Merrion Press imprint: 32 books
Ireland’s Call
Irish Sporting Heroes Who Fell in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
In Ireland's Call BBC journalist Stephen Walker charts the fascinating stories of 40 Irishmen who swapped the sports field for the battlefield - household names who gave up their blossoming careers to volunteer for the Great War.
Using rare archive letters, memoirs and newspaper reports, this...
Emmet Dalton
Somme Soldier, Irish General, Film Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
This is the first-ever biography of Emmet Dalton, an American-born Dubliner, Home Ruler and later Republican, whose extraordinary military career as a British officer, IRA leader and General in the Free State army brought him from Flanders to Beal na Bláth. A decorated hero of the Battle of the Somme,...
Out of the Ashes
An Oral History of the Provisional Irish Republican Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Out of the Ashes is the definitive history of the Provisional Irish Republican movement, from its formation at the outset of the modern Troubles up to and after its official disarmament in 2005. Robert White, a prolific observer of IRA and Sinn Féin activities, has amassed an incomparable body of...
One Bold Deed of Open Treason
The Berlin Diary of Roger Casement 1914-1916
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
One Bold Deed of Open Treason describes the astonishing journey by Roger Casement to Germany in 1914, via New York and Norway. Arriving into Berlin under a false identity, Casement entered a space of conspiracy and subterfuge. Through his vivid and gripping diary entries, a picture emerges of a man...
In the Name of the Son
The Gerry Conlon Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
London, 19 October 1989. An electrified young man, with eyes wild and a clenched fist, bursts out of the Old Bailey and declares his innocence to the world. Gerry Conlon has just won his appeal for the 1974 Guildford pub bombing. After fifteen years in prison, freedom beckons. Or does it? Following...
John Redmond
The National Leader
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Dermot Meleady's authoritative second part of his full-length biography of John Redmond, the first to be published in 80 years, begins in 1901 shortly after his election as chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the Westminster Parliament, and ends with his death in 1918.
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by Lucy Costigan
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Arthur Kingsley Porter, (1883 1933) renowned American, Harvard professor and owner of Glenveagh Castle, vanished without trace from Inishbofin Island, Co. Donegal, in 1933. No trace of the professor was ever found. Over the decades stories of Porter's disappearance turned into legend. A strong swimmer...
Unhappy the Land
The Most Oppressed People Ever, the Irish?
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
In Unhappy the Land Liam Kennedy poses fundamental questions about the social and political history of Ireland and challenges cherished notions of a uniquely painful past. Images of tragedy and victimhood are deeply embedded in the national consciousness, yet when the Irish experience is viewed in...
A Bloody Dawn
The Irish at D-Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
The epic Allied invasion of German-occupied Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944, has been extensively chronicled. The largest seaborne invasion in history, it began the liberation of German-occupied France, and later Europe, from Nazi control, laying the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western...
Soldiering Against Subversion
The Irish Defence Forces and Internal Security During the Troubles, 1969–1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
During a time of high tension, terror and fear, the Irish Defence Forces faced the very real threat of the Irish State being plunged into a savagely sectarian civil war. The southern state faced a breakdown of law and order, severely challenged by manhunts, prison breaks, shoot-outs, kidnappings,...
Soldiers of the Short Grass
A History of the Curragh Camp
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This is the first complete history of the Curragh Camp, from its foundation in 1855 to the present day, under both British and Irish occupation. Dan Harvey, a military historian and an experienced senior officer, presents a compelling and fascinating narrative of the camp’s many evocative eras and...
A Bloody Day
The Irish at Waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Within the grand narrative of the Battle of Waterloo – one that marks the end of Napoleon’s career as conqueror and the beginning of an extended peace in western Europe – little is known of the formidable efforts made by the Irish who supplemented the strength of the British Army and, in no...
A Bloody Night
The Irish at Rorke’s Drift
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
The word Zulu means ‘heaven’, but for the suddenly besieged and minute British garrison at Rorke’s Drift, among them a key faction of Irish soldiers, it represented a hellish horde of warriors from the Zulu nation.
A Bloody Night documents the terrifying struggle of these Irishmen as...
Into Action
Irish Peacekeepers Under Fire, 1960–2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Into Action is the story of the Irish Defence Forces’ role as international peacekeepers since 1960. While primarily posted to uphold the transition towards peace in overseas conflicts, they have at times inevitably been forced to fight back against often aggressive opposition. Dan Harvey’s fascinating...