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• May 2010 - Voices of Connemara by Bill Long & Raymonde Standun

• April 2010 - Voices from the Grave by Ed Moloney

• March 2010 - Occasions of Sin: Sex & Society in Modern Ireland by Diarmaid Ferriter

• February 2010 - Insider: My Life in the IRA by Gerry Bradley

• January 2010 - Albert Reynolds: Autobiography by Albert Reynolds

• December 2009 - The Bombing of Dublin's North Strand by Kevin Kearns

• November 2009 - Romantic Irish Houses by Robert O'Byrne

• October 2009 - The Munster Republic: The Civil War in North Cork by Michael Harrington

• September 2009 - Bertie Ahern: Autobiography by Bertie Ahern

• August 2009 - The Banksters: How a Powerful Elite Squandered Ireland's Wealth by David Murphy and Martina Devlin

• July 2009 - Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO by Clair Willis

• June 2009 - Our Struggle for Indepedence ed.by Terence O'Reilly

• May 2009 - Thomas Roberts, 1748-77 by William Laffan

• April 2009 - Ireland: The Politics of Enmity, 1789-2006 by Paul Bew

• March 2009 - Michael Collins & The Making of a New Ireland by Piras Beaslai

• February 2009 - Bake by Rachel Allen

• January 2009 - A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes by Jonathan Bardons

• December 2008 - Great Irish Houses by Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin, The Honourable Desmond Guinness and Photography by Trevor Hunt

• November 2008 - Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll

• October 2008 - Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness by Tim Robinson

• September 2008 - The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution by Maurice Walsh

• August 2008 - Ireland’s Misfortune: The Turbulent Life of Kitty O’Shea by Elizabeth Kehoe

• July 2008 - Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore by Ronan Kelly

• June 2008 - Seamus Heaney: A Bibliography, 1959-2003 by Rand Brandes and Michael J. Durkan

• May 2008 - Great Hatred Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland by Jonathan Powell

• April 2008 - Spying on Ireland: British Intelligence and Irish Neutrality During the Second World War by Eunan O’Halpin

• March 2008 - Between Comrades: James Connolly’s Letters and Correspondence 189-1916 edited by Donal Nevin

• February 2008 - Roger Casement: Imperalist Rebel Revolutionary by Seamas O Siochain

• January 2008 - Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland by Richard English

• December 2007 - Judging Dev by Diarmuid Ferriter

• November 2007 - The Temples of Stone: Exploring the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland by Carleton Jones

• October 2007 - The Generation Game by David McWilliams

• September 2007 - The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History by Eric Kaufmann

• August 2007 - The Williamite Wars in Ireland, 1688-1691 by John Childs

• July 2007 - The Second World War and Irish Women: An Oral History by Mary Muldowney

• June 2007 - Irish Furniture by the Knight of Glin and James Peill

• May 2007 - Cumann na mBan and the Irish Revolution by Cal McCarthy

• April 2007 - 1916: The Long Revolution edited by Gabriel Doherty and Dermot Keogh

• March 2007 - Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland by Richard English

• February 2007 - A Guide to Dublin Bay: Mirror to the City by John Givens

• January 2007 - Gunrunners: The Covert Arms Trial in Ireland by Sean Boyne

• December 2006 - Night Journey to Buddh Gaia by John Moriarty

• November 2006 - Connemarra: Listening to the Wind by Tim Robinson

• October 2006 - Irish Wild Plants: Myths, Legends and Folklore by Niall Mac Coitir

• September 2006 - Skelligs Sunset by Michael Kirby

• August 2006 - Map-making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland, c. 1530-1750 by William J. Smyth

• July 2006 - Ireland and the Ryder Cup by Paul Kelly

• June 2006 - The Lore of Ireland: An Encyclopedia of Myth, Legend and Romance by Daithi O hOgain

• May 2006 - Bobby Sands: Nothing But An Unfinished Song by Denis O'Hearn

• April 2006 - The Cambridge History of Irish Literature (2 volume set) edited by Margaret Kelleher and Philip O'Leary

• March 2006 - Chaos at the Crossroads by Frank McDonald and James Nix

• February 2006 - A Social History of Women in Ireland 1870-1970 by Rosemary Cullen Owens

• January 2006 - Mick: The Real Michael Collins by Peter Hart

• December 2005 - Easter 1916 by Charles Townsend

• November 2005 - Eoin O'Duffy: A Self-Made Hero by Fearghal McGarry

• October 2005 - The Encyclopedia of Dublin by Douglas Bennett

• September 2005 - Memoir by John McGahern

• August 2005 - The Squad and the Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins edited by by T. Ryle Dwyer

• July 2005 - Was Ireland a Colony?: Economics, Politics and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ireland edited by Terrence McDonough

• June 2005 - Dead Men Talking: Collusion, Cover-up and Murder in Northern Ireland’s Dirty War by Nicholas Davies

• May 2005 - Blanketmen: An Untold Story of the H-Block Hunger Strikes by Richard O’Rawe

• April 2005 - Witness: Inside the Easter Rising by Annie Ryan

• March 2005 - A History of Ulster by Jonathan Bardon

• February 2005 - The Atlantean Irish: Ireland's Oriental and Maritime Heritage by Bob Quinn

• January 2005 - Donegal in Old Photographs by Sean Beattie

• December 2004 - Irish Times Book of the Year 2004 edited by Peter Murnagh

• November 2004 - Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable by Sean McMahon and Jo O'Donoghue

• October 2004 - Dublin's Lost Heroines: Mammies and Grannies in a Vanished City by Kevin Kearns

• September 2004 - The Last of the Celts by Marcus Tanner

• August 2004 - The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 by Diarmaid Ferriter

• July 2004 - Gaelic Ireland:c.1250-1650 edited by Patrick J. Duffy et. al.

• June 2004 - Himself Alone: David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism by Dean Godson

• May 2004 - Oxford Companion to Irish History edited by S.J. Connolly

• April 2004 - A Very British Jihad: Collusion, Conspiracy and Cover-up in Northern Ireland by Paul Larkin

• March 2004 - Black Operations: The Secret War Against the Real IRA by John Mooney and Michael O'Toole

• February 2004 - The Same Age As the State by Maire Cruise O'Brien

• January 2004 - A Hidden Ulster: People. Songs & Traditions by Padraigin Ni Uallachain

• December 2003 - A New Dictionary of Irish History by D.J. Hickey and J.E. Doherty

• November 2003 - The Encyclopedia of Ireland by Brian Lalor, General Editor

• October 2003 - Hope and History: Making Peace in Ireland by Gerry Adams

• September 2003 - W.B. Yeats: A Life, volume 2, The Arch Poet by R.F. Foster

• August 2003 - Irish Trees: Myths, Legends & Folklore by Niall Mac Coitir

• July 2003 - An Unconsidered People: The Irish in London by Catherine Dunne

• June 2003 - Home Rule: An Irish History 1800-2000 by Alvin Jackson

• May 2003 - Shackleton: The Polar Journeys by Ernest Shackleton

• April 2003 - Armed Struggle: A History of the IRA by Richard English

• March 2003 - Behaving Badly: the Life of Richard Harris by Cliff Goodwin

• February 2003 - Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman by Nuala O'Faolain

• January 2003 - Voyage of the Catalpa: A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels Escape to Freedom by Peter Stevens

• December 2002 - Field Day Anthology of Irish Literature volumes IV and V

• November 2002 - Shackleton: An Irishman in Antarctica by Jonathan Shackleton and John MacKenna

• October 2002 - Joe Cahill: A Life in the IRA by Brendan Anderson

• September 2002 - A Secret History of the IRA by Ed Moloney

• August 2002 - Keane: The Autobiography by Roy Keane

• July 2002 - The Road to McCarthy by Pete McCarthy

• June 2002 - The Kick: A Memoir by Richard Murphy

• May 2002 - Sinn Fein: A Hundred Turbulent Years by Brian Feeney

• April 2002 - Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 by Seamus Heaney

• March 2002 - Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar by Colm Toibin

• February 2002 - Oxford Companion to Irish History 2ed edited by S.J. Connolly

• January 2002 - Days of Blue Loyalty: The Politics of Membership of the Fine Gael Partyby Michael Gallagher and Michael Marsh

• December 2001 - Patrick Kavanagh: A Life by Antoinette Quinn

• November 2001 - Martin McGuinness: From Guns to Government by Liam Clarke and Kathryn Johnson

• October 2001 - Dublin Buriel Grounds and Graveyards by Vivien Igoe

• September 2001 - Irish Days: Oral Histories of the Twentieth Century by Margaret Hickey

• August 2001 - Forty-Seven Roses: A Memoir by Peter Sheridan

• July 2001 - Drumcree: The Orange Order's Last Stand by Chris Ryder and Vincent Kearney

• June 2001 - Nostos: An Autobiography by John Moriarty

• May 2001 - Laurence Stern: A Life by Ian Campbell Ross

• April 2001 - The Far Side of Revenge: Making Peace in Northern Ireland by Deaglan De Breadun

• March 2001 - A Drink with Shane MacGowan by Victoria Mary Clarke and Shame MacGowan

• February 2001 - The Heritage of Ireland edited by Neil Buttimer, Colin Rynne and Helen Guerin

• January 2001 - The Last of the Irish Males by Joseph O'Connor

• December 2000 - To Hell or Barbados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland by Sean O'Callaghan

• November 2000 - An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor by Michael Smith

• October 2000 - Mo Mowlam: The Biography by Julia Langdon

• September 2000 - Father & I: A Memoir by Carlo Gebler

• August 2000 - Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora by Tim Pat Coogan

• July 2000 - The Construction of Dublin by Frank McDonald

• June 2000 - McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland by Pete McCarthy

• May 2000 - The Celtic Realms: The History and Culture of the Celtic Peoples from Pre-History to the Norman Invasion by Myles Dillon and Nora Chadwick

• April 2000 - Ireland: The Taste and the Country by Mike Bunn

• March 2000 - Trimble by Henry McDonald

• February 2000 - The Story of Ireland: A History of An Ancient Family and Their Country by William Magan

• January 2000 - The Falling Angels: An Irish Romance by John Walsh

• December 1999 - John Charles McQuaid: Ruler of Catholic Ireland by John Cooney

• November 1999 - Short Fellow: A Biography of Charles Haughey by T. Ryle Dwyer

• October 1999 - 'Tis by Frank McCourt

• September 1999 - The Golden Age of Irish Art: The Medieval Achievement 600-1200 by Peter Harbison

• August 1999 - The Irish Republic by Dorothy Macardle

• July 1999 - Orangeism: The Making of a Tradition by Kevin Haddick-Flynn

  Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions by Ruth Dudley Edwards

• June 1999 - Sport and Nationalism: Gaelic Games, Soccer and Irish Identity Since 1884 by Mike Cronin

• May 1999 - An Ulster Voice: In Search of Common Ground in Northern Ireland by Gary McMichael

• April 1999 - Making Peace by George Mitchell

• March 1999 - 44: A Dublin Memoir by Peter Sheridan

• February 1999 - Loyalists by Peter Taylor

• January 1999 - Ireland and Scandinavia in the Early Viking Age edited by H.B.Clarke, M. Ni Mhaonaigh and R. OFloinn

• December 1998 - The Great Shame: A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New by Thomas Keneally

• November 1998 - The Irish Century by Michael MacCarthy Morrogh

• October 1998 - The Irish War: The Military History of a Domestic Conflict by Tony Geraghty

• September 1998 - Irish Houses and Gardens by Sean O'Reilly

• August 1998 - Jonathan Swift: A Biography by Victoria Glendinning

• July 1998 - Irish Records: Sources for Family and Local History by James Ryan

• May 1998 - Oxford Book of Ireland edited by Patricia Craig

• April 1998 - Oxford Companion to Irish History edited by S.J. Connolly

• March 1998 - Dead Ground: Infiltrating the IRA by Raymond Gilmour

• February 1998 - Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History edited by John Wilson Foster

• January 1998 - Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape edited by F.H.A. Aalen, Kevin Whelan and Matthew Stout

• December 1997 - Man of War, Man of Peace: The Unauthorised Biography of Gerry Adams by Peter Taylor

• November 1997 - John Hume: A Biography by Paul Routledge

• October 1997 - Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein by Peter Taylor