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24/07/2024

Menma Books author Mary Rose Callaghan writes in The Irish Times about her grandmother, a founder of Ireland's first film production company.

Mary Rose's fascinating memoir of coming of age in genteel poverty, The Deep End, was published by Menma in 2023.

The Film Company of Ireland and the new artform of cinema

24/06/2024

Have you read Dan Harvey’s Car Bombs and Barrack Busters? ☘️ The book provides a fascinating account of the history of the Ordnance Corps, including its operation overseas in peace-keeping missions.

Read Full Echo Live Interview: https://www.echolive.ie/corklives/arid-41226799.html

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08/06/2024

A must read for history and theatre fans! 🎭

It was mid December the 1920s in Cork City, when British Crown Forces set fire to multiple buildings - including the

Ger Fitzgibbon’s debut novel invites readers to explore the possibilities of what could have happened on one famous night in Cork City, if the timing had been ever so slightly different…

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06/06/2024

✨Must Reads ✨

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Our selection of books are guaranteed to add some Irish flavour to your reading list this summer ☀️

Browse through our website and check out our current reads from some incredible Irish authors - we publish a range of high quality fiction and nonfiction. ☘️

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30/05/2024

Some lovely photos from from Ger Fitzgibbon’s book launch for Songs For A Burning City in

23/05/2024

Songs For A Burning City is a piece of Irish history reimagined ☘️ We are privileged to have the opportunity to work with such talented authors.

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21/05/2024

Ger Fitzgibbon reading from his debut novel, Songs For A Burning City at his book launch in

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21/05/2024

Ger FitzGibbon on writing his debut novel ‘Songs For A Burning City’, a work of historical fiction set in Cork Opera House during the Irish War of Independence.

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Irish Examiner full story: https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41380318.html

18/05/2024

Make sure to pick up a copy of today and read the wonderful review from Brigid O’Dea on Phyl Herbert’s powerful memoir, The Price Of Silence.

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15/05/2024

The 100th anniversary of the burning of Cork was not commemorated, Ger FitzGibbon tells Elmarie Mawe, so he decided to write a novel about it.

Elmarie Mawe presents The Arts House on Cork's 96fm — The latest news and reviews from the worlds of Theatre, Cinema, Showbiz & Literature.

08/05/2024

04/05/2024

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03/05/2024

On the evening of December 11, 1920, a production of The Gondoliers is in full swing at the Cork Opera House when word comes through that the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries are rampaging through the streets and setting buildings on fire.

Songs for a Burning City, a fascinating work of imagined history, provides a kaleidoscopic account of the turmoil of that infamous night as seen through the eyes of individual members of the cast and audience.

The author: Ger FitzGibbon, former Head of Drama & Theatre Studies in UCC, now works as a freelance writer and director.

"Once you start reading this, you can’t stop, as you follow each person’s experience of that terrible night." Jo Kerringan in Echo Live: https://www.echolive.ie/nostalgia/arid-41380537.html

MEMOIR AT ITS BEST: The Price of Silence by Phyl Herbert and The Deep End by Mary Rose Callaghan.

03/05/2024

Listen to Phyl Herbert on how she came to write her ground-breaking memoir, The Price of Silence.

Phyl Herbert is a short-story writer and essayist; she has been deeply involved in Dublin theatre life for many years and is a pioneer in the use of drama in education. When Phyl gave her newly born

31/01/2024

THE ART OF MEMOIR WRITING: Mary Rose Callaghan (The Deep End), Liz McManus (When Things Come to Light), and Phyl Herbert (The Price of Silence) at Books Upstairs, Dublin, last Sunday, when they talked to a full house about how they came to write their memoirs. Watch this space for information about repeat sessions in other venues.

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23/01/2024

MEMOIR AT ITS BEST: The Price of Silence by Phyl Herbert and The Deep End by Mary Rose Callaghan.

15/12/2023

Phyl Herbert tells Miriam O'Callaghan on ‘Sunday with Miriam’ how she came to write The Price of Silence: https://menmabooks.eu

13/12/2023

There will be lots happening on this website over the coming months. Watch this space.

10/12/2023

A wonderful interview – Phyl Herbert tells Miriam O'Callaghan about her memoir, The Price of Silence.

The actor/director/teacher/writer has written a memoir ‘The Price of Silence’ (published by Menma Books) about her life, which included getting pregnant by a married man, going to a Mother & Baby Home secretly and having to give up her only child for adoption, a daughter who contacted her 26 yea...

06/12/2023

"I was conscious of the power of social history and that is more or less why I wrote the memoir. I wanted to write myself into existence and by so doing attempt to analyse those decades that I lived through." — Phyl Herbert talks about her memoir, The Price of Silence.

Phyl, You are very welcome to my Writers Chat series. We’re here to discuss The Price of Silence,  A Memoir published in 2023 by Memna Books, Cork and launched, in Danner Hall, Unitarian Churc…

16/11/2023

14/11/2023

Among the most read articles in the Sunday Independent this week – Dónal Lynch's superb interview with author Phy Herbert about her memoir, The Price of Silence, just published by Menma Books (www.menmabooks.eu).
https://www.independent.ie/life/it-was-a-girl-in-a-wine-jacket-the-first-person-that-entered-my-mind-was-her-father-i-wasnt-at-all-pleased/a1908305103.html?fbclid=IwAR2DpH78FUNX3w1WiWMUNz5iDnNF1RlSj3_1CF3w0HdW26m1IxBeRuamfPI

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10/11/2023

No newspaper celebrates its city more than does the Echo, Cork's daily newspaper, with its yearly pre-Christmas publication, The Holly Bough (going since 1897). A magnificent job this year by editor John Dolan, as can be expected. And we're especially happy, since it features a short extract from "Car Bombs and Barrack Busters", Dan Harvey's history of the Irish Army bomb disposal unit, which we published recently. It tells how a Cork officer put together an effective bomb disposal robot, the Army's first, from bits and pieces found in a local scrapyard.

09/11/2023

The Deep End by novelist Mary Rose Callaghan tells of growing up in Dublin from the mid-1940s in a once well-off family fallen on hard times and forced at times to struggle with extreme poverty. Central to this enthralling and poignant memoir is the author's relationship with her flamboyant mother, which endured all the hardships and her mother’s descent into mental illness. In the end, the author realises that, despite all the pain and suffering, her mother left her one great gift for life.

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03/11/2023

A portrait of the artist as a young woman.
Just published: Mary Rose Callaghan's account of growing up in a family fallen on hard times.

'...a hymn to an extraordinary mother in an ocelot coat, and a charismatic father who could talk anyone into anything, a book so readable that I never wanted it to end.' — IVY BANNISTER

The author: Lieutenant Colonel Dan Harvey, now retired, has served on military operations at home and abroad for over 35 years. He is the author of several books on Irish military history, inclluding Soldiering Against Subversion: The Irish Defence Forces and Internal Security During the Troubles, 1...