Irish Biography

Ireland's longest-surviving recipient of a heart transplant, Bill Long has been, at various times: in the British Navy, a journalist, a cyclist, a public relations officer, a 'serious' writer, a...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITINGTwo days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart...

I felt betrayed by her. I couldn't understand why my mother allowed my father to rape, beat and torture me for 16 years ... Tara O'Brien, Dublin CityMy daughter was...

'A Dictionary of Irish Biography' is an essential reference book containing brief biographies of nearly 1,700 noteworthy and lesser-known Irish men and women. The only single volume A-Z to summarise...

The son of a Head Constable in the Royal Irish Constabulary, by the age of twenty-five, Eamonn Ceannt was married with a young son. He played the uilleann pipes and...

Sean Heuston was an Irish rebel and member of Fianna Eireann who took part in the Easter Rising of 1916. With The Volunteers, he held the Mendicity Institute on the...

The story of Tom Barry's life, peppered by his battles with the State and Church, and his constant endeavours to obtain an All Ireland Republic makes him a unique and...

Peter Somerville-Large grew up with his brother Phil in a nursery world at the top of a smart house in Dublin from which they could watch Fitzwilliam Place far below,...

Long overshadowed by fellow republicans Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, Tom Clarke was the man who made the Easter Rising possible. During an extraordinary life dedicated to Irish freedom he...

This is the story of a magical childhood on a farm in the west of Ireland during the 1930s and early 1940s. It tells of a young girl and the...

From the author of the million-selling Angela's Ashes -- the most keenly anticipated sequel of the decade 'The reader of this stunning memoir can only hope that Mr McCourt will...

These reflective essays about Deon's life and experiences in the west of Ireland describe the colourful and varied personalities that the French novelist has come across since he and his...

This work features Gerry Ryan's views on life, the world, the universe - and a few things besides. Here are his experiences, stories and opinions drawn from nearly thirty years...

Lilliput Press is delighted to be reissuing Traces of Peter Rice for the first time in paperback. This book is a collaborative enterprise, British, French and Irish, representing the countries...

`Nobody's Business': The Aran Diaries of Ernie O'Malley presents new insights into the contradictions and complexities of the mind of Ernie O'Malley, one of mid-twentieth century Ireland's foremost cultural critics....

In The Kick, poet Richard Murphy has constructed, from astonishingly detailed diaries kept across the course of five decades, a unique memoir of his life and times. 'Murphy's book contains...

While there have been biographies of anti-Treaty male figures such as CathalBrugha, Eamon de Valera and Harry Boland, there has been limited in-depthanalysis of on women on the anti-Treaty side....

In "Beat the Goatskin", Fitzmaurice's skilful storytelling and optimistic spirit give a charming account of Ireland, particularly rural Ireland with its customs, education, sport, literature, music and song. Growing up...

Sean O'Connor was born in Francis Street, in the Liberties of Dublin, a neighbourhood famous over the centuries for the sturdy independence of its people.Now, in this evocative and affectionate...

'Quite brilliant; beautifully, cleverly observed; funny, heart-breaking.' - Roddy DoyleHilary is four, not yet five, and she has a mother and a father and an older brother and sisters. She...

Her addiction to the drug took her to a place about as low as a person can go. She had grown up in Ballymun and had, like many others, succumbed...