Irish - All Irish Books

We're in the midst of a global economic crisis and a domestic economic disaster. But enough of the hand-wringing. Where did this all come from, where are we now and,...

Ireland has been marketed as the poster boy of EU austerity. EU elites and neoliberal commentators claim that the country's ability to suffer economic pain will attract investors and generate...

A devastating new expose from the bestselling authors of The Bankers and Wasters.In March 2011, the Irish people elected a new government. But how much had really changed? In The...

The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) was created in 2009 to contain the spiralling fallout from Ireland's property and banking collapse. Its job was to get the maximum return from...

In boom and in bust, Ireland has been led by Fianna Fail. "Showtime" gets behind the party's remarkable dominance of the political landscape and leading political writer Pat Leahy, tells...

Politics in Ireland is something of a national obsession. Despite a decline in voter turnout in recent general elections, politics still attracts huge interest and controversy. Powerful political figures like...

This is the story of Haughey's controversial career, from the 1960s to date, drawing extensively on personal recollection. The book is a reissue of Ryle Dwyer's "Haughey's Thirty Years of...

One of the most powerful legacies of the Easter Rising of 1916 is the Proclamation of Independence. Its words - 'The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and...

In this book, Rafter takes a look at political development of Fine Gael since its inception and assesses the impact of Enda Kenny's leadership on its current and future direction.

As late as 2007, Anglo Irish Bank was a darling of the markets, internationally recognized as one of the fastest growing financial institutions in the world. By 2008, it was...

Desmond O'Malley's career coincided with one of the most intense periods in Irish political life. In this landmark political memoir he offers fresh insights into the events that have shaped...

Where is Ireland's soul? This is the question that surface time and again in "Ireland Unhinged", a searching, sometimes scathing, often hilarious journey through a country that in the space...

Today one political party stands on the verge of governing in both parts of Ireland. That party is Sinn Fein - the long-time political wing of the Irish Republican Army,...

If the government's policies are pursued then the state will issue one tenth of a trillion Euros in national debt in the space of 18 months. In real numbers, this...

Much more than another political memoir, this is an honest, no-punches-pulled account of Irish politics by a man who served as a Dail Deputy for thirty-six years, including a revealing...

What makes the Irish unique? Why do over 70 million people worldwide embrace their Irish heritage? What does it mean to be Irish today? These and other questions are addressed...

After the French and Dutch electorates decisively rejected the EU Constitution at the polls in 2005, the Irish delivered a resounding 'Third No' in June 2008, triggering a political earthquake...

Let the bores blabber on about the importance of transfers in the fifteenth count - Never Make a Promise You Can't Break gets to the heart of politics in Ireland...

Bertie Ahern, three times Irish Taoiseach, is often described as an enigma. The Old IRA man's son who delivered peace in Northern Ireland. A working class boy responsible for the...

Ireland's best-known journalist, broadcaster, historian and bestselling biographer Tim Pat Coogan has not only reported the news - he's been the news. Through the Irish Press, where he served as...

David Andrews was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs under Jack Lynch's government in 1977. However, as a vocal critic of Charles Haughey, he was confined...