Gerry Adams

*What made more than thirty Republican women in Armagh jail endure for ten months in 1980 conditions of the most appalling squalor which threatened them with sterility and possible death; and what made three of them engage in a hunger strike? Almost all were under the age of thirty and had lived since their teens in a state of war; many had seen sisters, brothers and parents killed, interned or imprisoned; all had been convicted in non-jury courts of 'terrorist type offenses. In this book these women provide a focus for a documentary investigation of women's lives in the midst of war which extends far beyond the confines of Armagh Jail. It explores the experiences of working class women from Catholic ghettoes who have entered in a unique way into the politics of Irish resistance and who, at the same time, have been confronted at every turn by their particular oppression as women in 'an armed patriarchy

A First Glossary of Hiberno-English is designed for newcomers to the English spoken and written in Ireland. Over 500 headwords, including words of Irish (Gaelic) origin and English words no longer current in England, or used differently in Ireland. The book contains many examples from a wide range of authors, and from the contemporary press. Including special sections on spelling and pronunciation, and of the changing status of Irish and English.

Since he was a teenager, the octagon was the only place where MMA fighter Paddy Holohan’s life settled into something approaching focus. Far removed from the chaos of the outside world all those opportunities spurned and relationships undone, the pain and alienation – every bout reduced that maze of hardship to one simple proposition: survive. In mixed martial arts, bouts are often decided by the finest margins. In Paddy’s case, the knife edge was made all the keener by Factor XIII deficiency, a vanishingly rare form of haemophilia he had spent years hiding from the sport s authorities. For the duration of his career, he was never more than one misplaced strike away from death. Why enter the octagon knowing you might never leave? For Holohan, it would take a journey to the summit of his sport, and a high-profile fall from grace, to unravel the answer to that question and, with it, finally find some measure of redemption. This is his story.