General catalogue - The O'Brien Press
General catalogue - The O'Brien Press
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<strong>The</strong> Will to Win<br />
Seán Boylan with John Quinn<br />
<strong>The</strong> story of manager Seán Boylan who<br />
made Meath a potent force in Gaelic Football<br />
– winning four All-Ireland titles.<br />
288 pages/photographs<br />
ISBN 978-1-84717-004-0<br />
€24.95 hb<br />
Rights available W<br />
Hidden Soldier<br />
An Irish Legionnaire’s Wars from Bosnia<br />
to Iraq<br />
Padraig O’Keeffe with Ralph Riegel<br />
<strong>The</strong> extraordinary story of life and training in<br />
the French Foreign Legion, UN and NATO<br />
missions in Cambodia and Bosnia, and security<br />
work in the killing fields of Iraq and Haiti.<br />
336 pages/photographs<br />
ISBN 978-1-84717-032-3/€9.99 pb<br />
Rights available W<br />
All Hell Will Break Loose<br />
Austin Currie<br />
<strong>The</strong> fascinating story of a veteran of Irish and<br />
Northern Irish politics. Currie gives a behindthe-scenes<br />
account of the people and events<br />
that changed the history of Northern Ireland,<br />
and how violence affected his own family.<br />
464 pages/photographs/€22.99 hb<br />
ISBN 978-0-86278-815-5/Rights available W<br />
Joe Cahill<br />
A Life in the IRA<br />
Brendan Anderson<br />
A unique inside story from a lifelong member<br />
of the IRA, revealing the workings of this<br />
paramilitary organisation over the past sixty<br />
years.<br />
432 pages/photographs<br />
ISBN 978-1-84717-101-6<br />
€12.95 pb/Rights available W<br />
Rights sold CR • I • US/CAN<br />
Mother from Hell<br />
Two Brothers. A Sadistic Mother.<br />
A Childhood Destroyed<br />
Ken Doyle & Patrick Doyle with Nicola Pierce<br />
<strong>The</strong> harrowing tale of two brothers subjected<br />
to deprivation, beatings and humiliation at the<br />
hands of their own mother, which continued<br />
despite numerous official reports of abuse.<br />
256 pages/ISBN 978-1-84717-143-6<br />
€11.99 pb/Rights available W/Rights sold B/C &<br />
EUxIR (EL)<br />
An Irish Voice<br />
Niall O’Dowd<br />
<strong>The</strong> remarkable account of an Irish emigrant<br />
to the US who became a publisher, a leading<br />
advocate for immigration reform, played a<br />
pivotal role in the Northern Ireland peace process,<br />
and became known as ‘the authentic<br />
voice of the Irish in America’.<br />
320 pages/photographs/€12.99 pb<br />
ISBN 978-1-84717-223-5<br />
Rights available W<br />
Staying the Distance<br />
Ronnie Delany<br />
In 1956 Ronnie Delany won the gold medal in<br />
the 1500m Olympic final in Melbourne, setting<br />
a new Olympic record in the process. <strong>The</strong><br />
life and career of one of Ireland’s best-loved<br />
sportsmen written in his own engaging style.<br />
208 pages/photographs<br />
ISBN 978-1-84717-044-6/€14.95 pb<br />
ISBN 978-0-86278-975-6/€24.95 hb<br />
Rights available W<br />
Oliver St. John Gogarty<br />
Ulick O’Connor<br />
An insightful biography of one of Ireland’s most<br />
exuberent characters: the inspiration for Buck<br />
Mulligan in Ulysses, a senator, playwright,<br />
champion athlete and surgeon, Gogarty was<br />
called ‘one of the greatest lyric poets of the<br />
age’ by Yeats.<br />
328 pages/photographs<br />
ISBN 978-0-86278-597-0<br />
€19.99 pb/Rights available W<br />
Young Tigers and Mongrel Foxes<br />
A Life in Politics<br />
Paddy Harte<br />
A frank account by the former Fine Gael TD.<br />
Tells of Harte’s efforts to bring about peace in<br />
Northern Ireland, and his role in the creation of<br />
a memorial in Belgium to the Irish who died in<br />
World War l.<br />
360 pages/photographs<br />
ISBN 978-0-86278-865-0/€24.95 hb<br />
Rights available W<br />
Enemy of the Empire<br />
Life as an International Undercover IRA<br />
Activist<br />
Eamon McGuire<br />
Eamon McGuire’s IRA activities forced him to<br />
go on the run, hiding in remote parts of Africa.<br />
Captured by the CIA, he spent several years<br />
in various prisons in South Africa, Ireland and<br />
the US.<br />
312 pages/photographs/€11.95 pb<br />
ISBN 978-0-86278-909-1/Rights available W<br />
Holy Terrors<br />
Michael Clemenger<br />
Chilling, passionate and unflinching, this is the<br />
story of how one boy survived the terrors of<br />
Ireland’s notorious institutions and made a real<br />
life for himself.<br />
‘Harrowing’ <strong>The</strong> Kingdom<br />
424 pages/photographs<br />
ISBN 978-1-84717-187-0<br />
€11.99 pb<br />
Rights available W/Rights sold B/C & EUxIR (EL)<br />
John Charles McQuaid<br />
Ruler of Catholic Ireland<br />
John Cooney<br />
An important and revealing biography of the<br />
enigmatic cleric whose iron rule influenced all<br />
aspects of life in Ireland for three decades.<br />
576 pages/photographs<br />
ISBN 978-0-86278-811-7<br />
€29.99 pb<br />
Rights available W/Rights sold US/CAN<br />
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