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    Read the tales of some of the most famous and influential individuals from Ireland. These Irish biography books are sure to provide you with new insights.

    Brian Hughes: Michael Mallin [2012] paperback

    €7.99€9.99

    Executed in Kilmainham Gaol on 8 May 1916, Michael Mallin had commanded a garrison of rebels in St Stephen's Green and the College of Surgeons during Easter Week. He was...

    Bloomsbury: Beckett Remembering: Remembering Beckett [2006] hardback

    €14.99€18.99

    Samuel Beckett was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century literature; he was also famously reclusive. Here, in these intimate interviews conducted by his biographer, James Knowlson, Beckett and his...

    John Banville: TIME PIECES Z16 [2016] hardback

    €11.99€16.99

    'If you're interested in Dublin, or if you're interested in the novelist John Banville, or if you're interested in radiantly superb sentences about whatever - I'm all three - then...

    Mc Mahon Carmel: In Ordinary Time [2024] paperback

    €13.00

    In 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying two suitcases and a ton of unseen baggage. It took years, and a bitter struggle with alcohol...

    John Mcgahern: Memoir [2005] hardback

    €12.99€39.99

    This is the story of John McGahern's childhood; of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement, and his own discovery of literature and his ambition to become a writer....

    Michael Harding: Chest Pain [2019] paperback

    €4.99€9.99

    In late 2018, Michael Harding was in a hotel room in Blanchardstown experiencing severe pains in his chest. He eventually phoned an ambulance and was admitted to hospital, suffering from...

    Gorman Colm O: BEYOND BELIEF - Z [2010] paperback

    €3.99€4.99

    'I was living in a world where a priest who spoke the words of God used me for sex, and there was no-one to tell. The world where this horror...

    Una Minh Kavanagh: Anseo [2019] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    In 2013, Una-Minh Kavanagh, a young journalist and content creator, was racially abused and spat upon in Dublin's city centre. Having dealt with racism throughout her young life, this proud...

    Glen Patterson: Here's Me Here [2015] paperback

    €4.99€9.99

    Here's Me Here: Further Reflections of a Lapsed Protestant features a wide and thought-provoking selection of Glenn Patterson's writings. With his trademark wit and intelligence, Patterson offers his wry take...

    Francis Brennan: Francis Brennan's Book of Household Management [2017] hardback

    €5.99€8.99

    Francis Brennan is known for his impeccable taste and high standards in homemaking, so there's no better man to tell you how to wash your sheets, clean your oven and...

    Patrick Treacy: Behind the Mask [2015] paperback

    €4.99€6.99

    This is the story of a boy from a small Irish village who became an adventurer, a humanitarian and a doctor to the stars. Part travelogue, part thriller, part celebrity...

    Yewande Biala: Reclaiming: Essays on finding yourself one piece at a time [2022] paperback

    €4.99€5.99

    Reclaiming is a brilliantly written and thought-provoking book. Through amazing story telling, Yewande highlights the richness in her culture that so many other black women can relate to. It was...

    Stephanie Hickey: Running From the Shadows [2021] paperback

    €4.99

    In Running from the Shadows Stephanie Hickey tells, in her own words, how she survived abuse at the hands of a trusted family member and of how running, a simple...

    Niall Breslin: Me and My Mate Jeffrey [2015] paperback

    €1.99€7.99

    'When my legs went from underneath me and my breath stopped coming, just minutes before we were due to go live on The Voice, I knew this was panic at...

    Live While You Can: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and the Power of Acceptance [2019] hardback

    €3.99€14.99

    Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to...

    Eina Mchugh: To Call Myself Beloved [2012] paperback

    €2.99€3.99

    Written in an engrossing novelesque style, yet with nothing fictional included, the book recounts, with engaging honesty, the arc of one human journey in a Belfast-based therapy from 1988-1997. To...

    Emma Hannigan: Talk to the Headscarf [2011] paperback

    €4.99€6.99

    Emma Hannigan was thirty-two and married with two small children when she found out that she had an 85 per cent chance of developing cancer.Over the following year she had...

    Jonathan Joly: All My Friends Are Invisible: the inspirational childhood memoir [2022] paperback

    €6.99€9.99

    *A mesmeric, harrowing and uplifting childhood memoir that will open up much-needed conversations about identity and mental health*'This will blow you away'- Stylist'Joly's prose is sensitive and heartbreaking...darkly compelling' -...

    Frances Reilly: Suffer The Little Children [2009] paperback

    €6.99€8.99

    The heartbreaking yet inspiring account of a young girl who suffered at the hands of nuns in the Nazareth House Convent in Northern Ireland.Frances Reilly and her sisters were abandoned...

    Sally Phipps: Molly Keane [2018] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    Molly Keane (1904 - 96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for Good Behaviour which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Hailed as...

    Kerri ni Dochartaigh: Cacophony of Bone [2023] paperback

    €14.30

    LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITINGA WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: NATURE AND TRAVELWhen Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the...

    Kavanagh: Click, Click [2012] paperback

    €3.99€9.99

    A true story of abuse. Three sisters. A shattered Irish childhood.Joyce, June and Paula Kavanagh were three sisters born to a family of ten in Ballyfermot, Dublin in the 1960s....

    Michael Clifford: A Force for Justice [2018] paperback

    €4.99€7.99

    THE UPDATED BESTSELLERSergeant Maurice McCabe never set out to be a whistleblower. When, in 2008, he complained of shoddy investigations into serious crime in County Cavan, nothing could have prepared...

    Sally Phipps: Molly Keane: A Life [2017] hardback

    €6.99€7.99

    Molly Keane (1904 - 96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for Good Behaviour which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Hailed as...

    Gabriel Fitzmaurice: House, Don't Fall on Me [2007] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    This is the story of a young boy growing up in the West Kerry Gaeltacht in the 1940s and 1950s. It describes the fun and games of his schooldays, his...

    Majella Moynihan: A Guarded Life: My story of the dark side of An Garda Síochána [2021] paperback

    €5.99€9.99

    A GARDA, A FORCED ADOPTION, A FIGHT FOR JUSTICEIn 1984, Majella Moynihan was a fresh-faced young garda recruit when she gave birth to a baby boy. Charged with breaching An...

    Des Bishop: My Dad Was Nearly James Bond [2012] paperback

    €1.00€1.99

    For years acclaimed comedian Des Bishop wanted to write a show about his father. Mike Bishop was a model and actor who gave up that life to become a hard-working...

    Trevis Gleason: Chef Interrupted: Discovering Life's Second Course in Ireland with Multiple Sclerosis [2017] paperback

    €4.99€6.99

    In April 2001, Trevis Gleason was a chef on the rise. Then one day he suffered a stroke-like episode and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. He lost everything - his...

    Shaneda Daly: Sins of the Father: Abused by my father every day for a decade, this is my story of survival [2022] paperback

    €8.99€16.90

    'One of Ireland's most powerful campaigners' The Kavanagh SistersI look back now and see that I never stood a chance. It's hard when you realise your whole childhood was taken...

    Julia O'Faolain: Trespassers [2022] paperback

    €2.99€5.99

    Her mother, who wrote vivid versions of old Irish folk tales, once said of the Irish Civil War: 'In those days... fear kept you from sleeping, but also from getting...

    Colm Keane: FOREWARNED Z [2011] paperback

    €3.99€4.99

    Forewarned - the follow-up to Colm Keane's No. 1 bestseller Going Home and The Distant Shore - is a riveting collection of stories concerning premonitions and predictive dreams. Featuring 60...

    Rourke Mary O: LETTERS OF MY LIFE Z90 [2016] hardback

    €5.99€9.99

    As she turns 80, Mary O'Rourke writes a letter to 20 people, past and present, close and distant, living and deceased.To her beloved brother, Paddy ... to the Athlone Fianna...

    Kevin Toolis: My Father's Wake [2017] paperback

    €3.99€4.99

    Death is a whisper in the Anglo-Saxon world. But on a remote island, off the coast of County Mayo, death has a louder voice. Along with reports of incoming Atlantic...

    Ed O'Loughlin: The Last Good Funeral of the Year: A Memoir [2022] hardback

    €5.99

    Soon, the lockdown would start. People would die alone, without any proper ceremony. Charlotte's death would be washed away, the first drop in a downpour. Nobody knew it then but...

    Stefanie Preissner: Can I Say No?: One Woman's Battle with a Small Word [2020] paperback

    €4.99

    For most of her life, Stefanie Preissner was a people-pleaser. From hair-raising sleepovers and endless offers of cake to unwanted second dates and unrealistic work demands, she said yes to...

    Ellen Keane: Perfectly Imperfect [2023] hardback

    €17.99

    Ellen Keane spent most of her teens uncomfortable with her limb difference. Hiding behind long-sleeved hoodies, she perfected poses in photographs and concealed her insecurities. How did she go from...

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