General catalogue - The O'Brien Press
General catalogue - The O'Brien Press
General catalogue - The O'Brien Press
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A8<br />
Terence MacSwiney<br />
<strong>The</strong> Hunger Strike that Rocked an<br />
Empire<br />
Dave Hannigan<br />
A gripping, dramatic and poignant account<br />
of one man’s courageous stand against<br />
the might of an empire.<br />
336 pages/photographs<br />
ISBN 978-1-84717-182-5<br />
€14.99 pb<br />
Rights available W<br />
Insider<br />
Gerry Bradley’s Life in the IRA<br />
Gerry Bradley with Brian Feeney<br />
For the first time, an IRA activist tells his<br />
life story without approval from the IRA,<br />
from his involvement as a young Belfast<br />
teenager to more serious activities.<br />
360 pages/photographs<br />
€9.99 pb<br />
ISBN 978-1-84717-258-7<br />
Rights available W<br />
First Citizen<br />
Mary McAleese and the Irish Presidency<br />
Patsy McGarry<br />
<strong>The</strong> remarkable story of a Belfast girl who<br />
became President of Ireland. Explores<br />
her achievements at home, including her<br />
involvement in the peace process, and<br />
her profile abroad. With family and formal<br />
photographs.<br />
320 pages/full colour/€24.99 hb<br />
ISBN 978-1-84717-087-3/Rights available W<br />
Trading Paces<br />
From Rat Race to Hen Run<br />
Michael Kelly<br />
Michael Kelly and his wife were classic<br />
Celtic Cubs: now living happily in a leaky<br />
cottage in Dunmore East. A humorous and<br />
inspiring account of the ups and downs of<br />
letting go of the Tiger.<br />
232 pages/photographs<br />
ISBN 978-1-84717-070-5<br />
€9.99 pb/Rights available W<br />
Babyface Goes to Hollywood<br />
Fighters, Mobsters & Film Stars: <strong>The</strong><br />
Jimmy McLarnin Story<br />
Andrew Gallimore<br />
Jimmy McLarnin, ‘<strong>The</strong> Baby-Faced Assassin’,<br />
embodied the American Dream – an<br />
Irish immigrant rising to be one of the<br />
Depression era’s greatest attractions. A<br />
true, rags-to-riches story.<br />
336 pages/photographs/€11.99 pb<br />
ISBN 978-1-84717-116-0/Rights available W<br />
<strong>The</strong>re’s an Egg in my Soup ...<br />
and other adventures of an Irishman<br />
in Poland<br />
Tom Galvin<br />
Queues for groceries, unfathomable bus<br />
timetables, inexplicable traditions and truly<br />
bizarre soup – Poland in the 1990s, viewed<br />
through the eyes of this Irish resident, was<br />
a very strange place indeed!<br />
272 pages/ISBN 978-1-84717-048-4<br />
€9.95 pb/Rights available W<br />
History’s Daughter<br />
Máire MacSwiney Brugha<br />
An intimate memoir from the only child of<br />
Terence MacSwiney, who died on hunger strike<br />
in 1920. Máire recalls her early childhood in<br />
Germany, her life in Ireland and her marriage to<br />
the son of Cathal Brugha. Includes rare photos,<br />
letters and documents.<br />
320 pages/photographs/€14.95 pb<br />
ISBN 978-0-86278-986-2<br />
Rights available W<br />
<strong>The</strong> Same Age as the State<br />
Máire Cruise O’Brien<br />
An eloquent and elegant memoir, spanning<br />
eighty-one years of the remarkable life of Máire<br />
Cruise O’Brien – poet, scholar and diplomat.<br />
376 pages/photographs<br />
ISBN 978-0-86278-885-8/€17.95 pb<br />
ISBN 978-0-86278-799-8/€24.95 hb<br />
Rights available W/Rights sold US/CAN<br />
Our Lives Out Loud<br />
In Pursuit of Justice and Equality<br />
Katherine Zappone & Ann Louise Gilligan<br />
Recounts the love relationship of these two<br />
women who took a case for equality in marital<br />
recognition to the Irish Supreme Court.<br />
312 pages/photographs<br />
ISBN 978-1-84717-066-8<br />
€24.99 hb<br />
Rights available W<br />
Tales from the Home Farm<br />
Live More, Spend Less, Grow Your Own<br />
Food!<br />
Michael Kelly<br />
An invaluable guide to self-sufficiency at home<br />
– including growing your own food, cooking,<br />
storing, keeping animals, and lots more, dispensed<br />
with humour and tales of the author’s<br />
own successes and failures!<br />
400 pages/ISBN 978-1-84717-168-9<br />
€14.99 pb/Rights available W<br />
Kathleen Clarke<br />
Revolutionary Woman<br />
Kathleen Clarke<br />
A unique first-hand account of the most exciting<br />
period in Irish history. Widow, mother, revolutionary<br />
and Lord Mayor, this is the inside story<br />
of 1916, which Kathleen Clarke helped to plan<br />
alongside her husband, Tom Clarke.<br />
368 pages/photographs/€12.99 pb<br />
ISBN 978-1-84717-059-0/Rights available W<br />
Reading the Water<br />
A Life Spent Fishing<br />
Darryl Grimason<br />
TV presenter Darryl Grimason conveys the<br />
passion for fishing that has inspired him since<br />
boyhood. From angling for wild brown trout on<br />
Lough Corrib to the capture of a Giant Bluefin<br />
Tuna off Donegal, his enthusiasm for the<br />
subject is infectious.<br />
224 pages/drawings/ISBN 978-0-86278-914-5<br />
€19.95 hb/Rights available W