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7 Sep 2026 - Townhouse Publishing Ltd
K-Pop: Dragon Detectives
K-pop fans will love this dazzling colouring book, with pictures that tell a brilliantly fun K-pop themed story. They can follow K-pop band the Flames as they chase a mysterious dragon, all whilst bal...
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7 Sep 2026 - O'Brien Press Ltd
Bluebird: It doesn't get easier, you just get stronger
It’s 1991; at a Russian ballet school, ballet is everything – beauty, perfection, endurance, sacrifice ... When Dublin girls Hope and Emily are chosen to study at the famous Pavlovgrad Ballet...
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7 Sep 2026 - O'Brien Press Ltd
Lights, Camera, Mayhem!: The Grand Central Cinema Club
By Alan Nolan
Dublin, 1937 A gang of movie-mad kids meet at the Grand Central Cinema on O’Connell Street and form a club to make their OWN films! Jem, Juno, Sylvie and friends are thrilled to meet world-fa...
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7 Sep 2026 - Orla Kelly Publishing
Pause for Conversation: Stories of Women, Midlife, and the Beautiful Complexity of Being Human
Life does not fall apart in midlife. It might shift, upend and rearrange. For many women, this season is the Messy Middle: a deeply transformative stretch where the old stories no longer fit, new cha...
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7 Sep 2026 - Orpen Press
Ireland: Land of Legend
Ireland is a land steeped in story. Generations of Irish people have narrated their relationship with this island – its people, its landscapes, its monuments and sacred stone temples, its birds an...
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5 Sep 2026 - Boldwood Books
Wartime with the Irish Factory Girls - In a divided city can friendship give them hope?
When war changes everything, can friendship hold fast? Life is hard for Kathleen Deery. With five children to feed and her husband struggling to find steady work, the family depends on her wages at...
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4 Sep 2026 - Orpen Press
Roll Away the Stone: When Journalism Was the Best Job in the World
By Declan Lynch
A nostalgic yet humorous look back at the glory days of print and broadcast journalism. Examines how the industry faces immense pressure today from Silicon Valley tech figures and political "fake news...
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4 Sep 2026 - Orla Kelly Publishing
Cancer, Chaos & Courage: Finding hope and meaning in life’s hardest moments
Written as a practical and emotional lifeline, the book addresses anyone navigating a cancer diagnosis, chronic illness, or profound grief. Unlike traditional recovery memoirs written from the safe di...
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4 Sep 2026 - New Island Books
NO ONE TELLS YOU: The Last Years of Edna O'Brien
By Carlo Gebler
As Edna O’Brien confronts the brutal realities of aging - pain, confusion, hospitals, carers, the battle to keep writing - the world she built through language begins to contract. Her son Carlo trac...
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3 Sep 2026 - Gill
Catalpa: The epic story of the greatest prison rescue in Irish history
SIX PRISONERS. ONE WHALESHIP. A PLOT BOLD ENOUGH TO SHAKE THE BRITSH EMPIRE. Catalpa tells the extraordinary true story of one of the most audacious operations in Irish history – the rescue of si...
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3 Sep 2026 - Gill
Nourish for Menopause: Transform your menopause with great nutrition
“You need to eat differently, you need to look after your bones, you need to eat more protein. There is a lot of stuff, as women in perimenopause and menopause, that we should be doing, and it’s a...
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3 Sep 2026 - Gill
Milly McCarthy and the Doggy Daycare Drama
Milly McCarthy is back – and she’s determined to prove she’s responsible enough to get her very own dog. Her genius plan? Start a dog-walking business and show Mam and Dad just how brilliant she...
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3 Sep 2026 - Gill
Squad Girls
MEET THE SQUAD GIRLS. FOUR GIRLS. FOUR SPORTS. ONE UNBREAKABLE BOND. Sam is an up-and-coming sprinter, Tara a strong swimmer, Ríona a talented Irish dancer and Penny a gifted gymnast. They coul...
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3 Sep 2026 - Gill
An Irish Family Farm in Twelve Fields
By Philip Stewart, Liv Stewart
GET READY FOR IRELAND’S CLARKSON’S FARM WITH SOCIAL MEDIA STARS FARMER PHIL AND HIS WIFE LIV The Stewart family has farmed their land in Co. Longford since 1938 when Farmer Phil’s grandfather...
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3 Sep 2026 - Gill
One Pan Wins: Easy meals all made in one pan
Loved for his down-to-earth style and irresistible flavours, Neven Maguire’s brand-new collection of amazing meals require just one pan, pot, tray or tin. Make weeknights deliciously doable with ...
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1 Sep 2026 - Poolbeg Press Ltd
The Silence of October
By Sharon Guard
As the seventh anniversary of their daughter’s death approaches, Klara and Hector Armstrong are struggling to live a normal life in the company of grief. Klara, a former concert pianist, never wa...
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1 Sep 2026 - O'Brien Press Ltd
Conor's Caveman: The Amazing Adventures of Ogg
By Alan Nolan
Life could be better for Conor Corcoran. Class bully Damian Deegan is always teasing him about being small and having no friends – when in fact Conor has the only friend he needs in Charlotte ‘Cha...
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1 Sep 2026 - Hachette Books Ireland
Happy, Thank You. More, Please: How I got grateful, stayed mortified, and learned to trust the universe
By Kyla Cobbler
'When I was twenty-one, I met a girl who introduced me to five magic words that changed my life: Happy, Thank You. More, Please.' Kyla Cobbler's path to self-love hasn't run smoothly. From questio...
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1 Sep 2026 - University College Dublin Press
Gearoid Mor Fitzgerald
By Alan Kelly
Gearoid Mor, 'the Great Earl of Kildare', or simply Gerald Fitzgerald, has been, historiographically speaking, a great deceiver: and has paid for his deception in similar currency. Over time regarded ...
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1 Sep 2026 - Andrew Triapitsyn
Golden Set: Every Truth Begins as a Label
What if the truth wasn’t discovered — but assigned? Claire Boyd has one job: decide what is true. Every night, she sits in front of an endless stream of claims generated by machines and give...
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28 Mar 2025 - New Island Books
Wired Our Own Way: An Anthology of Irish Autistic Voices
By Niamh Garvey
Wired Our Own Way: An Anthology of Irish Autistic Voices is the first collection of personal essays written by autistic Irish adults. One in twenty-seven Irish school children are now diagnosed as aut...
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21 Aug 2022 - Royal Irish Academy
Days in the life: Reading the Michael Collins Diaries 1918-1922
From 1918 to 1922 Michael Collins kept working diaries of his busy revolutionary life. They are a collection of hurried notes, necessary lists, names and appointments, things to do, and things not don...
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1 May 2012 - The Lilliput Press Ltd
Vintage Nell: The McCafferty Reader
Feminist, socialist, trenchant social commentator, Nell has seen and lived it all. From the early days of the civil rights movement and the revolutionary fervour of Free Derry to the bitter conflict a...
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1 Aug 2011 - Gill
Payroll Manual & Computerised: 6th Edition
By Dympna Dolan
'New edition of this popular text reflects all budgetary changes in relation to the operation of the PAYE system for FETAC Level 5 Payroll students. New edition of this popular text reflects all budge...
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2 Apr 2018 - Gill
My Name is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home
'In 2017, the remains of 796 babies were found in a septic tank on the site of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, a home run by nuns which took in orphans and unmarried mothers until it closed in 1961. Br...
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7 May 2009 - Penguin Books Ltd
Joe Dolan: The Official Biography
By Ronan Casey
Growing up in poor circumstances in the midlands town of Mullingar might seem an unlikely start for a musical superstar, but that's exactly the journey Joe Dolan travelled in his amazing life. This bi...
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6 Nov 2008 - Penguin
Joe Dolan: The Official Biography
By Ronan Casey
Growing up in poor circumstances in the midlands town of Mullingar might seem an unlikely start for a musical superstar, but that's exactly the journey Joe Dolan travelled in his amazing life. Not onl...
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15 Dec 2011 - Original Writing Ltd
The Night Joe Dolan's Car Broke Down: A Play In Two Acts
Imagine being stranded with the legendary Joe Dolan in a rural pub in County Cavan on the night his car breaks down. That's just the sort of fantasy scenario that's imagined in "The Night Joe Dolan's ...
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1 Apr 2011 - O'Brien Press Ltd
Our Joe: Joe Dolan by the people who knew him best
By Eddie Rowley
Read the story of Joe Dolan through his own interviews and the memories and anecdotes of his family that vividly bring to life the essence of Joe. Read the story of Joe through his own interviews and ...
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1 Nov 2004 - Gill
A Dictionary of Hiberno English - 2nd Revised edition
This is a revised and expanded edition of the standard dictionary in the field. Drawing on the resources of a recently-established Hiberno-English website hosted by UCD, this new edition of A Dictiona...
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14 Sep 2012 - O'Brien Press Ltd
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, The Miseducation Years
''So there I was, roysh, putting the 'in' in 'in crowd' ... But being a schools rugby legend has its downsides.' This is where it all began: the formation of the phenomenon that is Ross O'Carroll-Kell...
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1 Jan 2000 - Gill
Dictionary of Hiberno-English - New edition
A Dictionary of Hiberno-English' shows the numerous ways in which Hiberno-English differs from standard English. It ascertains the nature of English as it is spoken and written in Ireland. Among usage...
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11 Oct 2010 - O'Brien Press Ltd
Our Joe: Joe Dolan by the people who knew him best New edition
By Eddie Rowley
Read the story of Joe Dolan through his own interviews and the memories and anecdotes of his family that vividly bring to life the essence of Joe. Read the story of Joe through his own interviews and ...
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11 Oct 2013 - Gill
A Dictionary of Hiberno-English - 3rd Revised edition
A Dictionary of Hiberno-English is the leading reference authority on Hiberno-English - the form of English commonly spoken in Ireland. Bertie Speak, circling Shannon, dig-out, and ghost estate are ju...
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21 Sep 2012 - Gill
A Dictionary of Hiberno-English - 3rd Revised edition
A Dictionary of Hiberno-English is the leading reference authority on Hiberno-English - the form of English commonly spoken in Ireland. Bertie Speak, circling Shannon, dig-out, and ghost estate are ju...
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1 Jan 2006 - Gill
A Dictionary of Hiberno-English
Drawing on the resources of a website hosted by UCD, this book aims to ascertain the nature of English as it is spoken and written in Ireland. Drawing on the resources of a recently-established Hibern...
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14 Sep 2012 - O'Brien Press Ltd
Our Joe: Joe Dolan by the people who knew him best
By Eddie Rowley
'Read the story of Joe Dolan through his own interviews and the memories and anecdotes of his family that vividly bring to life the essence of Joe. Read the story of Joe through his own interviews a...
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1 Apr 2016 - O'Brien Press Ltd
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, The Miseducation Years - with new introduction by the author
''So there I was, roysh, putting the 'in' in 'in crowd' ... But being a schools rugby legend has its downsides.' This is where it all began: the formation of the phenomenon that is Ross O'Carroll-Kell...
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1 Jul 2003 - Gable Records Publications
The Joe Dolan Songbook
This books contains all of Joe Dolan's greatest hits and many more songs that have made the singer a giant of the Irish showband era.
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15 Oct 2019 - Picador USA; Reprint edition
Time and Tide
By Enda O'Brien
Time and Tide is a fragmented novel detailing the loves and catastrophes--and catastrophic loves--of Nell, an Irish woman trying to make a life for herself in the literary world of London. A whimsi...
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8 Sep 2026 - Irish Academic Press Ltd
Irish Sport in 100 Objects
The history of Irish sport can be held in your hands – if you know where to look. Driven by curiosity, Siobhán Doyle has travelled the length and breadth of Ireland in search of the objects that ca...
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10 Sep 2026 - Nine Bean Rows Books
Blood, Guts and Black Pudding: Ireland's Dying Tradition of Blood as Food
By Kate Ryan
Blood. The Irish have been dining on it for centuries and they love it. It has sustained warriors in epic battles, staved off hunger, offered protection from bad luck and provided sustenance during wi...
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10 Sep 2026 - Gill
Through the Long Grass: Love, Loss and Belonging in Nature
By Eoin Warner
A BEAUTIFUL AND POWERFUL ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY FROM TRAGEDY TO RENEWAL In January 1979, when Eoin Warner was two years old, an oil tanker exploded in Bantry Bay. Among the fifty lives lost was Eoin�...
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10 Sep 2026 - Gill
Homegrown: A pair of hands. A patch of earth. A philosophy for living.
By Barrie Quinn
Homegrown is the inspiring story of how Donegal grower Barrie Quinn transformed a neglected family field into Portnoo Market Garden – a thriving, small-scale haven that produces exceptional quality ...
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10 Sep 2026 - Hachette Books Ireland
White Lines: A Rugby Life Broken and Rebuilt
From the roar of packed stadiums to the silence of a prison cell, White Lines is the blazing true story of Ryan Caldwell - former Ulster, Ireland and Premiership rugby player - whose fall from grace n...
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10 Sep 2026 - Irish Academic Press Ltd
Enemies Within: The Explosive True Story of Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair, Northern Ireland’s Most Infamous Paramilitary Godfather
‘Three things come with taking a man’s life. The first one is the easy bit – going into a room and shooting somebody… The second is preparing yourself if you get caught coming or going and get...
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10 Sep 2026 - Penguin Books Ltd
Ourselves Alone
What really goes on behind closed doors in Ireland’s most secretive political party? Long defined by message control and secrecy, Sinn Féin has rarely allowed outsiders a glimpse behind the curt...
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10 Sep 2026 - Hachette Books Ireland
Gaeilge inár Saol - Irish in our Lives: Everyday Ways to Live Our Language
'I'd love to speak more Irish.' Does this sound familiar? Maybe you've lost the language over the years or perhaps you're eager to reconnect with your roots, but you don't know where to begin. Níl t...
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11 Sep 2026 - Wordwell
Irish or British or Both: From the Good Friday Agreement to the United Ireland question
By Noel Dorr
The Long Road to the Good Friday Agreement and the Future Beyond It In this timely and deeply informed book, former diplomat Noel Dorr reflects on the long history that shaped modern Ireland’s...
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11 Sep 2026 - Samuel Silva
Poemas da Nulidade: Poems of Nullity
By Samuel Silva
A collection of poetry by poet Samuel Silva in both English and Portguese.
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11 Sep 2026 - Orpen Press
In the Blood: The Mick Martin Story
By Mick Martin
his book follows Mick Martin from his early days as a Dublin boy working a full-time job and playing in the League of Ireland to being signed by Manchester United to play alongside legends like George...
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11 Sep 2026 - Orpen Press
Boomshakalaka: Winning Against the Odds
Irish sporting legend Timmy McCarthy takes readers on an inspiring journey from his humble beginnings in Cork City to the commentary booths of the Olympic Games, becoming a national treasure and one o...
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12 Sep 2026 - Lonely Planet Global Limited
Lonely Planet Kids A Kid's Guide to France
By Paige Towler
Get ready for an epic adventure like no other with our awesome series of kid's travel guides featuring the most amazing countries and cities around the world. France, here we come! Did you know tha...
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12 Sep 2026 - Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet Best Road Trips France
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12 Sep 2026 - Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet Japanese Travel Phrasebook & Dictionary
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12 Sep 2026 - Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet Best in Travel 2027
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12 Sep 2026 - Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet Mandarin Travel Phrasebook & Dictionary
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12 Sep 2026 - Lonely Planet Global Limited
Lonely Planet Experience Tasmania
This latest edition of Lonely Planet's Experience Tasmania travel guide reveals exciting new ways to explore this iconic region with all the tools you need to create your own unique trip. Discove...
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12 Sep 2026 - Lonely Planet Global Limited
Lonely Planet Offseason
By Sarah Baxter, Paul Bloomfield
Get to the heart of 100 of the world's top destinations during off-peak times so you can avoid the crowds, support local communities and see each place in a different light. Lace up your walking boo...
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12 Sep 2026 - Lonely Planet Global Limited
Lonely Planet French Travel Phrasebook & Dictionary
Learn essential phrases and vocabulary – from directions to eating out and travelling safely – and get to the heart of the local culture with this on-the-go language guide. Never get stuck for ...
