Surfing into Life on a Bathboard
"Jake Jackson's memoir can make for uncomfortable reading because of its honesty and intimacy- the laying bare of a life lived during one of the longest-running conflicts of the late twentieth...
Ten Men Dead
The inside story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike, based on the most extraordinary correspondence in penal history.
International Brigade Against Apartheid Secrets Of The People's War That Liberated South Africia
We hear for the first time from internationalist who secretly worked for the ANC's armed Wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), in the struggle to liberate South Africa from apartheid rule. They...
John Lennon's Dead. New Edition 2022
`John Lennon's Dead` is the ironic title of Síle Darragh's account of a life of protest and resistance in Armagh Gaol in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including the two...
On The Blanket by Eoghan Mac Cormaic
A compelling eye-witness account of imprisonment, rich in humour and pathos. A remarkable testimony to commitment and endurance in the cause of freedom. IRA Volunteer Eoghan ‘Gino’ Mac Cormaic served seventeen...
Writings From Prison,
Bobby Sands was twenty-seven years old and had been on hunger strike for sixty-six days when he died on 5 May 1981. The young IRA volunteer was world-famous by the time...
The Scariff Martyrs. War, Murder and Memory In East Clare
Close to midnight on the 16th November 1920, on Killaloe Bridge, British Forces shot dead four young men. The 'Scariff Martyrs' have been remembered for over a century. Here their story...
THE INVINCIBLES- THE PHOENIX PARK ASSASSINATIONS AND THE CONSPIRACY THAT SHOOK AN EMPIRE
In an Ireland still reeling from years of famine, with tenant farmers being evicted and left to starve for their inability to pay exorbitant rents, revolutionary fervour was growing. An inner...
Stolen Faith
Belfast, 1944: American soldier James McCann meets the beautiful and impetuous Rose Rafferty. They fall in love, but their romance is forbidden- and war separates them. Boston, present day: James's children...
Markievicz, A Most Outrageous Rebel
Countess Constance Markievicz- one of the most remarkable women in Irish history- was a revolutionary, a socialist and a feminist, as well as an artist and writer. A natural leader, 'Madame',...
Unlikely Rebels. The Gifford Girls And The Fight For Irish Freedom
Many people who know the story of the 1916 Rising have heard the harrowing account of the wedding of Grace Gifford and Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol, on the dat before...