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