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From the earliest settlements at Mount Sandel around 7000 BC to the first meeting of the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2007, the book introduces the...

Parenting is for life 7 days a week, 24 hours a day and while it is one of the most rewarding experiences life can offer it can also be frustrati...

Having grown up in an Irish country house built in 1847, historian Turtle Bunbury has long harboured a fascination with that epic year, pitched at ...

In the concluding volume of Pádraig Yeates critically acclaimed Dublin at War trilogy, the author turns his attention to the Civil War. The Truce...

In the years 1914 to 1918 Dublin was utterly transformed. It was still recovering from the divisive class warfare of the 1913 Lockout when the Fi...

`There followed a blue flash accompanied by a ver y bright magnesium-type flare Then came a frighteningly loud but rather flat explosion, which wa...

''It was French film-maker Sophie Toscan du Plantier''s dream to have a holiday home in beautiful Schull in west Cork. But on 23 December 1996, she...

In Ireland there are 269 mountain summits that are 600 metres or higher, and with a prominence of 15 metres or more. These are The Vandeleur-Lynams...

Concern. Compassion. Doubt. Despair. Anger. Hope. Imagine juggling these feelings every day in a situation where your ability to manage them could ...

Keelin's compelling story is as powerful as the woman she was. Liz Nugent Joan Didions The Year of Magical Thinking is a masterpiece. This ranks a...

A Nation Is Born celebrates a formative period in the history of the Irish state: the fifteen years during which we emerged from the rubble of wars...

Oscar Wilde was one of Ireland's finest and most prolific 19th-century writers and a celebrated wit. He became a popular playwright in the early 18...

The stories of Irelands best-known castles. Majestic and magnificent, designed to both intimidate and inspire, castles are a common feature across...

Encompassing stories of some of Irelands best known characters as well as key moments in Irelands past, this pocket history recalls the countrys st...

The book tells the history of Northern Ireland from the Third Home Rule Bill right through to Derry Girls. Covering all aspects of the beginnings o...

From prehistoric times to the present day this comprehensive history presents the story of Scotland in bite-size chunks. With full colour illustrat...

The Easter Rising was arguably the most important event in Irish history. It was an armed insurrection that occurred mainly in Dublin during Easter...

The Great Famine, an Gorta Mór in Irish, was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. Often referred t...

The perfect introduction to Irelands dramatic fight for sovereignty Gaining independence from British rule has dominated Irish history since the p...

Dublin started as a Viking trading settlement in the middle of the tenth century. Location was the key as it commanded the shortest crossing to a m...

A Simply Delicious Christmas, first published in 1989, is a much-loved cookbook, with tattered, well-worn copies to be found in most households in ...

A Taste of Home is a food story from Ballyknocken House, nestled in the gentle rolling hills of County Wicklow, where generations of Catherine Fulv...

A Teacher's Life is a collection of over 140 cartoons based on the popular Facebook page that hilariously captures the ups and down of life as a te...

''I am truly grateful to Mary Elmes for the life I might not have had, had it not been for her brave actions to save us and many others. She was tr...

How do we know that what we remember is the truth? Inspired by the story of her relative Marion Stokes, one of three women who raised the tricolour...

The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a new e...

Following the success of Abandoned Mansions of Ireland, Tarquin Blake documents more forgotten stately homes. These include Elsinore in County Slig...

Following the success of Abandoned Mansions of Ireland, Tarquin Blake documents the crumbling ruins of more forgotten stately homes, such as Elsino...

e eclectic scientist and inventor Prof. John Joly from Co. Offaly who, at fifty-eight, helped to defend Trinity College Dublin throughout the Risin...

This practical introduction to preparing financial statements both manually and using integrated accounting software like TASBooks and Sage is wr...

I wish you all, young and old, great adventures with this most welcome work. Sabina Coyne Higgins Step into the unknown and venture deeper into th...

Mrs Byrne, youve a beautiful, very pale, ginger-haired baby boy with a wonky eye. As she was handed me by the midwife, my mother wept for all the w...