Poolbeg Press: 75 books

Amy Kennedy, partially dressed, lies on top of a creased duvet. Her eyes are half open. A year after mother’s death, her depression threatens to engulf her. Her mother’s cruel and violent tones still rage in her head. “No tears, no tears now or I’ll give you something to cry about.” She...

She has come to a crossroads – is it too late to go her own way?   When she is a child, Chrissie’s beloved father encourages his daughter to use her voice and to overcome her fear of singing in public. Inspired by her parents’ passions, music and travel become Chrissie’s whole...

Isabella swaps Dublin for Manhattan to find herself and lose Harry. Harry, with whom she had been primary school classmates, teenage sweethearts, university lovers and a not-quite-grown-up couple. Harry, who is so caught up in anti-war demonstrations that he fails to organise a life for the two of...

A group of people meet on one of the Titanic's lifeboats, saved from death by random chance. These survivors, from different nationalities and walks of life, have only one factor in common: all have survived a tragedy that captures the world’s imagination. This thread binds them together when they...

Ever get the feeling you don’t really belong in your family, that you’re completely different to your relatives? That’s how 30-year-old interior decorator Harri Ryan has felt since she was a child despite being close to George, her twin brother, and loving parents Gloria and Duncan. It’s...

***Belfast 1955: our past was still their future . . . *** In the summer of 1955, Belfast is a quiet, apparently peaceful backwater. Trolleybuses run in a leisurely way through sparse traffic, and lamplighters go about at night. Still, though Ulster’s eruption of 1969 is fourteen years away,...

The second gripping thriller from Dublin based writer Brian Gallagher. A chance meeting in the Yorkshire Dales with an old school enemy draws advertising executive David Walker and his pregnant wife Mary into the murky world of cut-throat espionage. In a life and death struggle this...

It is 1897. Edmund Jeffers is Actor-Manager at the Colosseum, the foremost theatre in London. He is a man of immense personal charm, who moves in exalted circles and is highly respected. Shortly he will be honoured with a knighthood. But he has a secret. Despite his status and the fact that he is...

Do you love good food? At the Irish Heart Foundation we certainly do! This cookbook is jam-packed with easy to make, affordable and delicious recipes, all of them in keeping with the Irish Heart Foundation's goal for a happy heart - to enjoy food that's rich in taste and heart-healthy. You'll...

Dublin journalist Karina Colgan was rescued from the apartment she had barricaded herself into by her husband Gerry and son Karl, who feared for her life. Karina – like one in four people in Ireland – found herself unexpectedly fighting depression and for a long time did not know how to win the...

- Jesus spent decades in India. - Ethiopians, not Jews, are the real chosen people. - A religion in Iran predicted the Virgin Birth, hundreds of years before Christ. - Abraham was an Iraqi. - Lenin was a Saint. - Worms have souls. - There’s no such thing...

Are you somebody who thinks sleep is for wimps? Or do you find it hard to survive on less than ten hours a night? Now you can make your sleeping time work for you. Sleeping Your Way to Success shows you how you could be creating your ideal life through what you do during those (until now) wasted...

Early one morning in 1994, Jackie Burke lay dying on the floor of his elderly mother’s house, his body pumped full of a lifetime’s worth of drugs and alcohol. An ex-prisoner, Jackie had defied help offered by psychotherapists, social workers and addiction counsellors. His drug-taking lifestyle...

Do you believe in ghosts?Well, do you? HAUNTED is a comprehensive guide to the world of the paranormal in Ireland. As you take this journey into the unknown, a journey into the world of ghosts, spirits and poltergeists, you will find answers to any puzzling questions that plague your mind. Learn...