Secondhand Irish Interest Books

First published in Irish in 1937, this collection of journal and diary entries is a compelling first-hand account of Douglas Hyde's eight-month fundraising odyssey through the United States from 1905...

I'm Irish: Get Me Out of Here! is a book about the national hangover. For years we had a big party called the Celtic Tiger. Now the party's over, for...

Patsy Peril was born in 1943 in Coonagh, a small fishing community on the Shannon, not far from Limerick. His family fished from a traditional gandelow boat, using hemp nets....

What Adams had to say was even more instructive. He talked about the community once being on its knees - an appeal to those scarred in memory by the loyalist...

Irish College is a unique rite of passage for Irish adolescents. It is where they first experience the great crack of ceilis, homesickness, the friendships they may keep for life,...

An invaluable resource reflecting key research from government and NGO reports on various aspects of adolescence and literature from academic journals, combined with the authors' expert analysis and commentaryThis textbook...

Some of the finest speeches ever made have been spoken in Ireland. This book highlights 45 eminent and influential speeches, from Robert Emmet's defiant speech from the dock on the...

For the first time, The Times brings together a unique collection of obituaries of Ireland's most distinguished individuals from the last two centuries. The Irish have richly contributed to the...

By turns beautiful, poignant, frightening and funny, Eyewitness is a personal pictorial record of Northern Ireland life over nearly forty years. Brendan Murphy's photographs of sporting events, everyday life, politicians,...

This is a collection of Ireland's unusual love traditions. It tells readers of how purple orchids were used in "coaxing" women in Kerry, and how white gander droppings were employed...

Here, collected in one volume, are tales and legends that range from the misty dawn of Gaelic history and the triumph of St Patrick to the Ireland of the present...

From the bestselling author of Hamlyn's Top 10 of Everything series comes an exclusive collection of 250 unique lists that chronicle the quirks of the Emerald Isle. Discover hundreds of...

The Wild Atlantic Way is Ireland's most famous and most popular driving route, attracting thousands of visitors each year. Stretching from west Cork right up to Donegal, it is a...

Situated on a board sweep of Dublin Bay, the town of Dun Laoghaire has survived many incarnations. Originally a small fishing village called Dunleary, it was transformed during the 19th...

Waterford Whispers is Ireland's biggest satirical website and entertains hundreds of thousands of people daily with its hilarious take on the news of the day.This ninth annual in the bestselling...

Welcome to the countryside! A place of rolling hills, winding rivers and natural beauty. Or is it? Killian Sundermann is here to give us his deeply uninformed, highly opinionated tips...

This volume charts the bitter struggle for power in Fianna Fail since the resignation of Sean Lemass in November 1966. For most of that period the party lurched from one...

The stories of Ireland's best-known castles.Majestic and magnificent, designed to both intimidate and inspire, castles are a common feature across Ireland's landscape, with over 1000 examples remaining - some intact,...

Bestselling author Colm O'Regan is a worrier. A professional one. Caution is his watchword. Risk aversion is his love language. Now Colm is grappling with the biggest worry of all:...

As the first shots of the War of Independence rang out, those given power in the 1918 general election turned their backs on Westminster and established the assembly of Ireland...

Waterford Whispers News is the ninth annual from Ireland's leading online satirical site, featuring the funniest stories of the year. Read all about the big news stories of 2021, Waterford...

'An Irish Woman's Book of Days' is a luxurious collection of some of the world's most appealing paintings. Each page presents a full-colour reproduction of an image of womanhood from...

In his travelogue of the abandoned 50-mile route along the Ulster Canal, Darach MacDonald presents a close-up narrative history of Ireland. On his journey through five of Ulster's nine counties,...

A fully illustrated history of Ireland's most famous sporting institution, published in association with the GAA museum in Croke Park. This is a fascinating and colourful introduction to Gaelic games,...