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Under the Radar:Clodagh Feehan, Mercier Press  

“Mercier was originally a religious publisher, and the centre of learning in theology at the time was Germany,” explains Clodagh Feehan, managing director at the Cork publisher since 2004 and the third generation of the family to run the business. “Having found a book that interested him, he would then sell the rights on to Britain, America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand . . . There were print-runs of 20,000 and 30,000 at a time, compared with 3,000 or 5,000 today for the Irish market. We were a world leader in religious publishing.”