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Irish Political Biography
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John Hume: The Persuader€27.99
The definitive biography of John Hume, peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate, and a titan of Irish political history
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Rough Beast : My Story and the Reality of Sinn Fein€20.99
Rough Beast is Mairia Cahill's harrowing story of her life and of what she went through at the hands of what is now Ireland's largest and richest party.
SHORTLISTED IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2023 – Non-Fiction Book of the Year
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Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber : The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale€12.99
The astonishing story of the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRAShe grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate.
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Mary Lou McDonald : A Republican Riddle€21.99
Mary Lou McDonald is the bookies' favourite to be Ireland's next Taoiseach. She would be the first woman to reach the office, and the first Sinn Fein leader ever to enter government in the Republic of Ireland.
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One Good Day: My Journey to the Good Friday Agreement (Hardback)€24.99
One Good Day is the fascinating insider account of those negotiations from diplomat David Donoghue, who was then Irish head of the Anglo-Irish Secretariat in Belfast.
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Albert Reynolds: Risktaker for Peace€22.99
In the first complete biography of former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, former Minister of State Conor Lenihan delivers an insider’s account that reveals the courageous personal risks Reynolds took to create the template for peace in Ireland, and the highs and lows of a tempestuous, risk-taking life.
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My Life in Loyalism : Billy HutchinsonSpecial Price €14.99 Regular Price €19.99
From Tartan gang member to leading loyalist paramilitary, and from progressive unionist politician to respected Belfast City Councillor, My Life in Loyalism is Billy Hutchinson’s remarkable story.
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In Bed with the Blueshirts€17.99
The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government. Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught personal relationships between the fifteen figures who made up the last government.
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Saving the State : Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar€26.99
When Fine Gael entered a coalition government with Fianna Fail in 2020 the party did what would have been unthinkable for its forefathers who fought and won a bitter civil war to establish the institutions of an independent Irish state almost a century earlier.
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Dorothy Macardle€25.00
Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition.