Con Houlihan is, quite simply, one of Ireland's finest sports writers. Over a lengthy career, Con has covered many of the greatest Irish and international sporting events, from classic gaelic football and hurling finals to soccer and rugby world cups, the Olympics and memorable race meetings at home and abroad. He has also written about sports biggest stars, from George Best to Muhammad Ali. More Than a Game gathers together the finest examples of his sports journalism from the mid-1970s to the present day.

More than a Game: Selected Sporting Essays

Houlihan, Con

Biographies & Memoirs

Liberties Press

In Improving With Age Professor Risteárd Mulcahy explores how exercise is increasingly important as we grow older. His account of his own involvement in running, cycling and exercising is both practical, inspiring and amusing. This part memoir part practical guide is organized into three sections covering the importance of exercise, practical advice on exercise and most candidly the author's own experience with fitness in later life - he started jogging at fifty-one and ran his first marathon at sixty-one.

Improving With Age: What Exercise Can Do For You

Mulcahy, Risteárd

Parenting & Relationships

Around Ireland with a Pan by Éamonn Ó Catháin is a culinary guidebook to Ireland by one of our most well-known chefs and winner of Best Local Cuisine cookbook in English in the prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Ireland is becoming increasingly well-known around the world for its vibrant food scene, from superb seafood to wonderful organic meats, fruit and vegetables, and craft-produced cheeses and beers. In Around Ireland with a Pan: Food, Tales and Recipes, Éamonn Ó Catháin discusses the traditional food cultures of all the counties of Ireland, North and South. He looks at how tastes - and standards - in food have changed over the years and gives his impressions of some of the outstanding restaurants, food markets and food shops to be found on this island. He also reflects on his own love of food and on his experiences of running restaurants, and speculates on what the future holds for Irish food.

Around Ireland with a Pan: Food, Tales and Recipes

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

O Cathain, Eamonn

Cooking Education & Reference

Leading figures from the worlds of politics, entertainment, religion and the arts contribute their recollections of - and reflections on - the papal visit in September 1979. Many of those who were personally or professionally involved in the visit offer their impressions of those unforgettable three days. The Pope's visit to Ireland in September 1979 attracted more excitement and interest than any concert or sporting event ever before - or since. Nearly everybody it seems, believer and non-believer alike, recalls what truly was a national event. More than a million people turned out to greet John Paul II at Phoenix Park, in the largest single gathering of people in Europe in modern times. Tens of thousands of young people heard him say the famous words 'Young people of Ireland, I love you' at the Youth Mass in Galway, and large crowds gathered when the Pope visited Drogheda, Clonmacnoise, Maynooth, Knock and Limerick. In fact, the visit could be said to mark a high-point in the history of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Who would have, or could have, predicted the changes in Irish society and in the position of the majority church that the intervening decades would bring? 3 Days In September is a handsome hardback collection of people's memories of the visit accompanied by (over a hundred) both color and black and white photographs from the various gatherings and venues the Pope attended. The book features an introduction by well-known cultural commentator Mary Kenny. The contributions range from the polemical (Frank McGuinness) to the personal (the flower girl Liz Jackson, now in her thirties), from the nostalgic (Maeve Binchy) to new interpretations (Tim Pat Coogan). The book is sure, given the Pope's passing, to generate interest and perhaps controversy - as well as take us back to what, it seemed at the time, were more innocent days. The royalties from the book go to the Simon Community of Ireland.

3 Days In September: When the Pope Came to Ireland

History

Europe

Clearing the Air is a thought-provoking and expansive study of the smoking ban, presenting a behind-the-scenes account of how the ban was implemented amid a climate of warring interests and a wary general public. The book looks at the influence of all the major players in the drama, from Health Minister Micheál Martin and other health-promotion advocates, who championed the ban, to the publicans, hoteliers, tobacco and drinks industry interests, and TDs who sometimes fiercely opposed it. Clearing The Air also examines estimated long-term implications of the ban for the health of the Irish people, for the hospitality sector and for international anti-smoking efforts, as countries across Europe increasingly adopt plans for similar measures. The book emphasizes the magnitude of health crises experienced by sufferers of Nicotine addiction and attempts to measure the footprint of that crisis on an individual and societal level. Clearing the Air also features a foreword by Jeffrey Wigand - made famous in the Russell Crowe/Al Pacino film The Insider which dramatized Wigand's courage in blowing the whistle on big tobacco in the U.S. in the 1990's.

Clearing The Air: The Battle Over The Smoking Ban

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Gilmore, Noel

Addiction & Recovery

First illustrated social history of the St James's Gate Brewery, including in-depth discussion of the major contribution made by the Guinness company to the welfare of its staff and the wider community.

The Goodness of Guinness: The Brewery, Its People and the City of Dublin

Corcoran, Tony

Beverages & Wine

In the 1950s, while still competing as an international athlete, Fionnbar Callanan began photographing his fellow athletes. For more than half a century since then, he has viewed the sporting and wider world through the lens of a camera. In the process, he has amassed a vast and wide-ranging collection of outstanding photographs.The seminal sporting moments and exceptional sportsmen and women captured over those years are contained in this book. Irish and international sport stars from Sonia O'Sullivan and Mick O'Connell to Michael Johnnson and Tiger Woods rub shoulders with others from the worlds of athletics, Gaelic football, hurling, soccer, rugby, showjumping and golf.Fionnbar Callanan's encyclopedic knowledge of and love for both sport and photography will make this a timeless treasure trove for sports lovers and photographers everywhere.

A Sporting Eye: 50 Years of Irish & International Sports Photography

Callanan, Fionbarr

Sports & Outdoors

In Full Flood is a warm, honest and reflective book which chronicles the four main phases of Finbarr Flood's life: his initial infatuation and fledgling career in football, his rise to the very top of Guinness in Ireland, his period chairing the Labour Court and his role as chairman of Shelbourne Football Club. From his roots in inner city Dublin through to his contacts with many of the principle players in Irish public life, Finbarr Flood has garnered and retained great respect in his many fields of activity. His book recounts his many roles and the pleasures and difficulties that he sometimes encountered.

In Full Flood: A Memoir

Flood, Finbarr

Professionals & Academics

How much of what exceptional people achieve can be put down to their own efforts and inner drive, and how much to fate? In this groundbreaking study, the authors argue that the extraordinary achievements of key figures in Irish history were indeed unstoppable--a product of their character and unique way of interacting with the world. In a series of fascinating character studies, the authors argue that many of those who were crucial to the development of Ireland's political, scientific and artistic traditions would, if they were alive today, be diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. Profiles include: Robert Emmet Padraig Pearse Éamon de Valera Robert Boyle William Rowan Hamilton Daisy Bates W. B. Yeats James Joyce Samuel Beckett

Unstoppable Brilliance: Irish Geniuses and Asperger's Syndrome

Michael FitzGerald

Antoinette Walker

Arts & Literature

Causes for Concern collects some of Michael D. Higgins', Ireland's newly elected ninth president, best and most insightful writing on Irish society, culture, human rights and the larger context of Ireland in Europe and the wider world. Also available in paperback. While four of the signatories of the 1916 Proclamation were poets, you would be hard pressed to find the same number in today's Dáil chamber. A man who fits the bill as poet and politician is Michael D. Higgins, perhaps one of the few public representatives today who enjoys widespread respect across all political persuasions. Causes for Concern covers some aspects of Michael D.'s early personal history, Irish politics, culture and broadcasting, global politics, and the human condition. Drawing on material produced over more than forty years, Michael D. Higgins discusses the Irish political system, the role of the Left, Nicaragua and South American politics, Irish film, his own personal journey through political and creative life and the best ways to enhance and protect human rights. In a comprehensive section on Ireland and the Global Community he sheds light on Ireland's international relations with the politically complex nations of Turkey, Iraq, Somalia and Lebanon amongst others- a fascinating read from this side of the "Arab Spring" and unmissable for those interested in an empathetic insider's view of the innermost workings of the often chaotic international political arena, all told from an Irish perspective. An enlightening, thought-provoking and humane collection of essays, Causes for Concern features an extensive foreword by commentator and writer Declan Kiberd.

Causes for Concern

Higgins, Michael D.

Historical

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