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MERRION PRESS MERRION PRESS

Merrion Press was established in 2012 as the general interest imprint of Irish Academic Press (est. 1974). It is one of the fastest-growing imprints in Irish publishing, with almost 100 titles published so far, focusing on biography, memoir, pop- ular history, current affairs, politics, art, and contemporary Irish society. Particularly renowned for unflinching exposés on the conflict and politics of the North of , Merrion Press’s bestselling titles include Burned The Inside Sto- ry of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and ’s Secretive New Elite, Thatcher’s Spy: My Life as an MI5 Agent Inside Sinn Féin, Charlie One, In the Name of the Son: The Gerry Conlon Story, Days: A 1972 Teenage Diary, and UVF: Behind the Mask. In 2018, Merrion launched a new fiction imprint, which now features four compelling Irish novels that are surely destined for the screen.

For Rights Enquiries, contact Conor Graham, Publisher T: +353 86 3870991 E: [email protected] CURRENT AFFAIRS

BURNED THE INSIDE STORY OF THE ‘CASH-FOR-ASH’ SCANDAL AND NORTHERN IRELAND’S SECRETIVE NEW ELITE

Sam McBride

• MORE THAN 40,000 COPIES SOLD TO DATE

‘Burned is a compelling exposé of a system gone rotten ... McBride is a deft storyteller.’ RORY CARROLL,

‘This is a magnificent book by one of Ireland’s finest jour- nalists an absolute page-turner … the flames of BURNED spare no one.’ SUSAN MCKAY, PAPERBACK ‘This triumph of investigative journalism from one of the UK’s most important reporters spares nobody.’ OCTOBER 2019 PATRICK MAGUIRE, NEW STATESMAN €18.95 / £16.99 One of the most shocking scandals in Northern Irish 9781785372698 political history: originally a green-energy initiative, the Renewal Heat Incentive (RHI) or ‘cash-for-ash’ scheme saw Northern Ireland’s government pay £1.60 for every 418 pages £1 of fuel the public and commercial customers burned 234 x 156mm in their wood-pellet boilers, leading to widespread abuse and ultimately the collapse of the power-sharing administration at Stormont. RIGHTS HELD World Revealing the wild incompetence of the Northern Ire- land civil service and the ineptitude and serious abuses of power by individuals at the head of the Democratic AUDIO Unionist Party, Burned is a riveting political thriller from Rights sold the journalist who covered the controversy for over two years. This is the best-selling inside story of the shocking scandal that brought down a government.

Sam McBride is the Political Editor of the Belfast News Letter and the Northern Ireland political editor of the i newspaper in . He is a regular presence on re- gional and national radio and television in the UK and Ireland. CURRENT AFFAIRS

THE ADOPTION MACHINE THE DARK HISTORY OF IRELAND’S MOTHER AND BABY HOMES AND THE INSIDE STORY OF HOW TUAM 800 BECAME A GLOBAL SCANDAL

Paul Jude Redmond

• FIRST-HAND STORY OF ONE OF IRELAND’S MOST SHOCKING AND SHAMEFUL SCANDALS • THE DARK TRUTH OF CATHOLIC CONTROL IN IRELAND

‘Hard hitting and furious’ SUSAN MCKAY, THE IRISH TIMES

In May 2014, the Irish public woke to the horrific discov- ery of a mass grave containing the remains of most 800 babies in the ‘Angels’ Plot’ of Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home. What followed would rock the last vestiges of PAPERBACK Catholic Ireland, enrage an increasingly secularised nation, and lead to a Commission of Inquiry. In The Adoption Machine, Paul Jude Redmond, MARCH 2018 who was born in the Castlepollard Home, candidly re- veals the shocking history of one of the worst abuses of €16.95 / £15.99 Church power since the foundation of the Irish State. A 9781785371776 dark shadow was cast by the collusion between Church and State in the systematic repression of women and the wilful neglect of illegitimate babies, resulting in the 290 pages deaths of thousands. 228 x 152 mm Redmond’s exhaustive research that widened the global media’s attention to all the homes and revealed Tuam as just the tip of the iceberg. He further reveals RIGHTS HELD the vast profits generated by selling babies to wealthy World adoptive parents, and details how infants were volun- teered to a pharmaceutical company for drug trials without the consent of their natural mothers. AUDIO Rights available The Adoption Machine exposes this dark history of Ireland’s shameful and secret past, and the efforts to bring it into the light. It is a history from which there is no turning away.

Paul Jude Redmond was born in Castlepollard Mother and Baby Home in 1964, and is Chairperson of the sur- vivor umbrella group, the Coalition of Mother and Baby home Survivors. MEMOIR

BURNING HERESIES A MEMOIR OF A LIFE IN CONFLICT, 1979-2019

Kevin Myers

• IRELAND’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL JOURNALIST TELLS HIS SIDE OF THE STORY • VIVID AND DRAMATIC STORIES FROM EUROPEAN WAR ZONES, AS WELL AS HIS OWN PERSONAL JOUR- NALISTIC CONFLICTS

In this remarkable sequel to his critically acclaimed memoir Watching the Door, Irish journalist Kevin Myers reflects on his roller-coaster career in the Irish media, from the European conflicts he reported from to the personal conflicts he fought. Fresh from the horrors of 1970s Belfast, Myers took a job in 1979 with The Irish Times, and brilliantly evokes the PAPERBACK comical chaos of life in the smoky newsroom of Ireland’s paper-of-record. Having taken over An Irishman’s Dia- ry, Myers single-handedly pioneered the campaign to APRIL 2020 rehabilitate the memory of the forgotten Irish soldiers of €19.95 / £17.99 the Great War, and in the process fell foul of the paper’s editor, the legendary Douglas Gageby. His reward was 9781785372612 plane tickets to more perilous assignments as Myers was back in the frontline of European warzones, as commu- nism collapsed and civil wars emerged. 320 pages While Myers is at his brilliant best dodging bullets on 225 x 145mm the battlefields of , Beirut and Sarajevo, he also keenly and unapologetically participates in the many RIGHTS HELD cultural conflicts erupting within a rapidly changing Ire- land, as he opines on a broad spectrum of Irish life in World his inimitable prose and sardonic wit. This courageously trenchant account of journalistic conflict and hubris also AUDIO forensically examines his very public fall from grace in 2017, and his legal battle with RTÉ for a public apology. Rights available Burning Heresies is a candid and eye-opening must- read for anyone with even a passing interest in Irish life and current affairs.

Journalist, broadcaster and novelist Kevin Myers wrote for The Irish Times, The Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, and in a career that spanned over thirty years. His first memoir, Watching the Door: A Memoir, 1971–1978, was published in 2006. MEMOIR

FRENZY AND BETRAYAL THE ANATOMY OF A POLITICAL ASSASSINATION

Alan Shatter

• ONE OF IRELAND’S MOST FAMOUS POLITICIANS • SEARING ANALYSIS OF POLITICS IN THE AGE OF POST-TRUTH MEDIA

‘Required reading … a case study of how false narra- tives can develop with lightning speed and become widely accepted with devastating consequences for those caught in the centre.’ STEPHEN COLLINS, THE IRISH TIMES

On 6 May 2014 two reports wrongly condemning the conduct of Alan Shatter, the Minister for Justice, Equal- ity and Defence, were delivered to government build- PAPERBACK ings in . Pressurised by Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Shatter resigned from cabinet the next day, his career in tatters. A frenzied media and political reaction to MAY 2019 alleged bugging of the Garda Ombudsman Commis- €19.95 / £16.99 sion’s offices and an avalanche of allegations of Garda corruption put Shatter in the eye of a storm. Damaged 9781785372377 by false narratives and political manoeuvring by Ken- ny, Shatter, a TD for over thirty years, lost his Dáil seat in 450 pages 2016. Pilloried by opposition politicians, journalists and commentators, Shatter was abandoned by his Fine 234 x 156 mm Gael party colleagues. From the penalty points contro- versy, to the discovery of unknown phone tapping in RIGHTS HELD Garda stations, to the explosive Charleton Report, this is the inside story of a cataclysmic period in Irish politics. World

Compelling and sardonic, Frenzy and Betrayal is the AUDIO deeply disturbing story of how a dedicated, progressive Irish cabinet minister was falsely accused of wrongdo- Rights available ing and unjustly hounded from office in twenty-first-cen- tury Ireland, and his traumatic five-year battle for vindi- cation and the truth.

Alan Shatter is a former Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Justice and Equality and Minister for Defence from 2011 to 2014. He was a TD for the Dublin South constituency from 1981 to 2002, and from 2007 to 2016. MEMOIR

THATCHER’S SPY MY LIFE AS AN MI5 AGENT INSIDE SINN FÉIN

Willie Carlin

• THRILLING TRUE STORY OF A SPY STILL ON THE RUN • RECEIVED FERVENT UK & IRELAND MEDIA ATTENTION

‘Carlin’s story leaves the reader with a sense of the trag- edy of those times and of the ways in which humanity, peace and the common bonds of community were betrayed against again and again, in political, physical and spiritual terms.’ BECKY LONG, THE IRISH TIMES

Early one morning in March 1985, as he climbed the six steps of Margaret Thatcher’s prime-ministerial jet on the PAPERBACK runway of RAF Aldergrove, little did Willie Carlin know the role played in saving his life. SEPTEMBER 2019 So began the dramatic extraction of Margaret Thatch- €16.95 / £14.99 er’s key undercover agent in Sinn Féin – Willie Carlin, 9781785372858 aka Agent 3007. For 11 years the former British soldier worked alongside former IRA commander Martin Mc- Guinness in the republican movement’s political wing 280 pages in . He was MI5’s man at McGuinness’s side and 234 x 156 mm gave the British State unprecedented insight into the IRA leader’s strategic thinking. When Carlin’s cover was blown in mid-1985, thanks to one of his old MI5 han- RIGHTS HELD dlers being jailed as a Soviet spy, Thatcher authorised World the use of her jet to whisk him to safety. Incredibly, it was another British ‘super spy’ inside the IRA’s secretive counter-intelligence unit who saved Carlin’s life: Fred- AUDIO die Scappaticci, aka . Rights sold

The Cold War meets Northern Ireland’s Dirty War in this remarkable real-life story a man now doomed forever to look over his shoulder…

Willie Carlin was born and raised in Derry. Joining the in 1965, he was recruited by MI5 in 1974 to in- filtrate Sinn Féin and went on to become one of Britain’s most valuable long-term agents in Northern Ireland. MEMOIR

BELFAST DAYS A 1972 TEENAGE DIARY

Eimear O’Callaghan

• POWERFUL EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE BLOODIEST YEAR OF THE NORTHERN IRELAND TROUBLES • DIARY OF STALWART BROADCASTER AND JOURNALIST

‘Powerfully and touchingly conveys the destructive im- pact of war on adolescents … an important contribution to the documentary record of the conflict.’ THE IRISH TIMES

Belfast 1972. It’s the bloodiest year of the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’ and sixteen-year-old Eimear O’Callaghan, a Catholic schoolgirl in West Belfast, bears witness in her new diary. What follows is a unique and touching per- PAPERBACK spective into the daily life of an ordinary teenager com- ing of age in extraordinary times. The immediacy of the OCTOBER 2014 diary entries are complemented with the author’s ma- ture reflections written forty years later. The result is poi- €16.99 / £14.99 gnant, shocking, wryly funny and explicitly honest. 9781908928894

This unique book provides a powerful juxtaposition of 324 pages the everyday concerns of a sixteen-year-old girl with the unimaginable horror of a society slowly disintegrat- 212 x 141 mm ing before her eyes, a seemingly inevitable descent into a bloody civil war, fuelled by sectarianism, hatred RIGHTS HELD and fear. World Written by an experienced broadcaster and journalist, Belfast Days demonstrates how one person’s examina- AUDIO tion of her own ‘story’, upon rediscovering her 1972 di- ary on the eve of the publication of the Saville Report, Rights available provided her with a new perspective on one of the darkest periods in twentieth-century history.

Eimear O’Callaghan is a former BBC news editor with more than 30 years’ experience in journalism. While most of her career was with BBC Northern Ireland, she also worked with The Irish News and with RTÉ. She left the BBC in 2010 to set up Leapfrog Communications, and continues to work as a freelance writer. MEMOIR

CHARLIE ONE THE TRUE STORY OF AN IRISHMAN IN THE BRITISH ARMY AND HIS ROLE IN COVERT COUNTER-TERRORISM OPERATIONS IN NORTHERN IRELAND

Seán Hartnett

• BEST-SELLING TRUE THRILLER ABOUT BRITISH INTEL- LIGENCE’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL OPERATIONS IN NORTHERN IRELAND, TOLD FROM THE INSIDE

Seán Hartnett grew up in Cork in the 1970s where he observed the worst of the northern Troubles with fasci- nation. Despite his family’s strong republican ties and his own attempt to join the IRA, Hartnett shocked family and friends when he changed allegiance and joined the British Armed Forces. PAPERBACK In 2001 Hartnett returns to his native Ireland, this time as a member of the British Army’s most secretive covert SEPTEMBER 2016 counter-terrorist unit in Northern Ireland, Joint Commu- €14.99 / £12.99 nications Unit Northern Ireland aka JCU-NI, the FRU, 14 Intelligence Company, or simply ‘The Det’. For the next 9781785370854 three years Hartnett is directly involved in some of the highest profile events of that period, from the arrest of John Hannan for the bombing of the BBC in London, to 200 pages the tragic murder of David Caldwell; the prevention of 226 x 153 mm the murder of Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair and some of the biggest blunders by British Intelligence in the history of RIGHTS HELD , including the true story behind the murders of Corporals Howes and Wood at an IRA funeral in 1988. World

‘Charlie One’, the call sign for the most wanted targets of British Intelligence operations in NI, documents the AUDIO journey of an Irish Republican serving in Britain’s most Rights sold secretive counter-terrorism unit. Filled with roller coaster emotions and explosive revelations of British Intelligence covert capabilities and operations, Charlie One pro- vides a truly unique, detailed and unbiased account of the secret war fought on the streets of Northern Ireland.

Seán Hartnett was born in Cork in 1975. He joined the British Army in 1998 and served for almost seven years before moving abroad. MEMOIR

CLIENT CONFIDENTIAL SPOOKS, SECRETS AND COUNTER- ESPIONAGE DURING THE CELTIC TIGER

Seán Hartnett

• EXPOSÉ OF BLUE-CHIP PARANOIA AND COUNTER -ESPIONAGE IN THE BOARD-ROOMS OF CORPORATE AND OFFICIAL IRELAND, AND BEYOND

Seán Hartnett left the British Army in 2005, operating as a covert surveillance technician at JCU-NI, the top-se- cret counter-terrorism unit in Northern Ireland. His expe- riences were published in the bestselling Charlie One, the book the British Ministry of Defence tried to ban. But this wasn’t the end of Hartnett’s career in counter-espi- onage. After operations in South Africa, Australia and PAPERBACK London, he arrived home to Ireland, just as the Celtic Tiger was about to implode, but not before Hartnett MARCH 2019 gets his hands dirty in the boardrooms of corporate and official Ireland… €14.95 / £13.99 9781785372100 Client Confidential is a shocking exposé of the clan- destine activities that foreshadowed the worst finan- cial crash in the history of the Irish state. Many of the 190 pages country’s leading financial institutions and business fig- 215 x 135mm ures began to see the cracks in the economy and their paranoia rattled. Hartnett was called in to protect and gather information – to carry out covert and counter RIGHTS HELD surveillance for blue-chip companies, semi-state bod- World ies, national sporting associations and convicted crim- inals. AUDIO In Client Confidential, Seán Hartnett lifts the lid on the Rights available worst excesses of the Celtic Tiger – the heart of corpo- rate greed, corruption and ineptitude in Ireland is re- vealed; the dark secrets never meant to see the light of day, are finally exposed.

Seán Hartnett joined the British Army in 1998. He has since worked as a security consultant and in commer- cial espionage and counter-espionage. His first book, Charlie One, was published by Merrion Press in 2016. FICTION

NORTHERN HEIST

Richard O’Rawe

• DEBUT NOVEL FROM FORMER IRA PRISONER • INTENSELY FILMIC THRILLER DRAWING ON REAL-LIFE, BEHIND-THE-SCENES INTELLEGENCE • TV SERIES CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT

‘Northern Heist is the novel we have been waiting for … stylish and insightful’ THE IRISH TIMES

‘The product of a rich imagination. Taking just a few de- tails about the Northern Bank affair, O’Rawe has pro- duced a cunningly plotted thriller that depicts a similar crime from multiple perspectives.’ IRISH INDEPENDENT PAPERBACK

When James ‘Ructions’ O’Hare put together a crack SEPTEMBER 2018 team to rob the National Bank in Belfast in December 2004, even he didn’t realise he was about to carry off €14.95 / £12.99 one of the biggest bank heists in British and Irish history. 9781785371936

And he’ll be damned if the Provos are getting a slice of it. 262 pages 234 x 156 mm In Richard O’Rawe’s stunning debut novel, as auda- cious and well executed as Ructions’ plan to rob the National Bank itself, a new voice in Irish fiction has been RIGHTS HELD unleashed that will shock, surprise and thrill as he takes World you on a white-knuckle ride through Belfast’s criminal excl. Arabic underbelly. Enter the deadly world of tiger kidnappings, kangaroo courts, money laundering, drug deals and FILM double-crosses. Rights sold Northern Heist is a roller-coaster bank robbery thriller with twists and turns from beginning to end. AUDIO Rights available Richard O’Rawe is the author of the best-selling books Blanketmen: An Untold Story of the H-Block Hunger Strike, Afterlives: The Hunger Strike and the Secret Offer that Changed Irish History, and In the Name of the Son: The Gerry Conlon Story. FICTION

TWO SOULS

Henry McDonald

• FIRST NOVEL BY LEADING GUARDIAN JOURNALIST • TROUBLES NOVEL INFUSED WITH VIOLENCE, PUNK MUSIC, DAVID BOWIE, AND A UNIVERSAL LOVE STORY • FILM RIGHTS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE

‘There is a term sometimes used in Northern Ireland to describe literature that merely trades in the tropes of the Troubles: it’s called Troubles trash. Two Souls rum- mages around in the rubbish but emerges with some- thing rather strange and precious.’ IAN SANSOM, THE GUARDIAN

‘McDonald’s background in nonfiction gives this a grip- PAPERBACK ping verisimilitude, and there’s an energy to his prose that makes Two Souls an exhilarating read’ ALEXANDER LARMAN, THE OBSERVER SEPTEMBER 2019 €16.95 / £14.99 Robbie McManus is tortured. His psychopathic comrade 9781785372575 ‘Padre Pio’ McCann is never far from wreaking havoc, his punk cousin ‘Rex Mundi’ has arrived from and is getting in the way, his father is imploring him to 272 pages finish his A-levels and get the hell out of Belfast – and 234 x 156 mm then there’s Sabine, the mysterious loner in The Pound who shimmers on the dancefloor to David Bowie. Her hair dyed black in a Cleopatra cut, she is a moving hi- RIGHTS HELD eroglyphic that Robbie is desperate to decipher. World From the summer of 1978 to a frenzied Irish Cup Final day nine months later, and to the paramilitary-stalked AUDIO Belfast streets of the late ’80s, threads collide in a tense, thrilling denouement. At turns shocking and Rights available heart-breaking, Two Souls is a deeply affecting novel that crackles and enthrals, tragically exposing human nature’s futile efforts to make the right decisions and to choose a life worth living. Henry McDonald is a staff writer for The Guardian and The Observer, and the author of eight critically ac- claimed non-fiction books. He grew up in Belfast and witnessed many of the key early events of the Troubles. FICTION

TERRY BRANKIN HAS A GUN

Malachi O’Doherty

• FIRST FORAY INTO FICTION BY RENOWNED NI JOURNALIST, WRITER AND BROADCASTER • FILM RIGHTS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR THIS THRILLING PAGE-TURNER

‘A masterly debut … This propulsive thriller speaks truth to power in a forthright and necessary manner. Terry Brankin may have a gun, but Malachi O’Doherty has a powerful voice and he’s not afraid to use it.’ BERT WRIGHT, THE SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK Terry Brankin loves his wife, but it’s a bloody nuisance that a cold-case investigator is trying to pin him for a long past IRA bombing that killed a young girl. His wife FEBRUARY 2020 Kathleen can’t take it. He tells her that things were dif- €16.95 / £14.99 ferent then. She tells him he must confess. He’d only get two years under the Belfast Agreement and she’ll stand 9781785373107 by him, but she leaves him to give him time to mull it over. 252 pages But then Kathleen is attacked. Every house in the Brankin 234 x 156mm property portfolio is petrol-bombed on the same night. Something is going on that’s even bigger than they reckoned. And Terry thinks it’s to do with the cold case, RIGHTS HELD the bombing and the dead child. He reckons old friends World in the IRA are telling him to keep quiet. It’s time to talk to old comrades. And Terry still has a gun. AUDIO Fast-paced and thrilling, this powerful Troubles novel Rights available explores significant legacy issues of the northern con- flict and how past deeds can never truly be forgotten

Malachi O’Doherty was born in Muff, Co. Donegal, and grew up in Belfast. A regular contributor to BBC North- ern Ireland and the , he has written numerous books, including Fifty Years On: The Troubles and the Struggle for Change in Northern Ireland and Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life. This is his first novel. FICTION

KNOCKFANE A NOVEL

Homan Potterton

• CONTEMPORARY TAKE ON THE CLASSIC IRISH NOVEL • BY CELEBRATED IRISH CURATOR, ART HISTORIAN AND WRITER

‘Absolutely terrific. Beautifully written and instantly en- gaging story ... an exceptional literary accomplishment.’ MARY KENNY, IRISH INDEPENDENT

‘Clipping along like a well-sprung brougham on a coun- try road … Knockfane is a delicate work of art … A fine and curiously engaging first novel from an author who PAPERBACK [has] evidently been reading Balzac, resonates with the spirit of 19th-century French Realism.’ WITH FLAPS PETER MURRAY, IRISH ARTS REVIEW APRIL 2019 Ireland in the mid-twentieth century, and Julia and Lyd- ia Esdaile live with their widowed father, Willis, at Knock- €16.95 / £14.99 fane, a country house and farm where the Protestant 9781785372490 Esdaile family have lived for centuries. When Willis inex- plicably banishes his only son and heir, Edward, he con- cocts a complex plan to protect and preserve Knock- 270 pages fane for succeeding generations. But time passes, and 225 x 145 mm Willis dies, and soon his intentions are threatened by un- foreseen events. Ultimately, it must fall to his daughters – the headstrong, confident Julia and the quiet, reflec- RIGHTS HELD tive Lydia – to protect the Knockfane legacy. World

Suffused with gentle lyricism, this is an enthralling, ele- gant drama that explores the complexities of family, AUDIO inheritance and legacy against the backdrop of the Rights available Ireland of its time. Knockfane is a Big House novel for a new generation.

Homan Potterton was Director of the National Gallery of Ireland (1980–8) and Editor of Irish Arts Review (1993– 2002). His memoir of growing up in County Meath, Rath- cormick: A Childhood Recalled (2002), and its sequel of his career in the London and Irish art world, Who Do I Think I Am? (2017), were both critically acclaimed. NATURE

IRELAND THROUGH BIRDS JOURNEYS IN SEARCH OF A WILD NATION

Conor W. O’Brien

• SHORTLISTED FOR BEST IRISH-PUBLISHED BOOK IN THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2019 • A WHIMSICAL MIX OF AUTHORTATIVE NATURE WRIT- ING AND PAINTERLY TRAVELOGUE

‘Rich, fascinating and contextual fare’ IRISH INDEPENDENT

Twelve birds. One country. A wild Ireland waiting to be discovered. PAPERBACK In Ireland Through Birds, Conor W. O’Brien takes the reader on an ornithological adventure around Ireland WITH FLAPS in search of twelve of our rarest and most elusive birds. Along the journey the author explores every kind of NOVEMBER 2019 landscape and habitat our island has to offer across all four seasons, from the remote isles of Donegal to the €16.95 / £14.99 rugged mountains of Kerry and urban parks of Dublin. 9781785373053 Through it all, O’Brien is enchanted by calling corn- crakes, mesmerised by hunting harriers, and chased by angry skuas. It’s a journey through a staggering array 250 pages of landscapes that’ll bring the reader face to face with 215 x 135mm the rich history and stunning wildlife to be savoured right on our doorstep. It explores the stories of the re- markable birds that live here: the genius of the jay, the RIGHTS HELD sublime mimicry of the cuckoo, the nocturnal prowess World of the barn owl, while paying a moving, poetic trib- ute to our natural heritage – and a warning about the threats that face it. AUDIO Rights available Ireland Through Birds is a unique blend of natural history and travelogue, making it a great read for anyone with an interest in Ireland’s natural world.

Conor W. O’Brien has been birdwatching in Ireland from a very early age, and it is a passion that has since taken him around the world. He’s a member of Bird- watch Ireland and has presented at member meetings of the Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT). This is his first book. NATURE

A NATURAL YEAR THE TRANQUIL RHYTHMS AND RESTORATIVE POWERS OF IRISH NATURE THROUGH THE SEASONS

Michael Fewer Foreword by Eanna Ni Lamhna

• IRRESISTIBLE NEW NATURE BOOK FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BEST-SELLING CHILDREN’S BOOK NATURAMA • DELICATELY ILLUSTRATED NATURE DIARIES TRACK THE EXTRAORDINARY NATURAL WORLD ALL AROUND US THROUGH THE YEAR

PAPERBACK In A Natural Year, critically acclaimed travel writer WITH FLAPS Michael Fewer celebrates the everyday wonder of Irish nature in these beautifully written diaries, observed from his homes in south Dublin and rural Waterford, in which MARCH 2020 he delights at the startling beauty and extraordinary €18.95 / £16.99 complexity of the natural world through the tranquil 9781785373183 rhythms of the passing seasons.

Fewer’s infectious passion for his subject simply inspires 250 pages our own observation, and suggests how careful study of 215 x 135 mm the natural world around us can be a sure antidote to the stresses of modern life. RIGHTS HELD At a time when it’s essential for us to understand the cri- World sis that faces our wildlife and environment, we need to know more about the natural world around us, the trea- sures that are being needlessly lost, and the threat to AUDIO our very way of life. A Natural Year will open eyes and Rights available hearts to a greater understanding of the world around us, and its innate beauty and fragility.

Michael Fewer combined architecture with academia for many years before focusing on writing about history, the environment, landscape, travel and walking. Author of more than twenty books about walking and nature in Ireland and over 400 articles, he is a regular Irish Times columnist and broadcast contributor. BIOGRAPHY

BUCK WHALEY IRELAND’S GREATEST ADVENTURER

David Ryan

• FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF ONE OF IRISH HISTORY’S MOST COLOURFUL BUT NEGLECTED CHARACTERS • ONE OF THE INSPIRATIONS FOR PHILEAS FOGG IN AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS

‘Tremendously researched and snappily written … Ryan is a most reliable narrator, and Thomas Whaley is a thor- oughly enjoyable and, dare one say, a rollicking good read.’ IRISH INDEPENDENT

Thomas ‘Buck’ Whaley was one of the greatest ad- venturers in Irish history. In 1788 he made an extraordi- nary 10-month journey from Dublin to Jerusalem for a PAPERBACK wager of £15,000, equivalent to millions today. Nearly shipwrecked in the Sea of Crete, he avoided a pirate FEBRUARY 2019 attack, was waylaid by bandits, and met an infamous Ottoman governor called ‘the Butcher’. On his return, €16.95 / £14.99 he became an overnight celebrity before suffering a 9781785372292 catastrophic series of gambling losses that exiled him first to continental Europe (where he tried to rescue Louis XVI from the guillotine) and then to the Isle of Man. 272 pages When he died aged 34 in 1800 he’d squandered an as- 215 x 135mm tronomical £400,000 (around €100 million) ‘without ever purchasing or acquiring contentment or one hour’s true happiness’. RIGHTS HELD World In his lifetime, Ireland was about to erupt in rebellion; was on the brink of bloody revolution; and the Ottoman Empire was creaking at the seams. Whaley AUDIO lit up this volatile world like a fast-burning candle but Rights available retained his ability to recognise the absurdity of his own actions and the world around him. Buck Whaley tells the full story of his remarkable life and adventures for the first time.

David Ryan was born in Galway and holds an MA in history from NUI Galway. His first book, Blasphemers and Blackguards: The Irish Hellfire Clubs, was published by Merrion Press in 2012. BIOGRAPHY

MARKIEVICZ A MOST OUTRAGEOUS REBEL

Lindie Naughton

• COMPREHENSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF FEMINIST REVOLU- TIONARY WHO WAS THE FIRST WOMAN ELECTED TO THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT • FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4’S GREAT LIVES

Countess Constance Markievicz – one of the most re- markable women in Irish history – was a revolutionary, a socialist and a feminist, as well as an artist and writer. A natural leader, “‘Madame”, as she was known to thou- sands of Dubliners, took an active part in the 1916 Rising and was one of the few leaders to escape execution. PAPERBACK Instead, she spent an arduous year in an English prison, surrounded by murderers, prostitutes and thieves. Later, SEPTEMBER 2018 during another stretch in prison, she would make history as the first woman elected to the British Houses of Par- €14.99 / £12.99 liament, and momentous event that is due to receive 9781785372216 widespread commemoration at the time of its cente- nary in December 2018. 350 pages Lindie Naughton’s compelling biography sheds light on 213 x 138 mm all facets of Markievicz’s life – her privileged upbringing in County Sligo, her adventures as an art student in Lon- don and , her marriage to an improbable Polish RIGHTS HELD count, her political education, her several prison terms, World and her emergence as one of the pivotal figures in ear- ly 20th century Britain and Ireland. Constance Markiev- icz, a woman with a huge heart, battled all her adult AUDIO life to establish an Irish republic based on co-operation Rights available and equality for all. Her message is as relevant today as it was a century ago.

Lindie Naughton is a Dublin-based journalist and writ- er. Her books include Markievicz: Prison Letters & Rebel Writings, Lady Icarus: The Life of Irish Aviator Lady Mary Heath, Faster, Higher, Stronger: A History of Ireland’s Olympians, Let’s Run: A Handbook for Irish Runners, and How to Mow the Lawn: Gardening for Beginners. BIOGRAPHY

THE SALAMANCA DIARIES FATHER MCCABE AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Tim Fanning

• DRAMATIC AND VIVID EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR • UNIQUE INSIGHT INTO LIFE IN SPAIN BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE CIVIL WAR

‘Fanning’s vividly written account of the extraordinary life of Fr McCabe is a fascinating contribution to both Spanish and Irish history.’ PAUL PRESTON

In July 1936, an army-led coup against the democrat- ically elected republican government ushered in the Spanish Civil War. Fr Alexander J. McCabe was rector of the Irish College in Salamanca when General Fran- HARDBACK cisco Franco seized power a few months later and established his GHQ in the medieval city. McCabe re- corded the arrival of the nationalist war machine in his SEPTEMBER 2019 diaries, vividly documenting the horror of the repression and his encounters with Franco, Nazi officers and dip- €19.95 / £17.99 lomats, British and American spies and journalists, and 9781785372773 adventurers and charlatans from around the world who flocked to Salamanca. He also observed the implosion of General Eoin O’Duffy’s ill-fated Irish Brigade, first as 250 pages one of its chaplains and later mediating between the 234 x 156 mm nationalist high command and O’Duffy. He unsuccess- fully attempted to dissuade a disillusioned O’Duffy from RIGHTS HELD returning to Ireland with the Irish Brigade in 1937. World Historian Tim Fanning uses McCabe’s diaries to provide excl. Spanish language a fascinating account of life in Spain before, during and after the war, as well as McCabe’s memories of grow- ing up in Ireland at a time of momentous change. This AUDIO is the troubling and enthralling story of an eyewitness Rights available to one of the most tragic episodes in twentieth-century European history.

Tim Fanning is a writer and historian with a particular interest in Spain and . He has written two critically acclaimed books, and he is also a contribu- tor on Spanish and Latin American subjects to The Irish Times and Sunday Independent. BIOGRAPHY

PSYCHIATRIST IN THE CHAIR THE OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY OF ANTHONY CLARE

Brendan Kelly & Muiris Houston

• THE FIRST AND OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE MUCH- LOVED PSYCHIATRIST, WRITER, AND BROADCASTER ANTHONY CLARE (1942-2007) • IN THE PSYCHIATRIST’S CHAIR RAN ON BBC RADIO 4 FROM 1982 TO 2001

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 1982 to 2001, brought him international fame and changed the nature of broadcast interviews forever. Famous inter- viewees included Stephen Fry, Anthony Hopkins, Spike Milligan, Maya Angelou and Jimmy Saville, each of whom yielded to Clare’s inimitable gentle yet probing HARDBACK style.

Clare made unique contributions to the demystification SEPTEMBER 2020 and practice of psychiatry, most notably through his classic book Psychiatry in Dissent: Controversial Issues in €29.95 / £19.99 Thought and Practice (1976). This book, the first, official 9781785373299 biography of this much-loved figure, examines the man behind these achievements: the debater and the doc- tor, the writer and the broadcaster, the public figure 300 pages and the family man. Using extensive public and family 234 x 156 mm records, we ask: Who was Anthony Clare, really? Were there just one Anthony Clare, or many? What drove him? And what is to be learned from his life, his career, RIGHTS HELD and his unique, sometimes controversial legacy to our World understanding of the mind?

This is the remarkable story of a remarkable person. AUDIO Rights available Brendan Kelly is Professor of Psychiatry at , Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry and author of Hearing Voices: The History of Psychiatry in Ireland (IAP, 2019). Muiris Houston is a medical journalist and health analyst with The Irish Times, Adjunct Professor of Narrative Medicine at Trini- ty College Dublin, and Writer-in-Residence at Evidence Synthesis Ireland, at the National University of Ireland, Galway. BIOGRAPHY

IN THE NAME OF THE SON THE GERRY CONLON STORY

Richard O’Rawe FOREWORD BY JOHNNY DEPP • THE STORY OF THE MAN BEHIND THE DANIEL DAY-LEWIS FILM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, BY A LIFE-LONG FRIEND AND CONFIDENTE

‘This book is a tour de force … a chronicle of the tri- umph of the human spirit over extreme adversity. It is a story of hope. It is the story of a man I loved and would have taken a bullet for.’ JOHNNY DEPP

London, 19 October 1989. An electrified young man bursts out of the Old Bailey and declares his innocence to the world. Gerry Conlon has just won his appeal for the 1974 Guildford bombing. After fifteen years in pris- PAPERBACK on, freedom beckons. Or does it? Following his release, Conlon received close to one million pounds from gov- ernment compensation, movie and book deals; he ran SEPTEMBER 2017 in the same circles as Johnny Depp, Daniel Day-Lewis, €17.99 / £15.99 and Shane MacGowan. Conlon seemed to have it all. Yet within five years he was hooked on crack cocaine 9781785371387 and eating out of bins in the backstreets of London. Be- yond the elation of his release was the awful descent 232 pages into addiction, isolation and self-loathing. 225 x 150 mm But this is a book about the resilience of the human spir- it. What emerges from the darkness and the addiction RIGHTS HELD is Gerry Conlon the pacifist; the man who came to be recognised around the world as a campaigner against World miscarriages of justice. In the Name of the Son also re- veals damning new evidence of statement tampering AUDIO by the authorities which would’ve cleared Conlon at the initial trial. Rights available

Richard O’Rawe and Gerry Conlon grew up together in Belfast – they were life-long best friends. O’Rawe is a former Irish republican prisoner and was a leading fig- ure in the 1981 Hunger Strike in the H Blocks of the Maze prison. He is the author of the best-selling book Blan- ketmen: An Untold Story of the H-Block Hunger Strike, Afterlives: The Hunger Strike and the Secret Offer that Changed Irish History, and novel Northern Heist. ART

DARK BEAUTY HIDDEN DETAIL IN HARRY CLARKE’S STAINED GLASS

Lucy Costigan & Michael Cullen

• HUGE RESURGENCE IN INTEREST IN CLARKE’S WORK IN RECENT YEARS, THANKS TO THESE AUTHORS • FEATURING PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED IMAGES • 300+ COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS HARDBACK

Dark Beauty focuses on the minute detail in Harry SEPTEMBER 2019 Clarke’s stained-glass windows, particularly in the bor- €35.00 / £29.99 ders and lower panels of his work. 9781785372339 Clarke’s brilliance as a graphic artist is clearly visible in his book illustrations, which are imbued with precise at- 228 pages tention to intricate designs, and he applied the same lavish focus to every facet of his stained glass. 232 x 192mm

The title ‘Dark Beauty’ refers to the duality of Clarke’s RIGHTS HELD work that sees delicate angels juxtaposed with maca- World bre, grotesque figures, and represents the partially hid- den details that dwell in the background of his windows – motifs, accessories, flora, fauna and diminutive char- AUDIO acters – which may be missed in light of the dominance Rights available of the central subjects.

The authors spent many years photographing Clarke’s windows in Ireland, England, America and Australia, and the resulting 60,000 photos have been carefully whittled down to 300 glorious images. Dark Beauty will provide lovers of Clarke’s stained glass with the oppor- tunity to view previously obscured or unnoticed details in all their unique beauty and inspire their own travels to view Clarke’s work.

Lucy Costigan and Michael Cullen are from Wexford. Their previous collaboration, Strangest Genius: The Stained Glass of Harry Clarke, was shortlisted for Best Irish-Published Book of the year by the Irish Book Awards in 2010 and for Book of the Decade by Dublin Book Fes- tival in 2016. HISTORY

IRELAND’S CALL IRISH SPORTING HEROES WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR

Stephen Walker

• POPULAR SPORT & WW1 HISTORY, BY AN AWARD- WINNING BBC JOURNALIST AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR

Ireland’s Call follows the fascinating stories of 40 Irish- men who swapped the sports field for the battlefield – household names who gave up their careers to vol- unteer for war. Using letters, memoirs and newspaper reports, it features the stories of international footballers, rugby players, cricketers, GAA stars, athletes and hock- ey players, whose lives ended in the mud of the Somme, the despair of Ypres and the heat of Gallipoli.

Stephen Walker’s charming yet poignant stories include PAPERBACK an Irish athlete who competed in the 1908 London Olym- pics, and follows the remarkable journey of two GAA SEPTEMBER 2015 players who starred in All-Ireland Finals and later died at the Western Front. We hear of characters such as the €19.99 / £17.99 exceptionally talented Harry Sloan, the Irish football in- 9781785370182 ternational who was the first to score at the newly built Dalymount Park; Basil Maclear, the rugby centre, who capped 11 times for Ireland and captained Munster 256 pages when they played the All Blacks in 1905; Irish internation- 225 x 155 mm al cricketer and President of the IRFU, Frank Browning, who went on to set-up the “Rugby Pals” Battalion based in Lansdowne Road; the first Irish golfer to win prize mon- RIGHTS HELD ey at the British Open; the first schoolboy to play rugby World for Ireland, and the story of Barney Donaghey from Der- ry who played for Man Utd, Burnley, Celtic, Hibs, Belfast Celtic and Glentoran, and who was ultimately killed at AUDIO the Battle of the Somme. A century on, their sacrifice Rights available is finally recorded in this unique and moving chronicle.

Stephen Walker is an award-winning BBC journalist and one of Northern Ireland’s best-known broadcasters. His first book, Forgotten Soldiers: The Irishmen Shot at Dawn, was shortlisted for the 2007 Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year. His second book, Hide and Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican, who Defied the Nazi Command, was published in 2011 and was an Irish Times Best Seller. HISTORY

BIRTH OF THE BORDER THE IMPACT OF PARTITION IN IRELAND

Cormac Moore

• MOST COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT TO DATE OF THE TRUE IMPACT OF THE PARTITION OF IRELAND ON ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE AND SOCIETY • CENTRAL TO THE ONGOING IRISH DECADE OF COMMEMORATIONS

The 1921 partition of Ireland had huge ramifications for almost all aspects of Irish life, and was directly responsi- ble for hundreds of deaths and injuries, with thousands displaced from their homes and many more forced from their jobs. Two new justice systems were created; the effects on the major religions were profound, with PAPERBACK both jurisdictions adopting wholly different approach- es; and major disruptions were caused in crossing the OCTOBER 2019 border, with invasive checks and stops becoming the norm. €22.95 / £19.99 9781785372933 And yet, many bodies remained administered on an all-Ireland basis. The major religions continued as all-Ire- land bodies. Most trade unions maintained a 32-coun- 300 pages ty presence, as did most sports, trade bodies, charities 234 x 156 mm and other voluntary groups. Politically, however, the new jurisdictions moved further and further apart, while socially and culturally there were both differences and RIGHTS HELD links between north and south that remain to this day. World

Very little has been written on the actual effects of par- tition, the-day-to-day implications, and the complex AUDIO ways that society, north and south, was truly and mean- Rights available ingfully affected. Birth of the Border: The Impact of Par- tition in Ireland is the most comprehensive account to date on the far-reaching and enduring consequences of the partitioning of Ireland.

Cormac Moore is a Dublin-based historian. He has published widely on Irish history, including The GAA V Douglas Hyde: The Removal of Ireland’s First President as GAA Patron (2012) and The Irish Soccer Split (2015). HISTORY

THE IRISH CIVIL WAR LAW, EXECUTION AND ATROCITY

Seán Enright

• VOLUME III IN ENRIGHT’S POPULAR HISTORY SERIES OF THE IRISH REVOLUTION & CIVIL WAR ~ CENTENARY OF THE IRISH CIVIL WAR IS IN 2022 • NEW MATERIAL FROM IRISH MILITARY ARCHIVES ILLUMINATES DARK LEGACY OF THE CIVIL WAR

During the Irish Civil War, eighty-three official executions were carried out, including four prisoners who had not even been tried or convicted of any charge. These ex- ecutions brought the Civil War to an end. After the war, the trial records were destroyed and for decades the execution policy became a bitter memory that was PAPERBACK rarely discussed. In this ground-breaking work, the third volume of his popular legal analysis of the Irish revo- lution and civil war, Seán Enright pieces together the AUGUST 2019 whole grim story. €18.95 / £17.99 9781785372537 The government relied on the national army to fight the war and implement policy, but the national army was new; it lacked uniforms, guns and discipline. More 200 pages than 125 further prisoners were killed in the custody of 234 x 156 mm the state: they were kidnapped and shot, or shot at the point of capture. ‘Shot while trying to escape’ became a depressingly familiar press release. These men were RIGHTS HELD killed because they were anti-Treaty fighters, because World they were suspected of involvement, or simply because they were sympathetic to the anti-Treaty cause. AUDIO In the struggle to survive, the new state turned a blind eye and the rule of law simply evaporated. Featuring Rights available new material from the Irish Military Archives, The Irish Civil War: Law, Execution and Atrocity examines the dark legacy of this chaotic and bitter conflict.

Seán Enright is a Circuit Judge and the author of The Trial of Civilians by Military Courts: Ireland 1921 (2012), Easter Rising 1916: The Trials (2014), and After the Rising: Soldiers, Lawyers and Trials of the Irish Revolution (2016). HISTORY

A BROAD CHURCH THE PROVISIONAL IRA IN THE , 1969–1980

Gearóid Ó Faoleán

• EXPOSES THE TRUE EXTENT OF SUPPORT FOR MILITANT REPUBLICANISM IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND DURING THE TROUBLES • ACCOUNTS FROM FORMER IRA VOLUNTEERS DIVULGE THAT EVERY IRISH POLITICAL PARTY AIDED AND SUPPORTED THE PROVISIONAL IRA

This groundbreaking book is the first to detail, with startling new revelations, just how integral the Republic of Ireland was to the Provisional IRA’s campaign at every level. The sheer level of sympathy and support that existed for mil- itant republicanism in Southern Irish society demonstrates that the longevity of the ‘Troubles’ was due in large part to PAPERBACK this widespread tolerance and aid. MARCH 2019 No Irish political party was without members who aided the Provisional IRA in their early years of their campaign, €19.95 / £17.99 as former IRA volunteers attest to in interviews and pre- 9781785372452 viously unpublished accounts of training camps in the Republic. Juried courts for IRA suspects were phased out as both juries and judges were regularly acquitting 272 pages republicans in cases of blatant IRA activity, and juries of- 226 x 153 mm ten celebrated with or congratulated the defendants: in discussion with the British government Taoiseach Jack Lynch even named judges who were deemed overly RIGHTS HELD sympathetic to the IRA. World

The extent of activity, training, financing, armed robber- ies, demonstrations and goodwill for the IRA in the Irish AUDIO Republic is rarely if ever acknowledged in Irish main- Rights available stream media or the education curriculum. A Broad Church: The Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland, 1969–1980 will dramatically change that view forever.

Gearóid Ó Faoleán was awarded a PhD in Modern Irish History from the University of Limerick in 2014 and cur- rently works in scholarly publishing in London. He is a member of the Oral History Network of Ireland and The Irish Association of Professional Historians. HISTORY

UVF BEHIND THE MASK

Aaron Edwards

• A THRILLING ‘TRUE CRIME’ ACCOUNT OF THE UVF • HIGH-PROFILE INTERVIEWS WITH SENIOR LEADING MEMBERS OF THE UVF AND THEIR LOYALIST RIVALS • NEW REVELATIONS ON THE

‘Great historians are good storytellers and Aaron Ed- wards belongs in this class. His account of the modern UVF’s history is told without embellishment. Facts are carefully woven into the troubles’ historical tapestry.’ MARTIN DILLON

This is the gripping new history of the from its post-1965 incarnation to the present day. PAPERBACK Aaron Edwards blends rigorous research with unprece- dented access to leading members of the UVF to un- earth the startling inner-workings of one of the world’s JUNE 2017 oldest and most ruthless paramilitary groups. €19.99 / £17.99 Through interviews with high-profile UVF leaders, such 9781785370878 as Billy Mitchell, , , Billy Hutchin- son and Gary Haggarty, as well as their loyalist rivals including , Edwards reveals the grisly de- 420 pages tails behind their sadistic torture and murder techniques 225 x 150 mm and their litany of high-profile atrocities: McGurk’s Bar, the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, the Miami Show- band massacre and the Shankill Butchers’ serial-killing RIGHTS HELD spree, amongst others. Edwards’ life and career has led World him to the centre of the UVF’s long, dark underbelly; in this defining work he offers a comprehensive and au- thoritative study of an armed group that continues to AUDIO play a pivotal role in Northern Irish society. Rights available

Aaron Edwards is a Senior Lecturer in Defence and In- ternational Affairs at the Royal Military Academy, Sand- hurst. He is the author of several books, including A His- tory of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (2009), Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the End of Empire (2014), and the forthcoming Merrion Press title, Agents of Influ- ence: Britain’s Secret Intelligence War Against the IRA (autumn 2020). HISTORY

AGENTS OF INFLUENCE INSIDE BRITAIN’S SECRET WAR AGAINST THE IRA

Aaron Edwards

• NEW INSIGHTS INTO SPYMASTERS BEHIND THE SCENES, THEIR STRATEGIES AND TACTICS, AS WELL AS THE CAPTURE OF THE M60 GANG, TARGETED KILLINGS IN DERRY, LOUGHGALL AND GIBRALTAR, SECRET TALKS BETWEEN THE IRA AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, AND THE CAPTURE OF THE IRA’S SOUTH SNIPER.

Recruited by British Intelligence to infiltrate the IRA and Sinn Féin during the height of the Northern Ireland Trou- bles, they were Agents of Influence. With codenames like INFLICTION, STAKE KNIFE, 3007 and CAROL, these spies played a pivotal role in the fight against Irish terror- PAPERBACK ism. Now, for the first time, some of these agents have emerged from the shadows to tell their compelling sto- ries. Agents of Influence takes you behind the scenes of OCTOBER 2020 the secret intelligence war which helped bring the IRA’s €19.95 / £16.99 armed struggle to an end. 9781785373411 Historian Aaron Edwards, the critically acclaimed au- thor of UVF: Behind the Mask, explains how the IRA was 300 pages penetrated, with explosive new revelations about the hidden agendas of leading figures like Martin McGuin- 234 x 156mm ness, and Freddie Scappaticci, and how British Intelligence was able to read the minutes of RIGHTS HELD the IRA’s top-secret meetings before they were distrib- uted to its membership. World

With new insights into the spy masters behind the scenes, AUDIO their strategies and tactics, and Britain’s international intelligence operations in Europe, Libya and the United Rights available States, Agents of Influence offers a rare and shocking glimpse into the hidden world of secret agents during the vicious decades of the Troubles.

Aaron Edwards is a Senior Lecturer in Defence and In- ternational Affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sand- hurst. He is the author and editor of several books, in- cluding Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the End of Empire and UVF: Behind the Mask. MERRION PRESS

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