...AND THE GATES FLEW OPEN The Burning of LONG KESH by Jim McCann
Only the very best storytellers can make you think you are actually there. Jim has this gift in spades. You know that sometimes you wish the wittiest people you listen to...
Surfing into Life on a Bathboard
"Jake Jackson's memoir can make for uncomfortable reading because of its honesty and intimacy- the laying bare of a life lived during one of the longest-running conflicts of the late twentieth...
Ten Men Dead
The inside story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike, based on the most extraordinary correspondence in penal history.
International Brigade Against Apartheid Secrets Of The People's War That Liberated South Africia
We hear for the first time from internationalist who secretly worked for the ANC's armed Wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), in the struggle to liberate South Africa from apartheid rule. They...
John Lennon's Dead. New Edition 2022
`John Lennon's Dead` is the ironic title of Síle Darragh's account of a life of protest and resistance in Armagh Gaol in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including the two...
On The Blanket by Eoghan Mac Cormaic
A compelling eye-witness account of imprisonment, rich in humour and pathos. A remarkable testimony to commitment and endurance in the cause of freedom. IRA Volunteer Eoghan ‘Gino’ Mac Cormaic served seventeen...
Writings From Prison,
Bobby Sands was twenty-seven years old and had been on hunger strike for sixty-six days when he died on 5 May 1981. The young IRA volunteer was world-famous by the time...
Defects. Living With The Legacy Of The Celtic Tiger
Across Ireland, thousands of people are living in homes with serious fire-safety and structural defects. Some have made the news, many have not. Defects: Living with the Legacy of the Celtic...
The Scariff Martyrs. War, Murder and Memory In East Clare
Close to midnight on the 16th November 1920, on Killaloe Bridge, British Forces shot dead four young men. The 'Scariff Martyrs' have been remembered for over a century. Here their story...
Northern Protestants- On Shifting Ground
Twenty years on from her critically acclaimed book, Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People, award winning journalist Susan McKay talks again to the people she 'uneasily' called 'her own', those from a...
An Introduction Of The Irish Civil War
An Introduction to the Irish Civil War offers a fresh perspective on the causes, development and consequences of the Civil War triggered by the signing of the Anglo-Treaty, as it accepted...
My Fight For Irish Freedom
In 19191 a group of men barely out of their teens, poorly armed, with no money and little training, renewed the fight begun in 1916 to drive the British out of...