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• Children of the Dead End

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022

  £9.99

  Based on personal memories of his life in Ireland and Scotland in the early 1900s, this was Patrick MacGill’s first novel. It tells the story of Dermod Flynn an independent and feisty youth who earns a meagre living as an itinerant farm hand in...

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  Dublin: Mapping the City

  Hardback | Pub: 14 Sep 2023

  £30.00

  Hodges Figgis Book of the Year 2023 Maps are essential tools in finding our way around, but they also tell stories and are great depositories of information. Until the twentieth century and the arrival of aerial images, a map was the best way of...

• Islands of the Evening

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Oct 2022

  £10.99

  ‘Magnificent’ – New Statesman, Books of the Year Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints journeyed to the Hebrides and Scotland’s Atlantic shore. They sought spiritual solitude in remote places, but their mission was also to...

• The Normans in Ireland

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022

  £20.00

  The Norman invasion of Britain, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, is well known, but the later invasion of Ireland is much less well documented. Yet much of what we see today in Irish heritage has Norman roots. Ireland and Britain have many...

• Pirate Queen

  E-Book | Pub: 06 May 2021

  £5.99

  In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O’Malley, daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She soon had a fleet of galleys under her commander, but her three decades of...

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  The Shepherd and the Morning Star

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Jun 2019

  £9.99

  The Shepherd and the Morning Star is a remarkable double biography and autobiography. In the course of it the life of the son, Willie Orr, gradually emerges from under the shadow of that of his father, Lawrence Orr (PB), leading Ulster Unionist...