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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...

  • 21 May 2026 - Hachette Books Ireland

    At Least It Looks Good From Space: A catalogue of modern, millennial and personal catastrophes

    By Carl Kinsella

    '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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 21 May 2026 - Penguin Books Ltd

    Other People's Lives

    By Kathleen MacMahon

    ‘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...

  • 21 May 2026 - Gill

    The Sailor and the Seamstress

    By Liam O'Connor

    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...

  • 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 ...

  • 21 May 2026 - Faber & Faber

    Said The Dead

    By Doireann Ni Ghriofa

    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...

  • 20 May 2026 - bog bodies press

    mnemotope 009

    By Authors Various

    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 ...

  • 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...

  • 19 May 2026 - The Liffey Press

    The Cornucopia Story: A Tale of Love and Loss, Hope and Healing

    By Deirdre O’Mara McCafferty

    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...

  • 15 May 2026 - Unbound

    Goldengrove

    By Patrick McCabe

    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...

  • 15 May 2026 - Lime Tree Cottage Press

    God's Country

    By Jane Mullen

  • 15 May 2026 - The Mercier Press

    Mithim: An Entrancing Historical Debut

    By Carina McNally

    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...

  • 15 May 2026 - M C Tonery

    Defying Donn

    By Stephen McWilliams

    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...

  • 15 May 2026 - Salmon Poetry

    On the Wind and the Singing Tide

    By Mary Kennelly

    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.

  • 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 ...

  • 15 May 2026 - New Island Books

    Slant

    By Katherine O'Donnell

    '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...

  • 14 May 2026 - The Lilliput Press Ltd

    Somewhere

    By Jessamine O'Connor

    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...

  • 14 May 2026 - Channel

    Channel Issue 14

    By Authors Various

    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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  • 31 Jul 2024 - The Lilliput Press Ltd

    The Waking Of Willie Ryan

    By John Broderick

    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-...

  • 7 May 2026 - The Lilliput Press Ltd

    The Waking Of Willie Ryan

    By John Broderick

    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-...

  • 2 Oct 2025 - Omnibus Press

    Teenage Kicks: My Life as an Undertone

    By Michael Bradley

    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...

  • 24 Jan 2012 - Dzanc Books

    The Backslider

    By Sean McGrady

    The setting is Belfast in the 1970s. In a city in which any storefront might unexpectedly explode, Marius Moonston, age 16, is out shopping. It's Saturday, and the streets are filled with danger and e...

  • 15 Oct 2021 - Arlen House

    'Fugitive'

    By David Butler

    A Lebanese student has had enough of a lecturer’s inappropriate advances; a frustrated author takes her revenge on a publisher; a petty dispute over a land boundary escalates wildly; a woman has had...

  • 2 Jan 1918 - Maunsel & Co

    The Valley of the Squinting Windows

    By Brinsley MacNamara

    The novel is set in central Ireland c. 1914–16. Garradrimna is a tiny village where everyone is interested in everyone else's business and wishes them to fail. Twenty years before the events of the ...

  • 13 Jun 2006 - The Lilliput Press Ltd

    'Skelligs Sunset'

    'Deep knowledge and a love of the local pervade Michael Kirby's writings. They remind the reader of the wonders and simpler joys in a life that he celebrated with such spirit. Skelligs Sunset, a posth...

  • 1 Feb 2015 - The Lilliput Press Ltd

    'The Waking Of Willie Ryan'

    'Willie Ryan returns to his home town having escaped from the insane asylum where he was committed by his devout Catholic family for twenty-five years. The given pretext for his commitment was an atta...

  • 16 Apr 2020 - W&N

    Exciting Times

    By Naoise Dolan

    When you leave Ireland aged 22 to spend your parents' money, it's called a gap year. When Ava leaves Ireland aged 22 to make her own money, she's not sure what to call it, but it involves: - a badl...

  • 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 ...

  • 4 May 2020 - Irish Academic Press Ltd

    Retreat from Revolution: The Dail Courts, 1920-25

    By Mary Kotsonouris

    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...

  • 19 Apr 2019 - Gill

    People Like Me: Winner of the Irish Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year

    By Lynn Ruane

    'People Like Me is an exhilarating story about how where we are from shapes the opportunities and challenges we face. From the edges of society to the centre as a leading political voice for justice a...

  • 2 Oct 2018 - The Liffey Press

    Here Come the Mountainy Men: A Memoir

    By Sean Rothery

    A charming, poignant and exquisitely written memoir about growing up in Ireland in the mid-twentieth century. Green fields surrounded St Mary's National School at the foot of Three Rock Mountain in C...

  • 7 Sep 2018 - Gill

    People Like Me

    By Lynn Ruane

    An inspirational memoir about family, class and identity from one of the rising stars of Irish politics. A force of nature from the day she was born, Lynn Ruane grew up in a loving home in Tallaght, W...

  • 3 Sep 2015 - Viking Press

    The Blue Guitar

    By John Banville

    Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, our narrator, Oliver Otway Orme, is a painter of some renown, and a petty thief who does not steal for profit and has never before been caught. But he's...

  • 6 Dec 2016 - Colourpoint Books

    Pioneers, Showmen and the RFC, Early Aviation in Ireland 1909-1914

    By Guy Warner

    “Few people nowadays are able to visualise the difficulties and dangers of learning to fly in 1910...flying was in the experimental stage, it was impossible to predict how the frail and flimsy struc...

  • 28 Feb 2008 - Penguin Books Ltd

    'A Secret Place'

    'Gina Brennan is on the run from a lot of things ...Especially prison. That's until wealthy solicitor Billy Hendrick has his brains blown out in his Lexus and the girls are seen running from the car. ...

  • 1 Mar 2007 - Penguin Books Ltd

    A Secret Place

    By Patricia Rainsford

    Gina is on the run from a lot of things, but the one that's going to get her into most trouble is prison. She and two mates are in hiding, depending on her uncle - a man with connections - to get them...

  • 27 Oct 2011 - Penguin Books Ltd

    'Badfellas'

    'Until the explosion of paramilitary violence in the 1970s, Ireland was a criminal backwater. However, petty criminals with dreams of the big time were quick to emulate the ruthless actions of the sub...

  • 26 Mar 2012 - O'Brien Press Ltd

    'The Tain: Ireland's Epic Adventure'

    'The most famous Irish legend of all in an exciting and easily understood version. Read about the feats of the famous warrior Cuchulainn who singlehandedly defends Ulster against the army of Queen Mae...

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