In 1946, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Dolan walked up the path to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Alone and pregnant, she was following in the footsteps of...
The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her lifeWhen a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed the...
Grace O'Malley is the story of one remarkable woman's quest for survival and fulfilment, by land and by sea.In 1979, Anne Chambers' original biography of Ireland's pirate queen, airbrushed from...
Autobiographical text (in English only) by Colm Ó Tórna Colm O'Tonra was the editor of SAOL, heavily invloved in Conradh na Gaelige and the Jesuits. Ó Tórna states that he...
Jamie Heaslip is one of the most decorated players in the history of Irish rugby. Over the course of a thirteen-year career, during which he amassed 229 appearances for Leinster...
(An Irish-language title) Winner of Gradam Ui Shuilleabhain, Book of the Year Award 2010. In 1994 the army officer, Frank Reidy was sent to eastern Africa to assist the United...
In times when women were expected to marry and have children, they travelled the world and sought out adventures; in times when women were expected to be seen and not...
Alice Taylor takes a look back at the well-used schoolbooks she used in her youth in the 1940s and 1950s. Flicking through the pages of the books and recalling poetry...
