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Wounds is a powerful memoir about Irish people who found themselves caught up in the revolution that followed the 1916 Rising, and in the pitiless violence of civil war in north Kerry after the British left in 1922.

Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards - Non Fiction Book of the Year 2017

This book will be of interest to social and economic historians of Ireland, of the Cork and Kerry region and to those interested in contacts between Ireland and the continent in the 18th century.

This is the story of Irish nationalism and separatism from 1916 until 1922. Collins's footprint was on every street, laneway, and alley of Dublin, but especially of Dublin 1.

The Donegal Woman is based on the true story of the author's own grandmother. Reviving the tradition of three of Ulster's great radical writers, Peadar O'Donnell, Patrick MacGill and Sam Hanna Bell, John Throne captures the authentic voice of a woman of extraordinary spirit

Ireland in its own words: a dazzling compendium. Over the past hundred years, Ireland has undergone profound political, social and cultural changes. But one thing that has not changed is the Irish genius for observation and storytelling, invective and self-scrutiny.

This is the gripping wartime story of Harry’s capture, resistance and liberation. But above all, it is the final chapter in his quest to honour the forgotten heroes of Bunker Valentin.

In Sisters of the Revolutionaries the true extent of the sisters’ relationship with Patrick and Willie is revealed, along with the trials they faced in the wake of Easter 1916. This fascinating biography uncovers the dimensions of the Pearse sisters’ terrible estrangement, but also the joys that were the pattern of their upbringing, and their own formidable talents.

On 26 December 1960, 12,000 Ulster police and B Specials began one of their biggest manhunts. It was for Prisoner 1082 - Donal Donnelly - who had made a dramatic escape from the prison known as 'Europe's Alcatraz'.