Kevin Myers

Just over a month after the 1921 truce that ended Ireland's fight with Britain, Ernie O'Malley longed for a return to war. Ten months later he got what he wanted but this time civil war against many of the men he had once fought with, those who accepted the new Irish Free State. This is a collection of letters, detailing this period of chaos.

An Irishman's Diary, 1997-2006

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Gary Thomas

This sharp, stimulating title provides a structure for thinking about, analysing and designing case study. It explores the historical, theoretical and practical bones of modern case study research, offering to social scientists a framework for understanding and working with this form of inquiry. Using detailed analysis of examples taken from across the social sciences Thomas and Myers set out, and then work through, an intricate typology of case study design to answer questions such as: How is a case study constructed? What are the required, inherent components of case study? Can a coherent structure be applied to this form of inquiry? The book grounds complex theoretical insights in real world research and includes an extended example that has been annotated line by line to take the reader through each step of understanding and conducting research using case study.

The Anatomy of the Case Study

'Brilliant . . . Dark, witty, grin, caustic, despairing, wise, searingly honest and beautifully written . . . The best informed and most exciting personal account of the Troubles ever published.' Mail Sunday 'An essential part of the history of the Troubles. It is the most astonishing memoir of its kind that I have read in years, and must be read by anyone interested in the happenings of those terrible years in Belfast City'. JACK HIGGINS 'So remarkable that after finishing it you will find yourself casting the film that will surely get made . . . These are the Troubles as seen by someone who know the killers and the killed, and watched from the streets, the bars, and also the bedrooms, of Belfast . . . The result is a humour of a sort so edgy you will only have to come on it previously in the crime fiction of the great Elmore Leonard . . . I have never read a book like this.' Spectator 'A masterpiece . . . The bombings, the shootings, the beatings, the murderous prejudice of warring tribes separated by a few bricks: Myers spares nobody, least of all himself. Few books are as honest.' Daily Telegraph 'Raw and memorable . . . Watching the Door is a book that will be read after many others about that horrible turbulence fare forgotten.' TLS 'Kevin Myers has produced a book that I couldn't put down . . . Bad and bold and brilliant.' OLIVIA O'LEARY, The Irish Times

Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast

Watching the Door

A memoir like no other, passionate, intelligent and revealing of both the age and the individual.

A Single Headstrong Heart

John C. Maxwell

You are invited to live life to the fullest. For five hard years Christian leader Kevin Myers struggled personally and professionally. But it was during that time that God pointed out where he was going wrong and showed him the biblical pattern for living. It proceeded to transform his life, leadership, ministry, and relationships. During that time John Maxwell also became his mentor. Together, using a baseball diamond as an analogy for following God's plan for life, Myers and Maxwell provide a clear path forward while helping you keep your priorities in order and your eyes on the prize. What is that pattern? Connection with God: Winning Dependence Character: Winning Within Community: Winning with Others Competence: Winning Results Challenging, heart-felt, and insightful, Myers' story will connect with anyone who feels their life is falling short of God's promises. The hard-won lessons Myers learned, along with insightful comments and on-point application from Maxwell, will make it possible for you to win in this performance-based culture without losing your soul. There are no shortcuts or steals in the spiritual journey of life. HOME RUN is a guidebook for living life and learning how to succeed God's way.

Learn God's Game Plan for Life and Leadership

Home Run

"Watching the Door" is the memoir of an ordinary young man who drifted into a war zone, made it his home and, somehow, emerged unscathed.After Kevin Myers graduated from university in 1969, a chance job application landed him a position as a journalist in Belfast, reporting on the Troubles. There, he was absorbed quickly into the local community. Soon he became privy to the secrets of Protestant and Catholic paramilitaries alike. In his darkly funny account of life on the streets, Myers evokes with searing clarity a society on the brink of civil war. His memoir is a remarkable portrait of those divisions, from the dedicated violence of loyalist gangs and provos to the behaviour of paratroopers, squaddies, Northern Ireland's police force and the wider populatio- n.Raw, candid and courageous, "Watching the Door" recalls the bloodiest time in Northern Ireland's recent past. It is a coming-of-age story like no other.

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