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    The Disappeared : Forced Disappearances in Ireland 1798-1998 by Padraig Og O Ruairc

    Original price was: £18.99.Current price is: £13.29.

    The spectre of ‘The Disappeared’, those abducted by the IRA, secretly executed and their bodies buried in remote bogs, lakes and woodlands, has overshadowed the debate around the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland for the last two decades. This book, the first of its kind, uncovers the extent to which ‘forced disappearances’ were…

  • 100 Poems – Seamus Heaney

    £12.99

    Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this in his lifetime, and no edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first collection to last. But now, at last, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family.

    Coinciding with the National Library of Ireland launching a major exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Seamus Heaney, 100 Poems is a singular, accessible collection for new and younger readers that has the opportunity to reach far and wide, now and for years to come.

  • Abandoned Ireland by Rebecca Brownlie

    £24.99

    Abandoned Ireland travels the length and breadth of the island of Ireland visiting and documenting our forgotten buildings, highlighting their social importance, and bringing their stories back to life through the medium of photography. From Big Houses to humble cottages, schools to prisons, churches to dance halls, these buildings may now be abandoned, but they are…

  • An Irish Folklore Treasury : A selection of old stories, ways and wisdom from The Schools’ Collection by John Creedon

    £23.99

    In this people’s history of Ireland, John Creedon introduces a fascinating collection of stories from the Schools’ Collection. This treasure trove of old stories, ways and wisdom, which could have been lost for ever, was collected by schoolchildren as part of a nationwide project set up in the 1930s to preserve Irish folklore. Published here…

  • Bad Bridget : Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women by Elaine Farrell & Leanne McCormick

    £9.99

    Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many, many young women who travelled on their own, hoping for a better life. Some lived lives of quiet industry and piety. Others quickly found themselves in…

  • Bear In Mind These Dead by Susan McKay

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    Nearly 4,000 people were killed over the thirty or so years of the Northern Irish Troubles. And the killings were as intimate as they were brutal. Neighbours murdered neighbours.

    Susan McKay’s book explores the difficult legacy of this conflict for families, friends and communities. By interviewing those who loved the missing and the dead, as well as some who narrowly survived, McKay gives a voice to those who are too often overlooked in the political histories. Old enemies are now in government together in Belfast, and the killing has all but stopped, but peace can only endure if the dead can finally be laid to rest.

    Bear in Mind These Dead is a moving and important contribution to that process.

  • Blazing a Trail : Irish Women Who Changed the World by Sarah Webb

    £14.99

    A book for everyone who dreams of changing the world. From fearless aviator, Lady Mary Heath, the first woman in the world to parachute from an aeroplane, to Margaret Bulkley, the 18th-century surgeon who lived as a man, meet 28 remarkable Irish women who have taken the world by storm. You may have already heard…

  • Brian Boru: Warrior King

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    Learn about the life and times of Brian Boru in the second book in John & Fatti Burke’s Little Library. Get ready to make your knowledge a bit bigger by learning all about the warrior king that was Brian Boru. Brian Boru grew up in a large warrior family over 1,000 years ago in Killaloe,…

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    Carl Frampton by Carl Frampton & Paul D. Gibson

    Original price was: £14.99.Current price is: £8.99.

    Belfast’s Carl ‘The Jackal’ Frampton MBE is no ordinary boxer. One of only three fighters from the British Isles to be named the Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year, he has headlined multiple sell-out world championship bouts on both sides of the Atlantic, winning multiple world titles in the process. His dedicated army of fans…

  • Eyewitness to War and Peace by Eamonn Mallie 

    £17.99

    In this gripping memoir, Eamonn Mallie takes us on an extraordinary journey through his life as a journalist in Northern Ireland. From the frontlines of the Troubles to the corridors of power, Mallie’s fearless reporting and unrelenting pursuit of the truth have made him a legendary figure in Irish journalism. Having gained unparalleled access to…

  • Frank Pantridge MC : Japanese Prisoner of War and Inventor of the Portable Defibrillator by Cecil Lowry

    £14.99

    Countless thousands of men and women around the world have good reason to be thankful that Frank Pantridge survived three and a half years of brutal Japanese captivity. Had he not, they too would in all probability have died too. Taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore in February 1942 Frank was forced to endure…

  • From the Gaeltacht to Galicia: A Son’s Tale by Paul Murray (Signed by the author)

    £11.99

    As a POW of the Japanese for 42 months in Singapore and Japan between 1942 and 1945, the author’s father – Major Francis J. Murray – kept a secret diary in the form of love letters to the woman who was to become his wife. In 2017 his son Paul used this diary to follow…

  • Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by W.B. Yeats

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    This handsome hardback edition presents Yeat’s enthralling tales from Ireland’s oral history, with delightful illustrations, gilded page edges and a striking gold-embossed cover design. One of Ireland’s greatest writers, the Nobel-prize winner W. B. Yeats was fascinated by the myths and folklore of his native country. Compiled by Yeats in 1892, these stories were collected…

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    Michael Viney’s Natural World by Michael Viney. Foreward by Michael Longley

    Original price was: £15.99.Current price is: £11.99.
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    No Peace Until He’s Dead: My Story of Child Abuse at the Hands of Davy Tweed and my Journey to Recovery by Amanda Brown

    Original price was: £16.99.Current price is: £13.99.

    In this candid memoir, Amanda Brown chronicles the unimaginable sexual abuse she suffered from the age of eight at the hands of her stepfather, Davy Tweed. A lauded rugby player for both Ulster and Ireland, a DUP councillor and prominent Orangeman, Tweed maintained the veneer of upstanding citizen through his political and sporting life, yet…

  • Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People by Susan McKay

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    First published in 2000, ‘Northern Protestants – An Unsettled People’ was an instant success and is widely recognised as a ground-breaking book. Based on over sixty in-depth interviews with a wide range of northern Protestants, Susan McKay presents an uncompromising and clear-eyed examination of her own people – the Protestants of Northern Ireland. Her analysis of the upheavals within the Protestant community and unionist politics is a thought-provoking contribution to current debates about Northern Ireland.

    This updated edition includes a new introduction, and provides the backdrop to her new title ‘Northern Protestants – On Shifting Ground’.

  • Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground by Susan McKay

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    Twenty years on from her critically acclaimed book, ‘Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People’, Susan McKay talks again to the Protestant community in Northern Ireland. Based on almost 100 brand-new interviews, and told with McKay’s trademark passion and conviction, this is essential reading. This new title will be accompanied by a new edition of ‘Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People’.

    Containing interviews with politicians, former paramilitaries, victims and survivors, business people, religious leaders, community workers, young people, writers and others, it tackles controversial issues, such as Brexit, paramilitary violence, the border, the legacy of the Troubles, same-sex marriage and abortion, RHI, and the possibility of a United Ireland, and explores social justice issues and campaigns, particularly the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights. Interviewees include: Eileen Weir, Dee Stitt, Dawn Purvis, Chrissie Quinn, Clare Sugden, Toni Ogle, Kyle Black, Sammy Wilson and others, and ties in to topical debates around identity in the context of Brexit and the centenary of the foundation of Northern Ireland. Susan McKay is an award-winning writer and commentator and contributes regularly to print and broadcast media, including Guardian/Observer, New York Times, Irish Times and London Review of Books.

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    Old Ireland in Colour 3

    Original price was: £21.99.Current price is: £16.49.

    A follow-up to the lavishly illustrated Old Ireland in Colour, Old Ireland in Colour 2 celebrates more of the rich history of Ireland and the Irish from all walks of life and from all four provinces, as well as the Irish abroad, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in unique colourised photographs.