Liberties Press imprint: 82 books

Here's the Story

New Irish Writing from Solas Nua

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015

Ireland has a vibrant literary scene, and Dublin-based Liberties Press publishes some of the country's most exciting writers. Here's the Story includes extracts from nine novels, two short-story collections and three books of poetry recently published by Liberties Press. Here's the Story was published...

From The Press Box

Seventy Years of Great Moments in Irish Sport

by Peter Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013

Following the success of his book My Part of the Day, first published in 1981, Peter Byrne's second collection of stories, From the Press Box, provides fitting testimony to the most successful era in the history of Irish sport. From Gaelic Games and rugby to football and athletics, this book straddles...

Benedict Kiely

Selected Stories

by Benedict Kiely
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014

Selected Storiesgathers together some of the best examples of Benedict Kiely's work - a true and gifted man of letters. Edited by Ben Forkner, founder ofThe Journal of the Short Story. From'Soldier, Red Soldier' and 'A Ball of Malt and Madame Butterfly' to 'A Letter to Peachtree', these stories sing...

An Obstacle Confusion

The Wonderful World of Barney McKenna

by Jim McCann
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015

Barney McKenna, ‘Banjo Barney from Donnycarney’, was one of the founder members of the Dubliners. But he was also famous for another reason: he was capable of bringing any conversation to a sudden stop by uttering something so completely unexpected as to reduce everyone present to bemused silence....

The Pursuit of Awesome

Stellar Musings & Advice on Achieving Your Dreams

by Diana Bunici
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016

The Pursuit of Awesome: Stellar Musings & Advice on Achieving Your Dreams is a positive, motivational read for anyone with a dream. Global rock stars, international sportsmen, best-selling authors and Oscar winners tell their stories, of going from small town kids with high hopes and big ambitions,...

Every Dark Hour

A History of Kilmainham Jail

by Niamh O'Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007

Kilmainham Jail is perhaps the most important building in modern Irish history. A place of incarceration since its construction in the late eighteenth century, it housed a succession of petty criminals, including sheep rustlers and, during the Famine, people who committed crimes with the sole aim...

Numb

Diary of a War Correspondent

by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015

Following her husband’s death in October 2014, 'Kay Buckby', as she wishes to be known, stumbled upon a number of shocking revelations within his diaries and notebooks. Deciding to expose her discoveries, she contacted an Irish ghostwriter to compile her husband’s ephemera into a book. You hold...

Buried Treasure Volume 2

Overlooked, Forgetten and Uncrowned Albums

by Dan Hagerty
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016

Buried Treasure is a colorful smorgasboard of music. Revered musicians, actors, and pop culture icons each contribute their favourite albums to create a fantastically eclectic collection.

Down These Green Streets

Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century

by Ruth Dudley Edwards, Kevin McCarthy, Cora Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

This book suggests crime fiction is now the most relevant and valid form of writing which can deal with modern Ireland in terms of the post-'Troubles' landscape and post-Celtic Tiger economic boom. The book takes a chapter by chapter approach with each chapter and author discussing a different facet...
by Michael D. Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014

Michael D. Higgins' vision as part of his Presidential election campaign and now following through to his tenure as President of Ireland, is 'of [an] inclusive citizenship in a creative society, as we build a real Republic that makes us proud to be Irish in the world'. Renewing the Republicis an expansion...

Just Garret

Tales From the Political Front Line

by Garret FitzGerald
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014

InJust Garret, Dr. FitzGerald writes frankly about his upbringing, his parents, his involvement in the Independence movement, their disagreements about the Treaty, his early years in school and college and his gradual entry into politics. He reflects honestly on his time as minister for Foreign Affairs,...
by Mary Kenny
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013

We are all witnesses of our time, and this is something of a witness to mine.' Something of Myself and Others is a fascinating collection of articles and reflections on the public and private life of one of Ireland's best known journalists. Detailing memorable events in her life, as well as those...
by Risteárd Mulcahy
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015

Now that he has reached his tenth decade, Risteárd Mulcahy is issuing his twelfth and last book. He has always been interested in the relationship between population and the planet and is deeply concerned about the future of mankind as it ignores the wellbeing of our planet home. As in previous publications,...

The Things I've Seen

Nine Lives of a Foreign Correspondent

by Lara Marlowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

Lara Marlowe, the Washington correspondent of The Irish Times, has witnessed more than her share of history in three decades as a foreign correspondent. She has reported with clarity and fearlessness on the main conflicts of our era, from the civil war in Lebanon to the break-up of Yugoslavia, the...
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