13 best-selling nonfiction books like Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin by Máiría Cahill

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Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin

By: Máiría Cahill

4.29

Format: 523 pages, Kindle Edition

NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER IN THE IRISH NON-FICTION CHARTS"Rough Beast is shocking, important and unputdow…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin by Máiría Cahill , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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  • irish literature
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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2. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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  • irish literature
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3. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • irish literature
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4. Somebody Knows

By: Michelle McDonagh

4.16

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

: A gripping, addictive page-turner about dangerous secrets and the lengths people will go to keep … read more

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  • irish literature
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5. Body of Truth

By: Marie Cassidy

3.91

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

IN THE HUNT FOR A KILLER THE SCARS OF DEATH DON'T LIE FROM IRELAND'S FORMER STATE PATHOLOGIST MA… read more

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  • irish literature
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6. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • irish literature
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7. But What Can I Do?

By: Alastair Campbell

3.87

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders wh… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin

By: Aoife Moore

3.82

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking… read more

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  • politics
  • irish literature
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War

By: Richard O'Rawe

4.02

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

In this sensational exposé of British Intelligence’s top informer in the upper ranks of the IRA, Ri… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • irish literature
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10. Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale

By: Sean Driscoll

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

She grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate. She was presented to the Queen at Bucking… read more

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  • history
  • irish literature
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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11. The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest who Armed the IRA with Gaddafi’s Money

By: Jennifer O'Leary

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

For almost two decades, Father Patrick Ryan evaded intelligence agencies across Europe and was, for… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • irish literature
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12. Madhouse: The naked truth about my chaotic childhood, losing my mind and finding a place to call home

By: PJ Gallagher

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Nothing about PJ Gallagher's life has followed the usual script . . . Adopted at six months old by … read more

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13. Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

By: Martin Doyle

4.31

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin

By: Máiría Cahill

4.29

Format: 523 pages, Kindle Edition

NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER IN THE IRISH NON-FICTION CHARTS"Rough Beast is shocking, important and unputdow… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • irish literature
Cover of The Yank - My Life as a Former US Marine in the IRA by John Crawley

15. The Yank - My Life as a Former US Marine in the IRA

By: John Crawley

4.01

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

April 1975. A young Irish-American from Long Island, NY, is on a mission to enlist in an elite unit… read more

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16. Carl Frampton: My Autobiography

By: Carl Frampton

4.43

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Belfast’s Carl ‘The Jackal’ Frampton MBE is no ordinary boxer. One of only three fighters from the … read more

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17. Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

By: Otto English

3.96

Format: 495 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the gr… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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18. The House of Beckham: Money, Sex and Power

By: Tom Bower

3.01

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans and watchers of the Beckham Netflix documentary who want the rest of the story—an explosiv… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Witness 8 (Eddy Flynn, #8) by Steve Cavanagh

19. Witness 8 (Eddy Flynn, #8)

By: Steve Cavanagh

4.40

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This riveting psychological thriller from master of twists Steve Cavanagh, author of the “unguessab… read more

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20. Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island

By: Ian Cobain

4.21

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a… read more

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  • politics
  • irish literature
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Reeling in the Queers: Tales of Ireland’s LGBTQ Past

By: Páraic Kerrigan

4.35

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Marking fifty years of the founding of an LGBTQ rights movement in Ireland, Reeling in the Queers e… read more

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  • history
  • irish literature

11 must-read history books like Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin by Máiría Cahill

Transform Your Habits

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

Rory Carroll

4.38

Transform Your Habits

But What Can I Do?

Alastair Campbell

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin

Aoife Moore

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War

Richard O'Rawe

4.02

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

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Wild Houses

Colin Barrett

3.78

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