Liberties Press: 83 books
Behind the Mask
The Extraordinary Story of the Irishman Who Became Michael Jackson's Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This is the story of a boy from a small Irish village who became an adventurer, a humanitarian and a doctor to the stars. Part travelogue, part thriller, part celebrity tell-all, you’ve never read anything quite like it. Patrick Treacy grew up in rural Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Determined...
A Violation Against Women
What Happened to Me at Our Lady of Lourdes
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
On 10 July 1995, Kathleen Ward went into Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda to give birth. While she was there, her ability to give birth to any future children was taken away from her, without her consent. At the hands of Dr Michael Neary, she underwent an unplanned and unnecessary hysterectomy....
Setting the Truth Free
Inside the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
In 1992, twenty-eight families came together in the pursuit of truth and justice. Eighteen years later, they moved a mountain. Setting the Truth Free captures, for the first time, the remarkable story of the Bloody Sunday families of Derry. The wounds of Bloody Sunday cut deep and have spanned generations;...
More Than A Game
Selected Sporting Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Con Houlihan was, quite simply, one of Ireland's finest sports writers. Over a lengthy career, Con covered many of the greatest Irish and international sporting events, from classic Gaelic football and hurling finals to the soccer and rugby World Cups, the Olympics and memorable race meetings at home...
Silicon Docks
The Rise of Dublin as a Global Tech Hub
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Over the past fifteen years, many of the world's biggest technology firms have opened offices in Dublin. But just how did the Irish government convince the likes of Google, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to set up bases in Ireland? Find out how a series of last-minute negotiations between the IDA...
The Pear is Ripe
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
The book is full of warm anecdotes and wry observations on the numerous literary, artistic and musical characters John Montague encountered, befriended and occasionally provoked. He recounts his personal and professional relationships with such luminaries as Patrick Kavanagh, Allen Ginsberg and, as...
by Risteárd Mulcahy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Now that he has reached his tenth decade, Risteárd Mulcahy is issuing his twelfth and last book. He has always been interested in the relationshop 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,...
I Am Going To Be Debt Free
Don't just change your financial life -- transform it
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Do you find it hard to sleep at night, kept awake worrying about missed mortgage payments or unpaid bills? Does it sometimes feel like no matter what you do to cut back on spending or how hard you work, you never seem to have enough money to last the month? You are not alone. Today, thousands of us...
Suicide
A Modern Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
When is it okay for a person to kill themself? How have ideas about this changed over time, and how do they differ across cultures? How do Ireland's suicide rates, especially among its young men, compare to rates in other countries in Europe and beyond? Are we obsessed today with the idea of suicide?...
by Michael D. Higgins, Mark Patrick Hederman
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2011
Michael D. Higgins is one of Ireland's leading public intellectuals. As well as having made a significant contribution to public life, he is a prolific poet, whose work ranges from the personal to the political, and geographically from the west of Ireland to Nicaragua and the Middle East. Here, he...
by Billy Keane
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
"Even though I wished it was me she was married to, I was still hoping Mo would be happy ever after with Dermo Olsen. That was until the violence started. I loved her that much. Can you believe that?" Welcome to an unnamed town in the southwest of Ireland, where Mo and G have what could...
by Jan Carson
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Eleven-year-old Malcolm Orange has grown up in the backseat of an ancient Volvo station wagon, crisscrossing America with a diminishing collection of grandparents, one good-for-nothing father, an increasingly absent mother, and an unfortunately ordinary brother. Their journey ends abruptly in a pay-by-the-week...
A Ball of Fire
Collected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
John Montague, best known as a poet, is also a gifted prose writer.A Ball of Firecollects all of his short stories, together with the erotic novellaThe Lost Notebook(which he hoped to have banned, but which ended up winning a major literary prize).In the shorter stories, fromThe Road Ahead, which...
Witnesses
Inside the Easter Rising
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This thought-provoking book retells the 1916 Rising story through previously unavailable first-hand accounts from the protagonists. Illustrated with unpublished and rare photographs, this book also features an introduction by well-known historian and author Dr Margaret Mac Curtain. Witnesses: Inside...