Irish Contemporary Biography

We all need to sit and rest from time to time. To think, ponder, hope, pray.

Over the years, Alice Taylor has written down many of these moments of contemplation so she can revisit them over and over again, and now she is sharing them with her dear readers. 

Be Like the Sea is the inspiring story of what happens when we overcome our own self-imposed physical, mental and emotional limitations, and a blueprint for charting our own unique path in life.

‘We can’t possibly pack up our lives and just run away in a van for a whole year. Can we?’ Seventeen countries, one van, a fourteen-thousand-mile journey of hope and healing,

Lesley Bond and her partner Gordon were the first couple to embark on the six-month caretaking residency on the Great Blasket Island. A unique blend of personal reflection and historical context, Blasket Bound reveals how the past continues to shape the present.

Through vivid storytelling and incisive analysis, Leaving Russia exposes the human cost of Putin’s regime and examines what it means to lose – and to search for – a homeland in a fractured world.

An incisive and witty exploration of Roy Keane and his vast impact on Irish sport, culture, and identity over three decades.

Outsider follows Paul's search for answers, from a mother and baby home in 1960s London to a suburban estate in 1970s Dublin, in a house lit with love but shadowed by a darker truth.

After years spent searching for a memoir that captured the reality of contemporary psychotherapy - only to find shelves filled with books written by therapists - Eina McHugh set out to chart the full arc of her own therapeutic journey. . .

Anthology of new essays by ten contemporary Irish writers exploring the themes and impact of Maeve Brennan's work and life.

Miriam is an exceptionally honest and personal memoir from one of Ireland’s most esteemed broadcasters.

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Terry Prone’s first memoir, Caution to the Wind, was a love story about her husband, Tom Savage. This second memoir is the story of falling in love with politics – and politicians.

The Race offers an exhilarating, behind-the-scenes look at the cut-throat world of elite athletics.

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The real story behind Dunnes Stores, the most quintessentially Irish shop of all, and the family drama behind it. AN POST BOOK AWARDS. SHORTLISTED FOR NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025

Rebuilding a Man is a powerful reminder that even life’s toughest challenges can lead to its greatest victories. A remarkable story of resilience, failure, and triumph.

A powerful and intimate memoir of one of Ireland’s most shocking cases of sexual violence.

This is the inspiring story of Michael Flynn aka Mattress Mick, a struggling furniture salesman from Pearse Street, who reinvented himself to become one of Ireland’s most beloved national figures.

Stunning new memoir from Emma Fogarty, the oldest living Irish person with Epidermolysis Bullosa, a painful disease which  makes the skin as fragile as a butterfly’s wing

The Passing Year is a very personal record of his observations on world events – Gaza, the return of President Trump, wars, famines and climate change – leavened with reflections on the deaths of mentors such as Charles Handy and Michael Coady, together with readings from books and poems he encountered during the year.

A Divine Calling is an inspirational story of hope, determination, courage and one woman’s passionate desire to make a difference.

The long-overdue ‘first’ memoir from the much-loved author of the Irishman’s Diary.