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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...