General catalogue - The O'Brien Press

LIFE ISSUES
Your life only a Gazillion times
better
Life Coaching for Everyone
Judy May Murphy & Cathy Breslin
Find the power within and live your
life a gazillion times better! If health,
wealth or happiness feature on
your list of goals, this is the book to
show you how you can achieve your
desires.
160 pages/ISBN 978-0-86278-768-4
€8.99 pb
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HUMOUR
NATURE
Wild Dublin
Exploring Nature in the City
Éanna Ní Lamhna
Photographs by Anthony Woods
A stunning and revealing guide to nature in the
capital. Dublin is not only home to a million humans
but is also residence for a fascinating array of flora
and fauna. This bestselling book is packed full
of interesting facts on wildlife written in Éanna’s
familiar and much-loved voice.
192 pages/photographs, illustrations, maps
ISBN 978-1-84717-142-9
€14.99 pb
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NEW EDITION
Gift of the Gab
The Irish Conversation Guide
Tadhg Hayes
Conversation in Ireland is a sport, an
entertainment and the essential route to the
Irish heart. But it’s full of twists and turns. In
order to negotiate it you will need help! This
book is a user’s manual, not just another
phrase book. You’ll be talking like a native
in no time!
96 pages/cartoons
ISBN 978-1-84717-289-1/€8.99 hb
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The Wit of Oscar Wilde
Sean McCann
Oscar Wilde is probably the most quoted and
quotable man in history. He boasted that he
could talk spontaneously on any subject – a
claim proved by the wicked, witty and everrelevant
examples contained in this book.
176 pages/cartoons
ISBN 978-1-84717-067-5
€9.99 hb
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The Wee Book of Irish Wit and Malarkey
Sean McCann and Paul Ryan
Irish wit is an art form that can be sage,
silly, insulting, or profound, but it’s always
entertaining. This is a pint-sized draught of
potent mirth and malarkey from Wilde, Swift,
Behan, and many other wags, including
‘yer man’ on everything from love and marriage
to death and dying and everything in
between.
304 pages/cartoons/ISBN 978-1-84717-181-8
€9.99 hb/Rights available W x US/CAN
I Will in me Politics
The Maurice Hickey Diaries
Pat Shortt
It’s rare that a political diary of such significance
comes along. Councillor Maurice
Hickey is a leader in his community, the man
who gets things done.
224 pages/ISBN 978-1-84717-084-2
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Irish Wit
Sean McCann
In this lively, quotable book, Sean McCann has
succeeded in distilling the essence of Irish wit
– on love, religion, the ‘hard stuff’, the English,
with a generous mix from Behan, Yeats, Swift,
Moore, O’Casey, but above all from ‘yer man’,
the leading authority on everything that grows,
breeds, thinks or computes in the land.
160 pages/cartoons
ISBN 978-1-84717-127-6
€9.99 hb
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Dublin Wit
Paul Ryan
Wisdom, wickedness, banter and bitching from
the heart of Dublin, with overheard conversations
and comments from Moore Street market.
64 pages/illustrations
ISBN 978-0-86278-103-3
€6.95 pb
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Holy Smoke!
True Papal Stories that will Amaze and
Amuse
Bob Curran
Is the Pope Catholic? Well, not necessarily.
Neither is he always a he, or even always
alive. A unique tour of the (un)Holy See, with
some of history’s most unlikely popes.
80 pages/cartoons
ISBN 978-0-86278-947-3/€4.99 hb
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Cures, Hoors and Floating Voters
Volume II of the exclusive behind-the-scenes
diaries of Maurice Hickey, one of Ireland’s
hardest-working politicians. An informative and
insightful account of his political exploits.
208 pages/ISBN 978-1-84717-117-7
Both titles €12.99 pb/Rights available W
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