Books from The O'Brien Press
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Kings of September: The Day Offaly Denied Kerry Five in a Row
By Michael FoleyThey told stories about his toughness, and how the same traits passed through all the O'Connors. It was nice for his sons sometimes, other times it irritated them. On a football field Tomás couldn't move for the family reputation.
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The Secret Gift
By Ian SomersPearson was also armed. She walked behind us and I could feel her eyes burning holes in the back of my head. She eventually moved ahead of me when the armed guards blocked our way. 'Stand aside,' she ordered. 'Mr Blake has a visitor.
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A Haunted Land: Ireland's Ghosts
By Dr. Robert CurranHere are stories and details of the amazing variety of hauntings to be experienced throughout the country.
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Detective: A Life Upholding the Law
By Tom Connollywith a metal hook at either end – around Michael Casey's neck when they went in. They would knock on the door, and O'Mahoney would say his uncle was dead. They would kill Casey, and then search the house. The two men left the pub on ...
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Tony Gregory
By Robbie GilliganTony Gregory’s political life has left an exceptional legacy. Robbie Gilligan has talked to the whole “kitchen cabinet” and covers his whole career, from local agitator to elected politician, and the campaigns from 1978-2009.
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SOS Lusitania
By Kevin KielyBooks: Quintesse (St Martin's Press, New York); Mere Mortals; Plainchant for a Sundering Lapwing; Breakfast with Sylvia, winner of the Patrick Kavanagh fellowship 2006; Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast, The Wellkinn Complex; ...
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Stormclouds: New Friends. Old Differences.
By Brian GallagherBig changes are coming to late-Sixties Belfast.
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Friend or Foe: 1916: Which side are you on?
By Brian GallagherBrian Gallagher is the author of four other books for young people, Across the Divide, Taking Sides, Secrets and Shadows and Stormclouds, as well as four adult novels and numerous plays and short stories.
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Across the Divide
By Brian GallagherWhat Happens When Your Best Friend ought to be Your Enemy?
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Secrets and Shadows: Two friends in a world at war
By Brian GallagherWhen her home is destroyed in the Luftwaffe bombing of the North Strand, Dublin in 1941, Grace Ryan is forced to move in with relatives in a different part of the city.
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Taking Sides: A Boy. A Girl. A Nation Torn Apart.
By Brian GallagherIn the Dublin of 1922 with Civil War about to break out, working class Annie Reilly is thrilled to win a scholarship to Eccles Street Convent School.
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Punching Above their Weight: The Irish Olympic Boxing Story
By Sean McGoldrickAt the December Elite finals, Moore suffered a shock defeat in the welterweight final to Henry Coyle, but the other five who had been to Russia won their titles. Ireland, though, endured a serious wake-up at the European Championships ...
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Gangland: The Shocking Exposé of the Criminal Underworld
By Paul WilliamsIn one of Walsh's scams, the investigators were lucky to locate an eyewitness to an accident which occurred in November 1991 on Temple Road in Dartry, south Dublin. The female eyewitness was walking down Temple Road around 9.30pm at ...
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Death in December: The story of Sophie Toscan du Plantier
By Michael SheridanIn reply, Minister O'Donoghue confirmed that a fax copy of an International Rogatory Commission – a request for mutual assistance in a criminal matter – had been received by the Department on 30 April 1997. The request sought sensitive ...
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Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives from History
By Marian BroderickDuring the last day of Harry's life, Mary Ann personally begged the governor for mercy. When this failed she spent his final hours with him in his cell, and walked with him to the scaffold. After he was hanged, she held him in her arms ...
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Seán MacDiarmada: 16Lives
By Brian FeeneyHMSO 2000. All the cables between New York, Washington and Berlin concerning the Rising can be read here. 4 See above, chapter 5, p.3. 5 BMH WS 284 Michael Staines. 6 Hall in 1917 decoded the Zimmermann telegram which brought the United ...
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Joe Cahill: A Life in the IRA
By Brendan Anderson, Joe CahillAgain there were allegations of malpractice, with supporters of the new Provisional Army Council claiming that the conference hall had been packed with proGoulding people who cast votes even though they were not entitled to.
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Looking Under Stones: Roots, Family and a Dingle Childhood
By Joe O'TooleHis grandfather was an Ashe from Kinard, near Dingle, who had emigrated to the States many years ago, but Gregory kept in ... By a strange twist of fate, Gregory Peck, freedomfighter in The Guns of Navarone, was a first cousin to Tomás ...
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Six Nations, Two Stories
By Peter O'Reilly, Kate RowanA celebration of Ireland’s greatest rugby year Relive, game by game, the key moments in Ireland’s historic 2015 Six Nations campaign, which culminated in a nerve-shredding final weekend when both...
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Diamond Star Girl
By Judy May MurphyHer sister came to visit and see if she could help, and she noticed that the young woman was wearing an unusual necklace with a huge diamond and ten smaller diamonds in a circle around it, a necklace that the sister had never seen ...