Mercier Press imprint: 124 books

I Die in a Good Cause –

Thomas Ashe: A Biography

by Seán Ó Lúing
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017

Originally from west Kerry, Thomas Ashe was a schoolteacher in north County Dublin and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers. During the 1916 Rising he commanded the Fingal Battalion of the Volunteers, who were tasked with destroying the communications network of the British establishment north...

Never Give Up:

Selected Writings

by Gerry Adams
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017

* Author is a high profile public figure with a strong following. * Writes for the first time about the death of close friend Martin McGuinness. * Guaranteed to generate media interest.
by Sharon Tighe-Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018

One woman's investigation of the role of women in the Christian Church since its inception, as she counters the Roman Catholic church's argument for excluding them from the priesthood Details the gradual exclusion of women from positions of power as the Roman Catholic Church evolved. Accessible...
by Mick O'Farrell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

When the rebellion of 1916 had ended, more than 400 people were dead and over 2,000 wounded. More than half of these were civilians, but even for those civilians who were not direct casualties, the rising was one of the most momentous experiences of their lives. The accounts that Mick O'Farrell has...

Martin McGuinness:

The Man I Knew

by Jude Collins
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018

In Martin McGuinness, The Man I Knew, Jude Collins offers the reader a range of perspectives on a man who helped shape Ireland's recent history. Those who knew Martin McGuinness during his life talk frankly about him, what he did and said, what sort of man he was. Eileen Paisley speaks of the influence...
by Anne Cadwallader
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013

Farmers, shopkeepers, publicans and businessmen were slaughtered in a bloody decade of bombings and shootings in the counties of Tyrone and Armagh in the 1970s. Four families each lost three relatives; in other cases, children were left orphaned after both parents were murdered. For years there were...
by Sarah Healy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999

This book provides in succinct, accessible form, a thematic rather than strictly chronological account of Irish history. It begins with a comprehensive historical portrait which presents the whole fabric of three thousand years of Irish life. For subsequent chapters the author has selected for development...
by Mr Liam Ó Duibhir
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013

Ballykinlar Internment Camp was the first mass internment camp to be established by the British in Ireland during the War of Independence. Situated on the County Down coast and opened in December 1920, it became home to hundreds of Irish men arrested by the British, often on little more than the suspicion...

The Men Will Talk to Me (Ernie O'Malley series Kerry)

Interviews from Ireland's Fight for Independence

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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012

County Kerry saw many of the most vicious episodes in both the War of Independence and the Civil War. Many Republican survivors of these events were reluctant to speak about their experiences, even to their own family. However, they were willing to talk to Ernie O’Malley, who was the senior surviving...

Coolmore Stud:

Ireland's Greatest Sporting Success Story

by Alan Conway
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017

Nestled in a quiet part of County Tipperary, Coolmore Stud casts as long a shadow as any sporting entity over the history of Irish sport. Founded by the legendary horse trainer Vincent O’Brien, and now managed by John Magnier, Coolmore Stud has grown from a small breeding farm into a global behemoth,...

Dublin's Fighting Story 1916 - 21

Told By The Men Who Made It

by The Kerryman, Brian Ó Conchubhair
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012

Fills the demand for this rare and long out-of-print title Eyewitness and first-hand accounts of the conflict Introduction by bestselling author and historian Diarmaid Ferriter
by Valerie Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014

Focus is natural. We are born with an instinct to focus on exactly what we want and a very strong pair of lungs to help us to get it. Then, somewhere along the way, we begin to lose that focus. In the digital age we are bombarded with information from all angles and live our lives at such a breakneck...

Easy Recipes for Summer Cooking

A short collection of receipes from Donal Skehan, Sheila Kiely and Rosanne Hewitt-Cromwell

by Donal Skehan, Rosanne Hewitt-Cromwell, Sheila Kiely
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013

A short collection of recipes from cookbooks 'Good Mood Food' by Donal Skehan, 'Gimme the Recipe' by Sheila Kiely and 'Like Mam Used to Bake' by Rosanne Hewitt-Cromwell. Recipes to enjoy with friends and family during fine summer evenings and lazy weekends. Reviews for 'Gimme the Recipe': '...the...
by Florence O'Donoghue
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010

IRA Jailbreaks 1918-1921 features the factual accounts of 25 daring rescues, rescue attempts and jailbreaks which raised the morale of nationalist Ireland and brought world-wide ridicule and discredit on the prison and internment camp systems in Britain and Ireland. With stories of their resistence...
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