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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.

    June Goulding: The Light In The Window [2005] paperback

    €5.99€19.50

    'I promised that I would one day write a book and tell the world about the home for unmarried mothers. I have at last kept my promise.'In Ireland, 1951, the...

    Rory O'Connor: Gander at the Gate [2001] paperback

    €4.99€9.99

    Gander at The Gate is the story of a rural Irish childhood in Knocknagoshel, Kerry, in the thirties. Through the eyes of a son of the local schoolmaster, this beautifully...

    Malachy McCourt: A Monk Swimming [1999] paperback

    €5.99€19.50

    An entertaining memoir of a rollicking life in New York of an Irish immigrant. The title is derived from the young Malachy's mishearing of the words 'amongst women' in Hail...

    Merlin Holland: The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde [2000] hardback

    €50.00

    This edition marks the centenary of Oscar Wilde's death, and is the most complete ever to appear. It contains over 1500 of his letters, and anyone unfamiliar with Wilde as...

    Kevin Myers: Watching The Door [2006] hardback

    €9.99€19.99

    As an Irish Catholic raised in Leicester, fresh from University College Dublin with a first in History, Kevin Myers is sent north to work for the Belfast bureau of RTE...

    Frank Mcdonald: Truly Frank [2018] hardback

    €9.99€26.00

    'Without doubt, it's the memoir of the year' Irish IndependentPassionate, gossipy, opinionated and seriously entertaining, Truly Frank is an instant classic of journalistic memoir. Journalist Frank McDonald is best known...

    Kevin Myers: A Single Headstrong Heart [2016] hardback

    €8.99€9.99

    Very funny, quirky and touching, A Single Headstrong Heart describes in a first-person narrative the author's childhood up to the early years of his career as a journalist and his...

    Rosie Meleady: A Rosie Life In Italy [2024] paperback

    €14.99

    Accidentally buying a derelict 22-room villa in the Italian countryside? What could possibly go wrong?When Rosie Meleady's landlady doubles her rent in cold, wet, overpriced Ireland, she packs up her...

    Antoinette Quinn: 9780717136438 [2003] paperback

    €12.99€18.99

    This is the first paperback edition of Antoinette Quinn's acclaimed biography of Patrick Kavanagh, the most important Irish poet between the death of Yeats and the rise of Heaney.From the...

    Merlin Holland: Oscar Wilde [2003] hardback

    €8.99€26.00

    Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, but apparently it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost...

    Sean Ronayne: Nature Boy [2025] paperback

    €17.99

    'Captivating' Manchan Magan'Sublime' Eoghan Daltun'An earnest and uplifting blend of biography, almanac, travelogue and conservation call-to-arms' The Irish TimesSean Ronayne always knew he was different. Nicknamed 'nature boy' by the...

    Malachy Walsh: A Life Interrupted [2008] paperback

    €4.99

    Approximately 400,000 people in Ireland suffer from depression at any one time. In A Life Interrupted, Malachy Walsh gives a courageous and frank account of his 25-year battle with hereditary...

    Darran Anderson: Inventory [2020] hardback

    €19.99

    A smuggler and a deserter, Darran Anderson's grandfathers skirted the Second World War on the fringes of legality. Darran's father survived the height of the political violence in Northern Ireland...

    Sara-Jane Cromwell: Becoming Myself [2008] paperback

    €5.99€16.43

    Thomas was born into a family of twelve children in Ballyfermot. He had a grim childhood, he was bullied and humiliated at school, and all the time Thomas was hiding...

    Peter J. Conradi: Iris Murdoch: A Life [2002] paperback

    €7.99€27.13

    A full and revealing biography of one of the century's greatest English writers and an icon to a generation. Dame Iris Murdoch has played a major role in English life...

    John Bayley: Widower's House [2002] paperback

    €5.99€10.40

    With this volume, John Bayley completes his trilogy, looking back on the years in sickness and health which he and Iris spent together, and attempting to come to terms with...

    Colm Toibin: Lady Gregory's Toothbrush [2003] paperback

    €6.99€11.99

    Colm Toibin's Lady Gregory's Toothbrush is a beautiful insight into the life of outspoken Irishwoman, Augusta Gregory.A remarkable figure in Celtic history, she was married to an MP and land-owner,...

    Alice Taylor: The Women [2015] hardback

    €9.99€16.99

    'We walk in the footprints of great women, women who lived through hard times on farms, in villages, towns and cities. The lives of these women are an untold story....

    Julie Peakman: Peg Plunkett [2016] paperback

    €9.99

    Of picking, washing and cleaning my pretty little toes, which he took great delight in, and in which pleasurable, innocent, and inoffensive pastime he as often spent hours; twas the...

    Julie Pearman: Peg Plunkett [2015] hardback

    €9.99

    'Of picking, washing and cleaning my pretty little toes, which he took great delight in, and in which pleasurable, innocent, and inoffensive pastime he as often spent hours; 'twas the...

    John Bayley: Iris and the Friends [2000] paperback

    €4.99€11.70

    After more than three years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch died in January 1999. Early that month she was taken to a home for...

    Denis O'Callaghan: Putting Hand to the Plough [2008] paperback

    €5.99€18.99

    This fascinating memoir traces one man's experiences of priesthood in Ireland over half a century from formation in the late 1940s and early 1950s, to ordination in 1956, through doctoral...

    Tony Doherty: This Man's Wee Boy: A Childhood Memoir of Peace and Trouble in Derry [2016] paperback

    €6.99

    A uniquely-crafted memoir of the author's early childhood (1967-1972), the third oldest in a working-class Catholic family from the Brandywell in Derry. Written with the authentic voice of a child,...

    Preez Michael Du: Dr James Barry Z44 [2016] hardback

    €9.99

    A Sunday Times Book of the YearAs featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book ClubDr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric. He performed the...

    David Latimer: A Leap of Faith [2018] hardback

    €7.99

    In spring 2006 David Latimer's church, First Derry Presbyterian, was paint bombed yet again. David's usual reaction was to keep his head down and say nothing, but this time he...

    Majella O'Donnell: It's All in the Head [2014] paperback

    €4.99€16.90

    In September 2013, on the Late Late Showin front of an audience of more than half a million, Majella O'Donnell had her hair shaved off and raised a phenomenal 600,000...

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