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ⓘ About Brendan O'Carroll
He is the youngest of eleven kids of Gerard O’Carroll, a carpenter, and Maureen, his mom, was a Labour Party TD. His dad died when Brendan was just six, and Brendan’s mom raised all of their eleven kids without much money. He went to Saint Gabriel’s National School and left when he was twelve. He had a string of occupations, which included being a milkman and a waiter. Since he had become a well known comedy guest on The Late Late Show, he released multiple standup videos. He was working on a boxing movie that he had written, called “Sparrow’s Trap”. It had Stephen Rea cast in the lead part, ran into financing issues midway through production when the distributor pulled out and everything was abandoned.
All Book Series by Brendan O'Carroll
Mrs. Brown's A to Y of Everything
Latest in the series · book 6 of 6 · published 2014
Fighting with the Long Range Desert Group
Series opener · book 1 of 3 · published 2022
R Patrol Long Range Desert Group
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2024
United States Navy Destroyers of World War II
Series opener · book 1 of 181 · published 1985 Anthology · John C. Reilly Jr.
Merchant Sailors At War 1939-1945
Book 2 of 181 · published 1998 Anthology · Philip Kaplan,Jack Currie
The English Electric Lightning
Book 3 of 181 · published 1998 Anthology · Martin W. Bowman
German Armoured Warfare of WWII
Book 4 of 181 · published 2003 Anthology · Ian Baxter
D-Day: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Book 6 of 181 · published 2004 Anthology · Francis Crosby
German Guns Of The Third Reich
Book 10 of 181 · published 2007 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Hitler's Defeat On The Eastern Front
Book 14 of 181 · published 2009 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Operation Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia
Book 18 of 181 · published 2010 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Armoured Warfare on the Eastern Front
Book 20 of 181 · published 2011 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
Flying Legends of World War II: Archive and Colour Photos of Famous Allied Aircraft
Book 21 of 181 · published 2011 Anthology · Philip Handleman
Armoured Warfare in the North African Campaign
Book 23 of 181 · published 2011 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
Armoured Warfare in the Battle for Normandy
Book 25 of 181 · published 2012 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
B-17 Memphis Belle: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Book 26 of 181 · published 2012 Anthology · Graham M. Simons,Harry Friedman
Consolidated B-24 Liberator
Book 27 of 181 · published 2012 Anthology · Graham M. Simons
Kalashnikov in Combat
Book 28 of 181 · published 2012 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
Himmler's Nazi Concentration Camp Guards
Book 29 of 181 · published 2013 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Armoured Warfare in the Korean War
Book 30 of 181 · published 2013 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
Stuka: Hitler's Lethal Dive Bomber
Book 31 of 181 · published 2013 Anthology · Alistair Smith
Fighters Under Construction in World War Two: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Book 32 of 181 · published 2013 Anthology · Graham M. Simons
Partisan Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1941–1944
Book 33 of 181 · published 2013 Anthology · Nik Cornish
The Germans in Flanders, 1917–1918
Book 34 of 181 · published 2013 Anthology · David Bilton
Armoured Warfare in the Arab-Israeli Conflicts
Book 35 of 181 · published 2013 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
Panzer III at War, 1939–1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Book 36 of 181 · published 2013 Anthology · Paul Thomas
German Machine Guns of the Second World War
Book 37 of 181 · published 2013 Anthology · Hans Seidler
Tiger I & Tiger II
Book 38 of 181 · published 2013 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
Armoured Warfare in Northwest Europe 1944-45
Book 39 of 181 · published 2013 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
Armoured Warfare and Hitler's Allies 1941-1945
Book 40 of 181 · published 2013 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
Armoured Warfare in the Italian Campaign, 1943–1945
Book 42 of 181 · published 2013 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
Russian Armour in the Second World War
Book 43 of 181 · published 2013 Anthology · Michael Green
Waffen-SS on the Western Front, 1940–1945
Book 44 of 181 · published 2013 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Naval Aviation In The Second World War
Book 45 of 181 · published 2013 Anthology · Philip Kaplan
The Soviet-Afghan War
Book 46 of 181 · published 2014 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
RAF Fighter Pilots Over Burma
Book 47 of 181 · published 2014 Anthology · Norman L.R. Franks
Preparation For The Battle Of Britain
Book 48 of 181 · published 2014 Anthology · Philip Kaplan
Armoured Warfare and the Fall of France 1940
Book 49 of 181 · published 2014 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
The Central Powers on the Russian Front 1914–1918
Book 50 of 181 · published 2014 Anthology · David Bilton
Twin Mustang: The North American F-82 at War
Book 54 of 181 · published 2014 Anthology · Alan C. Carey
The Crimean War
Book 55 of 181 · published 2014 Anthology · John Grehan,Martin Mace
The Russian Army in the First World War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Book 56 of 181 · published 2014 Anthology · Nik Cornish
Hitler: A Life in Pictures: The Official Third Reich Publication
Book 59 of 181 · published 2014 Anthology · Bob Carruthers
Belsen And Its Liberation
Book 60 of 181 · published 2014 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Stilwell and the Chindits: The Allies Campaign in Northern Burma, 1943–1944
Book 61 of 181 · published 2014 Anthology · Jon Diamond
Great War Fighter Aces, 1914–1916
Book 62 of 181 · published 2014 Anthology · Norman L.R. Franks
Armoured Warfare in the Vietnam War
Book 63 of 181 · published 2014 Anthology · Michael Green
Coastal Command's Air War Against The German U-boats
Book 64 of 181 · published 2014 Anthology · Norman L.R. Franks
Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants, 1933–1945
Book 65 of 181 · published 2014 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Battleships Of The United States Navy
Book 66 of 181 · published 2014 Anthology · Michael Green
German Army On The Eastern Front—the Advance
Book 67 of 181 · published 2015 Anthology · Ian Baxter
The Royal Air Force in the Cold War, 1950–1970
Book 68 of 181 · published 2015 Anthology · Ian Proctor
The Waffen SS on the Eastern Front: A Photographic Record of the Waffen SS in the East
Book 69 of 181 · published 2015 Anthology · Bob Carruthers
Hitler's Light Panzers at War
Book 71 of 181 · published 2015 Anthology · Paul Thomas
T-34: The Red Army's Legendary Medium Tank
Book 72 of 181 · published 2015 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
The Rise of Hitler
Book 73 of 181 · published 2015 Anthology · Trevor Salisbury
Luftwaffe Bombers in the Blitz, 1940–1941
Book 74 of 181 · published 2015 Anthology · Andy Saunders
Combined Round The Clock Bombing Offensive
Book 75 of 181 · published 2015 Anthology · Philip Kaplan
Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy
Book 76 of 181 · published 2015 Anthology · Michael Green
United States Naval Aviation, 1911–2014
Book 77 of 181 · published 2015 Anthology · Michael Green
The Fall of Malaya and Singapore: Images of War
Book 78 of 181 · published 2015 Anthology · Jon Diamond
Merchant Sailors at War 1943-1945: Beating the U-Boat: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Book 80 of 181 · published 2015 Anthology · Philip Kaplan
Hitler's Propaganda Pilgrimage
Book 81 of 181 · published 2015 Anthology · Bob Carruthers
The BEF in 1917: Arras, Vimy, Messines, Passchendaele and Cambrai
Book 82 of 181 · published 2015 Anthology · Bob Carruthers
American Eagles: US Fighter Pilots in the RAF 1939–1945
Book 83 of 181 · published 2015 Anthology · Tony Holmes
The British at First and Second Ypres
Book 84 of 181 · published 2015 Anthology · Bob Carruthers
Armoured Warfare in the Far East, 1937–1945
Book 86 of 181 · published 2015 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
The French Army At Verdun
Book 87 of 181 · published 2016 Anthology · Ian Sumner
SS Grenadiers on The Russian Front
Book 88 of 181 · published 2016 Anthology · James Grant,Bob Carruthers
SS Panzer Divisions on the Eastern Front
Book 89 of 181 · published 2016 Anthology · Bob Carruthers
Armoured Warfare from the Riviera to the Rhine 1944 - 1945
Book 90 of 181 · published 2016 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
German Armour Lost on the Eastern Front
Book 91 of 181 · published 2016 Anthology · Bob Carruthers
SS Specialist Units in Combat
Book 92 of 181 · published 2016 Anthology · Bob Carruthers
Fighting in Ukraine
Book 93 of 181 · published 2016 Anthology · David Mitchelhill-Green
Tank Wrecks of the Eastern Front, 1941–1945
Book 94 of 181 · published 2016 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
German Armour Lost on the Western Front
Book 95 of 181 · published 2016 Anthology · Bob Carruthers
The Panther Tank: Hitlers T-34 Killer
Book 96 of 181 · published 2016 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
With the Guns, 1914–1918
Book 98 of 181 · published 2016 Anthology · Stanley Foxall,JohnJones
German Assault Guns and Tank Destroyers 1940 - 1945
Book 99 of 181 · published 2016 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
The French Army in the First World War
Book 100 of 181 · published 2016 Anthology · Ian Sumner
The Battle for Budapest 1944 - 1945
Book 101 of 181 · published 2016 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
American Wheeled Armoured Fighting Vehicles
Book 102 of 181 · published 2016 Anthology · Michael Green
The RAF Air-Sea Rescue Service in the Second World War
Book 104 of 181 · published 2016 Anthology · Norman L.R. Franks
Armoured Warfare in the First World War 1916-18
Book 105 of 181 · published 2016 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
Auschwitz and Birkenau
Book 106 of 181 · published 2016 Anthology · Ian Baxter
The Crushing of Army Group North 1944–1945 on the Eastern Front
Book 107 of 181 · published 2017 Anthology · Ian Baxter
The British on the Somme 1916: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Book 108 of 181 · published 2017 Anthology · Bob Carruthers
Allied POWs in German Hands 1914–1918
Book 109 of 181 · published 2017 Anthology · David Bilton
Animals in the Great War
Book 110 of 181 · published 2017 Anthology · Lucinda Moore
Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitlerat War, 1939–1945
Book 111 of 181 · published 2017 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Allied Tanks of the Second World War
Book 112 of 181 · published 2017 Anthology · Michael Green
Great War Fighter Aces, 1916–1918
Book 113 of 181 · published 2017 Anthology · Norman L.R. Franks
Hitler Versus Stalin: The Eastern Front, 1943–1944: Kursk to Bagration
Book 114 of 181 · published 2017 Anthology · Nik Cornish
The War in South Pacific: Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives
Book 115 of 181 · published 2017 Anthology · Jon Diamond
Armoured Warfare and the Waffen-SS 1944-1945
Book 116 of 181 · published 2017 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
Allied Armoured Fighting Vehicles of the Second World War
Book 117 of 181 · published 2017 Anthology · Michael Green
With Rommel in the Desert: Tripoli to El Alamein
Book 118 of 181 · published 2017 Anthology · David Mitchelhill-Green
The Panzer III: Hitler's Beast of Burden
Book 119 of 181 · published 2017 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
Star-Spangled Spitfires
Book 120 of 181 · published 2017 Anthology · Tony Holmes
SS Das Reich at War, 1939–1945
Book 121 of 181 · published 2017 Anthology · Ian Baxter
With Rommel In The Desert
Book 122 of 181 · published 2017 Anthology · David Mitchelhill-Green
Rommel In North Africa
Book 125 of 181 · published 2017 Anthology · David Mitchelhill-Green
Joseph Stalin
Book 126 of 181 · published 2017 Anthology · David A. S. Semeraro
SS Polizei at War, 1940–1945
Book 127 of 181 · published 2018 Anthology · Ian Baxter
5th SS Wiking at War, 1941–1945
Book 128 of 181 · published 2018 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Armoured Warfare in the Battle of the Bulge 1944-1945
Book 130 of 181 · published 2018 Anthology · Anthony Tucker-Jones
6th SS Mountain Division Nord at War, 1941–1945
Book 131 of 181 · published 2018 Anthology · Ian Baxter
The Armour of Rommel's Afrika Korps
Book 132 of 181 · published 2019 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Us Cold War Tanks And Armoured Fighting Vehicles
Book 133 of 181 · published 2019 Anthology · Michael Green
Hitler's Mountain Troops, 1939–1945
Book 135 of 181 · published 2020 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Hitler's Headquarters, 1939–1945
Book 136 of 181 · published 2020 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Panzer-Divisions at War, 1939–1945
Book 137 of 181 · published 2020 Anthology · Ian Baxter
German Army on the Eastern Front
Book 138 of 181 · published 2020 Anthology · Ian Baxter
The Red Army at War
Book 139 of 181 · published 2020 Anthology · Artem Drabkin
Hitlers Heavy Panzers, 1943–1945
Book 140 of 181 · published 2020 Anthology · Ian Baxter
The Destruction of 6th Army at Stalingrad
Book 141 of 181 · published 2020 Anthology · Ian Baxter
United States Navy Destroyers
Book 142 of 181 · published 2020 Anthology · Michael Green
7th SS Mountain Division Prinz Eugen At War 1941–1945
Book 143 of 181 · published 2020 Anthology · Ian Baxter
The Long Range Desert Group In Action 1940–1943
Book 144 of 181 · published 2020
The Ghettos of Nazi-Occupied Poland
Book 145 of 181 · published 2021 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Nazi Concentration Camp Overseers
Book 146 of 181 · published 2021 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Hitler's Heavy Tiger Tank Battalions, 1942–1945
Book 147 of 181 · published 2021 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Hitler’s Death Camps in Occupied Poland
Book 148 of 181 · published 2021 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Dunkirk Evacuation, Operation Dynamo
Book 149 of 181 · published 2021 Anthology · Alexander Nicoll,John Grehan
SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, 1941–1945
Book 151 of 181 · published 2021 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Hitler's Panther Tank Battalions, 1943–1945
Book 152 of 181 · published 2022 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Waffen-SS Armour on the Eastern Front, 1941–1945
Book 153 of 181 · published 2022 Anthology · Ian Baxter
The Waffen-SS in Normandy, 1944
Book 154 of 181 · published 2022 Anthology · Ian Baxter
The Waffen SS at Arnhem
Book 155 of 181 · published 2022 Anthology · Ian Baxter
The Waffen-SS Ardennes Offensive
Book 156 of 181 · published 2022 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Himmler: Hitler's Henchman
Book 157 of 181 · published 2022 Anthology · Ian Baxter
The Warsaw Uprisings, 1943–1944
Book 158 of 181 · published 2022 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Heydrich: Butcher of Prague
Book 159 of 181 · published 2022 Anthology · Ian Baxter
The Nazis' Winter Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1941–1945
Book 160 of 181 · published 2022 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Panzergrenadiers 1942–1945
Book 161 of 181 · published 2022 Anthology · Ian Baxter
The Three Battles Of El Alamein
Book 163 of 181 · published 2023 Anthology · Jon Diamond
Waffen-SS Dutch, Belgian, and Danish Volunteers
Book 164 of 181 · published 2023 Anthology · Ian Baxter
8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer
Book 165 of 181 · published 2023 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Narvik and the Norwegian Campaign 1940
Book 166 of 181 · published 2023 Anthology · Philip Jowett
The German Siege of Leningrad, 1941–1944
Book 168 of 181 · published 2023 Anthology · Ian Baxter
German Self-propelled Artillery at War 1940–1945
Book 169 of 181 · published 2023 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps
Book 170 of 181 · published 2023 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Hermann Göring: The Rise and Fall
Book 171 of 181 · published 2024 Anthology · Ian Baxter
German Motorcycles at War, 1939–1945
Book 172 of 181 · published 2024 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Himmler's Slave Labour Camps
Book 173 of 181 · published 2025 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Hitler’s Order Police 1936–1942
Book 174 of 181 · published 2025 Anthology · Ian Baxter
German Self-Propelled Anti-Tank and Anti-Aircraft Guns, 1939-1945
Book 175 of 181 · published 2025 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Tanks and Armour in Ukraine 1941–1944
Book 176 of 181 · published 2025 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Hitler’s Holocaust in the Ukraine 1941-1944
Book 177 of 181 · published 2026 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Tanks and Armour at Kursk 1943
Book 178 of 181 · published 2026 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Tanks and Armour at Leningrad 1941–1944
Book 179 of 181 · published 2026 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Tanks and Armour in the Battle for Moscow
Book 180 of 181 · published 2026 Anthology · Ian Baxter
Hitler's Vengeance Weapons: V-1, V-2 and V-3 Launch Sites
Latest in the series · book 181 of 181 · published 2026 Anthology · Ian Baxter
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Brendan O'Carroll?
He is the youngest of eleven kids of Gerard O’Carroll, a carpenter, and Maureen, his mom, was a Labour Party TD. His dad died when Brendan was just six, and Brendan’s mom raised all of their eleven kids without much money. He went to Saint Gabriel’s National School and left when he was twelve.
Which Brendan O'Carroll series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Images of War series, the earliest of Brendan O'Carroll's multi-book series: it opens with United States Navy Destroyers of World War II (1985) and runs to 181 books across 1985–2026, ending with Hitler's Vengeance Weapons: V-1, V-2 and V-3 Launch Sites (2026). Brendan O'Carroll's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Brendan O'Carroll written?
Brendan O'Carroll has 192 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1985 and 2026. 187 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Images of War series with 181 books — and 5 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Brendan O'Carroll's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Brendan O'Carroll's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Images of War (1985–2026, 181 books) and Agnes Browne (1994–2014, 6 books).
How are Brendan O'Carroll's books organised into series?
This guide splits Brendan O'Carroll's 192 books into 2 named series and 5 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Images of War (181 books, 1985–2026); Agnes Browne (6 books, 1994–2014).