Books from Mercier Press Ltd
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Coffin Ship: The Wreck of the Brig St. John
By William HenryIn this new book on the sinking and the events preceding it, historian William Henry brings to life the story of the St. John, its passengers and its ignoble captain who abandoned them to their fate.
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Shadow of the Brotherhood: The Temple Bar Shootings
By Barry KennerkHe was accustomed to sending his information through Crown Solicitor George Bolton in Nenagh – a man whose office he had once managed as law clerk. He was possibly a member of the IRB, but his letters to Bolton suggested an antipathy ...
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Freney the Robber: The Noblest Highwayman in Ireland
By Michael HoldenThe Nore Valley, Saddle Hill, Brandon Hill and Inistioge village retain their old-world vista and charm, and would be readily recognised by the bold Captain were he to grace these tranquil spots today. Some of his favourite haunts are ...
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The Wreck of the Neva: The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Women Aboard
By Cal McCarthy, Kevin Todd2 of Cork as he accompanied her, along with Kelliher and Donovan, to the convict depot. He was part of an unofficial practice adopted by the authorities in Ireland that was best articulated by Superintendent Trevor when, in 1831, ...
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The New Breed:: Irish Rugby's Professional Era
By Patrick McCarryBack in 1996, Woods' next battle was against his club, six games into his first season at Sunbury, after the players were summoned to Woodward's house and asked to take a fifteen per cent pay cut. 'This,' he says, 'took place in ...
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Where Clare Leads, Ireland Follows
By Richard FitzpatrickOthers who kindly assisted on the research trail and with advice included Brian O'Connell, John O'Dea, Noel Crowley, Dermot McMahon, Tony and Shane Mulvey, Pat Cotter, Nicola Fahey, Louis McRedmond, Colum Flynn, John Madden, ...
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Ride On
By Stephen J. MartinStephen J. Martin. Stephen J. Martin 'If you put Bono and Brendan O'Carroll into a DNA blending device, then you would end up with Stephen J. Martin...' – Irish Examiner For Kieran and Margaret ... Front Cover.
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The Donegal Awakening: Donegal & The War of Independence
By Liam Ó Duibhir... 310, 312, 316 Bustard (UVF Ballybofey) 56, 237 Butt Hall (Ballybofey) 167 Byrne, Connell (Donegal town) 200 Byrne, Dan (IRA Vol. Kilcar, South Donegal) 217,318 Byrne, H. (IRA Vol. Kilcar, South Donegal) 318 Byrne, John (IRA Vol.
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Donegal & the Civil War: The Untold Story
By Liam Ó DuibhirBernard Brady, Bundoran, NB 17. James Breslin, Glenties, NB 18. Michael Brice, Lettercran, S & C 19. Alex Browne, Drumareslough, NB 20. James Buchannan, Castle Street, Ramelton, NB 21. Con Byrne, Boragh, Carrick, NB 22. Hugh Byrne ...
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Prisoners of War: Ballykinlar, An Irish Internment Camp 1920-1921
By Liam Ó DuibhirThe story of the Ballykinlar internment camp is on the one hand an account of suffering, espionage, murder and maltreatment, but it is also a chronicle of survival, comradeship and community.
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Class Act
By Debbie Thomas'Thank you,' he said softly. 'But they belong to someone else. Though I'm not sure they'll fit round her neck.' The children blinked. Brian smiled. 'If you hang around, you can give them to her yourself.' Fifteen minutes later there was ...
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Secrets to Success:: Inspiring Stories from Leading Entrepreneurs
By Sean GallagherRaymond Coyle has created a great legacy through the businesses he has built and the jobs he has created. But perhaps his most abiding legacy will be the example he sets – an example that inspires the rest of us to see opportunities and ...
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A State in Denial:: British Collaboration with Loyalist Paramilitaries
By Margaret UrwinThis meeting, which included Gibson, concerned the UWC strike. Gibson assured James Allan that 'the UVF would continue to lower the temperature and certainly did not advocate violence'.42 On 27 May several UVF leaders, including Gibson, ...
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The Munster Republic: The Civil War in North Cork
By Michael HarringtonFlorence and Josephine O'Donoghue's War of Independence (2006). 21 Ibid. 22 Kissane, Bill, The Politics of the Irish Civil War (2005). 23 O'Donoghue, Florence, No Other Law (1986). 24 Hopkinson, Michael, Green Against Green (1988).
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Diarmuid Lynch: A forgotten Irish patriot
By Eileen McGough... 1932 O'Brien, Paul, Blood on the Streets: 1916 and the Battle for Mount Street Bridge, Cork: Mercier Press, 2008 O'Brien, William and Desmond Ryan (eds), Devoy's Post Bag, 1871–1928, 2 vols, Dublin: C. J. Fallon, 1948–53 Ó Broin, ...
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GPO Staff in 1916: Business As Usual
By Stephen Fergusonloud bang the report of which startled the Volunteers (about 4 in number) who quickly withdrew from the Castle and joined by others entered the City Hall. Was it the loud bang of a slammed door, mistaken for a shot, which prevented the ...
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The Burning of Cork
By Gerry White, Brendan O'SheaHiggins decided to concentrate on stopping the fire from spreading but they had no sooner begun than a report was received that City Hall had been set on fire. Leaving a small number of men to deal with the fire in the Sinn Féin Club, ...
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Rebel Ireland: From Easter Rising to Civil War
By Sean McMahon... had no photograph of Collins and the following year de Valera refused to become a patron of a Michael Collins Foundation, set up by the subject's old friend Joe McGrath (1887–1966), the founder of the Irish Hospitals Trust.
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Interned: The Curragh Internment Camps in the War of Independence
By James Durney245; Conroy, 'Escapes from the Rath Internment Camp'. 34 'Rath Camp Escape', Evening Herald, 6 January 1936. 35 Kelly, 'Mass escape of internees from the Curragh Camp', p. 245. 36 O'Callaghan, For Ireland and Freedom, p. 132.
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The Irish War of Independence in Kildare
By James DurneyThe book looks at the group of Volunteers who followed the railway track into Dublin to partake in the 1916 Rising and details attacks at Greenhills, Maynooth and Barrowhouse.