Irish Politics and Political Biography.

Henry McDonald / Trimble

A biography of David Trimble. It tells of

James Downey - All Things New : The 1989 General Election and Its Consequences - PB

Signed by the author to the late Olivia O'Leary and her husband Paul Tansey.  An analysis of the Irish 1989 election, and the role of the PD's, Haughey and much more. 

Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback)

  Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is...

Joe Joyce & Peter Murtagh - The Boss - Charles J. Haughey in Government PB Irish Politics 1st Ed 1983

A paperback first edition , 1983 of the classic study of Charlie Haughey as Taoiseach in the early 1980's - The Boss, published by Poolbeg Press. Controversial and groundbreaking in it's time, it...

Joe Joyce / The Boss : Charles J.Haughey in Government

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Joe Mulholland (Editor) - Transforming Ireland 2011-2016 ( MacGill Summer School) - PB 2011

This book brings together all the essays delivered at the 2011 MacGill Summer School. In recent years the MacGill School has been devoted to the ongoing unprecedented economic crisis. The essays were...

John Cooney - The Crozier & the Dáil : Church and State in Ireland 1922-1986 - PB - 1986

John Cooney was religious affairs correspondent with the Irish Times from the 1970's - this is his concise study of the complex role the Church played in first actively influencing the new Irish...

John Downing / Enda Kenny : The Unlikely Taoiseach (Hardback)

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John Downing / Most Skilful, Most Devious, Most Cunning : A Political Biography of Bertie Ahern (Large Paperback)

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John Horgan / Sean Lemass : The Enigmatic Patriot (Hardback)

This is a substantial and widely acclaimed biography of Sean Lemass, considered one of the finest political leaders in the history of the Irish state. The author explores facets of Irish life which...

John Kelly - Belling the Cats : Selected Speeches & Articles - Politics Dáil 1992

This collection presents a selection of John Kelly's Dáil speeches and public statements on subjects as diverse as the day-to-day life of a TD, the humbug of Irish neutrality, the scourge of...

Jude Mangan / Little Book of Irish Political Bullshit

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Ken Whelan / Bertie Ahern : Taoiseach and Peacemaker (Large Paperback)

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Kevin Rafter / Neil Blaney - A Soldier of Destiny (Large Paperback)

Biography of the notable Donegal politician.    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and...

Kieran Allen / The Celtic Tiger : The Myth of Social Partnership in Ireland (Large Paperback)

  The Celtic tiger has been hailed a triumph as a success story for the free market. This book looks under the surface to discover a discontented majority who are losing out. The booming economy...

Liam Clarke / Martin McGuinness : From Guns To Government

   MARTIN MCGUINESS: FROM GUNS TO GOVERNMENT tells the story of Martin McGuiness' personal journey from undistinguished IRA volunteer to the man that THE COOK REPORT called 'Britain's No.1...

Lorna Siggins / Mary Robinson : The Woman Who Took Power in the Park (Hardback)

Almost 30 years after the young graduate in a mini-skirt broke the mould and was elected to the Irish Senate, Mary Robinson is still considered by many an Irish role model. A human-rights lawyer and...

Malachi O'Doherty / How to Fix Northern Ireland (Large Paperback)

A highly topical and original investigation into the sectarian divide in Northern Ireland, published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement. In this thought-provoking and...

Malcolm MacLachlan / Happy Nation?: Prospects for Psychological Prosperity in Ireland (Large Paperback)

The National Happiness Experiment was a p

Martina Fitzgerald / Madam Politician (Hardback)

 Only 10% of those who have sat at the cabinet table in Ireland in almost 100 years have been women, totalling just 19 female politicians. Along with the two former female Presidents of Ireland, all...

Martyn Turner - A Fistful of Dáilers - Political Cartoons 1983-1987 - PB

A Fistful of Dáilers' Political Cartoons 1983-1987 by Martyn Turner, noted Irish Times cartoonist.  1987. tanning to pages, some corners dogeared. Larger format paperback, all cartoons in B&W

Martyn Turner - Pack Up Your Troubles - 25 Years of Northern Ireland Cartoons - PB - 1995

Paperback, co-published by Lilliput Press and Irish Times Books , Martyn Turtmer was the longterm cartoonist for the Irish Times Newspaper. 

Mary Kenny - Goodbye to Catholic Ireland - PB - 1997

This is a cultural and personal narrative of the author's native society, from the fall of Parnell to the rise of President Mary Robinson. A social history of the 20th century in Ireland, the book...

Mary McAleese / Here's the Story : A Memoir (Hardback)

 The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her lifeWhen a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed the idea: she knew no...

Mary McAleese / Here's the Story: A Memoir

 When a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed the she knew no one in the law, and she was female. The reality of what she went on to...

Mary Minihan / Dail Spats

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Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary

 Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this...

Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback)

 Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this...

Mary O'Rourke / Letters of My Life (Hardback)

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Mary Robinson / Climate Justice

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2018Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into. Before his fiftieth...

Mary Robinson / Everybody Matters: A Memoir (Hardback)

Shortlisted for the Political Book Awards 2013 Political Book of the Year One of the most inspiring women of our age, Mary Robinson has spent her life in pursuit of a fairer world. Now, for the first...

Mary Robinson / Mary Robinson: The Woman Who Took Power in the Park (Hardback)

Almost 30 years after the young graduate in a mini-skirt broke the mould and was elected to the Irish Senate, Mary Robinson is still considered by many an Irish role model. A human-rights lawyer and...

Mary Robinson, Caitriona Palmer / Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future (Hardback)

 This is a book about farmers and activists in Africa, Asia and the americas, people whose livelihood is ruined by climate change and climate injustice. Ywt it is akso a celebration of their fight...

Matt Cooper / How Ireland Really Went Bust

   The definitive account of the tumultuous events that led to Ireland going broke in 2010From the night the Irish government guaranteed the debts of Irish banks in September 2008 Ireland was on a...

Matt Cooper / How Ireland Really Went Bust (Large Paperback)

From the night when the Irish government guaranteed the debts of Irish banks in September 2008, to November 2010 when heavy hitters from the IMF and the ECB arrived in government buildings , Ireland...

Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? (Large Paperback)

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Michael D. Higgins - Power to the People : Essays : The Hot Press Years - HB SIGNED

Hardcover, published by Hot Press, signed by Michael D Higgins, 2024.  This edition was sold only via Hot Press directly, the standard trade-sold edition was unsigned.  An essential read for anyone...

Michael Healy-Rae / A Listening Ear : More Stories from the Heart of Rural Ireland

 In his first book, Time to Talk, Michael Healy-Rae established himself as part of the great tradition of Kerry storytellers with his chronicles of life in rural Ireland. Now, in his second book, his...

Michael Healy-Rae / Time to Talk : Stories from the heart of Ireland (Hardback)

 The biggest regret of Michael Healy-Rae's life was a time he didn't talk when somebody needed him the most. After that, he vowed to never stop talking, listening and trying to really hear what...

Michael Heney - The Arms Crisis of 1970 : The Plot that Never Was - Paperback

The number one Irish Times bestseller. In 1970, Taoiseach Jack Lynch accused two cabinet ministers, Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney, of smuggling arms to the IRA in Northern Ireland. The criminal...

Michael O'Sullivan / Mary Robinson (Hardback)

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Micheál MacGréil - Prejudice in Ireland Revisited - PB 1996 - Sociology

An expanded and updated edition ( 1996) of the changing social attitudes of Irish people, based on the pioneering work in sociological analysis by Mac Gréil , from the University of Maynooth. Survey...

Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW

Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor,...

Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography 1986 - Politics Ireland

Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor,...

Noel Whelan / Fianna Fail : A Biography of the Party (Hardback)

 The Fianna Fail Party, since it first came to government in 1932, has completely dominated the political life of Ireland.Fianna Fail has always seen itself as more than a party: more a national...

Olivia O'Leary / Party Animals

Continuing the theme of her well-received first volume of sketches, Politicians and Other Animals, Olivia O'Leary captures party animals of all colours, from frontbench lions and backbench lambs, to...

Paddy Devlin- The Fall of the N.I Executive 1974 - PB 1st Ed Northern Ireland

Published by Anvil Press /Kerryman, this is Paddy Devlin's collection of essays and commentary on the circumstances that led to the fall of the first Northern Ireland Executive in 1974. Paddy Devlin,...

Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973

Published by Anvil Press, 1973.  'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the...

Peter Taylor / The Provos: the IRA and Sinn Fein (Hardback)

This wor

Philip Ryan / Leo Varadkar - A Very Modern Taoiseach (Large Paperback)

 The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story...

R. F. Foster - Luck and the Irish : A Brief History of Change - 1970-2000 - HB

From about 1970, Irish history moved into a fast-forward phase. Roy Foster's 2007 book looks at the roots of the changes which came with an almost completely unexpected wave of prosperity. With...

Raymond Smith - Charles J Haughey : The Survivor - PB 1983 - Irish Politics 1980's

Published by Aherlow Publishing 1983, this is journalist Raymond Smith's account of the period from 1982 to 1983 in which Irish politics was convulsed by internal divisions in Fianna Fáil, leadership...