Best of Irish Non Fiction Books 2025

The follow up to 2022’s best-selling Three Castles Burning is here. Historian and Podcaster Donal Fallon returns with this exciting social and cultural history of that most venerable institution, the...

The two opposing political figures that shaped Irish life in the 1980s and beyond.In the 1980s, Irish politics was dominated by a fierce rivalry between Charles J. Haughey and Dr...

'Moving and insightful' - Rosanna DavisonRemarkably honest, brutally heroic and darkly humorous memoir following a devastating diagnosis of early onset Parkinson's disease.Twitch is a frank and funny memoir about picking...

On frosty nights, as he sits by a flickering fire, Michael Harding withdraws into the stillness of winter and begins to reckon with age and death.As stories emerge from the...

LIFE LESSONS FROM AN F1 LEGENDEddie Jordan was one of a kind, a maverick F1 team boss, a brilliant mentor and amagnet for talent. He believed in going all in,...

Step back into a world where turf fires warmed the hearth, water was drawn from the well, and stories told by flickering candlelight lit up the night more brightly than...

Beneath the Surface is the powerful and deeply human memoir from No.1 bestselling author and renowned mental health advocate Dr. Harry Barry. In this moving life story, Dr. Barry pulls...

The prospect of Irish unification is now stronger than at any point since partition in 1921. Voters on both sides of the Irish border may soon have to confront for...

Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea.Ireland has a rich history of famous - and infamous - mariners: from our...

Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been overshadowed by those of men.Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of their husband's work, as collaborators, muses,...

'In the stories which follow I hope that the rivers will speak to you.'Flowing from source to sea, our rivers are the life-blood of Ireland. They have shaped the landscape,...

Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland's fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely...

She Died Young is the literary work of an astonishing mind in which intellect, madness, art and raw honesty unite. It is as far from a 'celebrity memoir' as you...

For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights.These...

Leo Varadkar shares his fascinating experience as Irish prime minister ata time of much change and turbulence, in this remarkably honestmemoir.Leo Varadkar was an unlikely Taoiseach – the youngest on...

A story that grips IrelandWhen recently widowed Jason Corbett hired a wholesome young American, Molly Martens, to care for his two young children, there was nothing to suggest she was...

In this groundbreaking book, renowned global economist David McWilliams unlocks the mysteries and the awesome power of money: what it is, how it works and why it matters. Money is...

What is it like to run for election? How do public representatives deal with the cut-throat competition from their rivals - and their own running mates? What's the Dail bar...

THE NO. 1 BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024'As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ... It's Kitchen Confidential for tennis.' Ed Caesar'Well...

It's not every day you meet a golden retriever in Thailand. When Niall came across a dog shackled to a short chain and in a poor state of health, something...

Nobel Prize in Literature 1995'More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of.' John...

'A powerful and poignant memoir that transforms loss into a legacy of love and hope' Katriona O'Sullivan, bestselling author of PoorAt approximately 3.15 a.m. on 2 August 2015, eight-year-old Irish...

Our ancestors developed a uniquely nature-focused society, centred on esteemed poets, seers, monks, healers and wise women who were deeply connected to the land. They used this connection to the...