Item category 2: Irish Collection

Despite the scale and exponential growth of the cancer book world, uncovering great cancer writing is a monumental task. No treasury of essential reading, nor introductory guide with helpful interpretations, exists. “The Breath of Consolation” addresses this gap. It honours fifty literary treas...

From the outside looking in, the young life of Mia Döring seemed unremarkable, as she pursued her studies at a prominent Dublin art college, immersed in a vibrant social scene. Unbeknownst to those around her, however, Mia's life was anything but ordinary. At age 16, she had been sexually exploi...

This atlas draws on over 10,000 records to describe the distribution of wildlife in Britain and Ireland in the early modern period. Range maps of 153 species provide a baseline against which to discuss subsequent declines and extinctions as well as expansions and introductions.

Since he emerged as the new face of the Irish Catholic Church in the 1970s, Passionist priest Fr Brian D'Arcy has consistently embodied the evolving views of ‘Catholic Ireland’ towards the clerical Church. Such outspokenness and fearless, though always well-meaning, has regularly drawn the disple...

We are the Ripple Effect shares the stories of ten courageous Theatre of Witness Performers in Northern Ireland - survivors, ex combatants, former security forces and witnesses of the Troubles. This book highlights their personal journeys through conflict and trauma as they transform individually...

Aosdána was founded in 1981 to honour artists whose work has made an invaluable contribution to the arts in Ireland and to assist members in devoting their energies full time to their artistic practice. The succeeding pages tell the History of Aosdána and how it was founded. With members across t...

Published in the centenary year of the foundation of the Irish state, this book reviews one hundred years of government policy on Irish and assesses its relative success or failure.