Gill Books imprint: 321 books

Ciara's Diary

1999-2002: Sense and Shiftability

by Ciara King
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017

The year is 1999. Connemara is braced for the new millennium. ‘No Scrubs’ rules the airwaves, bootleg DVDs of Cruel Intentions are thrilling crowds of sexually progressive teens, and if you’re not matching combat trousers with platforms, you are nobody. In the midst of this perplexing...

A History of County Galway

A comprehensive study of Galway’s history, culture and people

by Peadar O'Dowd
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004

Peadar O’Dowd’s A History of County Galway is an enjoyable, accessible and informative study of Galway’s history. A comprehensive book that begins with Galway’s geological formation, O’Dowd’s study of Ireland’s second largest county progresses up to the present day and is the ideal book...

Adventures of a Wonky-Eyed Boy

The Short Arse Years

by Jason Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016

A hilarious childhood memoir from one of Ireland's funniest comedians. '"Mrs Byrne, you've 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 wrong reasons. She could have shagged a platypus and I still...

Another Country – Growing Up In ’50s Ireland

Memoirs of a Dublin Childhood

by Gene Kerrigan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998

From First Communions to CIÉ Mystery Tours – the heartwarming story of award-winning journalist Gene Kerrigan’s childhood in Dublin in the ’50s In his highly addictive style, Gene Kerrigan effortlessly reconstructs the Ireland of the 1950s and early ’60s in which he grew up. An adult...

Corn Flakes for Dinner

A heartbreaking comedy about family life

by Aidan Comerford
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017

What do you do when both of your daughters have been diagnosed with autism, your wife is depressed and your job has been made redundant? You become a comedian! After years of feeling like he was losing at life, Aidan Comerford was on top of the world. He had just stepped off stage after being...

Irishology

Slagging, Junior C Football, Wet Rain and Everything Else We Love about Ireland

by Ronan Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015

Ah Ireland, it’s a great little country all the same, if only you could put a roof on it. While we may be a nation of messers and begrudgers, we’ll always have a soft spot for our land of sunny spells and scattered showers. Who else but the Irish can perform minor miracles with a prayer...

A History of Fianna Fáil

The outstanding biography of the party

by Noel Whelan
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011

The Fianna Fáil Party was founded in 1926 and first came to Government in 1932. From that date until 2010, it has completely dominated the political life of the Republic of Ireland. For all but 13 of those 78 years, it has formed the Government of Ireland, either on its own or as the dominant party...

What If? Alternative Views of Twentieth-Century Irish History

An Entertaining and Thought-Provoking Counter-History of Twentieth-Century Ireland

by Professor Diarmaid Ferriter
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006

What If? is an entertaining, thoughtful, provocative and original look at some of the milestones of twentieth century Irish history that offers a glimpse of what might have been. We all know that there was nothing inevitable about much of modern Ireland’s history. Things could have turned...

Dublin Burning: The Easter Rising From Behind the Barricades

The Only Eye-Witness Account of the Easter Rising written by a senior participant

by W.J. Brennan-Whitmore
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013

Dublin Burning is a vivid, clear-eyed account of the 1916 Rising and is the most complete account we have from a senior participant. No other senior Volunteer figure has left a similar memoir of Easter Week. Commandant W.J. Brennan-Whitmore was officer commanding the Volunteer position at the...

Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland 1858-1928

Patriots, Priests and the Roots of the Irish Revolution

by Professor Tom Garvin
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005

The present-day Republic of Ireland was created by a revolutionary elite which developed between 1858 and 1914. Here, one of Ireland’s most eminent historians, Professor Tom Garvin, considers the social origins of the revolutionary politicians who became the rulers of Ireland after the 1916 Rising...

Against the Tide

The widely acclaimed autobiography of Irish politician and doctor Noël Browne

by Noël Browne
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007

'Against the Tide' is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the devastating ravages of tuberculosis both personally and professionally....

The Downfall of the Spanish Armada in Ireland

The Grand Armada Lost on the Irish Coast in 1588

by Ken Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009

The English navy inflicted a narrow defeat on the Armada, but it was the Irish coast that encompassed its downfall. 'Heed that coast!' The Duke of Medina Sidonia wanted only to guide La Felissima Armada home safely. In the North Sea he issued sailing instructions, which, if they had been followed,...

The Fertile Earth – Nature's Energies in Agriculture, Soil Fertilisation and Forestry

Volume 3 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series

by Viktor Schauberger
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2000

How does nature work? When one looks closely at the enormously complex web of life, it is impossible not to be caught by the wonder of how all living things – including rocks and crystals – are interconnected. Just as there is thought behind action, so there is energy behind matter. The...

A Time to Risk All

The incredible untold story of Mary Elmes, the Irish woman who saved hundreds of children from Nazi Concentration Camps

by Clodagh Finn
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017

Clodagh Finn has travelled throughout Europe to piece together the story of this remarkable, unknown Irish woman, meeting many of those children Mary Elmes saved. Here, in a book packed with courage, heroism, adventure and tragedy, her story is finally remembered. The children called her ‘Miss...
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