Gill Books imprint: 321 books

Life After Life

A Guildford Four Memoir

by Paddy Armstrong, Mary-Elaine Tynan
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017

Paddy Armstrong was one of four people falsely convicted of The Guildford Bombing in 1975. He spent fifteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Today, as a husband and father, life is wonderfully ordinary, but the memory of his ordeal lives on. Here, for the first time and with unflinching...

Redmond – A Life Undone

The Definitive Biography of John Redmond, the Forgotten Hero of Irish Politics

by Chris Dooley
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015

Dramatic and immersive, Redmond is a provocative reassessment of John Redmond, Home Rule campaigner and one of Ireland’s most brilliant political minds. ‘A vivid portrayal of one of the great political campaigns in Irish history.’ Stephen Collins, Political Editor, The Irish Times Redmond...

Green Against Green – The Irish Civil War

A History of the Irish Civil War, 1922–1923

by Dr Michael Hopkinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2004

Michael Hopkinson’s Green Against Green is the definitive study of the Irish civil war, putting in perspective a bitter and passionate conflict, the legacy of which still divides Irish society today. Widely praised and frequently cited as the most authoritative work on the subject, it continues...

Destiny of the Soldiers – Fianna Fáil, Irish Republicanism and the IRA, 1926–1973

The History of Ireland’s Largest and Most Successful Political Party

by Donnacha Ó Beacháin
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011

Incisive, engaging and thought-provoking, Destiny of the Soldiers charts Fianna Fáil’s political and ideological evolution from its revolutionary origins through extended periods in office. Fianna Fáil is Ireland’s largest political party and one of the most successful parties in any...

Paddy Machiavelli – How to Get Ahead in Irish Politics

An Entertaining and Irreverent History of Irish Politicians

by John Drennan
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014

The good, the bad and the cynical – how to get ahead in Irish politics It might appear strange that a 16th-century Italian political philosopher should provide us with a roadmap to political power in Ireland, but as John Drennan’s tongue-in-cheek account Paddy Machiavelli makes clear, the...

The Grangegorman Murders

Dean Lyons, Mark Nash and the Story behind the Grangegorman Murders

by Alan Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015

On the morning of 7 March 1997, the bodies of two elderly female patients were discovered in their sheltered accommodation at Grangegorman Psychiatric Hospital in Dublin. It would be a further 16 years before Mark Nash was convicted of the notorious Grangegorman murders, but not before Dean...

Funding the Nation

Money and Nationalist Politics in Nineteenth-century Ireland

by Michael Keyes
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011

Daniel O’Connell created the Catholic nation in 1820s Ireland and in the process he gave birth to popular politics. Ahead of America where Andrew Jackson was creating his own brand of popular politics, O’Connell brought together rich and poor in support of a new phenomenon that became the...

50 Dáil Debates that Shaped the Nation

Standing by the Republic

by John Drennan
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012

From the debates of the 1950s that were strikingly similar to what we face today – struggles against bankruptcy, emigration and abuse of power by the State – through the wars in the 70s and 80s over divorce and abortion, to the Jacobean dramas surrounding the fall of Haughey in the 1990s, this...

The Abbey Rebels of 1916

A Lost Revolution

by Fearghal McGarry
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015

The story of the 1916 Easter Rising and its aftermath from a new persepective The Abbey Theatre played a leading role in the politicisation of the revolutionary generation that won Irish freedom, but comparatively little is known about the men and women who formed the lifeblood of the institution:...

The Irish War of Independence

The Definitive Account of the Anglo Irish War of 1919 - 1921

by Micahel Hopkinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2004

Within months of first publication, Michael Hopkinson's study of the Irish War of Independence established itself as by far most comprehensive and evocative account of the role played by the conflict in shaping modern Ireland. It has been welcomed both by scholars and the general public alike, and...

Disillusioned Decades – Ireland 1966–87

From Seán Lemass to Mass Unemployment

by Tim Pat Coogan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1987

From Seán Lemass to mass unemployment: Ireland changed between 1966 and 1987 and, Tim Pat Coogan argues in Disillusioned Decades, not for the better The year 1966 was one in which to take stock: fifty years since the Rising, what had the Republic achieved? In Disillusioned Decades, Ireland’s...

My Brother Jason

The untold story of Jason Corbett’s life and brutal murder by Tom and Molly Martens

by Tracey Corbett-Lynch, Ralph Riegel
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018

In August 2014 Limerick man Jason Corbett was murdered by his wife, Molly Martens, and her father, ex-FBI agent Tom Martens, in the bedroom of their luxury North Carolina home. He had been savagely beaten to death with a baseball bat and brick while his children slept nearby. For his sister, Tracey...

The Great Betrayal

How the Government with the Largest Majority in the History of the Irish State Lost its People

by John Drennan
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015

From penalty points to water charges, funding cuts to tax hikes, The Great Betrayal is a cutting assessment of the upheavals, egos and scraps that shaped the 31st Dáil by Ireland’s most sagacious political pundit-turned-political operator As the curtain falls on this government’s term...

De Valera Volume 1

Rise (1882–1932)

by David McCullagh
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017

Éamon de Valera was the single most consequential Irish figure of the twentieth century. He was a leader in the Easter Rising, the figurehead of the anti-Treaty rebels during the dark days of the Civil War and, later, as the founder of Fianna Fáil and president of Ireland, the pivotal figure in...
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