The ScarA graceful and penetrating memoir interweaving the authors descent into depression with a medical and cultural history of this illness. At the age of twenty seven, married, living in New York, and working in book design, Mary Cregan gives birth to her first child, a daughter she names Anna. But its apparent that something is terribly wrong, and two days later, Anna diesplunging Cregan into suicidal despair. Decades later, sustained by her work, a

founding Musica Reservata

with over eighty full-colour plates

is author of the best-selling The Road to the Somme: Men of the Ulster Division Tell Their Story (Belfast 1987)

asserting the rights of ordinary people in defiance of the British Empire

a play about the inner workings of the ESB that created a storm of controversy in 1961

As the centenary of the onset of house burnings arrives

Johnston \n \nThis series of memoirs covers successive attempts by father and son to address the problem of building a rational

part autobiography

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A monument celebrating his triumph against George Cooper on the Curragh of Kildare stands in Donnelly’s Hollow

which seldom receives either balanced or dispassionate treatment

a man who spent nearly every day of his ninety-nine years on the beautiful Iveragh peninsula