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Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? by Séamas O'Reilly (Paperback) ✓ In Stock

Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? is Seamas O'Reilly's memoir of growing up as one of eleven children in rural Northern Ireland in the 1990s after the death of their mother when Seamas was five. He delves into his family - his pleasingly eccentric, reticent but deeply loving father; his rambunctious siblings, intent on enforcing a byzantine age-based hierarchy; and the numerous bewildering friends, relations and neighbours who blew in and out to 'help'. Seamas describes how his mother's death changed his childhood relationships with everyone and everything, as knowledge of his tragic experience preceded him. He writes hilariously and tenderly of how his father, Joe, strove to give his children a happy home and a good education - building bookshelves in every room so as to avoid having to lecture them on the importance of academic achievement; videotaping and obsessively cataloguing more than 800 films so as not to have to take out a Blockbuster subscription; having the local nuns cook their Christmas turkey every year. This unusual childhood took place in Northern Ireland at the end of the Troubles, on the Irish border that Brexit has made once more into a hotly contested political frontier. Seamas describes living on that boundary, including the time an IRA bomb blew out their windows when he was three. We then follow Seamas through his teenage years as a nascent political radical and amateur satirist, and his arrival in Dublin as a university student. Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? is the story of a boy growing up; a family bonded by loss, love and mockery; and their triumphs and disasters as they reached for their goal of some kind of normality. ISBN 9780708899236

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Showbusiness with Blood : A Golden Age of Irish Boxing / Eamon Carr ✓ In Stock

In Showbusiness with Blood, Eamon Carr beguiles the reader with an insightful account of the world's greatest boxers, from Steve Collins to Mike Tyson to Tyson Fury and Katie Taylor. Boxing, Ireland's most successful Olympic sport, became turbo-charged in the mid-90s. A golden age followed as Irish boxers excelled in the harsh, violent and sometimes tragic business that is professional boxing. Having become enamoured of the sport during a period of serious illness as a child, Eamon Carr was on hand to witness the victories and disasters. The core principle of prize-fighting - striking and defence - demands enormous courage each time the boxer steps forward. Surrounded by enthusiastic fans, the ring can yet be the loneliest place in the world. Ireland embodies this tradition with renewed focus over the past three decades in a golden age of boxing. Showbusiness with Blood takes the reader on an intimate journey through Irish boxing's years of triumph and desolation. Carr's enthusiasm for the sport illuminates the dark corners of the fight game with stories from gruelling training camps, noisy press conferences, behind-the-scenes hustling and the savage brutality of championship fights. These are stories of aspiration and devastation. Yet amid the chaos and destruction of the boxing ring are inspirational tales of courage, resilience and personal redemption: boxing's enduring saving graceFeatured boxers include: Steve Collins, Wayne McCullough, Bernard Dunne, Darren Sutherland, Tyson Fury, Jamie Conlan, Andy Lee, John Joe Nevin, Katie Taylor, Willie Casey, Carl Frampton, Michael Conlan, Mike Tyson, Seamus McDonagh, Conor McGregor, Martin Rogan, Michael Carruth, Francis Barrett, Matthew Macklin and Gary 'Spike' O'Sullivan.

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Who's Who in the Irish War of Independence 1916-1921 (ar athláimh) ✓ In Stock
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Michael Collins: A Biography ✓ In Stock
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Michael Collins: A Biography
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Seosamh Mac Grianna i mBaile Átha Cliath ✓ In Stock
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Bye Bye Now – Dírbheathaisnéis Tommy Leddy (Eagrán Gaeilge) ✓ In Stock
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Tar Éis a Bháis - Aistí ar Sheán Ó Ríordáin ✓ In Stock
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Grace O'Malley : The Biography of Ireland’s Pirate Queen 1530-1603 ✓ In Stock
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Aistí ag Iompar Scéil -In ómós do Shéamus P.Ó Mórdha (crua) (ar athláimh) ✓ In Stock
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DAN CURTIN ✓ In Stock
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Catalpa : The epic story of the greatest prison rescue in Irish history by Michael B. Barry (Hardcover) ✓ In Stock
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Great Irish Wives: Remarkable Lives from History ✓ In Stock
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Michael B. Barry - Catalpa : The Epic Story of the Greatest Prison Rescue in Irish History - HB - BRAND NEW ✓ In Stock
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Thomas Kinsella: Designing for the Exact Needs ✓ In Stock
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BERTIE CAREY, AGE 74, TALLAGHT (Part 1) ✓ In Stock
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Beatha Bharra: Saint Finnbarr of Cork: The Complete Life ✓ In Stock
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Walking With Ghosts : A memoir by Gabriel Byrne ✓ In Stock
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Twelve Irish Artists. Introduction by Thomas Bodkin (1940) ✓ In Stock
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Twelve Irish Artists. Introduction by Thomas Bodkin (1940)
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About O'Casey: The Playwright & The Work; Victoria Stewart ✓ In Stock
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JOSEPH O'CONNOR, AGE 87, NENAGH (Part 1) ✓ In Stock
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BRIDIE McENTEE (née McGUINNESS), NOBBER, BORN 1918, ✓ In Stock
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A Poet in the House: Patrick Kavanagh at Priory Grove ✓ In Stock
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A Poet in the House: Patrick Kavanagh at Priory Grove - Paperback ✓ In Stock
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Condaí Phroinnseais Mac Cuinneagáin agus Ceolta Theilinn ✓ In Stock
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Charles Stewart Parnell: Rí Éireann gan Chorónú ✓ In Stock
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The Riddle of Erskine Childers [claig air] (ar athláimh) ✓ In Stock
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Seosamh Mac Grianna i mBaile Átha Cliath ✓ In Stock
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Charlie Vs Garret: The rivalry that shaped modern Ireland SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS ✓ In Stock
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Catalpa: The epic story of the greatest prison rescue in Irish history by Michael B. Barry ✓ In Stock
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Irish First Ladies and First Gentlemen 1919–2011 by Bernadette Whelan (Hardback) ✓ In Stock
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The Irish Experiment : From the GAA to the AFL by Zach Tuohy (Large Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Brown Gold: A History of Bord na Mona and the Irish Peat Industry ✓ In Stock
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Brown Gold: A History of Bord na Mona and the Irish Peat Industry
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Tom Crean: Fear San Oighear - Eachtrai Eireannaigh San Antartach ✓ In Stock
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Mise Raiftearaí - An Fíodóir Focal (Winner – Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin 2015) ✓ In Stock
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Truce: Murder, Myth and the Last Days of the Irish War of Independence ✓ In Stock
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Gerard Shannon - Liam Lynch : To Declare a Republic - PB - BRAND NEW ✓ In Stock
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MAUREEN PHIBBS, AGE 67, BLACKROCK, BLESSINGTON, CO WICKLOW ✓ In Stock
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Seven Signatories: Tracing the Family Histories of the Men Who Signed the Proclamation ✓ In Stock
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Beatha Bharra: Saint Finnbarr of Cork: The Complete Life ✓ In Stock
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Ken Whelan / Bertie Ahern : Taoiseach and Peacemaker (Large Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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We Made It, Kid : 'Compelling, heartfelt and inspiring' Katriona O'Sullivan, author of Poor ✓ In Stock
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Beatha agus Bás Thomás Ruiséal - The Life and Death of Thomas Russell ✓ In Stock
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Patrick Casey, Joe Duignan & Kevin Cullen - Irish Doctors in the Second World War - HB- BRAND NEW ✓ In Stock
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Irish Drummers: Volume 1 ✓ In Stock
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Irish Drummers: Volume 1
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Matt Cooper Dynasty ✓ In Stock
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Matt Cooper Dynasty
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Dan Donovan (part 1) ✓ In Stock
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James McVeigh (part 1) ✓ In Stock
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Pamela Casserly (b. 1926) ✓ In Stock
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Eva Ashe (b. 1926) ✓ In Stock
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Kitty Maher (aged 93) ✓ In Stock
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Maurice O’Donnell (b. 1932) ✓ In Stock
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VINCENT GARVEY ✓ In Stock
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Ann Giltenane (b. 1938) ✓ In Stock
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Ann Giltenane (b. 1938)
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Peter Sutherland and the European Project ✓ In Stock
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Peter Sutherland and the European Project
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Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Uí Dhomhnaill: The Life of Aodh Ruadh O Domhnaill. Part Ii, Introduction, Glossary, Etc. ✓ In Stock
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Seán O'Faoláin: Literature, Inheritance and the 1930s ✓ In Stock
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Macallaí na Cásca 3 - In Éagmais Uí Chonghaile - Gluaiseacht na n-oibrithe: gluaiseacht ar strae ✓ In Stock
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