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Liberties Press

Liberties Press was founded in 2003 and has, over the course of almost twenty years, become one of Ireland's leading independent publishers. The press has published several hundred titles across non-fiction, fiction, and poetry. They have published books by Irish President Michael D. Higgins and award-winning crime fiction writer Declan Burke; in 2013, Setting the Truth Free by Julieann Campbell won the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize for promoting reconciliation on the island of Ireland. They are continuing to do what they have done from the start: publish high-quality work by leading authors, to the highest editorial and production standards, and bring them to the widest possible English-speaking audience in Ireland, the UK, North America and elsewhere, and, in translation, to other language territories.

An Obstacle Confusion

The Wonderful World of Barney McKenna
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781912589432
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2024
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
Barney McKenna – “Banjo Barney from Donnycarney” – was one of the founder-members of the Dubliners, the world-famous Irish folk musicians and singers who in 2002 celebrated forty years on the road as a band. For Dubliners fans, Barney’s name immediately conjures up the image of the burly, bearded banjo genius whodazzled the audience with his virtuosity while charming them with his folksy, no-nonsense personality. However, Barney was also well known for another reason: he was capable of bringing any conversation to a sudden stop by uttering something so completely unexpected, and at the same time so incomprehensible, as to reduceeveryone present to a bemused silence.
Listen To Your Microbes Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781912589395
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2024
Imprint: Liberties Press
Illustrations: Colour line drawings throughout
Description:
When we are born, we are basically sterile. By the time we die, we are more microbe than human. Microscopic organisms are essential to the development of human life.
The Goodness of Guinness Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9781912589364
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2023
Imprint: Liberties Press
Illustrations: Colour & black-and-white photographs in plate section
Description:
Guinness’s St James’s Gate Brewery is synonymous with the city and people of Dublin. From the company’s modest beginnings in 1759 to its heyday in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and its continued strength into the twenty-first century, Guinness has had an enormous influence over the city’s economic, social and cultural life.In this illustrated book, Tony Corcoran examines the magnitude of the brewery’s operation and the working lives of the thousands of Dubliners who depended on Guinness for their livelihood.
The Makeweight Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781912589340
Pub Date: 30 May 2023
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
Plane hijackings. Spy swaps. The Berlin Wall still standing.
Searching for Thaddeus Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9781912589326
Pub Date: 25 Oct 2022
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
Thaddeus was a fi fteenth-century bishop of Cork who was honoured in both Ireland and Italy. He led a remarkable life – he was made bishop twice, and was beatifi ed in 1895 – but is now all but forgotten. In Searching for Thaddeus, art historian Patricia Curtin-Kelly tells the tale of this re markable man, and discusses the many works of art – found mainly in churches acro ss County Cork and in Ivrea, Italy – that bear witness to the high esteem in which he was held.
The River Healer and Other Stories Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9781912589302
Pub Date: 25 Sep 2022
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
Paddy Reid spent thirty years working in some of the poorest communities in the United States – mainly in the Deep South – as a handyman, prison visitor and outreach worker. In The River Healer, he recounts his encounters with some of the remarkable people he met along the way – and their resilience in the face of grinding poverty. From patching up “Red’s shack” – and falling through the fl oor into the bayou – to working with people with AIDS in the early days of the crisis, this collection entertains and enthrals in equal measure.
The First Heresy Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781912589258
Pub Date: 28 Jul 2022
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
Information about the first heresy is secreted out of Jerusalem after its fall in AD 70. It reaches the last great pagan philosopher, Hypatia of Alexandria, and is smuggled out of Egypt by her slave-companion on the day of her murder. Centuries later, clues to the First Heresy are revealed in Ireland to a Norman youth and retired Templar Knight.
Quiet City Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 230
ISBN: 9781912589111
Pub Date: 25 Jun 2022
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
Everything works out - except in the end. In the meantime, concentrate on temptations of the flesh; on naked desire. Being properly damned brings its own joy: that's what Richard Meadows is thinking on his way to the city dump to retrieve his wife's favourite chair, which he had thrown away earlier.
The Garfield Conspiracy Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781912589234
Pub Date: 01 Sep 2021
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
Acclaimed author Richard Tood has a bad case of writer's block. When his publisher sends an attractive young editor to help him with his latest book, the inevitable happens. This chance meeting changes everyone's lives – in ways they never expected.
Brevity is the Soul Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 132
ISBN: 9781912589197
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2021
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
While Ireland (like much of the rest of the world) was in lockdown in Spring and Summer 2020, we scratched our heads and wondered what to do to help lift people's spirits. We decided to join forces with Irish Pensions & Finance and run a competition celebrating Irish people's love of a good story – and a good laugh. There were only two requirements: make it funny, and make it (fairly) short.
The Pursuit of Kindness Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781912589210
Pub Date: 15 May 2021
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
Richard Dawkins once wrote, "Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish." He was wrong. The Pursuit of Kindness is an evolutionary history of human nature which provides compelling evidence from biology, psychology and archaeology that for 95 percent of the time we have walked the earth, survival of the fittest for our species has meant survival of the kindest.
How He Wins Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781912589173
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2020
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
"Violence remains preventable, not inevitable." So says Dr. Hans Henri P.
The Language of Illness Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781912589159
Pub Date: 14 Oct 2020
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
The practice of medicine has advanced dramatically in recent years, but the language used to discuss illness - by medical practitioners, patients and caregivers - has not kept pace. As a result, clinicians and, just as importantly, patients and their relatives and caregivers, are not able to communicate clearly in relation to illness. The upshot is misunderstanding and confusion on all sides.
Testosterone Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 255
ISBN: 9781912589135
Pub Date: 05 May 2020
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
TV producer Jimmy Fyffe starts taking anabolic steroids to restore the 'manliness' he has lost in a disastrous career and unhappy marriage. His plan works - a little too well. Soon he is a cocaine dealer, carving out a market in Dublin’s more affluent suburbs.
Number Games Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 236
ISBN: 9781912589067
Pub Date: 18 Dec 2019
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
Seattle, 2116. The world is divided into a network of vast corporations (Corpos), each controlled by a triumvirate of elderly Chinese. The masses are conditioned to extol the virtues of utilitarianism, with society dominated by the power of 'the numbers'.
Conversations in Singapore Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781912589043
Pub Date: 30 Jul 2019
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
Insights into how to live a better life, based on the author's experiences of staying in a unique hotel in Singapore.
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