Re c ent – 2010
Fiction
The Devil to Pay
The Story of Alice & Petronilla Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan In 1324, Alice Kytler, the most powerful woman in medieval Kilkenny, and her maid, Petronilla, were condemned to the stake in Ireland’s first witch trial. Portrayed against a backdrop of the struggles between Norman and Gael, the true story of the lives and fate of Alice and Petronilla brings to life a remarkable tapestry of this pivotal era in Irish history. ‘A Balzacian tour-de-force.’ – The Scribbler
18 €12.00 pb 288 pp 978-1-84351-179-3
Biography
Desmond Leslie (1921–2001)
The Biography of an Irish Gentleman
Memoir
The Farm by Lough Gur The Story of Mary Fogarty Mary Carbery
Son of writer Sir Shane Leslie and brother of historian Anita Leslie, Desmond Leslie has never before been the subject of a biography. In portraying the Anglo-Irish during the second half of the twentieth century, as they struggled to find a new role in a rapidly changing world, Robert O’Byrne offers an engaging case study of his propulsive and charismatic subject.
Mary Fogarty (née O’Brien), who grew up in a prosperous farming family in Co. Limerick in the 1860s, told her story to Mary Carbery who ‘ghosted’ this autobiography. A classic when first published in 1937, it is authentic and convincing. Seventyfive years later, there are little or no other accounts of the rural Catholic middle class of the mid-nineteenth century. That beguiling world is sensitively evoked in this engaging narrative of life in Munster profonde.
€20.00 hb 216 pp 978-1-84351-163-2
€15.00 pb 308 pp 978-1-84351-174-8
R ob er t O’Byrne
Education
Essays in tribute to J. Valentine Rice 1935–2006 A i d a n S e e r y, e d i t o r Professor J. Valentine Rice, Chair of Education at Trinity College Dublin (1966–2005), to whom this volume is dedicated, engaged in a richness and diversity of educational debate during his thirty-nine years as a teacher. These essays are examples of the way in which colleagues and students have responded to his influence as teacher, mentor, advocate and friend, as they continue to work and engage in the broad field of education. €25.90 hb 240 pp 978-1-84351-178-6