Merrion Press imprint: 32 books
Inside the Room
The Untold Story of Ireland’s Crisis Government
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
March 2011: Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore have just formed a coalition government between Fine Gael and Labour. Ireland’s banks are broken, unemployment is heading for half a million, the public finances are in deficit, international lenders rate Ireland as ‘junk’ and the country is in an IMF...
El Proyecto Macnamara
The Maverick Irish Priest and the Race to Seize California 1844-1846
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
This is the story of Eugene Macnamara, a maverick young priest from Ennis, County Clare who sought to establish a colony for Irish families in the 1840s in Alta California, Mexico s far north-western territory. Had the 10,000 ready volunteers from Limerick, Clare and Cork of whom he boasted, actually...
Brian Lenihan
In Calm and Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Brian Lenihan was Minister for Finance at the time of the recent and dramatic political and economic crisis in Ireland, and was the lynchpin in the rescue package sought by the Irish Government. The recollections within this powerful new book throw light on Lenihan s political career from its earliest...
by Bryan Fanning, Garvin Tom Garvin
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
This engaging and provocative work consists of 29 chapters and discusses over 50 books that have been instrumental in the development of Irish social and political thought since the early seventeenth century. Steering clear of traditionally canonical Irish literature, Bryan Fanning and Tom Garvin...
A Failed Political Entity'
Charles Haughey and the Northern Ireland Question, 1945-1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Charles Haughey maintained one of the most controversial and brilliant careers in the history of Irish politics, but for every stage in his mounting success there was one issue that complicated, and almost devastated, his ambitions to lead Irish politics: Northern Ireland. In ‘A Failed Political...
Kilkenny
In Times of Revolution, 1900–1923
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Veteran IRA leader Ernie O’Malley criticised County Kilkenny as being ‘slack’ during the War of Independence, but this fascinating new study of the period, by historian Eoin Swithin Walsh, challenges that view and reveals that Kilkenny was truly at the forefront of the struggle for Irish freedom....
Belfast Days
A 1972 Teenage Diary
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Belfast 1972. It s the bloodiest year of the Northern Irish Troubles and sixteen-year-old Eimear O'Callaghan, a Catholic schoolgirl in West Belfast, bears witness to it all in her diary. What follows is a window into the daily life of an ordinary teenager coming of age in extraordinary times. The...
Being New York, Being Irish
Reflections on Twenty-Five Years of Irish America and New York University’s Glucksman Ireland House
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
New York University's Glucksman Ireland House opened a quarter-century ago to foster the study of Ireland and Irish America, and since then has led and witnessed tremendous changes in Irish and Irish-American culture.
Alice McDermott writes about her son's Irish awakening; Colum McCann's Joycean...
UVF
Behind the Mask
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
UVF: Behind the Mask is the gripping new history of the Ulster Volunteer Force from its post-1965 incarnation to the present day. Aaron Edwards blends rigorous research with unprecedented access to leading members of the UVF to unearth the startling inner-workings of one of the world’s oldest and...
by Owen McGee
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
As a working-class Dubliner who played a crucial role in inspiring and leading Dáil Éireann in its formative stages, Arthur Griffith's life and world is one of the greatest windows into understanding the dynamics of the Irish revolution. Owen McGee's authoritative biography is based on fascinating...
Power Play
The Rise of Modern Sinn Féin
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This is the first comprehensive analysis of how Sinn Féin has transformed itself from ‘political wing’ of the Republican movement to a mainstream force in Irish politics. In this book by one of Ireland’s leading political journalists, Deaglán de Bréadún provides an incisive account of how...
Ireland Says Yes
The Inside Story of How the Vote for Marriage Equality Was Won
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
At 7.20pm on 23rd May 2015, in the courtyard of Dublin Castle, Ireland truly became a nation of equals. Ireland Says Yes is the fast-paced narrative account of all the drama, excitement and highs and lows of the last 100 days of the extraordinary campaign for a Yes vote in the 2015 Marriage Equality...
The Treaty
Debating and Establishing the Irish State
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
What exactly did the split over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 actually mean? We know it both established the independent Irish state and that Ireland would not be a fully sovereign republic and provided for the partition of Northern Ireland.
The Treaty was ratified 64 votes to 57 by the Sinn...
The Civil War in Dublin
The Fight for the Irish Capital, 1922–1924
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2017
The start of the Irish Civil War was signalled by the artillery bombardment of the Four Courts in Dublin on 28 June 1922. A week later, the Four Courts was gutted and O’Connell Street a smouldering ruin, but the anti-Treaty IRA was driven from the city. Most accounts of the fighting in Dublin end...