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RTE’s Miriam O’Callaghan on family, feminism and fame in her candid new memoir
01 Nov 2025 17:04 GMT
… : An Autobiography by Gay Byrne (Gill and Macmillan, 1989).
Written with the novelist …
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Soundings Culture Night event at Athy Library
04 Oct 2025 12:06 GMT
… Hutchinson‘Soundings’ was published by Gill and Macmillan and Longmans Browne and Nolan … popular was the book that Gill and MacMillan re-issued it in 2010 …
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Health, Power, and Protest: A History of Uprisings around Health Care since the 14th Century
30 Sep 2025 16:11 GMT
… the Cholera, 1831–2 (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1979), 85–92.
Frank M …
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Islands of Ireland: The Kerry island the gods would be happy to call home
26 Jul 2024 09:18 GMT
… Islands: Landscape, Life and Legends, Gill and MacMillan; blasket.ie
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78 Books Scientific American Recommends in 2024
19 Dec 2024 03:39 GMT
… Find Your Voice
by Nikita Gill
Macmillan Children’s Books, 2022
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Obituary: Tom Garvin, UCD politics professor who made significant contribution to academia thorough his numerous books on Irish history
28 Oct 2024 02:46 GMT
Born in Dublin on July 7, 1943, Thomas Christopher Garvin was the second of three children in the family of senior civil servant and James Joyce expert John Garvin and his wife Kathleen. Educated by the Jesuits at Belvedere College, young Tom’s favourite …
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Cork artist Brian Lalor on his retrospective in Skibbereen, and visiting Gaza in the 1960s
23 Sep 2024 09:29 GMT
Brian Lalor has distinguished himself as an architect, archaeologist, educator, author and editor, but it is arguably his work as an artist that has given him the greatest pleasure over the past sixty years. His primary interest has been in printmaking, …
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Best books about Irish history to read in 2024
21 May 2024 20:41 GMT
In this work of historical non-fiction, Mangan weaves his way through the myth and folklore that has risen out of the ancient worship of nature. Taking us on a journey across Irish history, Manchan illustrates the power of myth in shaping an entire nation, …
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Obituary: Seán Ó Súilleabháin, author of walk guides, community activist and pioneer of the Kerry Way
12 Nov 2023 11:51 GMT
Among his publications was the first volume of the Irish Walk Guides for the South West: Kerry and Cork, which was initially published by Gill & Macmillan in 1978, and later updated.
Ó Súilleabháin came from Killorglin, where his father managed the …
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Obituary: Dermot Keogh, leading academic, historian and author who was a mentor to Tánaiste Micheál Martin
24 Sep 2023 02:10 GMT
Dermot Francis Keogh was born on May 12, 1945, the eldest of eight children of William and Maureen, who lived in the Kilbarrack/Bayside district of north Dublin. He attended the National School in Raheny and won a scholarship to Kostka Secondary School …