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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.

    Tony Gray: Mr. Smyllie, Sir [1991] hardback

    €9.99

    W.M.("Bertie") Smyllie was editor of The Irish Times from 1934 until his death in 1954 and remains one of the legendary figures in Irish journalism. Short-sighted, massively overweight, given to...

    John Quinn: The Curious Mind [2010] paperback

    €5.99€24.29

    John Quinn presents a comprehensive selection of entertaining, thought-provoking and insightful programmes taken from many of his RTE radio series, spanning a twenty-five-year period. Writers, philosophers, entertainers, educationists, activists, politicians,...

    Adrian Frazier: John Montague [2024] hardback

    €24.95

    In the late twentieth century, Irish poetry achieved an historic quality, a golden era to compare with the verse of the Elizabethan and the Romantic periods. A Poet's Life is...

    A. Norman Jeffares: W.B.Yeats [1996] paperback

    €8.99

    First published in 1949, this biography of W.B. Yeats attempts to help readers to understand some of his obscure poems, to see the interrelationships between work written at different times...

    Kevin Kiely: Francis Stuart [2007] paperback

    €7.99€14.99

    Francis Stuart (1902-2000) was the author of 25 novels, including "Black List", "Section H", and was critically acclaimed by W.B. Yeats, Laurence Durrell, and J. M Coetzee, among others. He...

    Ivan Yates: Full On [2015] paperback

    €4.99€6.99

    In Full On, ex-government minister, businessman and broadcaster Ivan Yates recounts a fascinating political and personal story. From his early days in Enniscorthy to his youthful entry into national politics...

    Martha Long: Ma, Its a Cold Aul Night an Im Lookin for a Bed [2009] paperback

    €4.99€15.70

    In the third installment of Martha Long's real-life account of abuse, deprivation and cruelty at the hands of her parents and the establishment, Martha is now sixteen, her time at...

    Damian Corless: You'll Ruin your Dinner: Sweet Memories from Irish childhood [2011] hardback

    €2.99

    Whether your taste was for fiddlestix or Flavour Ravers, Trigger bars or Two and Twos, Marathons or macaroons, Peggy's Legs or Push Pops, Liquorice Allsorts or Little Devils, You'll Ruin...

    Bill Cullen: It's A Long Way From Penny Apples [2002] hardback

    €14.99€27.13

    Born and bred in the tough inner city slums of Summerhill in Dublin, Bill Cullen was one of fourteen children. A street seller from the age of six, Bill left...

    Ronan Brady: Worlds Apart [2020] paperback

    €2.99

    'Ronan is emblematic of how Ireland has changed.' - Panti Bliss At just under six foot in his socks and weighing in at fourteen stone, Ronan Brady is a solid...

    Lyn Madden: Lyn's Escape [2007] paperback

    €4.99€15.71

    Lyn Madden worked for twenty years as a prostitute, mostly in Dublin. Her career ended the night that she watched, her lover and pimp, John Cullen throw a firebomb through...

    John F Deane: Song of the Goldfinch [2024] paperback

    €2.99

    Once every blue moon a book is written on parchment and in dried blood. Here Huckleberry Finn meets Dylan Thomas on Achill Island, a lost world of corncrakes and ragamuffins.

    Joseph Hone: Wicked Little Joe [2009] paperback

    €2.99

    In the summer of 1939, as a two-year-old in London, I was given away by my parents to a Chelsea friend and taken on the Irish Mail to Dublin. Thus...

    Mary Mcauliffe: Margaret Skinnider [2020] paperback

    €4.99

    Margaret Skinnider enters and exits the history books as the female rebel who was wounded commanding a military action in the 1916 Rising. In a re-evaluation of Skinnider's long and...

    Simon Fitzmaurice: It's Not Yet Dark [2015] paperback

    €3.99€6.99

    'If you are hungry for truth and beauty, read this book' Roisin Ingle, The Irish Times'A demonstration of a will to live that is breathtaking ... a work of documentary...

    Gordon Ledbetter: Privilege & Poverty [2010] hardback

    €4.99€19.99

    Alexander Williams was the first artist to open the West of Ireland, particularly Achill Island, to a wide audience. His extensive collection of memoirs and papers, preserved and never made...

    Gay Byrne: The Meaning Of Life 2 [2014] hardback

    €8.99€28.56

    Following last year's bestselling collection of interviews from the RTE TV series The Meaning of Life, Gay Byrne is back with more big questions - and more interesting answers.With Peter...

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