Bailiúchán: Adult Non-Fiction

This historical atlas explores the town of Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal from its origins to the present day. It traces the town's development from a fording point and O'Donnell stronghold, through its nineteenth-century heyday as a thriving port and market town with international trading connections...

When it comes to food, we all want to make the right choices. We've heard of ultra-processed foods and how bad they are for us, yet how much do we really know about the products in our shopping trolley? The truth is that limited time and misleading marketing on food labels often result in a kitch...

'The GAA Covered' is a stunning visual compendium of GAA programmes. With over 100 years of material contained within, each page features striking images of that year's provincial and All-Ireland final match programmes, along with captions of context and colour.

This work began with a storm: Storm Éowyn. It deprived many people of heat, light and cooking facilities, and caused havoc around Ireland. When Alice Taylor went out to her garden after the storm had passed, she saw that the one-hundred-year-old apple tree, planted by Uncle Jacky - the tree that...

This heartfelt memoir chronicles the author’s journey from Donegal, Ireland, to London in the 1980s when Ireland was crippled with high unemployment, mass emigration and political violence. It paints a vivid picture of the struggles faced as an emigrant – beginning with the search for employment ...

On frosty nights at a flickering fire, Michael Harding withdraws into the stillness of winter and begins to reckon with age and death. November is a rainstorm, December a bleak twilight, but as January dawns and the ice thaws, it is the fragile light of love that penetrates the dark, bringing new...

Danny McFadden went from sleeping in parks, a hopeless drunk, to becoming an internationally respected lawyer working for the UN in New York and across borders in Beijing and beyond. Growing up in a tight-knit Irish community in post-war London, he learnt that drinking, a staple of working-class...

Flowing from source to sea, our rivers are the life-blood of Ireland. They have shaped the landscape, history, folkore and mythology of the island. Beginning with the Liffey in the east, then travelling clockwise around the country, follow the four directions of the compass as you learn the stori...