Breaking Balls is the product of Twenty years of research through interviews with hurlers, footballers, camogie players, ladies footballers, fans, pundits, managers and media commentators to find the funniest GAA quotations and anecdotes. The only criteria for inclusion is that each story had to be funny.

Breaking Balls: The Funny Side of the Gaa

Scally, John

Sports & Outdoors

Currach Pr

Dalymount Park is a pictorial history of Dublin's historic football ground. The book will cover the ground's full history, and contains fantastic photographs spanning nine decades. Scattered throughout the book will be `Favorite Dalymount Moments' from Irish footballers, past and present.

Dalymount Park: The Home of Irish Football

Colin White

Soccer

Relentless tells the story of the rise of Cork ladies football over the past decade. From having never won a senior title in the county's 31-year history of the sport, to winning nine All-Ireland titles in 10 years, nine National League titles, and 10 Munster titles. Eamonn Ryan stepped in to coach at a time when the senior set-up was in disarray. Along with manager Mary Collins, Cork football was transformed to begin a legacy they could never have imagined. This is the story behind the scenes of the Cork ladies footballers and what makes them one of the best teams in the history of Irish sport.

Relentless: The Inside Story of the Cork Ladies Footballers

Politics & Social Sciences

Mary White

Women's Studies

A pictorial history of Galway shown through a selection of 200 post cards which have been chosen to illustrate a wide spectrum of the history of Co. Galway between 1895 and 1950, including its politics and local government, public health, transport, industry, housing conditions, and education.

Galway: History on a Postcard

Arts & Photography

Duffy, Paul

Photography & Video

Valerie O'Sullivan. They say in Kerry that being born in Kerry is the greatest gift that God can bestow on any man, that when you belong to Kerry you know you have a head start on the other fellow."" - John B. Keane. I am of Kerry explores the diversity and richness of a people who live or were born in The Kingdom. The unequivocal intrigue and attraction of this place is immortal. It is sometimes thought that Kerry people are moulded by the physical strains of mountains and angry seascapes, and that this wild, untamed structure intensifies their vision and inspiration. Such wilderness-inspired creativity is to be found in verse, art, pottery, prayer, stories, song and photography. Valerie O'Sullivan's highly individual portraits of her chosen subjects captures them in full flow, featuring atmospheric photographs, a short biography and their own personal reflection, poem, personal thoughts - at once heart rending and humorous. Subjects include: Paid S, Pauline Bewick, Fr Pat Aherne, Gabriel Fitzmaurice, John Moriarty, Raymonde Hilliard, Liam Maonla, and Brendan Kennelly. Valerie O'Sullivan is a photographer based in Killarney.

I Am of Kerry

O'Sullivan, Valerie

A guide to connecting with our neglected unconscious through the Tarot cards. Getting in touch with the unconscious can be difficult and dangerous. Our ordinary approach to life, our trained and cultivated ways of thinking, are allergic to this swampy unknown. We lose our bearings, we panic. The Tarot cards are like 'an idiots guide' to the unconscious, an easy way to subvert the rational and allow the energies beneath to creep up through the floorboards. If you learn to shuffle and to deal the twenty-two major cards of this ancient museum of the unconscious, it will help you to familiarise yourself with a symbolic way of thinking and domesticate an underworld of otherwise meaningless shadows and shapes. This book gives an introduction to the Tarot, a history of its uses and abuses, a practical guide to its value as an underground map. It also provides a meditation on each one of the twenty-two major arcana which can help the reader to undertake their own spiritual journey. Mark Patrick Hederman is a philosopher and monk.

Tarot; Talisman or Taboo?: Reading the World As Symbol

Religion & Spirituality

Hederman, Mark Patrick

Occult & Paranormal

This collection is a testament to the lives of gay women and men in Ireland over the past few decades. Some talk about fear and pain, lives that are maimed emotionally and psychologically, decisions postponed, secrecy and shame. They talk about the search for love and sexual self-realization in a dark time. These powerful and moving stories are useful now, not only as history, but as part of what is happening in Ireland today, Glen O'Brien is the author of Praying from the Margins: Gospel Reflections of a Gay Man. Colm Toíbín is an award-winnng Irish writer and author.

Coming Out: Irish Gay Experiences

LGBTQ+ Books

Glen O'Brien

Literature & Fiction

At the end of 1958, a double-track suburban railway-first steam, then battery, then diesel-known as the Harcourt Street Line that ran through Dublin since 1846 was abruptly closed and then abandoned. Forty years later, the Irish government has decided to invest in a new railway that would run along the same line. This extraordinary reversal of an earlier decision has drawn much interest to the earlier railway. The author, who rode this train innumerable times when he was growing up, revisits the train of his youth. He recalls the lines' patrons like Samuel Beckett (who wrote on, and about, this train) and Brendan Behan, to the thousands who thronged the Harcourt Street Station to join ""Sea Breeze"" excursions to the seaside towns at Bray and Greystones. More than just a story of a specific train, this is also about the people who used it and the times in which it ran. Brian Mac Aongusa, an amateur photographer-many of the photographs in this book are from his own collection-and train aficionado, recently retired after over forty years in public service.

The Harcourt Street Line: Back on Track

Engineering & Transportation

MAC Aongusa, Brian

Transportation

This investigative book explores the case of D¢nal de R¢iste, claiming he was framed because he unwittingly had the power to destroy the career of a senior officer in the Irish Military for whom he was not prepared to lie.

Speaking Truth to Power: The Donal de Roiste Affair

History

Mullan, Don

Europe

A Memoir

The memoirs of Terry de Valera whose parents, Eamon and Sinead, were leading figures in 21st century Irish politics.

Biographies & Memoirs

de Valera, Terry

Historical

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