Bücher veröffentlicht von The Mercier Press

A story of greed, sex and bitterness, of a scheming matchmaker and a resentful woman forcing a beautiful young girl to marry an old man for money.

A text on the struggle for independence in Kerry. It records the events of the War of Independence in the words of the people who fought it and those who wrote about it at the time. It covers things from the formation of the volunteers, the German expedition to Tralee Bay during World War One, and the RIC mutiny at Listowel Barracks.

Re-evaluates the events and personalities of the War of Independence in Tipperary. This book looks back on Ireland's struggle for freedom. It is a journey into a turbulent period in Ireland's past - the past of charismatic guerrilla leader Sean Treacy, Tipperary's Flying Columns and the horrors of Croke Park's 'Bloody Sunday'.

A clever, witty history of everything Irish from prehistory to the present day, full of brilliant cartoons, top fives and (some) facts!

A fascinating play about a man's greed for land.

The Tailor never travelled further than Scotland, yet the breadth of the world could not contains the wealth of his humour and fantasy. All human life is here - marriages, inquests, matchmaking, wakes - and always the Tailor, his wife and their black cow.

This volume features a collection of letters by John B. Keane. These include: "Letters of a Successful TD", "Letters of a Love-Hungry Farmer", "Letters of a Matchmaker", "Letters of an Irish Priest" and "Letters of an Irish Minister of State".

A novel that traces the fortunes of the Irish labourers who emigrated to England in the 1950s. John B. Keane gives the reader fascinating details of their daily existence, their exhilerations and their sorrows. He has also written "Durango", "Letters of a Love Hungry Farmer" and "The Field".

This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.

With dry humour, this book charts, in prose and poetry, one man's attempt to preserve his identity while in prison and on hunger strike.