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Foundation Stone: Notes Towards a Constitution For a 21st Century Republic 

A critical evaluation of the changes the Irish constitution needs to bring radical reform to Ireland. "In 1949, almost offhandedly, we declared our State a Republic. Remarkably nobody seems to have...

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The House on Parkgate Street and Other Dublin Stories

A child wandering alone through a racecourse; an elderly lady grasping at a thread of memory; a young girl watching prostitutes from her window as they ply their trade; an Indian taxi driver living in...

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Not Lost: A Story About Leaving Home

At once brazen and terrified, Sarah Maria Griffin’s beautifully written memoir, opens a doorway into the interior life of the Celtic Tiger Cubs who have left Ireland to escape the recession and in...

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Ireland 366: A Story A Day From Ireland's Hidden History

In this entertaining and engaging book, Frank Hopkins delivers an episode from Ireland's history for every single day of the year, including 29 February. Some are surprising, some sensational and...

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'Peace After The Final Battle': The Story Of The Irish Revolution, 1912-1924

The Lockout, the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War. Events we hear a lot about packed into just a very few years, barely over a decade. But what did they mean, what forces gave...

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A Question Of Duty: The Curragh Incident 1914

 As the world marched to war in 1914, the Army of the British Empire was secretly recovering from one of its most momentous events of its history. In the Curragh Army Camp in the rolling countryside of...

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A Year Of Festivals In Ireland

Meet Mark Graham, Conker Champion of Ireland, All-Ireland Bucket-Singing Champion and the sixth-best bog snorkeler in Ireland. Rejected by the banks as he looked to start on the journey to home...

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Miss Fitzgerald

Trudy Fitzgerald, a child growing up in post-famine rural Limerick, has always wanted more – more freedom, more success and more independence. Most of all, she wants more of the truth about the...

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Inside RTÉ: A Memoir

For 33 years Betty Purcell worked behind the scenes as an award-winning producer in RTÉ Radio and Television, with presenters such as Marian Finucane, John Bowman, Pat Kenny and John Kelly.  She found...

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The Closet of Savage Mementos

'Nuala Ní Chonchúir's characters and their relationships have about them that most precious and elusive quality: the ring of truth.' Gerard Stembridge Lillis leaves behind 1990s Dublin for a summer job...

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