Autobiography & Biography Books (28)

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...

Irish rugby has produced many charismatic figures over its history. None more than Willie Anderson.  Immortalised for his defiant stance in the face of the All Blacks’ Haka, the Ulsterman...

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...

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...

 Some part of me believed I would become a more complete person if I spoke Irish, more in tune with my roots, my identity, my very being.   I was one...

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...

A handbook about people and places in Irish science and technology. 

A moving and lyrical memoir about life, love and loss, from a true giant of Gaelic games. A moving and lyrical memoir about life, love and loss, from a true...

Séamas O’Reilly’s mother died when he was five, leaving him, his ten brothers and sisters and their beloved father in their sprawling bungalow in rural Derry. It was the 1990s;...