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  • Pádraig McCarthy Life, Death, Hope and the Eight Amendment
  • Brona Mills Twenty-year old Michael is visited by time-traveller Audrey, who has information that can improve his life. In this time-travel dilemma, relationship influences are the centre of Audrey’s conflict: what things in life should be left to fate? And if altered, could she destroy everything? Michael must make drastic changes in his career path, move country, take financial risks and push himself out of his comfort zones. As he struggles to make the changes, he falls in unrequited love with his guardian angel – the perfect woman who returns from the future once a year to offer him friendship and guidance.
  • Wasps Vs. Humans An Evel Knievel fan sits on his room watching TV. His two passions are Evel Knievel and American TV shows from the seventies. Not satisfied with his own life he decides to invent a new one, a new persona. He calls himself Bobby America. He invents a whole family: wife, children, a job, without ever leaving his room. He makes himself American, but his America is based on the TV shows he watched as a kid. The REAL America visits him in the shape of Charles Manson, Dr Martin Luther King, a death row inmate, a civil rights activist, General Custer, the Boston marathon bomber and an ISIS hostage. He lives his life through the celebrities and the TV shows that beam back at him. He watches, but he doesn’t take part. Who is the real person and what is he hiding?
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    Call out: A History of Mountain Rescue in Ireland

    Original price was: €20.00.Current price is: €10.00.
    Pat Holland For over forty years volunteer mountain rescue teams have been on standby twenty-four hours a day, every day of the year ready to help those in trouble on the hills and mountains of the island of Ireland. This book describes how the teams and the search dog association have developed from very modest beginnings to become experienced and capable frontline 999/112 services.
  • Malcolm Bray Orphaned in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of ten, Danny MacNamara survives a series of hopeless and hazardous adoptions, as well as a long term in a brutal juvenile detention centre. Driven by an obsessive search for his mother’s killer-rapist, the man he blames for all his subsequent misfortunes. Danny becomes battered and scarred by his life-experiences. Growing into a physical giant of a man, he finds himself unable to fit in anywhere for long and through no real fault of his own is hounded by both the authorities and the mob, with murder and mayhem accompanying his every move.
  • Patrycja Kurczynska The book “55 Sacred Trees” contains the description of 55 trees, from theirs soul / consciousness point of view. It explains how things manifest in our life, creation of the universe, what we understand as time and the meaning of our soul. It teaches us a deeper perspective of life and our purpose on earth as human beings.
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    Philip Johnston When Cork was under attack by the Germans.
  • Nibbler

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    Ellen Britton Animals can talk to each other and understand human language but people cannot hear them.  Nibbler, the grey rabbit at the centre of these stories learns this from Big Tom a big striped cat who knows everything.  Allowed the freedom of her garden by Grania when she realises that he is unhappy sitting in a hutch all day, Nibbler befriends Big Tom, plays with Lucy a young kitten and has a close encounter with tadpoles.  He has a vicious fight with Buck a nasty big white rabbit, is chased by two scary cocker spaniels and spends a night in Peadar and Teresa Reed’s kitchen, before he eventually moves to County Wicklow and his family.
  • Alan Egan

    In this début collection from Alan Egan you’ll find all kinds of stories, short, medium and long-ish, interspersed with lightning bursts of flash fiction. Tales of sadness and joy, love and loss, nonsense and nostalgia, defeat and victory, guilt and innocence. Some of these stories are true, although not perhaps the ones you might think. After a long career in the financial world, Cork man Alan Egan “retired”, travelled widely, went to university as a fulltime student, collected a couple of degrees and became a tutor. Around this time he also began to write fiction, and since then many of his stories have been published locally, nationally, and internationally.
  • Michael J.Walsh The Divine Connection is really a book of questions. It's about the individual and the society we live in. It's about religious people who espouse the words of the Divine and, yet, they do the opposite. Questions arise about morality and about the existence of God.
  • The Parent

    14.99
    Eileen Keane Haly How to Navigate the Ever Changing World of Parenting. In The Parent, Eileen Keane Haly shares practical, reassuring and real life principles as a guide for parents on how to deal with the many daily challenges they can face during their parenting experience.
  • Helen Kelly, Eamonn McHale and Jimmy Stephenson Heuston’s Fort is a book that highlights the importance of the battle of the Mendicity Institution Garrison to the 1916 Easter Rebellion in Ireland. The Small contingent of 29 men made a significant contribution in prolonging the rebellion by preventing large numbers of troops from attacking the central command at the General Post Office and other larger garrisons such as the Four Courts and Dublin Castle. Authors: Helen Kelly, Eamonn McHale and Jimmy Stephenson Illustrator: Jimmy Wren
  • Tom Felle Tom Felle is an academic and author. He has produced this style book to give guidance on how to approach news writing, spelling, punctuation and commonly used terms, in order that your writing has uniformity.
  • Lorraine Spillane A regular Mum doing what every other Mum in the World does and embracing life’s challenges along the way
  • Mary Brady Life After Dad is a true story about a young lady who grew up in 1970’s Dublin. The book describes the many years of hardship, abuse and survival she had to face alone.
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    Kitty

    15.00

    Beth Farrell

    This book is based on the life of Kitty, born in Leeds to Church of England parents, raised in a terraced house with her parents and two brothers. Her Dad was sent to France during the First World War. Her mother died suddenly at the age of thirty-nine when Kitty was only eleven years of age. It traces her survival until she became independent and decided to become a nurse, meeting many people who had a great impact on her life, none less so than Tom, an Irish Catholic. He eventually became her husband. He brought her to Ireland to live in the country with no electricity, no running water, and no transport.
  • The Hag with the Bag is a collection of stories by Jackie Ayres Kelly. The title story, beautifully illustrated by Alison Barry, is a fantasy about Edith Honeysuckle, who has the power to move between the human and animal worlds with ease, thanks to her shapeshifting abilities. Edith, loved her animal friends but not everyone had the same love and understanding of the animal kingdom as Edith, and some even went out of their way to harm them. Edith’s mission, along with an unexpected ally, is to change their minds. A donation from the sale of each copy will be given to an animal charity.
  • Brian Kenny

    In the second half of the 20th century Máirín De Burca was probably the best know female political and social activist in Ireland. Her career is full of protests, marches, court cases, jail sentences and more, as she fought for social justice and equality for women. Her victory in having the law on all male juries struck down is just one of her many achievements. While in Sinn Féin Máirín fought to move the party to the political left and she was a fearless critic of the Provisional IRA and any use of physical violence for political gain. Máirín De Burca has been a committed political and social campaigner for over 60 years. Her story is told now in this first biography of a remarkable life. This biography was written by Brian Kenny’s previous publications include: Joe Deasy: A Life on the Left, Sam Nolan: A Long March on the Left and Tony Heffernan: From Merrion Square to Merrion Street.

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