Poolbeg Press: 75 books

An admirable doctor in charge of a small, isolated hospital in outback Australia swaps his wife’s second stillborn baby for an identical twin born to an impoverished farmer’s wife who already has seven other children. Both mothers are unaware of the deception.  Only one person, apart from the...

Joe Coleman made world headlines when he revealed that the Blessed Virgin would be appearing in Knock, County Mayo, in September 2009. Many of the 10,000 people who showed up that day claimed they saw the sun dancing, and Joe himself received a message from Our Lady. Though mistrusted and hounded...

From the author of Bloody Women and Deadlier than the Male, seventeen more cases of death, violence and intrigue at the hands of some of Ireland’s most notorious women . . .   There has been a huge increase in violent deaths in Ireland in recent years. While men are more often the...

What happens when the right people meet, at the wrong time? Melanie McQuaid is firmly fixated on the future, whilst troubled journalist Richard Blake is stuck resolutely in the past. Sparks fly when they first meet, until Richard's past catches up with him and a dramatic turn of events changes...

She is alone and homeless, he is wealthy and powerful – why is he desperate to erase their past? When Alice arrives home from the school run with her two children to find herself locked out of her apartment, she doesn’t realise at first that she is also locked out of her life. The man she...

Tick, tock . . . Workaholic Eve Hayes is burnt out and lonely. At the age of thirty-eight, she’s afraid she has allowed the chance of a real and worthwhile life pass her by. Lilly Donovan got married too young and over the years she's become a prisoner and slave in her own home. Eve...

Marion Dante always knew she would be a nun. She was her mother’s ‘‘sin offering’’, pledged to God even before her birth. So, at the age of fourteen, she entered a convent. Ten years later, she was wrestling with doubts and misery. Shunned by the nuns, her only ‘‘family’’,...

Ireland’s Haunted Women tells the chilling tales of nine modern Irishwomen, and one young girl, who have experienced hauntings. This is not just another ghost book – no rehashing of old tales or stories borrowed from other collections. These cases are told here for the first time, collected...

Now that Northern Ireland’s “troubles” appear to be over, with old enemies the DUP and Sinn Féin sharing power, what will happen to the hard men of loyalism? The Ulster Volunteer Force emerged during the first sparks of Northern Ireland’s Troubles in the mid-1960s. Their campaign of...

Easter 1916. The Great War rages in Europe with two hundred thousand Irishmen fighting in the British Army. But a small group of Irish nationalists refuse to fight for Britain and strike a blow for Irish freedom. Caught up in the action in Dublin, is twelve-year-old Molly O’Donovan. Her own...

Uninspired artist Katie’s life in New York, and almost everyone in it, has been about as genuine as a Prada handbag from Chinatown. When it all comes crashing down she flees back to Ireland. There she finds her dormant artistic inspiration unexpectedly reignited in a small rural town. However,...

It’s not easy being a businesswoman in 1960s Manchester, but Tara Fitzgerald has done very well for herself. She runs her own hotel and a boarding house and has been offered an interesting investment opportunity. But Tara can’t let go of Ballygrace Manor back in Ireland, her late husband’s home...

Amelia Slater, 29, has a good job, an apartment in Clontarf, a vicious cat and a huge crush on Ray Donnelly at work. She and her friend Ruth are dedicated weight watchers, but powerless to resist a bottle of wine and tube of Pringles. When Amelia’s sister Jenny announces her engagement to dull Mike,...

Entaglemant is a story of love, betrayl and serects... Kate ia a doctor in a Dublin maternity hospital where a glamourous French woman arrives in a desperate emergency, and Kate has to make a life and death decision. She saves the woman and the baby’s life, but the surgery goes disasterously...