34
O’Farrell, Padraic 55
P
O’Halloran, Anthony 43
Paddy the Englishman … Jokes 47
O’Hanlon, Lani 51
Paupers’ Graveyard, The 4, 56
O’Hely, Eileen 13, 14, 15, 57
Pearse, Pádraic 9
O’Mahony, Michelle 34
Penny Goes Undercover 15
R
O’Mahony Walters, Johanna 39
Penny in Space 13
Rafferty, John 41
Riverside: Dynamo Rouge 18
O’Malley, Ernie 35
Penny the Athlete 15
Raftery, Deirdre 44
Riverside: Exit Point 18
O’Reilly, Terence 22, 28, 30
Penny the Pencil 13, 14, 57
Raids & Rallies 35
Riverside: Loot! 18
O’Shea, Brendan 34, 35
Penny the Star 15
Rainbows of the Moon 17
Riverside: Scout 18
Quest for the Ruby Ring, The 17 Quick Thinking on Your Feet 42
Riddle, Prof. Jimmy 47 Ride a Pale Horse 18 Ride On 8 Riders by the Grey Lake 16
INDEX Riverside: Setbacks 18
Secret of the Ruby Ring, The 17
Riverside: Soccer Samba 18
Secret Places of the Burren 54
Riverside: Spring Fever 18
Secret Places of the Shannon 54
Riverside: The Croke Park Conspiracy 18
Secret Places of the West Cork Coast 54
Riverside: The Curse 18
Secret Victory 23
Stella by Starlight 7
Riverside: The London Trip 19
Semple, Pat 39
Stories from a Sacred Landscape 33
Tom Barry, IRA Freedom Fighter 31
Riverside: The Movie 19
Shadows of Doubt 34
Stories of Old Ireland for Children 17
Tom Corkery’s Dublin 35
Riverside: The Spy 19
Shannon Harps 19
Story of Daniel O’Connell, The 18
Toss the Feathers: Irish Set Dancing 55
Riverside: The Street League 18, 57
Shannon Harps 2: Something New 19
Story of Michael Collins, The 18
Towards Ireland Free 32
Riverside v City Slickers 19
Shannon Harps 3: A Fresh Start 19
Story of the Claddagh Ring, The 55
Tracey, Monica 9
Roberts, Jack 34
Sharkey, Niamh 19
Strange Irish Tales for Children 17
Trant, Kathy 35
Robert Whyte’s Famine Ship Diary
Sharon’s Grave 8
Street, The 8
Trial of the Big Bad Wolf, The 15
Sheehan, Seán 55
Superchick 6
True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The
Sheela-na-Gigs of Ireland and Britain,
Superstitions of Irish Country People 55
1847 33 Roche, Richard 35 Rock and a Hard Place 8
The 34
Squad, The, The Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins 30 State Violence: Northern Ireland 19691997 44
Supreme Sacrifice: The Story of Éamonn
Things Irish 54 Thomas, N.L. 34 Timber Twig 18 Tír na nÓg – A New Adventure 14 Toddlers Busy Book, The 51
15 Tubridy, Áine 50
Róise Rua 36
Short History of Dublin, A 32
Ceannt 32
Two Mad Dogs 15
Rory Gallagher 37
Short History of Ireland, A 31
Synge, J. M. 6, 9
Tyers, Pádraic 37
Rosenstock, Gabriel 15, 55
Short Stories of John B. Keane 5
Ryan, Meda 31, 34, 55
Short Stories of Pádraic Pearse 9
T
U
Rynne, Dr Andrew 39
Showers, Brian J. 9
Tadhg Kennelly 40
Ua Cnáimhsí, Pádraig 36
Silent Sea, The 18
Unweaving the Thread 9
S
Tailor and Ansty, The 54
Singing Flame, The 35
Táin, An 9
Urban Heroes 19
Sands, Bobby 44
Sive 5, 8
Taking a Stand 39
Save the Unicorns 17
Skehan, Donal 48
Tales Of Irish Enchantment 17
V
Say Cheese 7
Slave Coast 19
Tans, Terror & Troubles: Kerry’s Real
Scarry, John 34
Slow Time 8
Sea Angling in Ireland 41
Small Wonders 38
Teen Glory 19
Seán Treacy and the Tan War 32
Smith, Gus 39
That’ll Never Work: Success Stories
Seascapes 53
Spirit of Annie Ross 7
Seascape with Barber’s Harp 16
Spirits of the Attic, The 16
Fighting Story 32
From Private Irish Business 42 That Touch of Magic 18
Valley of the Squinting Window 8 Vasectomy Doctor, The – A Memoir 39 Ventry Calling 55 Verling, Martin 55
W Walk Through Rebel Dublin 1916 34
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INDEX Wall, Bill 19 Walsh, Dermot 24 Walsh, Pat 20 Walsh, Thomas F. 6, 9 Walter Macken: Dreams on Paper 36 Ward, Noel 16 Watch Your Weight 51 Watering the Desert with Tony de Mello 51 Webb, Sarah 19 West, Annie 19, 57 What do Rabbits Think 15 What Lies Beneath: Women and their Underwear 33 Whelan, Diarmuid 38 Where’s Jacko? 15 Where Clare Leads, Ireland Follows 38 Where The River Flows; Annamoe Rectory 39 White, Carolyn 55 White, Gerry 34, 35 White, Terence de Vere 35 Witch at Batsford Castle, The 16 Woman in Search of Wholeness 51 Woods, Padraic 41 Workhouses of Ireland, The 35 Working It Out 51, 56 Wormdigger’s Daughter, The 7 Writings from Prison 44
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Y Year of the Hiker, The 8 Young Champions 19