Truly Tasty recipes have been created by Ireland's top chefs for adults living with kidney disease in Ireland. The book is the brainchild of Valerie Twomey, herself a kidney transplant recipient, who has spent over a year compiling it. Every recipe has been expertly analysed by dietitians from the Irish Nutrition & Dietetic Institute
This collection of essays is the first full-length critical study of Walter Macken. Written by some of the foremost scholars in Irish Fiction and Theatre Studies and experts from the Macken archive at the University of Wuppertal, this volume provides ample reason for rediscovering Macken as one of the most fascinating voices of mid-twentieth centu
Presents an account of the Donegal weaving co-operative which features accounts of the various processes; as well as interviews with weavers, spinners and dyers; and has 103 colour photographs of tapestries. This book also shows how traditional skills were adopted to produce modern tapestries of great beauty and originality.
Details the origins and growth of Wexford town since its establishment by the Vikings in the tenth century. This book examines the influence of the environment on the foundation, expansion and economic development of the town. It includes sections on medieval churches, town wall and castle, the 1798 Rebellion and 19th-century church expansion.
Billy Colfer's Wexford Castles expands the IRISH LANDSCAPES series by taking a thematic approach, while still staying loyal to the central landscape focus. Rather than adapting a narrowly architectural approach, he situates these buildings in a superbly reconstructed historical, social, and cultural milieu.
The story of distilling is of particular interest today, but was no less so from the outset of Wise's Distillery. This book makes extensive use of the observations of prominent distillers from the nineteenth century to relate the difficulties of running a business beset by regulatory, as well as economic, pitfalls.
Joanne Hayes, at 24 years of age, concealed the birth and death of her baby in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1984. Subsequently she confessed to the murder, by stabbing, of another baby. All of the scientific evidence showed that she could not have had this second baby. The police nevertheless, insisted on charging her.