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NEW TITLES
SPRING 2021
MERRION
PRESS
New Title • History
AGENTS OF INFLUENCE
BRITAIN’S SECRET INTELLIGENCE WAR
AGAINST THE IRA
Aaron Edwards
Recruited by British Intelligence to infiltrate the IRA
and Sinn Féin during the height of the Northern
Ireland Troubles, they were ‘agents of influence’.
With codenames like INFLICTION, STAKEKNIFE, 3007
and CAROL, these spies played a pivotal role in the
fight against Irish republicanism. Now, for the first
time, some of these agents have emerged from the
shadows to tell their compelling stories. Agents of
Influence takes you behind the scenes of the secret
intelligence war which helped bring the IRA’s armed
struggle to an end.
Historian Aaron Edwards explains how the IRA was
penetrated by British agents, with explosive new PAPERBACK
revelations about the hidden agendas of prominent
republicans like Martin McGuinness and Freddie APRIL 2021
Scappaticci and lesser-known ones like Joe Haughey €19.95 / £18.99
and John Joe Magee. Bringing to light recently 9781785373411
declassified TOP SECRET documents and the firsthand
testimonies of agents and their handlers, Edwards 320 pages
reveals how British Intelligence gained extraordinary
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access to the IRA’s inner circle and manipulated
them into engaging with the peace process.
With new insights into the spy masters behind the
scenes and Britain’s international intelligence net-
work, Agents of Influence offers a rare and shocking
glimpse into the clandestine world of secret agents,
British intelligence strategy and the betrayal at the
heart of militant Irish republicanism during the vicious
decades of the Troubles.
Aaron Edwards is a Senior Lecturer in Defence and Inter-
national Affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
He is the author of several books, including Mad Mitch’s
Tribal Law: Aden and the End of Empire (2014) and UVF: MERRION
Behind the Mask (Merrion Press, 2017). PRESS
New Title • Politics
POLITICAL PURGATORY
THE BATTLE TO SAVE STORMONT AND THE
PLAY FOR A NEW IRELAND
Brian Rowan
This is a book about political stasis; the purgatory
that Stormont became, and the sins of that long
standoff. The story begins in January 2017, with
Martin McGuinness’s dramatic resignation as Deputy
First Minister, and chronicles all the behind-the-
scenes negotiations that ultimately resulted in the
restoration of the Executive in January 2020, with the
‘New Decade, New Approach’ agreement. Then,
that new fight with a fearsome and unknowable
foe: coronavirus.
Political Purgatory charts the three years from the
collapse then restoration of the northern Executive PAPERBACK
to Covid-19 in the wider frame of building peace
after conflict, and it turns the next corner into the APRIL 2021
centenary of Northern Ireland and that louder call €19.95 / £18.99
for Irish unity since Brexit, like a piece of heavy ma- 9781785373817
chinery on fragile ground, has left cracks across the
Union.
272 pages
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Spanning several decades, some of the biggest
names on the inside of Irish and British politics, in-
cluding Gerry Adams, Naomi Long, Peter Robinson,
Julian Smith and Simon Coveney, help veteran jour-
nalist Brian Rowan turn the pages in what President
Clinton has called the ‘long war for peace’.
Brian Rowan is a journalist, author and broadcaster. He
was the BBC security editor until 2005, and reported on
the major developments in the transition from conflict to
peace. He was a category winner in the Northern Ireland
Journalist of the Year awards four times, including twice MERRION
as specialist journalist. PRESS
New Title • Politics
RECONCILING IRELAND
FIFTY YEARS OF BRITISH–IRISH AGREEMENTS
Edited by Richard Humphreys
‘This book is an indispensable guide to half a century
of agreements between Ireland and Britain and the
parties of Northern Ireland.’
Tony Blair
Reconciling Ireland is a unique guide to the history
of the last half-century, compiling as it does all the
texts of the key British-Irish agreements relating to
Northern Ireland for the first time.
These forty documents, presented alongside expert
analysis by author and Irish High Court Judge Richard
Humphreys, chart the evolution of the principles
of the peace process and political process from HARDBACK
its inception right up to the present day, from the
Sunningdale Agreement of 1973, to the 1985 Anglo- MAY 2021
Irish Agreement, the 1998 Good Friday Agreement €35 / £29.99
and the New Decade New Approach of 2020 that 9781788551571
resolved the Stormont stalemate.
430 pages
This definitive collection demonstrates the 234 x 156mm
tremendous progress made towards peace, despite
huge obstacles, and gives grounds for optimism for
the future. Given the huge challenge to British–Irish
relationships caused by Brexit and the increased
debate on Irish unity, Reconciling Ireland will be an
invaluable reference work for legal and political
engagement for generations to come.
Richard Humphreys is a Judge of the Irish High Court. He is
a graduate of UCD and the King’s Inns and holds a PhD in
Law from Trinity College Dublin. As a government adviser
in 1996, he attended the launch of All-Party negotiations
in Stormont that ultimately led to the Good Friday Agree-
ment. This is his fourth book.
New Title • History UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES THE STORY OF IRISH IMMIGRATION TO THE U.S. AND HOW AMERICA’S DOOR WAS CLOSED TO THE IRISH Ray O’Hanlon Unintended Consequences reveals how America’s door closed on legal Irish immigration in the 1960s, and how America’s Irish mounted a counterattack when nation-changing political forces were sweep- ing the country during the era of civil rights, political assassinations, and the Vietnam War. This book looks at the full historical background to Irish migration across the Atlantic, how it helped shape the young republic, and how the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 brought a near total halt to this westward flow. Nevertheless, the Irish would not be denied and continued to make the journey, no longer into the light of a full and legal American life, PAPERBACK but rather into the shadows of an undocumented existence. Successive organisations championed APRIL 2021 the undocumented Irish, and the fight continues €19.95 / £18.99 to this day, but this is a new America, where, in 9781785373787 recent years, there has been growing hostility to immigrants of every nationality. Ray O’Hanlon has 368 pages spent over three decades reporting on battles 226 x 153mm over comprehensive US immigration reform, and Unintended Consequences is the story of the Irish past, its present, and most uncertain future in the ‘land of the free,’ now in the presidency of Joe Biden, a man who fully embraces his Irish immigrant family story. Through Biden, the great Irish of America story continues, and with renewed hope. Ray O’Hanlon is the editor of New York’s Irish Echo news- paper. A native of Dublin, he is a frequent contributor to US, Irish, and British media outlets reporting on Ireland, Irish American affairs, and Anglo-Irish relations. His book The New Irish Americans (1998) was the recipient of a Wash- MERRION ington Irving Book Award. PRESS
New Title • History
FROM WHENCE I CAME
THE KENNEDY LEGACY, IRELAND AND AMERICA
Edited by Brian Murphy & Donnacha
Ó Beacháin
Elected in 1960 as the 35th President of the USA, forty-
three-year-old John Fitzgerald Kennedy remains to
this day the office’s youngest incumbent and he
was its first Roman Catholic. His term in office was
short, but arguably no US President has inspired more
people around the globe than JFK. Even today, for
generations born decades after his death, President
Kennedy’s legacy has an enduring appeal.
This insightful book contains specially commissioned
pieces by a range of respected academic and po-
litical figures, including former Obama speechwriter
Cody Kennan, the President of the Robert F. Kenne-
dy Human Rights organisation, Kerry Kennedy, and PAPERBACK
senior adviser to Bernie Sanders Tad Devine.
MARCH 2021
With the presidency of Joe Biden seeing a renewed €19.95 / £18.99
focus on broader themes within Irish, American and 9781788551410
global politics, From Whence I Came is a fascinating
and timely collection that offers a fresh perspective 288 pages
on the Kennedy legacy and the politics of Ireland 226 x 153mm
and the United States.
Brian Murphy lectures at the Technological University
Dublin. He is the author of Forgotten Patriot: Douglas
Hyde and the Foundation of the Irish Presidency and
Brian Lenihan: In Calm and Crisis. He was Co-Director of
the Kennedy Summer School from 2016-2018.
Donnacha Ó Beacháin is Professor of Politics at Dublin City
University. His books include Destiny of the Soldiers: Fianna
Fáil, Irish Republicanism and the IRA 1926-1973, Political
Communication in Ireland and From Partition to Brexit: MERRION
The Irish Government and Northern Ireland (2018). PRESS
New Title • HISTORY
BALLYMACANDY
THE STORY OF A KERRY AMBUSH
Owen O’Shea
On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of In-
dependence, a cycling patrol of members of the
RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Bal-
lymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in
County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police
officers lay dead and another died a day later,
among them a father of nine children.
The group of IRA assailants included some of the
most high-profile figures in Ireland’s ‘Tan War’, men
like Dan Keating, Jack Flynn, Dan Mulvihill, Billy Myles
and Johnny Connor, but also lesser-known figures,
including members of the local Cumann na mBan. PAPERBACK
Their actions were condemned from the pulpit and
an official enquiry tried to discredit the local doctor MAY 2021
who tended to the dying men. €14.95 / £12.99
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This book comes on the centenary of an ambush
that continues to resonate in its community and in
240 pages
a county in which the battle with Crown forces was
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more virulent and violent than most. Drawing on
newly published witness statements and previously
unpublished official records, Ballymacandy details
what happened the five men who died and
those who led the attack against them, and sets
the incident against the backdrop of the wider
revolutionary struggle in the county.
Owen O’Shea is Communications Officer with Kerry
County Council. A former Labour Party press officer
and election candidate, he is the author of Heirs to the
Kingdom: Kerry’s Political Dynasties (2011) and A Century
of Politics in the Kingdom: A County Kerry Compendium MERRION
(Merrion Press, 2018). PRESS
New Title • HISTORY
KILMICHAEL
THE LIFE AND AFTERLIFE OF AN AMBUSH
Eve Morrison
The Kilmichael Ambush of 28 November 1920 was
and remains one of the most famous, successful,
and controversial IRA attacks of the Irish War of
Independence. Sixteen Auxiliaries and three IRA
were killed in a remote part of West Cork when an IRA
flying column, led by Tom Barry, attacked a convoy
of British troops. This book is the first comprehensive
account of both the ambush and the intense
debates that followed. It explores the events,
memory and historiography of the ambush, from
1920 to the present day, within a wider framework
of interwar European events, global ‘memory wars’
and current scholarship relating to Irish, British, oral PAPERBACK
and military history.
NOVEMBER 2021
Kilmichael: The Life and Afterlife of an Ambush
€19.95 / £17.99
features extensive archival research, including the
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late Peter Hart’s papers, as well as many other new
sources from British and Irish archives, and previously
unavailable oral history interviews with Kilmichael 300 pages
veterans. 226 x 153mm
There has always been more than one version
of Kilmichael. Tom Barry’s account certainly
became the dominant one after the publication
of Guerilla Days in Ireland in 1949, but it was always
overshadowed and contested by others, and in this
book, Eve Morrison meticulously reconstructs both
‘British’ and ‘Irish’ perspectives on this momentous
and much-debated attack.
Eve Morrison is currently the Canon Murray Fellow in Irish
History at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford and
a visiting Research Fellow in the Centre of Contemporary
Irish History, Trinity College Dublin.
New Title • BIOGRAPHY
ERNIE O’MALLEY
A LIFE
Harry F. Martin & Cormac O’Malley
This is the extraordinary life story of Ernie O’Malley
(1897-1957), one of Ireland’s most complex and
influential Republican figures, and later a hugely
successful modernist writer.
Despite a conservative upbringing, Ernie O’Malley
was a General in the IRA at 23 and commanded
7,000 volunteers in the War of Independence.
Following the Truce and the signing of the Anglo-Irish
Treaty in 1922, he commanded the Anti-Treaty forces
during the subsequent Civil War, after his leadership
role in the occupation of the Four Courts in 1923.
PAPERBACK
What distinguishes O’Malley’s story as remarkable
is the stark difference between his dramatic life as JUNE 2021
a soldier and his subsequent bohemian world as a €18.95 / £17.99
writer and renaissance man. After the establishment 9781785373909
of the new State, O’Malley left Ireland and travelled
extensively throughout Europe, America and Mexico,
272 pages
mixing with the likes of Jack B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett
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and John Ford, and embarked upon a tumultuous
marriage to American heiress-sculptor Helen Hooker.
Enriched with unpublished material from his diaries
and letters, and the unique perspective of his son
Cormac, Ernie O’Malley: A Life is the fascinating
biography of an extraordinary Irishman.
Harry F. Martin was born in Massachusetts and following
his education at Harvard and time in the US Army, he be-
gan esteemed career encompassing law and finance.
Cormac O’Malley was born in Ireland, moved to the USA
in 1957, and worked in law. In retirement, he has pursued
research on Irish history and the legacy of his parents, MERRION
Ernie O’Malley and Helen Hooker O’Malley. PRESSNew Title • BIOGRAPHY
PSYCHIATRIST IN THE CHAIR
THE OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY OF
ANTHONY CLARE
Brendan Kelly & Muiris Houston
‘The remarkable story of a remarkable man … A fas-
cinating book.’ Gyles Brandreth
‘Marvellous’ Joanna Lumley
‘This book explores his life in the same depth that
Clare himself would have expected as one of our
greatest broadcasters’ Irish Independent
‘The insight that this biography provides into this key
figure makes for essential reading’ Irish Examiner
Born in Dublin in 1942, Anthony Clare was the best-
known psychiatrist of his generation. His BBC Radio
4 show, In the Psychiatrist’s Chair, which ran from NEW IN
1982 to 2001, brought him international fame and PAPERBACK
changed the nature of broadcast interviews forever.
Famous interviewees included Stephen Fry, Anthony AUGUST 2021
Hopkins, Spike Milligan, Maya Angelou and Jimmy €16.95 / £14.99
Savile, each of whom yielded to Clare’s inimitable,
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gentle yet probing style.
Clare made unique contributions to the demystifica- 304 pages
tion and practice of psychiatry, most notably through 234 x 156mm
his classic book Psychiatry in Dissent: Controversial Is-
sues in Thought and Practice (1976). This book, the
first official biography of this much-loved figure, ex-
amines the man behind these achievements: the
debater and the doctor, the writer and the broad-
caster, the public figure and the family man.
Dr Brendan Kelly is Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity
College. His books include Hearing Voices: The History
of Psychiatry in Ireland (IAP, 2016) and Coping with
Coronavirus (Merrion Press, 2020).
Muiris Houston is a medical writer and health strategist,
a specialist in occupational medicine, and Adjunct Pro-
fessor of Narrative Medicine at Trinity College. He is a col- MERRION
umnist with the Medical Independent and The Irish Times. PRESSNew Title • NATURE
LIFE IN IRELAND
A SHORT HISTORY OF A LONG TIME
Conor W. O’Brien
This is the story of life in Ireland – a story half a billion
years in the making.
With its castle, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland
is a land where history looms large. But the saga of
life on this island dates back much further – millions
of years before the first people set foot here.
In Life in Ireland, we’ll travel the country to explore
the history of life here, from the Jurassic Coast of
Antrim to the great Ice Age bone-beds of Cork.
Along the way, we’ll meet some of the astonishing PAPERBACK
creatures to have called Ireland home through
the ages: shelled monsters; huge marine lizards; APRIL 2021
armoured dinosaurs; giant deer; mighty mammoths. €16.95 / £14.99
Vital strands in the story of life on Earth have left their 9781785373848
mark here, including some of the first creatures to
crawl onto land or take to the wing.
272 pages
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This epic journey will take us from the first fossils to the
present day, to see how our wildlife has adapted to
the human age and explore what the future might
hold for life in Ireland.
Conor W. O’Brien has been interested in wildlife and
nature from a very early age, and it is a passion that has
since taken him around the world. His first book, Ireland
through Birds: Journeys in Search of a Wild Nation (Merrion
Press, 2019), was shortlisted for Best-Irish Published Book at MERRION
the An Post Irish Book Awards. PRESSNew Title • ART VICEREINES OF IRELAND PORTRAITS OF FORGOTTEN WOMEN Edited by Myles Campell This book tells the untold story of the women who were the faces of the British administration in Ireland. As the wives of the country’s viceroys, the vicerein- es were once the fashionable figureheads of social, cultural and charitable life at Dublin Castle, in the days before Irish independence. Exploring the por- traits, papers and personal objects they left behind, this book sets out to recapture their lost legacies. Fabrics shimmer, flowers blossom and pearls glint in the painted world of the vicereines. But behind these genteel images were activists and advocates who, as the studies in this book reveal, touched almost every facet of Irish life. Campaigns to develop hos- pitals, relieve poverty, promote Irish fashions, and, HARDBACK remarkably, mitigate what several perceived as the injustices of British rule in Ireland, are just some of their MAY 2021 overlooked initiatives. The experiences and papers €35 / £29.99 of the vicereines have much to tell us, not only about 9781788551335 official Ireland but also about those whose identities are largely lost to history, such as orphans, artisans 320 pages and the working poor. Often sympathetic but some- 245 x 210mm times apathetic, the contrasting attitudes of the vicereines suggest a fresh, more inclusive reading of the British administration in Ireland, as viewed not only through its men but also its women. Featuring essays by leading scholars and based on original sources, including diaries and letters, this beautifully illustrated book brings together text and image to create new and illuminating portraits of forgotten women. Dr Myles Campbell is Research and Interpretation Officer for the Office of Public Works at Dublin Castle. In 2017 he was co-editor of Making Majesty: The Throne Room at Dublin Castle, A Cultural History (Irish Academic Press), research for which earned him the inaugural George B. Clarke Prize.
New Title • ART GAZETTEER OF IRISH STAINED GLASS REVISED NEW EDITION Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron (Ed.), Michael Wynne Some thirty years since its first publication, David Caron returns with an updated and greatly expand- ed edition of the Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass, the definitive guide to Irish stained glass from 1900 to the present day. This is a practical and comprehensive guide, for glass aficionados and those new to the art form, that lists all of Ireland’s significant stained-glass works, county by county, and the most noteworthy pieces abroad by Irish artists. HARDBACK Beautifully illustrated with vibrant new photography, JUNE 2021 the Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass is bursting with €35 / £29.99 colour and brimming with information about our 9781788551298 most famous stained-glass artists, those who deserve to be better known, and the best contemporary art- 320 pages ists working in the medium today. 225 x 170mm With over 2,500 entries, two essays, and biographical notes on major artists, this is the key reference book for both academics and all who wish to learn more about Ireland’s celebrated stained-glass heritage and where it can be found. David Caron studied Visual Communication at NCAD, Dublin, to which he returned as lecturer and later as Head of Department. He undertook a Masters at Pratt Institute, New York, and his PhD at Trinity College Dublin. Since availing of early retirement, he has focused on cataloguing Ireland’s stained-glass heritage.
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