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This cookbook brings together wholesome, comforting dishes, from hearty stews and golden soda bread to savoury pies and indulgent desserts. Each recipe is designed for today's home cook, using simple, seasonal ingredients that reflect the farm-to-table ethos of traditional Irish kitchens.

Discover the long and rich history of the island of Ireland, from the very earliest Mesolithic inhabitants to Vikings and Celts and the modern 21st-century nation of today. Encompassing stories of some of Ireland's best-known characters, as well as pivotal moments in Ireland's past, this compact ...

Soundtracked by The Dubliners, Muhammad Ali climbed through the ropes to fight Al 'Blue' Lewis at Croke Park on a balmy July evening in 1972. The most famous athlete in the world had somehow been inveigled to Ireland by Butty Sugrue, a charismatic circus strongman whom nobody took seriously until...

O'Ruairc reveals the forgotten history of the Irish far right from the 1920s up to the present, when secretive mobs are burning asylum centres and targeting politicians. He uncovers the pervasive anti-Semitism of the Irish political elite in the 1920s and 30s, the energetic efforts of Mosley and...

From Glendalough in the Wicklow mountains to Tipperary's Rock of Cashel and Offaly's Clonmacnoise, from Aghagower in County Mayo to County Dublin's Clondalkin, 'Round Towers of Ireland' features over 40 of these remarkable and intriguing structures.

Every day in my consulting room with a dog at my feet I have seen the very best that humanity has to offer and often in the very worst of circumstances. No matter where a family comes from, whether prince or pauper, when they come through the door, every single person has three things in common. ...

In 'Love in a Dark Time', the author looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, figures in the main whose homosexuality remained hidden for much of their lives.

Ceapadh gur imigh an cumas cruthaitheachta as an bhFiannaíocht uair éigin sa naoú haois déag. Is é sin nach mbeadh inti feasta ach aithris. Ní raibh a fhios ag an traidisiún go mbeadh Eithne Ní Ghallchobair ann. Is fada cáil uirthi mar scéalaí agus mar fhile ach annamh a nasctar iad mar a dhéanta...

Rev. Harold Good is a ’Derry-born Methodist minister, retired Church leader and one of the oldest surviving actors in the Irish peace process. From Ian Paisley’s turbulent arrival in the early fifties to the burning of Bombay Street and internment; from searching for bomb victims with his bare h...

The existence of Monto - Europe's biggest red-light district from 1860 to 1925 with up to 1600 sex workers at any one time - is not a secret, but what happened to the women at the end of their lives and after death is less clear. This account balances the historical origins of Monto, its expansio...