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Geography Publications also specialises in providing an eclectic and entertaining selection of historical biographies, comprising of both well-known and less well-known people and families, but all who were nevertheless in some way at the forefront of changes in history and society in their times.

Our History and Biography Series contains a vast array of books such as The Queen’s Last Map-Maker: Richard Bartlett in Ireland 1600-3, John O’Leary: A study in Irish Separatism and The Golden Vale of Ivowen. Biographies cover major figures in Irish history such Thomas Davis, Daniel O’Connell, Fr John Murphy of Boolavogue, Maurice Davin First President of the GAA and John Sadleir M.P.

Unfortunately, it is with great regret that at this time we are unable to post orders outside of Ireland and the United Kingdom due to high costs involved.  But all our books in print are available for overseas shipment through:  The Castle Bookshop, Castle Street, Castlebar, Co. Mayo (email: queries@mayobookspress.com). Please contact us directly by email if you have any other queries books@geographypublications.com

GAA Museum Book Club Book of the Month January/February

Irish Sporting Lives 

Edited by Terry Clavin and Turlough O'Riordan

Published by Royal Irish Academy 

Irish Sporting Lives celebrates the diversity of Irish sporting history through a selection of sixty lives from the Dictionary of Irish Biography series. It includes tales of serial winners, glorious losers, heroes and villains, trailblazing women and sporting founders, legends and overlooked greats.

The Dictionary of Irish Biography is a project of the Royal Irish Academy and tells Ireland’s life story through the biographies of prominent men and women born in Ireland and the noteworthy Irish careers of those born outside Ireland.

Author Turlough O’Riordan is a historian and the online and digital editor of the Dictionary of Irish Biography. He has worked on the project for over two decades. Terry Clavin joined the project in 2006. He is also a historian who has published over 400 biographies with the project.

GAA Museum Book Club

Irish Sporting Lives was the focus of the GAA Museum Book Club for January/February. Check out an interview with Terry Clavin and Turlough O'Riordan here.

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