We use cookies to make your experience better. To comply with the new e-Privacy directive, we need to ask for your consent to set the cookies. Learn more.
Irish Sport Biography
-
Rafa's Way: The Resurrection of Newcastle United€24.99
Rafa's Way tells the story of the remarkable Championship campaign that followed, the turnaround in the fortunes of Newcastle United and the dramatic promotion. It charts Benitez's overhaul of everything within a troubled club, his impact on its city, and how he immersed himself in a community that persuaded him to stay, and could not bear to see him leave.
-
Guy Martin : Road Racer (Hardback)Special Price €23.99 Regular Price €29.99
Edgy, extreme, intimate and quirky, Davison's photographs brilliantly capture both Martin's focus and determination, as well as his goofy and gauche side.
-
Win or Learn : MMA, Conor McGregor and Me: A Trainer's JourneySpecial Price €8.99 Regular Price €11.99
In Win or Learn, John Kavanagh tells his own remarkable life story - which is at the heart of the story of the extraordinary explosion of MMA in Ireland and globally. Employing the motto 'win or learn', Kavanagh has become a guru to young men and women seeking to master the arts of combat.
-
Walking Tall : The Autobiography of a World Champion and Olympic MedallistSpecial Price €19.99 Regular Price €22.99
This is the inside story of how one boy’s dream led him from the council flats of his tough upbringing to the winners’ podium. It is also a frank chronicle of the sometimes nightmare-ridden journey it takes to make a dream come true.
-
The Prince of Centre Halves: The Life of Tommy TG Jones€19.99
Utilising a mixture of archive material and interviews with those who knew Jones and saw him play, Sawyer paints a compelling picture of a brilliant footballer and outspoken and complicated man. Rebel, pioneer and football genius this is the definitive story of one of the game's forgotten heroes.
-
61 Minutes in Munich : The Story of Liverpool FC's First Black Footballer€19.99
Howard Gayle takes you from Liverpool to Newcastle, to Birmingham City, to Sunderland and Blackburn Rovers. He takes you back his modest home in the south end of Liverpool where it all began.
-
Henry Shefflin: The Autobiography (Paperback)€12.99
"The greatest player of this, or perhaps any, generation." Sean Moran, Irish Times
"There is a compelling story in a young man's rise from the rural middle class of south Kilkenny to being one of our finest sportsmen. He became much more than a hurler...This memoir is cast in its author's likeness, honest but tactful, direct without being brusque." Irish Examiner
-
Until Victory Always: A Memoir (paperback edition)€14.99
'We looked up at the pitch and then we both stopped at the same instant...We were alone but you could feel this energy; that there had been a big crowd of people present and that something had happened and even though the day was over, that energy was still kind of moving around...'
-
Stephen Ferris: Man & Ball My AutobiographySpecial Price €7.99 Regular Price €13.99
Fearless, funny and full of an incredible array of stories from behind the scenes of Ulster, Ireland and the Lions, this is the must-have rugby book of the year.
-
Until Victory Always: A Memoir (Hardback)Special Price €9.99 Regular Price €19.99
Confessional, moving, funny and fiercely honest, it’s at once the epic story of one team’s audacious bid to rewrite its destiny and one man’s moving testament to the power of sport to sustain us in our darkest moments.