A Doctor's War
Aidan MacCarthy.

Introduction by Pete McCarthy

Researching McCarthy’s Bar Pete McCarthy entered MacCarthy’s Bar in Castletownbere, west Cork. While there Adrienne MacCarthy gave him a copy of her father’s wartime memoir. Pete found it ‘unputdownable’. An RAF medical officer, Aidan served in France, survived Dunkirk, and was plunged into adventures in the Far East. In 1944, en route to the Japanese mainland, his ship was torpedoed but a Japanese whaling boat picked him up and he was re-interned on the mainland. In Nagasaki his life was literally saved by the dropping of the atomic bomb and he was an eyewitness to the horror and devastation it caused. Finally, he cruised home on board the Queen Mary.

ISBN-10: 1-903464-70-6
ISBN-13: 978-1903464700

PB
160pp
216 x 138mm
€12.95/£9.99
2005

A Life Interrupted
Insights and Cure of a Depressive
Malachy Walsh.

Approximately 400,000 people in Ireland suffer from depression at any one time. In A Life Interrupted, Malachy Walsh gives a courageous and frank account of his 25-year battle with hereditary depression. He describes the terrifying and painful world he inhabited, and the tenacity and strength required to overcome his illness. Tempted to commit suicide on three successive occasions, Malachy pulled himself back from the brink and never gave up. He resorted to many strategies, from vigorous exercise and religious devotion to acupuncture and psychiatric counselling. Few knew or guessed of his condition as he struggled to be a good husband and father and to build a successful business. Malachy chose to write about his experiences to give hope to other depressives and to help those close to them to empathise and understand. This description of the hidden, dark and frightening domain of depression and Malachy’s ultimate recovery is moving and heroically honest.

978-1905172689

PB
152 pp
198 x 128 mm
€12.99/£8.99
2008

An Adventure in Grief
Catherine de Courcy.

‘I was making dinner when John went out to the barn to shoot himself.’

Catherine de Courcy looks at the hidden aspects of grief and how to manage the strange and unsettling challenges the loss of a loved one provokes. She also portrays the devastating impact of post-traumatic stress on a Vietnam veteran. A deeply moving and inspiring story of one person’s journey through grief.

978-1905172870

PB
200 pp
198 x 128 mm
€12.99/£11.99
2009

An Irish Navvy
The Diary of an Exile
(Dialann Deoraí)
Donall MacAmhlaigh.

Translated from Irish by Valentin Iremonger

This book is an extraordinarily vivid picture of an Irish navvy’s life in the England of the 1950s. Workless days, the hardships of work camps, lonesome partings after trips home, periods of intense isolation and occasional bitterness were all part of the picture. Originally published in Irish to wide acclaim, this translation was first published in 1964.

ISBN-10: 1-903464-36-6
ISBN-13: 978-1903464366

PB
190pp
216 x 138mm
€12.95/£9.99
2003

An Unsung Hero
Tom Crean – Antarctic Survivor
Michael Smith.

Now available in a fresh, new format, this is the story of the remarkable Tom Crean who ran away to sea aged fifteen and played a memorable role in Antarctic exploration. He spent more time in the unexplored Antarctic than Scott or Shackleton, and was one of the few to serve and outlive both. Among the last to see Scott alive only 150 miles from the South Pole, Tom was in the search party that found the frozen body. An unforgettable story of triumph over unparalleled hardship and deprivation does justice to this enigmatic figure.

978-1905172863

PB
340 pp
198 x 128 mm
€12.99/£11.99
2009
Black & white photos

Blasket Spirit
Stories from the Islands
Anita Fennelly.

Seeking solitude after personal crisis, Anita Fennelly spent a summer alone on the Great Blasket Island. This is her account, written by candlelight, of the gradual thawing of her personal isolation through the friendship of the characters of Blasket Island life today. Into Anita’s story of personal healing and recovery, the island stories, its people and places and wildlife are interwoven to form an original and multi-layered memoir.

978-905172900

PB
224 pp
198 x 128 mm
€12.99/£11.99
2009

Captain Francis Crozier
Last Man Standing?
Michael Smith.

Irishman Francis Crozier from Banbridge, County Down was a major figure in nineteenth-century polar exploration. His voyages with Parry, Ross and Franklin lifted the veil from the frozen wastes of the Arctic and Antarctic, paving the way for Amundsen, Scott and Shackleton. A failed romance drove him back to the ice one fatal last time with Franklin’s North-West Passage expedition in 1845. All 129 men perished. Crozier took command after Franklin died. He led a courageous battle in the freezing Arctic wilderness trying to bring his men to safety. According to legend, he was the last to die – the last man standing.

ISBN-10: 1-905172-09-5
ISBN-13: 978-1905172092

HB
264pp
234 x 156mm
€23.95/£17.99
2006

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Christy Ring
Hurling’s Greatest
Tim Horgan.

NEW IN PAPERBACK
Christy Ring from Cloyne, County Cork, is regarded as the greatest hurler of all time. Tim Horgan traces his playing career with its many highlights and captures his unique charisma that excited and attracted people to him It pays due respect to his opponents and the drab conditions in which all lived and played. Included is Ben Kiely’s report on Christy playing at the opening of Casement Park, Belfast, in 1953, and an unpublished interview before the 1953 All-Ireland. It is a lively, affectionate account of his lifelong commitment to hurling, embellished with memories of great players and personalities, and glorious games won and lost.

978-1905172740

PB
374pp
234 x 156mm
€17.99/£13.99
2008
Black & white photos