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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 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 226 x 153mm 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 and that louder call €19.95 / £18.99 for Irish unity since , like a piece of heavy ma- 9781785373817 chinery on fragile ground, has left cracks across the Union. 272 pages 234 x 156mm 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 €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 . 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 , 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 , 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- PAPERBACK dy Human Rights organisation, Kerry Kennedy, and PAPERBACK senior adviser to Bernie Sanders Tad Devine. APRIL 2021 MARCH 2021 €19.95 / £18.99 With the seeing a renewed €19.95 / £18.99 9781785373787 focus on broader themes within Irish, American and 9781788551410 global politics, From Whence I Came is a fascinating 368 pages and timely collection that offers a fresh perspective 288 pages 226 x 153mm 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 . 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 9781785373879 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 215 x 135mm 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 . 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’ PAPERBACK and current scholarship relating to Irish, British, oral PAPERBACK and military history. MAY 2021 NOVEMBER 2021 Kilmichael: The Life and Afterlife of an Ambush €14.95 / £12.99 €19.95 / £17.99 features extensive archival research, including the 9781785373879 9781788551458 late Peter Hart’s papers, as well as many other new sources from British and Irish archives, and previously 240 pages unavailable oral history interviews with Kilmichael 300 pages 215 x 135mm 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 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 , 272 pages mixing with the likes of Jack B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett 226 x 153mm 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. PRESS New 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, 9781785373329 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 . PRESS

New 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 215 x 135mm 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. PRESS

New 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. BESTSELLERS MERRION PRESS

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