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21 May 2026 - Martello Publishing
James Joyce: A Life in Books: The Desmond J. Green Collection
By Luca Crispi
James Joyce spent the final decade of his life in Paris, struggling to finish his great final work Finnegans Wake amidst personal and financial hardship and just as Europe itself was being engulfed by...
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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 - 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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21 May 2026 - Merrion Press
Neither Confirm Nor Deny: Lawless Agent Running, the Suppression of Truth, and MI5
By John Ware
These were the chilling words said to have been sent to Tony Blair in 1999 in a damning note bluntly summarising one of the consequences of Britain’s decades-long intelligence war in Northern Irelan...
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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 - 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 - 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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20 May 2026 - bog bodies press
mnemotope 009
this issue of mnemotope feels especially charged; charged with politics as well as humour, absurdity, gentleness and a vice-grip on the present moment. it seems like all of us are feeling things more ...
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20 May 2026 - Gracie Moura
Goodnight, Giggle
By Gracie Moura
Welcome to Magic Aventura — a small world of children’s books created with warmth, imagination, and care.. Here you will find books created to support little ones through comforting routines, qui...
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19 May 2026 - The Liffey Press
The Cornucopia Story: A Tale of Love and Loss, Hope and Healing
The Cornucopia Story is a moving memoir of love, loss and resilience. Deirdre O’Mara McCafferty recounts her life with her husband, Neil, from their first meeting in Dublin during the Troubles in 19...
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15 May 2026 - Unbound
Goldengrove
A dark theatrical comedy about the vexed and violent relationship between Britain and Ireland, from twice Booker-shortlisted author Patrick McCabe. It’s the summer of Brexit, and in a seedy hotel...
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15 May 2026 - Lime Tree Cottage Press
God's Country
By Jane Mullen
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15 May 2026 - The Mercier Press
Mithim: An Entrancing Historical Debut
Wexford, 1657. Ireland is on its knees. Eight years after Cromwell's army burned Killenea Castle to the ground, Mithim McMurrough – daughter of a Gaelic lord, healer and last keeper of her family...
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15 May 2026 - M C Tonery
Defying Donn
In the quiet fields of West Cork, young Michael Collins grows up listening to stories of rebellion, loyalty and the land. The lessons of family, community, and history shape a determined young man w...
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15 May 2026 - Salmon Poetry
On the Wind and the Singing Tide
Mary Kennelly’s On the Wind and the Singing Tide: Selected Poems brings together nearly twenty-five years of writing, finding beauty and meaning in the everyday with clarity, honesty and compassion.
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15 May 2026 - Gill
Great Irish Road Trips: Unforgettable Journeys Through Ireland's Hidden Corners
By Tony Potter
Great Irish Road Trips is your essential guide to discovering Ireland’s most unforgettable journeys – from iconic coastal drives to hidden gems off the beaten track. Explore the rugged majesty ...
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15 May 2026 - New Island Books
Slant
'A heartfelt celebration of all kinds of queer love' ― Alice Linehan, Gay Community News A ground-breaking Irish lesbian love story, set across the decades from the 1980s AIDS crisis to the 20...
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14 May 2026 - The Lilliput Press Ltd
Somewhere
Back in the flat, Sylvia is no use. She doesn’t have any ideas, all she suggests is get a job, take your time, get some money together, then go somewhere. But Clodagh needs to go now, needs to go to...
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14 May 2026 - Channel
Channel Issue 14
Channel is an Irish journal born out of the climate crisis, publishing poetry and prose that fosters connection between human beings and the other-than-human world.
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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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16 Jun 2016 - Sphere
The Long, Hot Summer
Nine Lives. Four Generations. One Family. The MacEntees are no ordinary family. Determined to be different to other people, they have carved out a place for themselves in Irish life by the sheer f...
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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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27 Feb 2012 - Font Publications
Before the Fall
By Orna Ross
It’s August in the long, hot summer of 1995 and Jo Devereux can’t believe that she still hasn’t returned home to San Francisco, though the time for her to have her baby draws near. Why is she...
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3 Oct 2019 - Hachette Books Ireland
The Start of Summer
By Alison Walsh
'Walsh writes with a warmth and humour about the disparate lives of four new mothers over one summer in Dublin. This is a touching, enjoyable tale of friendship in all of its complexities.' Anne Griff...
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2 Apr 2020 - Penguin Books Ltd
'Nothing But Blue Sky'
'This is How It Ends will leave you feeling utterly bereft to no longer be in its company * Guardian * With great wit and humour, Kathleen MacMahon skilfully captures the nuances and complexities of r...
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28 Sep 2006 - Penguin Books Ltd
'Lovers' Hollow'
'Writer Jo Devereux returns home to Wexford for her mother's funeral with very mixed feelings. After all, she hadn't seen Mrs D for years and for good reason. So when Jo finds herself agreeing to her ...
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2 Feb 2006 - Penguin Books Ltd
'Lovers' Hollow'
'Writer Jo Devereux returns home to Wexford for her mother's funeral with very mixed feelings. When Jo finds herself agreeing to her mother's dying request to write a family history, her motives for d...
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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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2 Oct 2025 - Omnibus Press
Teenage Kicks: My Life as an Undertone
Northern Ireland in the summer of 1974. They had two guitars and no singer. Four years later the Undertones recorded 'Teenage Kicks', John Peel's favourite record, and became one of the most fondly re...
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28 Nov 2006 - Harper
The Harbor Boys: A Memoir
From the author of The Speckled People, one of the most lyrical and powerful memoirs of recent times, comes an exploration of another crucial moment in his early life: the summer he spent working at a...
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21 May 2023 - Grey Pony Films
Horse Care, Riding & Training for Kids age 6 to 11 - A kids guide to horse riding, equestrian training, care, safety, grooming, breeds, horse ownership, groundwork & horsemanship for girls & boys
By Elaine Heney
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21 May 2023 - Grey Pony Films
Listenology for Kids - The children's guide to horse care, horse body language & behavior, groundwork, riding & training. The perfect equestrian & horsemanship gift with horse grooming, breeds, horse ownership and safety for girls & boys
By Elaine Heney
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30 Apr 2022 - Grey Pony Films
Listenology for Kids: The children's guide to horse care, horse body language & behavior, groundwork, riding & training. The perfect equestrian & horsemanship gift with horse grooming, breeds, horse ownership and safety for girls & boys age 9-14.
By Elaine Heney
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4 Sep 2023 - O'Brien Press Ltd
The Climbing Boys: Dublin, 1830: Can these brave young friends find a way out of the darkness?
By Ann Murtagh
Dublin, 1830. When his da gets injured, Hugh ‘Scholar’ O’Dare has to leave school to work as a chimney sweeper. The job is scary and dangerous, but it brings him into the home of the most fam...
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4 Sep 2023 - O'Brien Press Ltd
The Climbing Boys: Dublin, 1830: Can these brave young friends find a way out of the darkness?
By Ann Murtagh
Dublin, 1830. When his da gets injured, Hugh ‘Scholar’ O’Dare has to leave school to work as a chimney sweeper. The job is scary and dangerous, but it brings him into the home of the most fam...
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30 Sep 2021 - Kilmacud Stillorgan Local History Society
Schooldays in Stillorgan: Scoil Lorcán Naofa St Laurence's Boys National School 1840-2020
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4 May 2020 - Irish Academic Press Ltd
Retreat from Revolution: The Dail Courts, 1920-25
In the spring of 1920, a remarkable phenomenon occurred in Ireland: the people took over the administration of law and order in their own communities and turned their backs on the enforced British jud...
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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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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 - 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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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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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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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 - 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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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 - 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
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 - 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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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 - 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 - 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 - 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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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...
