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23 May 2025 - Four Courts Press Ltd
The Irish Annals: Their genesis, evolution and history
Collectively the Irish annals represent a substantial and important source for the history and culture of Ireland. These texts provide the primary witness for much of early medieval Irish history, and...
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23 May 2025 - Orpen Press
The Sales Professional’s Handbook: A View from the Trenches
By Alan Whelan
The Sales Professional’s Handbook is essential reading for anyone working in sales, considering a career in sales or just curious about how a key element of the world of business functions. It can b...
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23 May 2025 - The Mercier Press
Unsettled States: A Novel
By Tom Casey
When a small Connecticut coastal town isrocked by a set of seemingly random tragedies, a gripping investigation of facts and fabrications ensues. Vivid descriptions of American life and keen intell...
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23 May 2025 - Four Courts Press Ltd
Mapping Death: Burial in Late Iron Age and Early Medieval Ireland
Burial rites and associated events can provide a unique insight into the attitudes and beliefs of diverse communities at any given moment in time. This book – the outcome of forty years of research ...
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22 May 2025 - Gill
Milly McCarthy and the Wild Atlantic Antics
By Leona Forde
It’s nearly the summer holidays and Milly’s class is heading off on a school tour to the Gaeltacht in the West of Ireland. Milly can’t wait to be away from home with her friends – but the teac...
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22 May 2025 - The Gallery Press
The River Crana
‘My father’s father took his chance/on the first flight over Lisfannon.’ So begins a poem in Frank McGuinness’s eighth collection, The River Crana, a book equally at home in Donegal as Japan a...
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22 May 2025 - The Gallery Press
States
By Ciaran Berry
In States, his fourth collection, Ciaran Berry offers poems that are attentive to the cinema of the moment and the film that becomes the life. They meditate on everything from the blockbuster to the B...
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22 May 2025 - Gill
Penguin TV
By Niamh Sharkey, Owen Churcher
WE think we’re just watching penguins on a webcam at the zoo – THEY think they’re filming a TV show! No TV at bedtime? Not this time! Tune in to Penguin TV and laugh out loud with Horatio, My...
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22 May 2025 - Gill
The Secret Life of Leinster House: What you really need to know about how the country is run
By Gavan Reilly
What is it like to run for election? How do public representatives deal with the cut-throat competition from their rivals – and their own running mates? What’s the Dáil bar really like? And why...
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22 May 2025 - The Gallery Press
Infinity Pool
By Vona Groarke
Just as an infinity pool gives the illusion of one invisible edge, the dividing line between poems and the world they process can be magically tricky to discern. Infinity Pool, Vona Groarke’s ninth ...
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22 May 2025 - Merrion Press
Catastrophe: Nakba II
By Fintan Drury
The Nakba or ‘Catastrophe’ occurred between 1947 and 1949 and saw 15,000 Palestinians massacred and more than 700,000 expelled from their homeland by Israel. Today, we’re witnessing a second Nak...
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19 May 2025 - Dedalus Press
Beginnings Over and Over: Four New Poets
Beginnings Over and Over: Four New Poets presents a significant selection of work by four new poets at the beginning of their writing journeys. Selected by Leanne Quinn from the submissions for the 20...
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19 May 2025 - Tara Press
From No To NASDAQ
Entrepreneurial hopefuls the world over aspire to grow their ideas into successful businesses. Then there are the really big dreamers - those who believe they can take that business onto a stock excha...
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16 May 2025 - New Island Books
GRATEFULLY & AFFECTIONATELY: MARY LAVIN & THE NEW YORKER
Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published sixteen stories in The New Yorker. It was a prolific time for the writer, helped in no small part by her close working relationshi...
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16 May 2025 - Oak Tree Press
Merger Control in Ireland: An Economic Appraisal
The book provides the first comprehensive economic assessment of merger control in Ireland. The objective of merger control is to prevent mergers that are likely to have negative effects on competi...
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15 May 2025 - Gill
Serve: My Lost Years at the Heart of Ireland’s Opus Dei
Anne Marie Allen was fifteen when she was accepted onto a cookery school course that promised real qualifications and a future in the career of her dreams. Seeking a better life, she moved to the calm...
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15 May 2025 - Gill
For Valerie: The story of my sister’s death at the hands of her husband and it’s devastating aftermath
By David French
In June 2019, Valerie French Kilroy was brutally murdered by her husband at their home near Westport, while her three young sons lay in bed. She was the third woman to lose her life at the hands of a ...
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15 May 2025 - Penguin Books Ltd
The Episode: A True Story of Loss, Madness and Healing
'A deeply moving, often terrifying account of grief, illness, and recovery, this vivid memoir carries the reader so close to its unfolding events that it quickens the breath.' Doireann Ní Ghríofa -...
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15 May 2025 - Penguin Books Ltd
The Episode: A True Story of Loss, Madness and Healing
One fine April day, Mary Ann Kenny’s husband died suddenly while jogging near their family home. In the months that followed, Mary Ann – who had no history of mental illness – began suffering fr...
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15 May 2025 - Hometree
Dinnseanchas: Visions of Ireland's Uplands
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8 Sep 2025 - O'Brien Press Ltd
Great Irish Wives: Remarkable Lives from History
Throughout history, the stories of women’s lives and work have been overshadowed by those of men. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of their husband’s work, ...
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6 Apr 2023 - Little Island
The Lonely Book
By Megan Grehan
Annie’s family is made of love. When her moms open up their bookshop in the mornings, there is always a mysterious pile of books on the counter. By evening, every book has found its ideal reader....
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3 Aug 2023 - Little Island
Grapefruit Moon
Wealthy, popular Charlotte and quiet, working class Drew couldn’t be more different, but both face a common enemy at Cooke’s Academy in the form of the Stewards – an elite group of students who...
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12 Sep 2024 - The Lilliput Press Ltd
Charlotte: A Novel
Charlotte Brontë dazzled the world with some of literature’s most vital, richly-drawn characters. She spent her brief but extraordinary life in search of love – and eventually found it with Arthu...
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14 May 2021 - New Island Books
The Garden
By Paul Perry
The Garden is dying. Once an Edenic orchid farm, it has been decimated by the worst hurricane in Florida’s living memory. Its glasshouses are shattered, the surrounding mangroves encroach, and its m...
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11 Jan 1999 - A.& A.Farmar
'The Real Charlotte - New edition'
By Edith Somerville, Martin Ross
Step back into 19th-century Ireland with Edith Somerville and Martin Ross's compelling novel, "The Real Charlotte." This enduring work of social satire delves into the lives of the Irish gentry, focus...
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4 Apr 2016 - O'Brien Press Ltd
'All Things Nice: Never forget. Never forgive.'
'For DI Ellen Kelly, this is her first big investigation in eight months - since she let a serial killer get away. There's an awful lot riding on a good result, which means keeping up the pressure on ...
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22 Feb 2010 - O'Brien Press Ltd
'Alfie Green and the Chocolate Cosmos'
By Joe O'Brien
Budsville's chocolate fair cancelled? No way, Alfie decides. Chocolate seeds from Arcania are the answer, but only if he can survive the Roaring Rainforest, the vicious Spider Plant and the Forest Ogr...
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7 Sep 2015 - O'Brien Press Ltd
'Conor's Caveman: The Amazing Adventures of Ogg'
By Alan Nolan
'A pre-hysterical new illustrated novel by the author of the smash-hit Fintan's Fifteen. <br>Life could be better for Conor Corcoran. Class bully Damian Deegan is always teasing him about being small...
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1 Dec 2011 - The Lilliput Press Ltd
'Dublin's Palm House'
'A photographic exploration of the old Palm House in Dublin's botanical gardens, with an introduction by John Banville.<br>A monograph of black and white photographs, taken in the great Palm House at ...
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4 Jun 2009 - Transworld Publishers Ltd
If This is Paradise, I Want My Money Back Ireland and Airside
'Charlotte Grey is hovering between life and death, but the weird thing is, it's taken a coma for her to finally open her eyes and see things clearly. Namely that she's made a complete mess of her sho...
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10 Sep 2011 - The Collins Press
Wildflowers of Ireland
By Zoe Devlin
'Ireland's countryside teems with wild flowers, each an intrinsic part of the landscape and of an ecosystem that supports birds, insects and other wildlife. This beautifully presented book is her pers...
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10 Mar 2013 - The Collins Press
Ireland's Wild Orchids
'This practical guide is intended to assist in identifying orchids. It contains expert illustrations, photographs of each plant in situ and in close-up, clear instructions for identification, and note...
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1 Dec 2015 - Poolbeg Press
Still You
By Claire Allan
When those unforgettable memories slip beyond your reach, you are still you always you. When summer arrives to Temple Muse in 1963, the big house Áine Quigley shares with her mother is brought to lif...
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31 Jan 1995 - Cork University Press
'Women, Power and Consciousness in 19th Century Ireland: Eight Biographical Studies'
This text provides biographies of eight women whose contributions have been instrumental in the formation of Irish culture - Anna Wheeler, Margaret Aylward, Frances Power Cobb, Anne Jellicoe, Anna Has...
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30 Jun 2009 - Irish Manuscripts Commission
'Charlotte Brooke's 'Reliques of Irish Poetry''
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19 Sep 2016 - The Collins Press
The Breathing Burren
'First captivated by the Burren in the early 1970s, Gordon D'Arcy has spent over 30 years living on its edge and exploring its remarkable natural heritage. Now he celebrates the region and its people ...
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16 Nov 2012 - O'Brien Press Ltd
'Trading Paces: From Rat Race to Hen Run'
'A funny and inspiring account of the ups and downs of letting go of the Tiger.<br>Does this ring any bells? Mortgaged to the hilt, rising at 5.30 to commute across three counties to jobs in Dublin, f...
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7 Jan 2010 - Transworld Publishers Ltd
'If This is Paradise, I Want My Money Back'
'Charlotte is hovering between life and death, but it's taken a coma for her to realize she's made a complete mess of her short time on earth. Not to mention the five precious dating years she's just ...
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24 Feb 2005 - Poolbeg Press Ltd
'Charlotte's Way'
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1 Jan 2098 - Transworld Publishers Ltd
'Fields of Fire: The Inside Story of Hurling's Great Renaissance'
'These are exceptional times for the game of hurling. The skill, speed and summer long drama of recent All Ireland championships has led many to conclude that something very special is happening in th...
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1 Jan 2098 - Transworld Publishers Ltd
Benedictus: A Book of Blessings
'Offers blessings intended to shelter us as we confront challenges on our journey through life. This book covers areas such as Beginnings, Desires, States of the Heart, Callings and Beyond Endings.<br...
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10 Jan 2089 - Transworld Publishers Ltd
'Was It For This?: Why Ireland Lost the Plot'
By John Waters
'Ireland stands at a defining moment, unprecedented in the period of its Independence. This title explores Ireland's political, social and existential identity crisis, delving into the Irish psyche in...
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25 May 2027 - Boland Press
Buried Deep is the Child: A healing Journey
Gorey based Regina Redmond has just launched her first book of poetry 'Buried Deep is the Child'. The book focuses on Regina's healing journey from darkness to light. She plans to work with fellow Wex...
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8 Oct 2026 - Penguin Books Ltd
Femme Feral
If there's one thing that Joanne McNally knows it's that we may have smart phones, Prozac and Prosecco, but we're still just animals trying to survive. And in Femme Feral, she explores the chaos and e...
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7 Aug 2026 - Little Island
The Grandfather Clock and Other Irish Folk Tales
Bursting with humour and adventure, and told in a lyrical voice, these colourful and entertaining stories are likely to be new even to children who are familiar with the classics of Irish mythology. T...
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8 May 2026 - Book Hub Publishing
Poems For Alina
By John Ennis
Poems for Alina has at its heart a verse sequence that speaks of one personal experience of healing while in the hands of another human being, in this case professional healer Alina Mitas, naturalised...
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30 Jan 2026 - New Island Books
'AN ASYLUM FOR MY AFFECTIONS': SKETCHES OF MAEVE BRENNAN
On the occasion of her mother’s birthday, the Irish writer Maeve Brennan wrote a letter to William Maxwell describing the emotional landscape provided by her mother. She wrote: ‘She gave me an “...
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27 Nov 2025 - Cork University Press
Who Do You Think You Are?: Using the building blocks of Schema Therapy to improve your life
In language that is clear and accessible, this book explains how the 'building blocks' of Schema Therapy, a relatively new approach, can be used by everyone to answer the question: "Who do you think y...
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12 Nov 2025 - Lonely Planet Global Limited
Lonely Planet Best in Travel 2026
Lonely Planet's annual bestseller returns with this game changing edition for 2026 featuring 25 must-visit destinations and 25 must-do experiences… This evolution of Best in Travel reflects th...
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7 Nov 2025 - Four Courts Press Ltd
Evie Hone: and the international avant garde
Eva Sydney Hone RHA, usually known as Evie, was an Irish painter and stained glass artist. She is considered to be an early pioneer of cubism, although her best known works are through the medium of s...
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6 Nov 2025 - Transworld Publishers Ireland Ltd
Bluff
Joanie, 2013. Desperate to flee the claustrophobia of St Rule, Joanie has long been planning her escape. But on the night of her high-school graduation this dream is shattered by a betrayal. Devastate...
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6 Nov 2025 - The Lilliput Press Ltd
Druid Theatre: 50 Years
By Patrick Lonergan, Barry Holohan
This fully-illustrated and authorised history marks 50 years of Ireland’s most ground-breaking and successful theatre company. Founded in 1975, Druid is a touring theatre company, anchored in the We...
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31 Oct 2025 - Four Courts Press Ltd
Medieval Dublin XX
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31 Oct 2025 - Irish Manuscripts Commission
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, Tudor Period, 1553-1566
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31 Oct 2025 - Four Courts Press Ltd
Medieval Dublin XX
This volume presents a rich variety of new scholarly explorations of life in medieval Dublin, including an analysis by Bruce Campbell of the occupational profile of medieval Dubliners as revealed by r...
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31 Oct 2025 - Four Courts Press Ltd
Moynagh Lough Studies I
Moynagh Lough is one of the most significant archaeological sites ever discovered in Ireland. From 1980 to 1998 excavations were directed by John Bradley. This exceptional multi-period wetland site yi...
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30 Oct 2025 - Cork University Press
The Irish Pub: Invention and Reinvention
Immerse yourself in the rich history and cultural significance of the Irish pub, from its humble beginnings in the 17th century to its modern incarnation as a global phenomenon. This book offers a com...
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23 Oct 2025 - Penguin Books Ltd
Being Myself: The Autobiography
By Andy Farrell
At the age of 16, a boy amongst men, Andy Farrell made his first-team debut for Wigan Warriors – and became a father for the first time. At 18, he won his first senior international cap. At 21, he w...
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23 Oct 2025 - Dedalus Press
Sudden Light
By Enda Wyley
