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29 May 2026 - Health Research Board
European Web Survey on Drugs 2024: Irish results
By Deirdre Mongan, Nicki Killeen, Eamon Keenan, Sean R Millar, Brian Galvin
Do you use drugs? How many, and why? These are some of the questions asked in the European Web Survey on Drugs, launched in partnership by the HSE Drugs.ie, the Health Research Board (HRB) and the Eur...
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29 May 2026 - Four Courts Press Ltd
Regimental lineages and officer lists of the Irish Jacobite army
Although numbers varied, at any one time the Irish Jacobite army mustered about forty-five regiments of infantry and nineteen of cavalry and dragoons. In all, just over a hundred regiments can be iden...
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29 May 2026 - New Island Books
ARE YOU SOMEBODY?: 30th Anniversary edition
30th anniversary edition of the classic of Irish memoir, with a new foreword by bestselling author Katríona O'Sullivan. Discover the unforgettable voice that captivated readers worldwide. Are You ...
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29 May 2026 - Four Courts Press Ltd
English Countess, Irish Earl: The Social World of Frances, Countess of Clanricard, 1567–1632
Frances Walsingham was the only surviving daughter of an Elizabethan secretary of state, Sir Francis Walsingham. In modern times Frances has enjoyed numerous cameo appearances in books about prominent...
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28 May 2026 - Gill
Be Like the Sea
‘The one thing you can’t fully control in a ship is the water all around you, so part of your plan is always reading and analysing the currents and the tides. You have a clear image in your head o...
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28 May 2026 - Tolka Journal
Tolka: Issue Eleven
Tolka Issue Eleven, publishing in late May 2026, is a literary journal specializing in formally promiscuous non-fiction. Featuring new writing from Sara Baume, Jan Carson, and an interview with Rashid...
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28 May 2026 - Hachette Books Ireland
The Last Ditch: GAA, the Fear, and One Man’s Long Road to Croker
"Sweeney's prose is on fire. A blistering book that readers will relish enormously." MICHAEL HARDING "A cracking read ... a championship season as redemption song." MICHAEL CLIFFORD "All the tension...
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28 May 2026 - The Lilliput Press Ltd
The Irish Aesthete: Buildings of Ireland, Known and Unknown
Since 2012 Robert O’Byrne has produced theirishaesthete.com, an award-winning site exploring the country’s extensive architectural heritage through words and pictures, In 2024 Lilliput Press publi...
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27 May 2026 - Ciaran Casey
Leadership in Tune: Cultivating Impact Through Connection
By Ciaran Casey
Leadership in Tune introduces the Conscious Relational Impact (CRI) Model™ a relational framework grounded not in control, but in conscious alignment. It begins from a simple premise. Leadership suc...
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26 May 2026 - TRANSAT BOOKS
The Throats of Birds
By Aoife Feeney
The Throats of Birds imagines a future in which Ireland becomes the private property of an oligarch, Robert Kavanagh. His wife Elizabeth decides to kill him ‘before he kills us all’. She receives ...
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26 May 2026 - ONE
Little Vanities
Two couples. Twenty years. One unforgettable story. Dylan, Stevie and Ben have been inseparable since their days at Trinity, when life pulsed with possibility. A single glance can still summon thei...
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26 May 2026 - The Limerick Writers' Centre
Berlin Divided: An Irishman's Journey Through The Cold War
This is a monumental, deeply lived, historically rich account of the Cold War. It’s clear that decades of memory, scholarship, and personal experience have been poured into it. by the author. It...
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22 May 2026 - Wordwell
Enemies of the State
Richard Musgrave, The Rebellion of 1798 and the Making of Sectarian Irish History. Enemies of the State offers a rigorous reassessment of one of the most enduring and contentious interpretations of...
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22 May 2026 - New Island Books
IMPERFECT BEINGS
Life moves forward, but its meaning often emerges in hindsight. In this luminous collection, Dermot Bolger captures those unexpected moments when past loves and choices resurface with startling clarit...
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21 May 2026 - Faber & Faber
Said The Dead
From the author of A Ghost in the Throat, an unforgettable book - both history and ghost story - that will leave you gasping by its final page. In the city of Cork, a derelict Victorian mental hosp...
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21 May 2026 - Penguin Books Ltd
Other People's Lives
‘Marriage was the biggest decision of their lives and yet they made it so lightly it was barely a decision at all’ As schoolgirls, Justine and her best friend Iseult dreamed of a future that revo...
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21 May 2026 - Gill
The Sailor and the Seamstress
Every family has a story … for Liam O’Connor that story goes back to his great-grandparents, William and Norry Kennedy. Using the threads of his family’s past to weave a tapestry that is at once...
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21 May 2026 - Hachette Books Ireland
At Least It Looks Good From Space: A catalogue of modern, millennial and personal catastrophes
'A wonderful take on the chaos of the modern word' Louise O'Neill 'Carl has the rare gift of combining analytical clarity with maniacal vulnerability' Blindboy Boatclub 'Sharp, inventive and irresi...
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21 May 2026 - Merrion Press
Carrie Jade
By Alan Bradley
She seemed like the perfect nanny. Until she vanished – and the truth emerged. Unmasking Samantha Cookes is a chilling true story of a master manipulator who spent more than a decade reinventing ...
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21 May 2026 - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Our Deadly Summer
By Emer McLysaght, Sarah Breen
Laura and Dee haven’t spoken since the day they buried a body together. It was supposed to be the best summer of their lives. A break from university, from parents, from wasting their time on Irish ...
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2 Feb 2026 - Dedalus Press
Uncertain Passage
By Paddy Bushe
In "The Intensive Care Unit as Rainforest", a central poem which provides the title of this new collection, Paddy Bushe snatches a morphine-induced glimpse of a world far from County Kerry's Iveragh P...
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31 May 2025 - Channel
Channel Issue 12
Fiction Lucy Elizabeth Allan | The Crocodile Room Claire Carroll | Instructions for Walking the Intertidal Zone Marianne Daigh | Nadura Ryan Delaney | Not Even for a Song Eamon Doggett | Norther...
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14 Jun 2016 - Dedalus Press
On a Turning Wing
By Paddy Bushe
Paddy Bushe’s latest collection of poems explores, among other things, the balance between creative freedom and the artist’s responsibility to engage.
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1 Sep 2019 - The Lilliput Press Ltd
Skelligs Haul
Skelligs Haul is a generous compilation of Michael Kirby's prose and poetry, appealing for his simple, elegant style, his knowledge of unique local lore, and his inimitable observations. Skelligs Haul...
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22 Sep 2014 - O'Brien Press Ltd
Margo: Queen of Country & Irish: The Promise and the Dream
The official memoir of Margo O'Donnell, legendary Irish Country Music singer. For fifty years now the name 'Margo' has been synonymous with everything that is positive and enriching in Country and Iri...
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27 Oct 2015 - O'Brien Press Ltd
'Detective: A Life Upholding the Law'
'The inside story of a lifetime spent fighting crime, from local Garda in Kildare to Detective Superintendent, tackling everything from small local crimes to major national and international investiga...
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1 Nov 1998 - Genealogical Society of Ireland
Irish Genealogical Sources: Harold (Boys) School, Glasthule, County Dublin Registers 1904-1948 No. 11
Harold Boys' National School, Glasthule, County Dublin: the school operated for over a century and amalgamated in 2001 to form "The Harold School". Timeframe: 1904 to 1948. Content: the registers typi...
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3 Jan 2020 - The Mercier Press Ltd
Days of the Blackthorn: Faction Fighters of Kerry
Days of the Blackthorn uses contemporary sources such as eyewitness tales, to provide a visceral sense of the 'vengeful, brutal, drunken, petty world' of faction fighting in Kerry in the 1800s. This i...
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12 May 2020 - Mariner
The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
By John Connell
Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, after more than a decade away, he finds himself back on the far...
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31 Jul 2024 - The Lilliput Press Ltd
The Waking Of Willie Ryan
Willie Ryan returns to his home town in ‘the great central plain of Ireland’, having escaped from the insane asylum where he was committed, and unvisited, by his devout Catholic family for twenty-...
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7 May 2026 - The Lilliput Press Ltd
The Waking Of Willie Ryan
Willie Ryan returns to his home town in ‘the great central plain of Ireland’, having escaped from the insane asylum where he was committed, and unvisited, by his devout Catholic family for twenty-...
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5 Jun 2025 - Walker Books
Skipshock
Margo is on a train when she slips into another dimension, passing from the height of Irish summer into the chill of an alien winter, from a 24-hour day to one that begins and ends in just six hours. ...
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12 Jan 2026 - Lonely Planet Global Limited
Lonely Planet Pocket Portland & the Willamette Valley
By Margot Bigg, Brett Atkinson
Discover twice the place in half the time as Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the ultimate short trip to Portland & the Willamette Valley. This latest edit...
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14 Jun 2024 - Lonely Planet Global Limited
Lonely Planet Washington, Oregon & the Pacific Northwest
By Margot Bigg, Bianca Bujan, Brandon Fralic, Leslie Hsu Oh, Michael Kohn, Alex Leviton, Britany Robinson, Amy Sung
Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Washington, Oregon & the Pacific Northwest. Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences fr...
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12 Nov 2024 - Lonely Planet Global Limited
Lonely Planet India
By Joe Bindloss, Margot Bigg, Monique Choy, Mark Elliott, Lucie Grace, Christabel Lobo, Joanna Lobo, Isabella Noble, John Noble
Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to India. Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from marvelling at the carving-covered ...
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18 May 2023 - Hachette Books Ireland
The Murderer and the Taoiseach: Death, Politics and GUBU - Revisiting the Notorious Malcolm Macarthur Case
By Harry McGee
A Murderer. A Leader. The Scandal of an Era. 'Reads like a thriller but is sadly all too true ... a brilliant account of shocking crimes and the dramatic political crisis they caused' David McCullagh...
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4 Apr 2024 - Hachette Books Ireland
The Murderer and the Taoiseach: Death, Politics and GUBU - Revisiting the Notorious Malcolm Macarthur Case
By Harry McGee
'An incredible and compelling story' MATT COOPER 'Gripping, unpretentious, brilliant and unputdownable' BUSINESS POST A Murderer. A Leader. The Scandal of an Era. In the summer of 1982, Irish arist...
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14 Aug 2015 - Poolbeg Press
The Friday Tree
It's the summer of 1955, Belfast is a quiet, apparently peaceful backwater. Trolleybuses run in a leisurely way through sparse traffic, and lamplighters go about at night. Still, though Ulster’s eru...
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29 Jun 2004 - Cork University Press
Ulysses
Ulysses' was not brought to the screen until 1967. Norris discusses the challenges that this difficult novel of the 20th century posed to the filmmaker along with the production and censorship problem...
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1 Sep 1994 - New Island Books
The Adventures of Shay Mouse: The Mouse from Longford
By Patrick McCabe, Margot McCabe
An engrossing children's tale. When you consider the work of Pat McCabe, you tend to think of darkness, violence and delusion. It is easy to forget that his first book, published in 1985, was a chil...
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31 May 2026 - The Limerick Writers' Centre
The Gift of the View
By Orla Fay
The Gift of the View affirms Orla Fay as a distinctive and resonant voice in contemporary Irish poetry, offering readers a rich, lyrical journey through the landscapes, inner and outer, that shape us.
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1 Jun 2026 - Bullaun Press
What Now, Mr Wolf?
Ryna comes home from abroad to the wake of her granny Darafeya in Nauhalnaye, a village in the drained marshlands near Lipen, in a remote corner of Belarus. That night as Ryna sits alone with the coff...
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1 Jun 2026 - Dedalus Press
The Salt of Something New
The Salt of Something New is the debut of Dublin-based poet Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan. The poems explore love and attraction, excitement and disappointment, responding to the city both as homeplace an...
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1 Jun 2026 - The Mercier Press
NeuroQueer Global Edition: A Neurodivergent Guide to Love, Sex and Everything Inbetween: A Memoir
By CJ DeBarra
In this warm and gloriously candid memoir about ADHD, queerness, love, and everything nobody thought to explain, CJ DeBarra – Irish journalist, non-binary West Cork exile, and lifelong owner of a br...
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1 Jun 2026 - Hoogledorf Press
The Silent Elm
By Terri Smith
One large elm tree stood in the distance. Ellen noticed it.
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1 Jun 2026 - Chartered Accountants Ireland
Finance Theory and Practice
Anne Marie Ward’s textbook is the seminal text for the study of finance for both professional and academic courses. With particular relevance to students in Ireland and the UK, but also internationa...
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1 Jun 2026 - Brehony Books
They Rise: In The West: A Rural Irish Apocalypse Thriller
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1 Jun 2026 - Brehony Books
They Rise: In The West: A Rural Irish Apocalypse Thriller
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2 Jun 2026 - Miz Kit Productions
Mountain Echoes
By C. E. Murphy
You can never go home again Joanne Walker has survived an encounter with the Master at great personal cost, but now her father is missingstolen from the timeline. She must finally return to North...
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2 Jun 2026 - Tinder Press
Land
'You will never understand how the land remembers, how deep the roots grow' A spellbinding story of separation, longing, recovery and survival as a family makes a new home in the aftermath of trage...
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3 Jun 2026 - Poolbeg Press Ltd
The Long Way Home
By Helen Dwyer
When teenage Fiona falls in love, she believes a wonderful future is just beginning. But when she becomes pregnant, her world is torn apart. Sent away in shame and silenced by her family, she gives bi...
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4 Jun 2026 - ACN Church Resources DAC
Magnifica Humanitas: Encyclical Letter on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence
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4 Jun 2026 - Hachette Books Ireland
Deadly Evidence: A gripping, page-turning crime thriller from Ireland's former state pathologist
COLD CASES. HOT LEADS. AND A KILLER STILL WATCHING . . . STATE PATHOLOGIST TERRY O'BRIEN IS ABOUT TO TAKE ON HER TOUGHEST ROLE YET. Tasked with leading the Open Case Review Unit, her usual post-...
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4 Jun 2026 - The Liffey Press
One Step from Heaven: Climbing Mount Everest, Goddess of the Himalayas
In One Step from Heaven, Dubliner Derek Mahon provides a riveting account of his successful summit of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. An experienced mountaineer who has since complet...
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4 Jun 2026 - Gill
Saving Grace
Grace is excited for the neighbourhood Halloween party until a spark from the bonfire turns her night upside down, sending her to hospital and leaving her with scars that change how she sees herself. ...
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6 Jun 2026 - bog bodies press
Erin go Brách
She’d been the World over when we first met. I had left Ireland once, in 2007 and Belfast only a handful of times. I liked the cut of her, the cleverness, and the wit. She cared for my silly sto...
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8 Jun 2026 - Hag Publishing
Heart of the Tower
By Óisín Bergin
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8 Jun 2026 - O'Brien Press Ltd
Come Sit Awhile
By Alice Taylor
Alice celebrates the special moments and the everyday blessings of life. Come sit awhile with Alice Taylor. Take a little time out – to rest, to think, or just to be. Life can race along at a ...
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11 Jun 2026 - Penguin Books Ltd
All of Them Lied
By Gill Perdue
'The most compulsive reading experience I’ve had this year.' Liz Nugent ‘Immersive and addictive with a tantalising drip-feed of detail that leaves readers desperate for more, All Of Them Lied fi...
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11 Jun 2026 - Merrion Press
Western-Washed Genocide
By Fintan Drury
Genocide: Sponsoring the Destruction of Palestine is Fintan Drury’s follow-up to Catastrophe: Nakba II, extending his forensic chronicle of the genocide in Gaza into its third year. Opening on 13 Oc...
