Irish Biography

A Dubray Staff Recommended Read… In this vivid and powerful collection of essays, the first non- fiction book published by Tramp Press, Emilie Pine boldly confronts the past to better understand herself, her relationships and her role in society.

Timely reissue of the definitive biography of Grace O'Malley (Granuaile) Ireland's pirate queen and original trail-blazer. This new hardback edition brings Grace O'Malley's story to a new era awakened to the once-forgotten female voices of history.

Through tales that are sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, sometimes heart-breaking, but always true, Time to Talk follows in the tradition of the great Kerry storytellers, capturing the real heartbeat of rural Ireland.

The Stars Are Our Only Warmth tells powerful truths about Irish life and the people who taught Alice what it is to be alive in this world.

The concluding volume of David McCullagh's new life of Eamon De Valera.

Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband, Simon, who has Motor Neurone Disease and can only communicate with his eyes. An invocation to all of us to love as hard as we can, and live even harder, I Found My Tribe is an urgent and uplifting letter to a husband, family, friends, the natural world and the brightness of life.

Intimate and brave, People Like Me is the exhilarating story of one woman's journey to the brink and back, emerging as a leading light for change in Ireland and an inspiration to women everywhere.

More observations from Ireland's best-loved memoirist.