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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.

    Caitriona Palmer: An Affair with My Mother [2016] paperback

    €6.99€21.41

    'Incredibly moving' --Anne Enright, winner of the Man Booker PrizeAn Affair with My Mother by Caitriona Palmer: a moving and gripping story of love, denial and a daughter's quest for...

    Fergal Keane: Letter to Daniel [1996] paperback

    €5.99€8.56

    Fergal Keane is one of the BBC's best known foreign correspondents. His latest work for Radio 4 was "Letter to Daniel", an emotional message to his newborn son. This work...

    Pat Walsh: Patrick Kavanagh & The Leader: The Poet, the Politician and the Libel Trial [2010] paperback

    €8.99€16.45

    In October 1952 The Leader , a political and cultural magazine published an unsigned 'Profile' of the poet, Patrick Kavanagh which he considered offensive. He sued The Leader (and its...

    Kellie Harrington: Kellie [2023] paperback

    €12.99

    THE PHENOMENAL MEMOIR OF A NATIONAL TREASUREAfter Kellie Harrington won gold at the Tokyo Olympics, the Irish public recognized her as not merely a sporting hero, but a deeply inspirational...

    Brendan O'Carroll: Call Me Mrs. Brown: The hilarious autobiography from the star of Mrs. Brown’s Boys [2022] paperback

    €14.99

    Pre-order the very first autobiography from Brendan O'Carroll______________'What forking trouble are you in now?' Mammy asked. She opened the letter and I waited.'It's nothing, just the result of your check-up.'...

    Grainne Lyons: Wild Atlantic Women: Walking Irelan [2023] paperback

    €16.95

    At a crossroads in her life, Grainne Lyons set out to travel Ireland's west coast on foot. She set a simple intention: to walk in the footsteps of eleven pioneering...

    Hilary Wakeman: A Different World [2021] paperback

    €16.95

    A quarter of a century ago, Canon Hilary Wakeman became the Rector of a Church of Ireland parish in the far southwest of Ireland, a very different world from her...

    Paul Mcveigh: The 32 [2021] paperback

    €6.99€13.00

    We read because we want to experience lives and emotions beyond our own, to learn, to see with others' eyes.The 32 is a celebration of working-class voices from the island...

    Frank Mccourt: 'Tis [2005] paperback

    €13.75

    Frank McCourt continues his life story in the brilliant, bestselling sequel to the million-selling 'Angela's Ashes'. 'Angela's Ashes' was a publishing phenomenon. Frank McCourt's critically-acclaimed, lyrical memoir of his Limerick...

    Frank Mccourt: Angela's Ashes [2005] paperback

    €4.99€13.00

    Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is...

    Hugo Hamilton: The Speckled People [2003] paperback

    €5.99€13.50

    'This is the most gripping book I've read in ages ... It is beautifully written, fascinating, disturbing and often very funny.' Roddy Doyle The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton, born...

    Sally Herbert: The Missing Pieces of Mum [2021] hardback

    €12.99

    A stolen past, a search for the truth, two lives changed foreverBorn out of wedlock in Dublin in 1937, Phyllis grew up in a tough, church run orphanage. She thought...

    Jeanie Doyle: Wicked Girl [2020] paperback

    €4.99€10.40

    How do you teach a mother to love her child, when she's still a child herself?Jeanie Doyle nurtures, teaches and cares for young and dysfunctional mums, showing them how to...

    Caitlin McBride: The Day That Changed My Life [2019] hardback

    €9.99€24.27

    Stories to inspire.Stories to connect.Extraordinary moments in which women's lives changed forever.Exhilarating, heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring, The Day That Changed My Life is a remarkable collection of stories of Ireland's...

    Fergal Keane: All of These People [2006] paperback

    €17.13

    In a memoir of staggering power and candour, award-winning journalist Fergal Keane addresses his experience of wars of different kinds, some very public and others acutely personal. During his years...

    Lisa Lawlor: Stardust Baby [2021] paperback

    €7.99€16.90

    On Valentine's Day in 1981, a fire in the Stardust nightclub in Dublin killed 48 young people, and left behind one orphan, Lisa Lawlor. Now, on the 40th anniversary, Lisa...

    Niall Williams: In Kiltumper: A Year In An Irish Ga [2023] paperback

    €14.99

    'Poignant ... A meditation on life, love and the importance of nature' IRISH TIMESWhen they were in their twenties, Niall Williams and Christine Breen made the impulsive decision to leave...

    Zak Moradi: Life Begins in Leitrim: From Kurdistan to Croke Park [2022] hardback

    €12.99€22.99

    The road to Croke Park can be a long one, but for Leitrim hurler Zak Moradi it was longer than most. Born in a refugee camp in Ramadi, Iraq, at...

    James Joyce: Author of Ulysses [2020] paperback

    €13.00

    'As skilful, stylish and pacy as one would expect from so adept a novelist' Sunday TelegraphEdna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet...

    Gerry Kelly: Kelly [2008] hardback

    €1.00

    Gerry's career came about almost by accident. His early days in Downpatrick were a struggle. His alcoholic father abandoned the family, his mother worked all the hours she could, providing...

    Phil Quinlan: And a Bang on the Ear [2023] paperback

    €17.99

    Phil Quinlan was a sports-mad fifteen year old when he packed his bag one Sunday morning in 1989 to play a game of football. A clash of heads on the...

    Seosamh Mac Grianna: This Road of Mine [2020] paperback

    €15.00

    First published in Irish by An Gum in 1965, Seosamh Mac Grianna's magnificent autobiographical novel Mo Bhealach Fein is translated here for the first time into English by Micheal O...

    John Walsh: The Globalist: Peter Sutherland - His Life and Legacy [2019] hardback

    €8.99€9.99

    THE GLOBALIST is the first in-depth biography of an international power-broker who was instrumental in shaping the global economy that we know today. PETER SUTHERLAND played a defining role in...

    Edna O'Brien: James and Nora [2020] paperback

    €10.40

    It was June 10th, Barnacle Day. He saw her in Nassau Street and they stopped to talk. She thought his blue eyes were those of a Norseman. He was twenty-two,...

    Philippa (Chief Operative Officer Ryder: My Name Is Philippa Tpb W2 [2021] trade paper back

    €16.99

    'My Name is Philippa offers every reader a story that will change their heart. So be prepared, with a mind open enough to hear Philippa's story, to feel altered by...

    Rosanna Davison: When Dreams Come True [2021] hardback

    €16.99

    In early 2020, Rosanna Davison gave a raw and sincere account of the 14 miscarriages she had suffered before choosing to have a baby via gestational surrogate. Then, just weeks...

    Christy Brown: My Left Foot P/b -w3 [1990] paperback

    €5.99€13.00

    Christy Brown was born a victim of cerebral palsy. But the hapless, lolling baby concealed the brilliantly imaginative and sensitive mind of a writer who would take his place among...

    So Young: The Taking of My Life by the Catholic Church

    €13.00

    'What I wanted was for Malachy Finegan to be exposed. I felt that the wee boy I had been might be stepping from the darkness, and I needed him to...

    Richie Sadlier: Recovering [2020] paperback

    €7.99€14.99

    Winner of the An Post Irish Sports Book of the Year AwardLonglisted for The William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award'Not only the sports book of the year, the...

    Gavin Mccrea: Cells: memories for my mother [2022] hardback

    €10.99€18.99

    'Are you going into town today?' she says, which annoys me because it's something she says all the time, having forgotten she said it before, and I say, 'Jesus, Mum,...

    Henry Mcdonald: Martin McGuinness: A Life Remembered [2017] hardback

    €9.99

    To look at Martin McGuinness' life is to follow Northern Ireland's own transition from conflict to peace. Martin McGuinness: A Life Remembered tells the remarkable story of McGuinness' journey from...

    Bo Almqvist: Peig Sayers Vol. 1: Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak to You All [2022] paperback

    €19.95

    'Ach cerbh i Peig Sayers?'Niorbh i in aon chor an tseanbhean ologonach i ar chuir na glunta de dhaltai scoile aithne uirthi. Is leir o chuntais uathu siud arbh eol...

    Bo Almqvist: Peig Sayers Vol. 2: Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word [2022] paperback

    €19.95

    Duine de sharscealaithe na GaeilgeIn Eanair 1952, se bliana sula bhfuair Peig Sayers bas, thionscain Coimisiun Bealoideasa Eireann agallaimh lei agus i in ospideal Naomh Anna, Baile Atha Cliath. Bhi...

    Jim Maher: Harry Boland: A Biography [2020] paperback

    €17.99

    The definitive story of Harry Boland, the ardent and prominent Republican, loyal confidant to de Valera and close friend and, later, love rival to Michael Collins for the heart of...

    Tomás O'Crohan: The Islandman (Oxford Paperbacks Series) [1978] paperback

    €4.99€9.75

    Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous...

    Alison O’Reilly: My Name is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home [2018] paperback

    €8.99€16.99

    In 1946, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Dolan walked up the path to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Alone and pregnant, she was following in the footsteps of...

    Alice Taylor: The Nana [2022] hardback

    €12.99€22.99

    The Irish nana is a repository of family history, memory and lore. Sometimes, like the Italian nonna, she is also a 'walking cookbook', carrying the old knowledge of how things...

    David Toms: Pacemaker [2022] hardback

    €9.99€15.00

    Every time I write about my heart, I write about walking. Every time I write about walking, I write about my heart. What is it like to be born with...

    Catherine Drea: Solace: Life, loss and the healing power of nature [2022] hardback

    €12.99€19.99

    Solace is that feeling of calm and comfort, that sense of peace that is all around us when we are open to finding it.Writer and photographer Catherine Drea explores the...

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