Non-Fiction - Politics / Current Affairs
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60 Years, 30 Perspectives: Ireland and the Universal Declaration of Human RightsWritten by Donncha O'Connell.60 Years, 30 Perspectives offers a unique insight into how the values set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are protected and respected in Ireland, sixty years after its adoption. Edited by Donncha O'Connell of NUI Galway, thirty contributors, including Niall Crowley, Theo Dorgan, Dr Diarmuid Martin, Emily O'Reilly and Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, reflect on the relevance to Ireland in 2009 of specific articles of the UDHR. The book also includes a photo-essay from one of Ireland's best-known photographers, Derek Speirs. |
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A Divided Paradise: An Irishman in the Holy LandWritten by David Lynch.A Divided Paradise: An Irishman in the Holy Land is a vivid account of ordinary life in one of the world’s most contested and volatile regions. Award-winning journalist David Lynch brings to life stories from both the Palestinian and Israeli streets. A provocative introduction to the political and personal tragedy suffered by the Palestinian people and the continuing wider Middle Eastern conflict. |
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A More Complex Truth: Selected WritingsWritten by Nuala O'Faolain.Edited and selected by Tony Glavin, with an introduction by Fintan O'Toole, A More Complex Truth is a timely selection of Nuala O’Faolain’s non-fiction from the mid-1980s to shortly before her death in 2008. Hailed as ‘one of the greatest columnists ever to inhabit the English language’, her wide-ranging essays cast a canny eye on all matters Irish – from sex, contraception, old age, the Border, and the rights of the marginalised, to Charlie Haughey, Mary Robinson, John McGahern and U2. Gifted with a unique capacity to look at issues from all sides, her cutting-edge commentary – whether on our latter-day materialism or the duties of citizenship – remains as topical today as when first penned. |
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An Accidental Diplomat: My Years in the Irish Foreign Service 1987-95Written by Eamon Delaney.The book of 2001. Eamon Delaney's controversial Number 1 bestselling exposé of backstage life at the Department of Foreign Affairs - Eamon Delaney saw a lot - luckily for us, he was taking notes. Eamon Delaney started in the Department of Foreign Affairs at the tender age of twenty-four. It was 1987, the eve of Charles Haughey's triumphant return to power. Tense times for diplomats of Iveagh House. |
Banished Babies The Secret Story of Ireland’s Baby Export Business –Updated and Expanded EditionWritten by Mike Milotte.Mike Milotte’s damning exposé of Church-State collusion in banishing thousands of vulnerable ‘illegitimate’ children from Ireland in the 1950s and 60s was first published to critical acclaim in 1997, and quickly achieved iconic status. For this updated and expanded edition the author has added previously untold personal stories from some of the ‘banished babies’ he met in the intervening period – stories that further illuminate the murky shadows of this official, but long-concealed child-export business. |