Secondhand Irish Interest Books

Have you heard of Frederick Hervey, the atheist Bishop of Derry who hated church bells?What about Samuel Boyce, the poet who couldn't afford trousers?Not even Mary Monckton, who once stole...

In 1934 a group of notable Dublin businessmen decided to combat the poverty all around them by setting up an unemployed men's 'club', wherein men could earn 'tallies' which they...

Sean Scully is one of today's best-loved abstract painters. His familiar signature style of lines or bands of colour, alluding to architectural elements such as portals, windows and walls, is...

Designed to entice people to try cooking as they did in Ireland years ago, this book contains chapters on kitchens, soups, the river and the lough, the seashore, the dairy,...

The subject of this book is the varied group of fanciful buildings which feature regularly in the landscapes of Ireland. Although there have been several previous books on follies, this...

Holy Shocking Saints is a beautifully illustrated book celebrating the extraordinary lives of twelve remarkable people. Whether mystics, healers or holy people, their strong belief was the catalyst that set...

Wilson, a respected Historian, offers a deeply researched history of 1 of Ireland's most legendary families. In this fascinating book Derek Wilson traces the Guiness Family from it's lowly beginnings...

This book asks a simple question: how happy are we, and are we really willing to do what it will take to become happier? The National Happiness Experiment was a...

Older than the Egyptian pyramids, older than Stonehenge, for 5,000 years the ancient megalithic tomb at Newgrange in County Meath has housed the remains of Stone Age 'aristocracy', sheltering the...

Available Open Access under CC-BY licence.Irish law currently permits abortion only where the life of the pregnant woman is at risk. Since 1983, the 8th Amendment to the Constitution has...

This volume takes inspiration from Professor Catherine Shannon's scholarship on Modern Irish and Irish American history and her advocacy for peace in Northern Ireland and features original research by distinguished...