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Against The Wind
Debut author
Yasuyuki Ozeki had a dream – to cycle from Japan to Ireland, alone, through the Eurasian continent. He was acutely aware of and fascinated by the gap that lay in between these two countries. The only way he would ever be able to understand that ga...
Dropping The Habit
In this brave memoir, she opens a door to her life
She made her choice at 14. Must it be a life sentence?
Marion Dante always knew she would be a nun. She was born in answer to prayer and she was her mother's "sin offering". Conceived out of wedlock, her mother promised God that she w...
Hear My Silence
Surviving depression
Dublin journalist Karina Colgan was rescued from the apartment she had barricaded herself into by her estranged husband Gerry and son Karl, who feared for her life. Karina – like one in four people in Ireland – found herself unexpectedly fighting ...
Joe Joyce
The Untold Story of the Guinness Family
The Guinnesses is the story of a family who created one of the world’s great brands and made its way from middle-class merchants into the highest levels of aristocratic society. Along the way, the Guinnesses were involved in many controversies, li...
My Life and Themes
"The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail" - Conor Cruise O'Brien
The Agony of Ecstasy
Julian’s life was fairly normal up to his mid-teens. A keen swimmer and runner with many medals and trophies to his credit. However, he gave in to his curiosity and tried a bit of hash... that was the beginning. Before the end of that year he b...
The Day Michael Collins Was Shot
Solves the mystery surrounding the ambush and killing of Michael Collins. The author Meda Ryan drawing on eye-witness accounts never before published, painstakingly reconstructs, in minute-by-minute detail, the last four days of Michael Collin...
The Light in the Window
June Goulding
June Goulding was born in 1928 and trained as a nurse in the North Infirmary in Cork which was run by the French Sisters of Charity. After graduating she was called to the Erinville Maternity Hospital where she trained as a midwife. In 1951-52 ...
Valerie O'Brien
Is the Army any Place for a woman?
Valerie O’Brien was horrified to discover just how much of a “man’s world” the army was. As one of the first female combat soldiers in the Irish infantry, she suffered sexual harassment, isolation and depression. Behind her blonde façade lay a com...
Worse Could Have Happened
The Gaelic Cultural Revival, the unholy marriage of Church and State, de Valera's "Starve the British" policy: all social and cultural change left its mark on young Andrew. Worse, he says, could have happened.
