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  • Issue 526 - January 2012
     Ireland's Greatest Racehorses by Brian O'Connor
    Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter by Meda Ryan
    The Story of Irish Museums, 1790-2000: Culture, Identity and Education by Marie Bourke
    Ghosts of the Faithful Departed by David Creedon
    The Memoirs of Jeremiah Mee, RIC by J. Anthony Gaughan
    The Irish Aboard the Titanic by Senan Molony
    Full House by Maeve Binchy

    Back Issues for 2011

  • Issue 525 - 5 December 2011 - Pre-Christmas Double Issue
     An Informed Laity, A Reformed Irish Church by Sean Mac Gabhann
    Enigma: A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell by Paul Bew
    The Reluctant Taoiseach: A Biography of John A. Costello by David McCullagh
    Fianna Fail: A Biography of the Party by Noel Whelan
    Broken Landscapes: Selected Letters from Ernie O’Malley, 1924-57 edited by Cormac O’Malley
    Tony Gregory: A Biography by Robbie Gilligan
    Rory McIlroy: The Biography by Frank Worrall
    Wogan’s Ireland: A Tour of the Country That Made the Man by Terry Wogan
    The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
    Window & Mirror: The History of RTE 1961-2011 by John Bowman
    The Horse in Irish Society by David O’Flynn
    The Kinanes: A Remarkable Racing Family by Anne Holland
    JFK in Ireland: Four Days That Changed a President by Ryan Tubridy

  • Issue 524 - 27 November 2011 - Double Issue
     Hidden Galway by William Henry
    Irish Voices from the Great War by Philip Sheehan
    Loyal to the Core: Loyalism and Britishness in Northern Ireland by James Mcauley
    Funding the Nation: Money & Nationalist Politics in 19th Century Ireland by Michael Keyes
    The End of the Party: How Fianna Fail Finally Lost Its Grip on Power by Bruce Arnold
    How Ireland Really Went Bust by Matt Cooper
    Anglo Republic: Inside the Bank the Broke Ireland by Simon Carswell
    Ireland’s Economic History: Crisis and Development North and South by Gerard McCann
    A Parish Far From Home by Philip O’Connor
    A Taste of Cork by Andrew Gleasures
    Farmhouse Cheeses of Ireland: A Celebration by Glynn Anderson and John McLaughlin
    Jiving at the Crossroads by John Waters

  • Issue 523 - 20 November 2011 - New Irish History
     The Great Famine: Ireland’s Agony, 1845-1852 by Ciaran O Murchadha
    Revolution: A Photographic History of Revolutionary Ireland, 1913-1923 by Padraig Og O Ruairc
    The Battle for Cork by John Borgonovo
    The Battle for Kilmallock by John O’Callaghan
    Gleam of the Lines: An Illustrated Journey Through Two Centuries of Irish Railway History by Tom Ferris
    Places We Play: Ireland’s Sporting Heritage by Roisin Higgins and Mike Cronin
    News from a New Republic by Tom Garvin

  • Issue 522 - 13 November 2011
     Martyrs and Traitors: a Tale of 1916 by Marina Julia Neary
    Victorian Dublin Revealed by Michael Barry
    The River Shannon: A Journey Down Ireland’s Longest River by Aiveen Cooper
    The Road Home: Reflections on My Life by Stanislaus Kennedy
    Ma, I’ve Got Meself Locked Up In the Mad House by Martha Long
    Flann O’Brien: Portrait of an Artist by Keith Hopper
    Just Garret by Garret FitzGerald
    Whose Side Are You On?: Sport, The Troubles and Me by Teddy Jamieson

  • Issue 521 - 6 November 2011
     Renewing the Republic by Michael D. Higgins
    Memories of Baggotonia: Bohemian Dublin from Wilde to Joyce to Beckett to Behan by Denis Lynch
    The Burning Soul by John Connolly
    Goodbye Again by Joseph Hone
    Rowdy Rhymes & Re-cim-itations by Vincent Caprani
    Words We Don’t Use by Diarmaid Omuirithe
    Farmhouse Cheeses of Ireland by Glynn Anderson
    Deadlock Dublin vs. Meath 1991 by Eoghan Corry
    Essentially Irish: Homes with Classic Irish Style by Josephine Ryan

  • Issue 520 - 16 October 2011 - New Irish Fiction
     On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry
    Selected Stories of Benedict Kiely
    The Eighty-Five Billion Euro Man by Donal Conaty
    The Better Half by Sarah Harte
    The Empty Family: Stories by Colm Toibin
    Nailer by Tom Phelan
    Missing Julia by Catherine Dunne
    The Butterfly Cabines by Bernie McGill
    Mistaken by Neil Jordan
    The Past by Neil Jordan
    The Dream of a Beast by Neil Jordan

  • Issue 519 - 9 October 2011
     A City in Wartime: Dublin 1914-18 by Padraig Yeates
    Miraculous Parish: Selected Poems by Marie Mac An tSaoi
    Rebels: Voices from the Easter Rising by Fearghal McGarry
    Talk Show by Andrew O’Connor
    Winter Flowers by Carol Coffey
    Walk On: My Life in Red by Ronnie Whelan
    100 Irish Rugby Greats by John Scally
    The Gaelic Athletic Association, 1884-2009 by Mike Cronin

  • Issue 518 - New Irish History Books - 2 October 2011
     Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence, 1921-22 by D.M. Leeson
    The Outrages 1920-22: The IRA and the Ulster Special Constabulary in the Border Campaign by Pearse Lawlor
    The Civil War in Kerry by James Durney
    On the Run: The Story of an Irish Freedom Fighter by Michel hAodha
    Lives Less Ordinaray: Dublin’s Fitzwilliam Sqaure, 1798-1922 by Andrew Hughes
    Exploring Celtic Ireland by Pat Dargan
    The Battle of Benburb 1646 by Clive Hollick
    Jewish Ireland: A Social History by Ray Rivlin
    The Year of Disappearances: Political Killings in Cork, 1921-22 by Gerard Murphy

  • Issue 517 - 25 September 2011
     Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom by Tim Robinson
    In Search of Islands: A Life of Conor O’Brien by Judith Hill
    Echoes of Memory by John O’Donohue
    Breakfast with Anglo by Simon Kelly
    Wasters by Shane Ross
    Feckers: 50 People Who Fecked Up Ireland by John Waters
    The Club by Christy O’Connor
    Football Man by John Giles
    Ireland: A History by Thomas Bartlett
    Stray Sod Country by Patrick McCabe

  • Issue 516 - 4 September 2011
     James Joyce: A Biography by Gordon Bowker
    Lady Gregory: A Life by Judith Hill
    Witness to Evil: My Father’s Murder, My Mother’s Guilt by Veronica McGrath
    Charlie & Me by Catherine Barry
    The Trib: Highlights from the Sunday Tribune edited by David Kenny & Noirin Hegarty
    Connections – Verbindungen: Irish German Perspectives Through Etching by Gerhardt Gallagher, Gisela Holfter and Micheal O Haodha
    Twisted Agendas by Damian NcNicholl
    Lagan Love by Peter Murphy

  • Issue 515 - 21 August 2011 - New Irish Poetry & Fiction
     New Collected Poems by Derek Mahon
    Close Quarters by Justin Quinn
    Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
    Down These Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century edited by Declan Burke
    Death in Summer by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)
    Unspoken by Gerard Stembridge
    Dead Eight by Carlo Gebler
    Midnight in a Perfect Life by Michael Collins
    Pink Ladies Club by Emma Hannigan

  • Issue 514 - 14 August 2011 - Local History and Guides
     Serving a City: The Story of Cork’s English Market by Diarmuid & Donal O Drisceoil
    A History of Glasnevin by Tony O’Doherty
    The Book of Howth: Elizabethan Conquest and the Old English by Valerie McGowan-Doyle
    Lough Erne by Le Garsmeur
    Burren Country: Travels Through a Limestone Landscape by Paul Clements
    Dingle, Iveragh & Beara Peninsulas by Adrain Hendroff
    Scenic Walks in West Cork by Damien Enright
    Blasket Island Guide by Ray Stagles
    Ordnance Survey Letters: Longford and Westmeath edited by Michael Herity

  • Issue 513 - 7 August 2011
     The Destructors: The Story of Northern Ireland’s Lost Peace Process by Michael Kerr
    On the Run: The Story of an Irish Freedom Fighter by Colm O Gaora
    Ireland Unhinged by David Monaghan
    Pluralism and Diversity in Ireland: Prejudice and Related Issues in Early 20th Century Ireland by Michael MacGreil
    Lives Less Ordinary, 1798-1922: Dublin’s Fitzwilliam Square by Andrew Hughes
    Pawns in the Game: Irish Hunger Striking 1912-1981 by Barry Flynn
    Tales from an Irish District Court by Mary Kotsonouris
    Famine: Galway’s Darkest Years by William Henry
    Paddle: A Long Way Around Ireland by Jasper Winn

  • Issue 512 - 31 July 2011 - New Irish Fiction & Literature
     My Traitor by Sorj Chalandon
    The Absolutist by John Boyne
    Plugged by Eoin Colfer
    Little Girl Lost by Brian McGilloway
    The Rising by Brian McGilloway
    Consequences by Muriel Bolger
    10 Ways of Thinking About Samuel Beckett by Enoch Brater
    Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances by R.F. Foster
    Touchy Subjects by Emma Donoghue

  • Issue 511 - 24 July 2011
     Northern Ireland After the Troubles by Colin Coulter
    The Fall of Dublin by Liz Gillis
    The Fenians Were Dreadful Men: The 1867 Rising by Padraig O Concubhair
    The Making of Ireland’s Landscape by Valerie Hall
    Hurling: The Warrior Game by Diarmuid O’Flynn
    A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk In Search of a Country, A Pint and the Next Tee by Tom Coyne
    The Irish Wars: Men at Arms, 1483-1603 by Ian Heath
    Little Boy Lost by Shane Dunphy
    Snouts in the Trough by Ken Foxe

  • Issue 510 - 20 June 2011
     The News From Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution by Maurice Walsh
    The Church and Its Spire: John McGahern and the Catholic Question
    Hammered by the Irish: How the Pitstop Ploughshares Disabled a US Warplane - With Ireland's Blessing by Harry Browne
    Connemara & Mayo: A Walking Guide by Paul Phelan
    Celtic Saints in Their Landscapes by Elizabeth Rees
    The Governor by John Lonergan
    Our Joe (Dolan) by Eddie Rowley
    Rinty: Story of an Irish Champion by Eamonn O’Hara

  • Issue 509 - 13 June 2011 - New Irish Fiction & Literature
     The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
    Field Day Review 6, 2010 edited by Seamus Deane
    RTE Sunday Miscellany: a Selection from 2008 to 2011 edited by Cliodhna Ni Anluain
    New Town Soul by Dermot Bolger
    Pearl by Deirdre Purcell
    A Taste for Love by Marita Conlon McKenna
    Fear Not the Storm: The Story of Tom Cullen, an Irish Revolutionary by Cathal Liam
    The Devil to Pay by Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan

  • Issue 508 - 30 May 2011
     New History of Ireland vol.8 by TW Moody
    Ireland 1815-70: Emanciation, Famine, Religion by Donnacha O Corrain
    Donegal and the Civil War: The Untold Story by Liam O Duibhir
    AFVs in Irish Service Since 1922 by Ralph Riccio
    Understanding Limerick: Social Exclusion and Change edited by Niamh Hourigan
    RMS Titanic: A Miscellany by John White
    Doesn’t Time Fly: The History of Aer Lingus by Mike Cronin
    Curse of Cromwell: The Siege by Dermot Poyntz with artwork by Lee Grace
    The Path to Freedom: Articles and Speeches by Michael Collins with a Foreword by Tim Pat Coogan

  • Issue 507 - 236 May 2011
     Irish Blood, English Heart: Second Generation Irish Musicians in England by Sean Campbell
    All the Bishops’ Men: Clerical Abuse in an Irish Diocese by Tom Mooney
    Eleanor, Countess of Desmond by Anne Chambers
    Brian Boru: King of Ireland by Roger Chatterton Newman
    Because We Are Poor: Irish Theatre in the 1990s by Victor Merriman
    Our Daily Bread: A History of Barron’s Bakery by Roz Crowley
    Now That’s What I Call a Feckin Irish Book by Colin Murphy
    The Insider by Gerry Bradley
    Murder at Shandy Hall by Michael Sheridan
    Tom Crean: An Illustrated Life by Michael Smith

  • Issue 506 - 16 May 2011 - New Irish Poetry & Irish Language Books
     A Journey with Two Maps – Becoming a Woman Poet: An Anthology by Eavan Boland
    Hundred Doors by Michael Longley
    Selected Poems by Kerry Hardie
    Torchlight by Peter McDonald
    The Essential Brendan Kennelly
    The Sea Cabinet by Catriona O’Reilly
    In This Life by Michael O’Loughlin
    Peig Sayers: I Will Speak to You edited by Padraig O Healai
    Dordan by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
    Maitrioisce by Siobhan Parkinson
    Aiseiri by Alex Hijmans
    Learning Irish Grammar
    Learning Irish Verbs

  • Issue 505 - 9 May 2011
     Next Generation Ireland edited by Ed Burke and Ronan Lyons
    My American Struggle for Justice in Northern Ireland by Sean McManus
    Rebels: Cork’s GAA Since 1950 by Michael Moynihan
    Out on Bail: The Crimes of Ireland’s Bail Breakers by Emer Connolly
    Walking in Ireland: 50 Walks Through the Heart and Soul of Ireland by Christopher Somerville
    Buen Camino: A Father-Daughter Journey from Croagh Patrick to Camino de Santiago by Peter & Natasha Murtagh
    Irish Canoe Classics: 34 Great Trips by Eddie Palmer
    The Kerry Way by Sarah Bardwell
    Who Killed Rosemary Nelson? By Neil Root

  • Issue 504 - 23 April 2011 - New Irish Fiction
     City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
    Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle
    Long Time, No See by Dermot Healy
    Along Came a Stork by Marisa Mackle
    Never Say Goodbye by Linda Kavanagh
    Mistaken by Neil Jordan
    Before the House Burns by Mary O’Donoghue
    Love and Marriage by Patricia Scanlan
    Road to the Sea by Ciara Hegarty
    Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
    An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray
    The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle
    Hand in the Fire by Hugo Hamilton
    Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue

  • Issue 503 - 16 April 2011
     The Liberator: The Life and Death of Daniel O’Connell by Patrick Geoghegan
    Unlikely Rebels: The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom by Anne Clare
    The Reluctant Taoiseach: John A. Costello by David McCullagh
    Lazy Idle Schemers: Irish Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Idleness by Gregory Dobbins
    Ireland the Gentry: The End of the British Empire by Hugh Anthony Mulligan
    W.B. Yeats: A Life vol 1 by RF Foster
    Just Garrett: Tales from a Political Life by Garrett FitzGerald
    Dope in the Time of Innocence by Damien Enright
    Angels of Diving Light by Aiden Storey

  • Issue 502 - 27 March 2011
     Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Irish Republic by Fintan O’Toole
    Breakfast with Anglo by Simon Kelly
    Cute Hoors and Pious Protestors: Traits and Characteristics of Irish Politicians by John Drennan
    Dubliner Diaries by Trevor White
    Without Trace: Ireland’s Missing by Barry Cummins
    Passport to Murder: True Stories of Foreigners Killed in Ireland by Ali Bracken
    Homemade by Clodagh McKenna
    Mary Commons Commonplace Book: An Irish Kitchen in the 1700s by Marjorie Quarton
    Sonas: Celtic Thoughts on Happiness ed by Catherine Conlon

  • Issue 501 - 12 March 2011
     Irish Country Houses by the Knight of Glin
    Stopping By Woods: A Guide to the Forests of Ireland by Donal Magner
    Churches in Early Medieval Ireland: Architecture, Ritual and Memory by Tomas O Carragain
    Time on the Ocean: From Cape Horn to Cape Town by Theo Dorgan
    From High Places: A Journey Through Ireland’s Great Mountains by Adrian Hendroff
    In Search of the Missing: Working with Search and Rescue Dogs by Mick McCarthy
    Oscar Wilde: Irish Writers in Their Time by Jarlath Killeen
    Soul Song: Reflections on an Unexpected Journey by The Priests by David Delargy
    Ireland: A View from Above by Kevin Dwyer
    Down, Down, Deeper and Down: Ireland in the 1970s & 80s by Eamonn Sweeney
    Ambassadors on Horseback: The Irish Army Equitation School by Michael Slavin

  • Issue 500 - 5 March 2011 - New Irish Sports
     The Sunday Game by Michael Lyster
    Voices from Croke Park: Stories of 12 GAA Heroes by Sean Potts
    The Kingdom: Kerry Football by Joe O’Mahony
    The Ecstacy & the Agony: The True Story Behind Waterford Hurling by Damien Tiernan
    My Story by Daire O Se
    Brothers in Sport: GAA by Donal Keenan
    The Club by Christy O’Connor
    If You Don’t Know Me, Don’t Judge Me by Dan Shanahan
    Cork’s Hurling History by Tim Horgan
    Gaffers: 50 Years of Irish Football Managers by Trevor Keane
    When Bobby Met Christy by Declan Colley
    Kinane: A Remarkable Irish Racing Family by Anne Holland
    The Simple Game: An Irish Jockey’s Memoirs by Thomas Foley

  • Issue 499 - 27 Febuary 2011 - New Irish History
     Hope & Reconciliation in Northern Ireland by Ronald Wells
    The IRA: A Documentary History by Brian Hanley
    New History of Ireland Vol. 7 edited by JR Hill
    Rebellions Memoir 1798 by Tom Dunne
    A Year of Disappearances: Political Killings in Cork, 1920-21 by Gerard Murphy
    Destiny of the Soldiers: Fianna Fail, Irish Republicanism & the IRA 1926-72 by Donnacha O Beachain
    Trains Long Departed: A History of Ireland’s Lost Railways by Tom Ferris
    Glassmaking in Ireland: From the Medieval to the Contemporary ed by John M. Hearne
    Municipal Government in Ireland: A Handbook of Urban Government in Ireland Since 1800 by Matthew Potter
    Castles and Colonists: An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland by Eric Klinghofer
    INLA: End Game by Henry McDonald
    Round Ireland in Low Gear by Eric Newby

  • Issue 498 - 12 Febuary 2011 - New Irish Fiction & Poetry
     Granta Book of the Irish Short Story edited by Anne Enright
    An Elegy for April by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)
    Orchid Blue by Eoin McNamee
    Dr. Yes by Colin Bateman
    Never Ending Justice by John Noonan
    Painted Ladies by Siobhan Parkinson
    A Nest on the Waves by David Wheatley
    Selected Poems of Sean Lysaght
    The View from Here by Sara Berkeley
    Soundings ed by Augustine Martin
    I Am of Ireland by W.B. Yeats

  • Issue 497 - 2 February 2011
     Ireland’s Malaise by Michael Casey
    The House Always Wins by Joe McGuinness
    Wasters by Shane Ross
    Open Dissent: Ireland’s Financial Crisis by Mike Soden
    Leading Lights: The People Who’ve Inspired Me by Eamon Gilmore
    The Devil’s Den: The IRA, Nazi Germany and the Double Life of Jim O’Donovan by David O’Donoghue and with a foreword by Diarmaid Ferriter
    An Irish Butcher Shop by Pat Whelan
    A Little Bit of Healing by Fr. Brian D’Arcy
    The Greatest Bleeding Hearts Racket in the World by Damian Corless
    Daring to Dream: The Work of the Hope Foundation in India by Ethel Crowley

  • Issue 496 - 23 January 2011
     News from a New Republic by Tom Garvin
    War and Peace: Ireland Since the 1960s by Christine Kinealy
    Patrick Pearse: The Making of a Revolutionary by Joost Augusteijn
    When the Shopping Was Good: Woolworths and the Irish Main Street by Barbara Walsh with a Foreword by Fergan Quinn
    Bertram Windle: The Honan Bequest and the Modernisation of University College Cork, 1904-1919 by Ann Keogh and Dermot Keogh
    Remember When: Pictures from the Irish Examiner Archive ed by Anne Kearney
    American Government in Ireland, 1790-1913: A History of the US Consular Service by Bernadette Whelan
    Coward If I Return, Hero If I Fall by Neil Richardson
    Frank Ryan by Fearghal McGarry

  • Issue 495 - 16 January 2011
     The Fitzpatrick Tapes: The Rise and Fall of One Man, One Bank and One Country by Tom Lyons and Brian Carey
    Roll Away the Reel World: James Joyce and Cinema edited by John McCourt
    Our Joe (Dolan) by Eddie Rowley
    The Governor by John Lonergan
    Haunting Cries by Karen Coleman
    Great Endeavour: Ireland’s Antarctic Explorers by Michael Smith
    Itsa Cookbook by Domini Kemp
    Michael Collins: A Life in Pictures by Chrissy Osborne
    Complete Field Guide to Irish Birds by Eric Dempsey
    Drivetime Diaries by Joe O’Connor
    Bridgestone Guide to the Best Restaurants in Ireland 2011 by Sally & John McKenna
    Bridgestone Guide to the Best Places to Stay in Ireland 2011 by Sally & John McKenna
    Voices from the Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland by Ed Moloney
    The Simple Game: An Irish Jockey's Memoir by Thomas Foley

    Back Issues 2010

  • Issue 494 - 1 December 2010
     Abandoned Mansions in Ireland by Tarquin Blake
    Will Mammy Be Coming Back for Me by Shane Dunphy
    Prisoner 1082: Escape from Crumlin Road, Europe’s Alcatraz by Donal Donnelly
    Privileged Lives: A Social History of Middle-Class Ireland, 1882-1989 by Tony Farmar
    How the Boy Next Door Turned Out by Diarmuid Gavin
    Our Man in Hibernica: Ireland, the Irish & Me by Charlie Connelly
    2016: New Proclamation for a New Generation by Gerard O’Neill
    Behind the Green Curtain by T. Ryle Dwyer
    Cailleach of Sligo by Michael Roberts
    Overheard in Dublin Rides Again by Gerald & Sarah Kelly
    Bust: How the Courts Exposed the Rotten Heart of the Irish Economy by Dearbhail McDonald
    Scandal Nation: Key Events That Shaped Ireland by Mark Clifford

  • Issue 493 - 24 November 2010 - New Irish Fiction and Poetry
     Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
    Maggot by Paul Muldoon
    Stray Sod County by Patrick McCabe
    Homecoming by Cathy Kelly
    Here Comes the Night by Alan Gillis
    A Fool’s Errand by Dermot Healy
    Foster by Claire Keegan
    Collusion by Stuart Neville
    Sarah Love by Geraldine O’Neill
    Missing Julie by Catherine Dunne

  • Issue 492 - 17 November 2010
     Callsign Hades by Patrick Bury
    Murder at Shandy Hall by Michael Sheridan
    Medical Maverick by Risteard Mulcahy
    His Name is Rebecca by Rebecca de Havalland
    Ma, Now I’m Growing Up in the World by Martina Long
    A Hundred Years A’Growing: History of the Irish Girl Guides by Gillian Finan
    West Cork: A Place Apart by Jo Kerrigan and Richard Mills
    Privilege and Poverty: The Life and Times of Irish Painter and Naturalist Alexander Williams

  • Issue 491 - 27 October 2010 - New in Paperback, New Editions and Recent Reprints
     The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern
    Politicians and Other Animals by Olivia O’Leary
    Party Animals by Olivia O’Leary
    Tracing Your Mayo Ancestors 2ed by Brian Smith
    The Downfall of the Spanish Armada in Ireland by Ken Douglas
    J.G. Farrell in His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries
    The Cards of a Gambler by Benedict Kiely
    Life of Reilly by Anthony Cronin
    Atlas of Cork City by John Crowley

  • Issue 490 - 16 October 2010
     Escape from Barbados by William P. Sexton
    Faithful Place by Tana French
    The Time is Now by Pauline McLynn
    The Day of the Jack Russell by Colin Bateman
    The Avenue by James Lawless
    Degrees of Guilt by Patrick Marrinan
    Anyone for Me? By Fiona Cassidy
    Dead Wicked by Juliet Bresson
    The Truth Between by Emma Louise Jordan
    Always on My Mind by Colette Caddle

  • Issue 489 - 9 October 2010
     Shadow the Brotherhood: The Temple Bar Shootings by Barry Kennerk
    Irish Jailbreaks 1918-1921 with a foreword by Florence O’Donoghue
    Pinkeens to Diddies: A Boyhood in Ireland 1940-1957 by David R. McCabe
    Farrell’s Irish Papers by Steven G. Farrell
    W.B. Yeats and the Muses by Joseph M. Hassett
    Hidden Belfast: Benevolence, Blackguards & Balloon Heads by Raymond O’Regan
    In Borrowed Light by Stephen & Barbara Keating
    Our Own Devices: National Symbols & Political Conflict in 20th Century Ireland by Ewan Morris
    Desmond Leslie, 1921-2001 The Biography of an Irish Gentleman by Robert O’Bryne
    Seoirse Bodley by Garth Cox
    100 GAA Greats by John Scally

  • Issue 488 - 2 October 2010 - New in Paperback
     Albert Reynolds: My Autobiography
    Bertie Ahern: Autobiography
    The Bankers by Shane Ross
    Showtime: The Inside Story of Fianna Fail in Power by Pat Leahy
    I’ll Tell Me Ma by Brian Keenen
    Truth or Fiction by Jennifer Johnston
    Remembering Rachel O’Reilly by Rose Callaly
    Rhino What You Did Last Supper by Ross O’Carroll Kelly
    Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living by Declan Kiberd

  • Issue 487 - 25 September 2010
     Barack Obama: The Road from Moneygall by Steven MacDonagh
    Mother Teresa: The Irish Connection by John Scally
    Yeats & Violence by Michael Wood
    Literature of Ireland: The Culture & Criticism by Terence Brown
    Out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts edited by Christine Cusick
    The Message by Joe Coleman
    Ran Dumb: Adventures of an Irish Guy in LA by Mark Hayes
    Speak Irish With Confidence by Marina Cox
    Drawing Support: Murals in Northern Ireland by Bill Rolston
    Living with Evil by Cynthia Owens
    Gardening with Peter Dowdall: The Importance of the Natural World
    Beyond the Gate: A Book for All Occasions, Minds & Moods by Josephine Swarbrick

  • Issue 486 - 18 September 2010
     Sporting Legends of Ireland by Turtle Bunbury & James Fennell
    Politics & Provincial People: Sligo & Limerick, 1691-1761 by D.A. Fleming
    Renegades: Irish Republican Women 1900-1922 by Ann Matthews
    Lamp and the Lullaby: A Memoir by Bill Long
    Heaps of Trouble by Emlyn Heaps
    History of Gaelic Football by Eoghan Corry
    Joey Dunlop: King of the Roads by Stephen Davison
    The Liam McCarthy Cup by Liam Og O Ceallachain
    Screaming at the Sky by Tony Griffin

  • Issue 485 - 21 August 2010 - New Irish History
     Ireland: A History by Thomas Bartlett
    With the IRA in the Fight for Freedom: 1919 to the Truce with an intro by Gabriel Doherty
    The Summer Campaign in Kerry by Tom Doyle
    Executed for Ireland: The Patrick Moran Story by May Moran
    The Young Ireland Rebellion and Limerick by Laurence Fenton
    Michael Davitt: Freelance Radical and Frondeur by Laurence Marley
    Blood & Thunder: Inside an Ulster Protestant Band by Darach MacDonald
    Challenge to Democracy: Militant Catholicism in Ireland by Maurice Curtis
    From Parnell to Paisley by C. Mac Dhaibheid
    Ship of Seven Murders by Alannah Hopkins & Kathy Bunney

  • Issue 484 - 7 August 2010 - New Irish Fiction
     Gathering of Souls by Gerry O'Carroll
    Falling Out of Heaven by John Lynch
    Capital Sins by Peter Cunningham
    If I Never See You Again by Niamh O'Connor
    You by Nuala Ni Chonchuir
    Dangerous Pity by Elizabeth Wassell
    The Devil by Ken Bruen
    The House of Slamming Doors by Mark Macauley
    Danny, Mario & Me by Denise Sewell
    The Priest by Gerard O'Donovan

  • Issue 483 - 31 July 2010
     Aloys Fleischmann (1880-1964): Immigrant Musician in Ireland by Joseph P. Cunningham and Ruth Fleischmann
    King Dan by Patrick Geoghegan
    The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian edited by Shane Alcobia-Murphy and Richard Kirkland
    The Very Best of Traditional Irish Cooking by Biddy White-Lennon and Georgina Campbell
    Country Cooking of Ireland by Colman Andrews
    Cycle Touring Ireland by Tom Cooper
    Burren Village: Tales of History and Imagination edited by Sarah Poyntz
    The Book of Tara by Michael Slavin

  • Issue 482 - New in Paperback - 24/25 July 2010
     The Bombing of Dublin's North Strand by Kevin C. Kearns
    Who Really Runs Ireland by Matt Cooper
    Not Untrue Not Unkind by Ed O'Loughlin
    Winterland by Alan Glynn
    Glover's Mistake by Nick Laird
    Bloody Mary by Mary Coughlan
    What Would Ma Say by Kathleen Doyle
    Follow the Money by David McWilliams
    Set in Stone by Catherine Dunne
    Come What May by Donal Og Cusack

  • Issue 481 - New Irish Romance Fiction - 3/4 July 2010
     Casa Clare by Kate McCabe
    No Ordinary Love by Anita Notaro
    Where the Love Gets In by Tara Heavey
    Sowing the Seeds of Love by Tara Heavey
    Seven Secrets of Happiness by Sharon Owens
    Last Train from Liguria by Christine Dwyer Hickey
    Come This Way Home by Liz Lyons
    Champagne Babes by Amanda Brunker
    The Truth About You by Melissa Hill
    Without Him by Fiona O'Brien
    Jumping in Puddles by Claire Allen
    Rules for a Perfect Life by Niamh Greene
    Girl in a Spin by Clodagh Murphy

  • Issue 480 - 19/20 June 2010
     Irish Soldiers in Europe, 17th-19th Century by George B. Clark
    Beyond Consolidation: Or How We Became Too Clever for God ... and Our Own Good by John Waters
    G2: In Defence of Ireland by Maurice Walsh
    The Siege of Derry by Richard Doherty
    Unknown Commander: Life & Times of Denis Barry, 1888-1923 by Denis Barry
    A Short History of the Troubles by Gordon Gillespie
    A Woman to Blame: The Kerry Babies Case by Nell McCafferty
    The Happiness Habit by Brian Colbert
    The Naughties: From Glitz to Gloom in Ireland by Brenda Power
    The Drystone Walls of the Aran Islands by Mary Laheen
    Locomotive Compendium: Ireland by Colin Boocock

  • Issue 479 - 5/6 June 2010 - New Irish Fiction
     The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle
    Hand in the Fire by Hugo Hamilton
    Midnight in a Perfect Life by Michael Collins
    Brendan by Morgan Llwelyn
    Before the House Burns by Mary O'Donoghue
    Plum Rains and other Stories by John Givens
    Ghosts & Lightning by Trevor Byrne
    The Clever One by Helena Close
    Blood Money by Arlene Hunt
    Revenge of Lady Much by Anne Dunlop
    The Heater by John Conlee

  • Issue 478 - 29/30 May 2010
     Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor
    Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables by Seamus Heaney
    An Autumn Wind by Derek Mahon
    Until Before After by Ciaran Carson
    Encountering Zoe by Tom MacIntyre
    John Lavery: Diary of a Painter by Kenneth McConkey
    The Boy's of St Columb's: From the 1947 Education Act to the 1968 Civil Rights Movement - Profiles of Eight Remarkable Men from Derry by Maurice Fitzpatrick
    Dead Drunk: Saving Myself from Alcoholism in a Thai Monastery by Paul Garrigan
    The Rise and Fall of the Irish Pub by Robert Connolly
    Surfing Waves by Alastair Mennie
    Vikings of the Irish Sea by David Griffiths

  • Issue 477 - 15/16 May 2010
     Sean Moylan: Rebel Leader by Aideen Carroll
    The Compassionate Intentions of Illness by Tony Humphreys
    Dying to Survive by Rachel Keogh
    Boy in the Cupboard by Shane Dunphy
    In Ma's Footsteps by Kathleen Doyle
    Sent by an Angel by Kevin Shelton
    Annie's Girl: How an Abandoned Orphan Finally Discovered the Truth About Her Mothers by Maureen Coppinger
    In the Shadow of Men by Valerie O'Brien
    The Miracles of Mary by Bridget Curran
    An Irish Voice by Niall O'Dowd
    Sesson: Irish Stories by Mick Fitzgerald

  • Issue 476 - 8/9 May 2010
     The Dublin Murphy Report: A Watershed for Irish Catholicism
    The Battle for Limerick City by Padraig Og O Ruairc
    Limerick Historic Town Atlas
    Bygone Limerick: City and County in Days Gone By by Hugh Oram
    Dublin 1610 to 1756 by Colm Lennon
    Inheritance: Heritage and Memory by Kieran McCarthy
    Fethard-on-Sea Boycott by Tim Fanning
    Revenge by Ken Foxe
    Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie

  • Issue 475 - 1/2 May 2010 - New Irish Romance Fiction
     The Mammoth Book of Irish Romance edited by Trisha Telep
    The Perfect Holiday by Cathy Kelly
    The Return Journey by Maeve Binchy
    No Ordinary Love by Anita Notaro
    The Loving Kind by Sarah Webb
    The Art of Friendship by Erin Kaye
    Designer Games by Emma Hannigan
    The Wish List by Martina Reilly
    Barefoot Over Stones by Liz Lyons
    Three Nights in New York by Michelle Jackson
    The Penance Room by Carol Coffey
    The Better Woman by Ber Carroll
    Mother of the Bride by Marita Conlon McKenna
    Can You See Me? By Ruth Gilligan
    Love in the Making by Roisin Meaney
    Happy Every After by Patricia Scanlan
    Leaving Clare by Geraldine O'Neill
    A Moment in Time by Mairead O'Driscoll
    Under the Rainbow by Mary O'Sullivan

  • Issue 474 - 24/25 April 2010
     Voices from the Grave by Ed Moloney
    Voices of Connemara by Bill Long & Raymonde Standun
    Uncommon Valour: 1916 & the Battle for the South Dublin Union by Paul O'Brien
    An Irish Soldier's Diaries by Michael Moriarty
    Patrick Kavanagh & The Leader: The Poet, The Politician and the Libel Trial by Pat Walsh
    Ireland and India: Nationalism, Empire and Memory by Michael Silvestri
    While Keeping Watch by Patrick Daly
    Without Consent by Sheila O’Connor
    My Father's Lands by Ger Burke
    Joyce's Finnegans Wake: The Curse of Kabbalah by John P. Anderson
    Joyce's Finnegans Wake: The Curse of Kabbalah volume 2 by John P. Anderson
    Filiocht Chomhaimseartha na Gaeilge ed by Riona Ni Fhrighil
    Scribhneoiri Faoi Chaibidil by Alan Titley
    In Ord is in Eagar by Antain Mac Loochlainn

  • Issue 473 - 17/18 April 2010 - New in Paperback
     Stone Buildings: Conservation, Repair & Building by Patrick McAfee
    Aftermath: The Omagh Bombings and the Families’ Pursuit of Justice by Ruth Dudley Edwards
    Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
    The Infinities by John Banville
    The Pleasant Light of Day by Philip O Ceallaigh
    Hidden Cork: Charmers, Chancers and Cute Hoors by Michael Lenihan
    All The Names Have Been Changed by Clare Kilroy
    The Missing by Jane Casey
    Full Tilt: From Ireland to India with a Bicycle by Dervla Murphy
    Wheels Within Wheels: The Making of a Traveller by Dervla Murphy
    Island the Dared: Journeys In Cuba by Dervla Murphy
    A Pint of Plain: Tradition, Change and the Fate of the Irish Pub by Bill Barich
    Balcony of Europe by Aidan Higgins
    An Irish Country Childhood by Marrie Walsh

  • Issue 472 - 3/4 April 2010
     IRA The Bombs and the Bullets: A History of Deadly Ingenuity by A.R. Oppenheimer
    Revolution in Ireland: Popular Militancy 1917-1923 by Conor Kostick
    Follow the Money by David McWilliams
    Onthegame.ie: Prostitution in Ireland Today by Stephen Rogers
    Blind Ambition by Janet Gray
    The Most Famous Irish People You’ve Never Heard Of by Colin Murphy
    Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion, 1821-24 by James S. Donnelly
    Real Irish Ghost Stories by Paul Fennell
    Impact: The Human Stories Behind Ireland’s Road Tragedies by Jenny McCudden with a Foreword by Gay Byrne
    Holywood Star: the life and times of a rock and roll misadventurer by Eamon Nancarrow

  • Issue 471 - 20/21 March 2010 - Irish Poetry and Fiction
     The Best of Irish Poetry (in English) 2010 edited by Matthew Sweeney
    The Thing Is by Peter Sirr
    The First Step by Tom French
    Only This Room by Kerry Hardie
    The Sun Fish by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
    The Best of Irish Poetry (in English) 2009 edited by Paul Perry and Nuala Ni Chonchuir
    Anderson's English by Sebastian Barry
    Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
    The Pen Friend by Ciaran Carson
    The Soldier's Song by Alan Monaghan
    The Mango War and other stories by Martin Malone
    The Secret Dublin Diary of Gerard Manley Hopkins b Robert Waldron
    Apparition and Later Fictions by Thomas Lynch
    A Web of Deception by Charlotte Lapis

  • Issue 470 - 13/14 March 2010
     Love of the World: Essays by John McGahern
    Wildflowers of Cork City and County by Tony O’Mahony
    Border Crossing: George Clarke
    Ma, It’s a Cold Aul Night an I’m Lookin for a Bed by Martha Long
    Flown the Nest by Hanna Greally
    Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Long Peace by Ian McBride
    Deep Deception: Ireland’s Swimming Scandals by Justine McCarthy
    Mean Streets: Limerick’s Ganglands by Barry Duggan
    Rags to Riches: The Story of Munster Rugby by Barry Coughlan
    Roly’s Café & Bakery Book by Paolo Tulio
    The Shorebirds of Ireland: In Words and Pictures by Jim Wilson
    The Story of the Cope by Patrick Boner
    Vintage Crop by Dermot Weld

  • Issue 469 - 27/28 February 2010
     Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland by Diarmaid Ferriter
    Weather Eye: The Final Years by Brendan McWilliams
    J.G. Farrell in His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries edited by Lavinia Graecen
    Nuala Fennell: Political Woman – A Memoir
    The Historical Atlas of the Celtic World by John Haywood
    Seamus Brennan: A Life in Government by Frank Lahiffe
    The Liam MacCarthy Cup by Sean Og O Ceallachain
    Around the World in GAA Days by Aaron Dunne
    Unlimited Heartbreak: The Inside Story of Limerick Hurling by Henry Martin
    My Dear (Kevin) McCourt by Eugene McCague
    Bloody Mary by Mary Coughlan
    The Downfall of the Spanish Armada in Ireland by Ken Douglas
    Trees of Inspiration: Sacred Trees of Ireland by Christine Zucchelli

  • Special Issue - Seven Towers Press - 6/7 February 2010
     Across the Grid of Strets by Quincy R Lehr
    Arthur's Primer by Oran Ryan
    Census: The First Seven Towers Anthology
    Living Streets: An Anthology of the Ranelagh Arts Festival
    The Death of Finn by Oran Ryan
    The Gentle Art of Rotting by Ross Hattaway
    William Montgomery's Guide to New York City by Quincy R Lehr
    Old Men Forget by Doug Wood
    Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger by Oran Ryan
    Scattering Days: 21 Sonnets and other poems by Noel O Briain
    Eamon Mac Gearailt: The Forgotten Bard by Noel O Briain
    The Origami Crow: Journey into Japan, World Cup Summer 2002 by Eamon Carr
    The Bell by Ray Pospisil

  • Issue 468 - 30/31 January 2010
     Gold, Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey 1896-1924 by Kevin McCarthy
    Unlikely Radicals: Irish Post-Primary Teachers and the ASTI, 1909-2009 by John Cunningham
    Precarious Childhood in Post-Independence Ireland by Moira J. Maguire
    Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections, 1919-64 by Kate O’Malley
    The Road to Avondale: The Memoirs of an Irish Forester by Thomas Briody
    Shops of Ireland by Sean Rothery
    The World of Guinness by Rory Guinness
    St. Patrick: The Live and World of Ireland’s Saint by J.B. Bury
    Gypsum Mining and the Shirley Estate in South Monaghan, 1800-1936 by Micheal McDermott
    Who Killed the Franks Family?: Agrarian Violence in Pre-Famine Cork by Denis A. Cohen
    The Dublin Liberties, 1600-1850 by Kenneth Milne
    Clonsilla and the Rebellion of 1798 by Ciaran Priestley
    Piss-pots, Printers and Public Opinion in 18th Century Dublin: Richard Twiss’s Tour in Ireland by Martyn J. Powell
    Dublin in 1707: A Year in the Life of the City by Brendan Twomey

  • Issue 467 - Irish History - 23/24 January 2010
     The Rising: Ireland Easter 1916 by Fearghal McGarry
    Dublin’s Fighting Story 1916-21: Told by the Men Who Made It. With an introduction by Diarmaid Ferriter
    Rebel Cork’s Fighting Story 1916-21: Told by the Men Who Made It. With an introduction by Peter Hart
    Limerick’s Fighting Story 1916-21 Told By the Men Who Made it with an intro by Ruan O’Donnell
    Kerry’s Fighting Story 1916-1921 Told By the Men Who Made It with an intro by JJ Lee
    A New History of Ireland volume IV: Eighteenth Century Ireland 1691-1800 edited by TW Moody and WE Vaughan
    Blood Upon the Rose: Easter 1916 – The Rebellion That Set Ireland Free by Gerry Hunt
    A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes by Jonathan Bardon
    Irish Battles: A Military History of Ireland by G.A. Hayes-McCoy
    The Sons of Ulster: Ulstermen at War from the Somme to Korea by Richard Doherty
    Guarding Neutral Ireland: The Coast Watching Service and Military Intelligence, 1939-1945 by Michael Kennedy
    Soldiers of Folly: The IRA Border Campaign, 1956-62 by Barry Flynn
    Bulmer Hobson and the Nationalist Movement in Twentieth-Century Ireland by Marnie Hay

  • Issue 466 - 16/17 January 2010
     After the Irish: An Anthology of Poetic Translation edited by Gregory A. Schirmer
    Albert Reynolds: My Autobiography
    I’ll Tell Me Ma: A Childhood Memoir by Brian Keenan
    Insider: Gerry Bradley’s Life in the IRA by Gerry Bradley with Brian Feeney
    The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party by Brian Hanley
    Crown and Shamrock: Love and Hate Between Ireland and the British Monarchy by Mary Kenny
    Jack Lynch: A Biography by Dermot Keogh
    The Big House in the North of Ireland by Olwen Purdue
    Fighting Like the Devil for the Sake of God: Protestants, Catholics and the Origins of Violence in Victorian Belfast by Mark Doyle
    The Rose of Tralee: Fifty Years A-Blooming by T. Ryle Dwyer
    Dublin Zoo: An Illustrated History by Catherine De Courcy
    The Coast of Cork: A Fascinating Journey Along the Cork Coastline by Joleen Cronin
    Cork Rock: From Rory Gallagher to the Sultans of Ping by Mark McAvoy
    Larry Cunningham: A Showband Legend by Tom Gilmore
    Full & Plenty: Classic Irish Cooking by Maura Laverty

    Back Issues from 2009 & 2008 below:

  • Issue 465 - 28 & 29 November 2009
     Irish Times Book of the Year 2009 Edited by Peter Murtagh
    Historical Atlas of Dublin by Richard Kileen
    From the Republic on Conscience: Stories Inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    The Bombings of Dublin’s North Strand, 1941: The Untold Story by Kevin C. Kearns
    Mna na heireann: Women Who Shaped Ireland by Nicola Depuis
    Sisters: The Personal Story of an Irish Feminist by June Levine with a Foreword by Nell McCafferty
    Written in Stone: The Graffiti in Kilmainham Jail by Niamh O’Sullivan
    Follow the Money by David McWilliams
    Making Ireland Roman edited by Jason Harris and Keith Sidwell
    Once Upon a Hill: Love in Troubled Times by Glenn Patterson
    Going by Water by Michael Coady

  • Issue 464 - 21 & 22 November 2009
     Collected Stories of William Trevor
    Love and Summer by William Trevor
    Irish Literature Since 1990 by Scott Brewster and Michael Palmer
    Walter Macken: Dreams on Paper by Ultan Macken
    Life is a Dream: 40 Years Reading Poems, 1967-2007 by Paul Durcan
    Set in Stone by Catherine Dunne
    Old Swords and other stories by Desmond Hogan
    The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy
    Girl on a Bicycle by Leland Bardwell
    The Dove of Death by Peter Tremayne
    The Twelve by Stuart Neville
    Spindrift by Vona Groarke
    Dublin’s Other Poetry: Rhymes and Songs of the City edited by John Wyse Jackson & Hector McDonnell
    Literary & Cultural Relations: Ireland, Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe edited by Mari Kurdi
    The Gates by John Connolly
    The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern
    Heart & Soul by Maeve Binchy
    Between the Sheets by Colette Caddle
    Beyond Sin by Emma Jordan
    Forever Friends by Kate McCabe
    If Not Now by Denise Devlin
    Missing You Already by Pauline McLynn
    Perfect Man by Sheila O’Flanagan

  • Issue 463 - 14 & 15 November 2009
     Going to the Well for Water: The Seamus Ennis Field Diary, 1942-46 edite d by Rionach ui Ogain
    Hidden Cork: Charmers, Chancers & Cute Hoors by Michael Lenihan
    In Search of the Promised Land: The Politics of Post-War Ireland by Gary Murphy
    Bertie Ahern & the Drumcondra Mafia by Michael Clifford & Shane Coleman
    Who Really Runs Ireland?: The Story of the Elite Who Led Ireland from Bust to Boom … And Back Again by Matt Cooper
    Conspiracy: Irish Political Trials by Myles Dungan
    Judging Lemass by Tom Garvin
    The Celtic Revolution: In Search of 2000 Forgotten Years That Changed the World by Simon Young
    An Irishman’s Cuttings: Tales of Irish Gardens and Gardeners, Plants and Plant Hunters by E. Charles Nelson
    Irish Folk Medicine by Patrick Logan
    The Gaelic Athletic Association, 1884-2009 edited by Mike Cronin, William Murphy and Paul Rouse
    Micheal’s GAA Odyssey: A Celebration of Gaelic Games by Micheal O Muircheartaigh
    Lest We Forget: Gems of Gaelic Games and Those Who Made Them by Brendan Fullam
    In Praise of Football by Gabriel Fitzmaurice
    From Brenda’s Kitchen: 100 Favourite Recipes from Brenda Costigan

  • Issue 462 - 30 October & 1 November 2009
     Romantic Irish Houses by Robert O’Byrne with photographs by Simon Brown
    Showtime: The Inside Story of Fianna Fail in Power by Pat Leahy
    Crime Ink: Interviews with Notorious Criminals and Other Notes from the Irish Underground by Jason O’Toole
    Living With Murder: Families Left Behind by Yvonne Kinsella
    Mother From Hell: Two Brothers, A Sadistic Mother, A Childhood Destroyed by Ken and Patrick Doyle
    Irish Apartheid: Healthcare Inequality in Ireland by Sara Burke
    Sean Keating in Context: Responses to Culture and Politics in Post-Civil-War Ireland by Eimear O’Connor
    Notes from the Margins: A Decade of Irish Life by Fergus Finlay
    Towards Inclusion: Protestants and the Irish Language by Ian Malcolm
    Back in Steam: The Downpatrick and County Down Railway from 1982 by Gerry Cochrane
    Archaeological Excavations at Rosepark, Balrothery, Co Dublin vol.1 by Judith Carroll
    Archaeological Excavations at Glebe South and Darcystown, Balrothery, Co Dublin vol.2 by Judith Carroll, Frank Ryan and Kenneth Wiggins
    How to Trace Your Irish Ancestors by Ian Maxwell

  • Issue 461 - 17/18 October 2009
     Bertie Ahern: Autobiography
    My Father the General: Richard Mulcahy and the Military History of the Irish Revolution by Ristead Mulcahy
    The Munster Republic: The Civil War in North Cork by Michael Harrington
    The Donegal Awakening: Donegal and the War of Independence by Liam O Duibhir
    Belfast Boys: How Unionists and Nationalists Fought and Died Together in the First World War by Richard S. Grayson
    Repeal and Revolution: 1848 in Ireland by Christine Kinealy
    Ballykilcline Rising: From Famine Ireland to Immigrant America by Mary Lee Dunn
    Death or Canada: The Irish Famine Migration to Toronto, 1847 by Mark G. McGowan
    Cissie’s Abattoir by Eichear Walshe
    Petticoat Rebellion: The Anna Parnell Story by Patricia Groves
    Courage & Conflict: Forgotten Stories of the Irish at War by Ian Kenneally
    Hearts & Mines: The British 5th Division, Ireland, 1920-23 by William Sheehan
    Ballycotton Lifeboats: 150 Years of Gallantry by Mary Leach
    Inspector Mallon: Buying Irish Patriotism for a Five-Pound Note by Donal P. McCracken

  • Issue 460 - 3/4 October 2009
     Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
    The Best of Frank O’Connor
    Oscar Wilde & the Dead Man’s Smile by Gyles Brandreth
    The Last Train to Liguria by Christine Dwyer Hickey
    The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne
    The Lovers by John Connolly
    Adam Gould by Julia O’Faolain
    The Lacemakers of Glenmara by Heather Barbieri
    In Too Deep and other short stories by Billy O’Callaghan
    Secrets We Keep by Colette Caddle
    Hello Heartbreak by Amy Huberman
    The Wish List by Martina Reilly
    Letters to a Love Rat by Niamh Greene
    The Likeness by Tana French
    Fifty Grand by Adrian McKinty
    The Bloomsday Dead by Adrian McKinty

  • Issue 459 - 26/27 September 2009
     Laments by Jan Kochanowski, translated by Seamus Heaney
    On the Night Watch by Ciaran Carson
    Reservoir Voices by Brendan Kennelly
    Na Lucha ag Rince by Micheal O Ruairc
    Taibhsi an Locha by Antain Mac Lochlainn
    O Chosta go Costa by Frank Reidy
    The Wee Book of Irish Wit and Malarky by Sean McCann
    May You Live in Interesting Times by Conor O'Cleary
    Mad Dog by Johnny Adair
    Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families' Pursuit of Justice by Ruth Dudley Edwards
    Nicotine Cat and Other People by Augustus Young
    Irish Lake Marvels: Mysteries, Legends & Lore by John Dunne

  • Issue 458 - 29/30 August 2009
     Conor Cruise O’Brien: Violent Notions by Diarmuid Whelan
    Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everday Living by Declan Kiberd
    Wicked Little Joe by Joseph Hone
    The Quiet Man … and Beyond: Reflections on a Classic Film, John Ford and Ireland edited by Sean Crosson and Rod Stoneman
    The Banksters: How a Powerful Elite Squandered Ireland’s Wealth by David Murphy and Martina Devlin
    Metamorphosis: Lessons from the Formative Years of the Celtic Tiger, 1979-1993 by Con Power
    Ireland’s Economic Crash: A Radical Agenda for Change by Kieran Allen
    Celtic Meltdown: Why Ireland is Broke and How We Can Fix It by Cearbhall O Dalaigh
    60 Years, 30 Perspectives: Ireland and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights edited by Donncha O’Connell
    Upfront & Personal: The Autobiography by Coleen Nolan
    Ag Bun Na Cruaiche: Folklore and Folklife from the Foot of Croagh Patrick by Caitriona Hastings

  • Issue 457 - 22/23 August 2009
     Green, Blue and Grey: The Irish in the American Civil War by Cal McCarthy
    Dublin in Rebellion: A Directory, 1913-1923 by Joseph E.A. O’Connell
    Thank You, Partner: A History of Bridge in Ireland by Seamus Dowling
    Roise Rua: An Island Memoir by Padraig Ua Cnaimhsi
    Beyond Belief: The Story of the Boy Who Sued the Pope by Colm O’Gorman
    West Cork Walks by Kevin Corcoran
    The Dingle Way by Sandra Bardwell
    The Burren and the Aran Islands: A Walking Guide by Tony Kirby
    Working the Irish Coast by Mike Smylie
    The Myth of Irish Cinema: Approaching Irish-Themed Films by Michael Patrick Gillespie
    One Wild Life: A Journey to Discover People Who Changed Our World by Clare Mulvany
    Warts & All: Ten Years of the Good Friday Agreement by John Kennedy
    Fantastical Feats of Finn MacCoul retold by Norah Montgomerie
    Celtic Knots: Exploring with J Romilly Allen – Method and Matrix by Brett Garrett
    Curious Companions: Ireland to India by Bicycle by Jake Bullough

  • Issue 456 - 15/16 August 2009 - Irish History
     Rebel Heart: George Lennon, Flying Column Commander by Terence O’Reilly
    The Life and After-Life of P.H. Pearse edited by Roisin Higgins and Regina Ui Chollatain
    Secret Victory: Ireland and the War at Sea, 1914-1918 by Liam Nolan and John E. Nolan
    The Making of the Irish Poor Law, 1815-43 by Peter Gray
    The Politics of Expansion: The Transformation of Educational Policy in the Republic of Ireland, 1957-1972 by John Walsh
    The Dialogue of the Ancients in Ireland: a new translation by Maurice Harmon
    A Short History of the 1916 Rising by Richard Killeen
    Bombs Over Dublin by Sean McMahon
    Beneath Cannock’s Clock: The Last Man Hanged in Ireland by Dermot Walsh
    Freney the Robber: The Noblest Highwayman in Ireland by Michael Holden
    Exploring Irish Castles by Pat Dargan
    William Monsell of Tervoe, 1812-1894: Catholic Unionist, Anglo-Irishman by Matthew Potter
    A Bitter Wind by Joe McGowan

  • Issue 455 - 8/9 August 2009
     The Wild & Garden Plants of Ireland by Charles Nelson with Paintings by Wendy F. Walsh
    Music and Madness by Ivor Browne
    Ringside Seats: An Insider’s View of the Crisis in Northern Ireland by Robert Ramsay
    Irish Nationalism and European Integration: The Official Redefinition of the Island of Ireland by Katy Hayward
    A Pint of Plain: Tradition, Change and the Fate of the Irish Pub by Bill Barich
    I Used to Be Irish: Leaving Ireland Becoming American by Angeline Kearns Blain
    Anail An Bheil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture edited by Nessa Cronin, Sean Crosson and John Eastlake
    Tales and Legends of Irish Peasantry by Samuel Lover
    More Legends and Stories of Ireland by Samuel Lover
    Irish Folk and Fairy Tales edited by Gordon Jarvie
    Shiprocked: Life on the Waves with Radio Caroline by Steve Conway
    This is Ireland: A Children’s Classic by M. Lasek
    Ultimate Guide to Hurling by Gavin Mortimer

  • Issue 454 - 1/2 August 2009 - Finally Available in Paperback
     A New History of Ireland volume 3: Early Modern Ireland 1534-1691 edited by TW Moody and FX Martin and FJ Byrne
    Kerry’s Fighting Story 1916-1921 Told By the Men Who Made It with an intro by JJ Lee
    Limerick’s Fighting Story 1916-21 Told By the Men Who Made it with an intro by Ruan O’Donnell
    A History of Irish Farming, 1750-1950 by Jonathan Bell and Mervyn Watson
    Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness by Tim Robinson
    God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland by Micheal O Siochru
    Bear in Mind These Dead by Susan McKay
    Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland by Jonathan Powell
    Noel Browne: Passionate Outsider by John Horgan
    The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History by Eric Kaufmann
    A Dance in Time by Orna Ross
    Angels in My Hair by Lorna Byrne
    Follow Me Down to Dublin: The City Through the Voices of Its People by Deirdre Purcell
    Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore by Ronan Kelly

  • Issue 453 - 25/26 July 2009 - Irish Fiction
     The Space Between by John MacKenna
    Not Untrue& Not Unkind by Ed O’Loughlin
    The Pauper’s Graveyard by Gemma Mawdsley
    Glover’s Mistake by Nick Laird
    Tracking Giorgione by Thomas Kadebo
    Talking to Kate by Tom Nestor
    The Butterfly State by Carol Coffey
    Barefoot Over Stones by Liz Lyons
    Designer Genes by Emma Hannigan
    Just the Three of Us by Clare Dowling
    The Truth Will Out by Anna McPartlin
    The Disengagement Ring by Clodagh Murphy
    Damsel by S.E. Connolly
    The Dare by John Boyne

  • Issue 452 - 27/28 June 2009 - Irish Crime Fiction and True Crime
     All the Dead Voices by Declan Hughes
    The Dying Breed by Declan Hughes
    Bleed a River Deep by Brian McGilloway
    Gallow’s Lane by Brian McGilloway
    Dark Times in the City by Gene Kerrigan
    The Semantics of Murder by Aifric Campbell
    Mystery Man by Colin Bateman
    The Irish Gulag: How the State Betrayed Its Innocent Children by Bruce Arnold
    Brutal: The Untold Story of my Life Inside Whitey Bulger’s Irish Mob by Kevin Weeks
    Chaos and Conspiracy: The Framing of the McBrearty Family by Gerard Cunningham
    Dying to Survive by Rachel Keogh
    Private Investigator: My Years Undercover by Shirley Sleator

  • Issue 451 - 13/14 June 2009
     Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO by Clair Wills
    Our Struggle for Independence: Eyewitness Accounts from the pages of An Cosantoir edited by Terence O’Reilly
    Standing with Stones: A Photographic Journey Through Megalithic Britain and Ireland by Rupert Soskin
    An Architect Earl: Edward Augustus Stratford (1736-1801) 2nd Early of Aldborough by Ronald Lightbown
    The Splendid Cause: The Catholic Action Movement in Ireland in the 20th Century by Maurice Curtis
    Athlone in the Victorian Era by John Burke
    What’s the Best You Can Do? By Derek Rowlinson
    The Templars: The Secret History Revealed by Barbara Frale
    At the Edge of Ireland: Seasons on the Beara Peninsula by David Yeadon
    The Birth of the Fenian Movement; American Diary, Brooklyn, 1859 by James Stephens and edited by Marta Ramon
    Sir Walter Raleigh in Ireland by Sir John Pope Hennessy
    Short Stories by Patrick Pearse
    Granuaile: Grace O’Malley – Ireland’s Pirate Queen by Anne Chambers

  • Issue 450 - 6/7 June 2009 - Irish Literature
     Robert Henryson’s The Testament of Creddeid & Seven Fables translated by Seamus Heaney
    Plan B by Paul Muldoon with Photographs by Norman McBeath
    Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney on CD
    Making Music: Poems by Patrick Cotter
    Diviner by Eugene O’Connell
    The Complete Recordings of Ulysses on CD
    Ciaran Carson: Critical Essays edited by Elmer Kennedy-Andrews
    Elizabeth Bowen: New Critical Perspectives edited by Susan Osborn
    Flann O’Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist by Keith Hopper
    Treasures of the Unconscious by Niall McGrath
    The Dublin Review, Number 34, Spring 2009 edited by Brendan Barrington
    Eilis Ni Dhuibhne: Perspectives edited by Rebecca Pelan
    Night & Day: 24 Hours in the Life of Dublin City devised and edited by Dermot Bolger
    External Affairs by Dermot Bolger
    J.M. Synge Travelling Ireland: Essays 1898-1908 edited by Nicholas Grene
    Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama edited by John Harrington

  • Issue 449 - 30/31 May 2009
     Thomas Roberts, 1748-1777 by William Laffan and Brendan Rooney
    Great Family Food by Kevin Dundon
    Blasket Spirit: Stories from the Islands by Anita Fennelly
    A World of Our Own: A Journey of Love Through Autism by Aileen McCallan
    Tuesday’s Child by Kathy Evans
    A Mother’s Nightmare: My Fight to Get My Children Back by Louise Mason
    Wild Dublin: Exploring Nature in the City by Eanna Ni Lamhna
    Ruinairski by Paul Kilduff
    Not Enough Hours: The Secrets of Making Every Second Count by Owen Fitzpatrick
    50 Things You Didn’t Know About 1916 by Mick O’Farrell
    Hide & Speak Irish

  • Issue 448 - 9/10 May 2009 - New Irish Fiction
     Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
    All Names Have Been Changed by Claire Kilroy
    Happy Ever After? By Patricia Scanlan
    An Invitation to Dance by Marian Urich
    A Bit of a Scandal by Mary Rose Callaghan
    Tears of God by Christy Kenneally
    Yesterday’s Weather by Anne Enright
    Leaving the World by Douglas Kennedy
    Council of the Cursed by Peter Tremayne
    The Temple of Academe by Ross O’Carroll-Kelly
    Unconquered City by Diarmuid Scully
    The Kinsella Sisters by Kate Thompson
    God Save the Village Green by Keith Cullen
    Leaving Ardglass by William King

  • Issue 447 - 2/3 May 2009
     The Irish Times Universal World Atlas
    Sinn Fein and the Politics of Left Republicanism by Eoin O Broin
    The Captain and the King by Myles Dungan
    William Orpen: An Onlooker in France by Robert Upstone and Angela Weight
    Ireland’s Misfortune: The Turbulent Life of Kitty O’Shea by Elisabeth Kehoe
    Michael Logue and the Catholic Church of Ireland by John Privilege
    Governor: Inside the Maze by William McKee
    Debt Busters: Managing Your Money Through the Recession by Eddie Hobbs
    Damnyakee: A WWII Story of Tragedy and Survival off the West of Ireland by Thomas L. Walsh
    I Never Knew That About the Irish by Christopher Winn
    Feckin Book of Irish History by Colm Murphy and Donal O’Shea
    Irish Wit: From Behan and Wilde to Yer Man in the Pub by Sean McCann
    The Best of Irish: A Celebration of Incredible Ireland by Hannah Mulholland

  • Issue 446 - 25/26 April 2009
     Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006 by Paul Bew
    Freedom to Choose: Cork & Party Politics in Ireland, 1918-1932 by Micheal Martin
    Shipwreck Inventory of Ireland: Louth, Meath, Dublin, Wicklow compiled by Karl Brady
    Michael Logue and the Catholic Church in Ireland, 1879-1925 by John Privilege
    In Search of Islands : A Life of Conor O’Brien by Judith Hill
    All Politics is Local: A Guide to Local Elections in Ireland by Liam Weeks and Aodh Quinlivan
    The Magic of Irish Nature: The Celtic culture and its mythology by Patrick O’Sullivan
    An Adventure in Grief by Catherine de Courcy
    In Sunlight or in Shadow by Karen Wilhelm
    O Theagasc Teanga go Sealbhu Teanga: Muineadh agus Foghlaim na Gaeilge ar an Triu Leibheal edited by Riona Ni Fhrighill and Mairin Nic Eoin
    Cen t-am e? by Siobhain Grogan
    GF Woz Ere by Gabriel Fitzmaurice, with illustrations by Stella Macdonald
    The Bardic Apostles of Innisfree by Seamus Tansey
    50 Great Irish Ballads compiled by Robert Gogan

  • Issue 445 - 28/29 March 2009 - New Irish Fiction and Poetry
     Chosen Lights: Poets on Poems by John Montague edited by Peter Fallon
    The Truth About Love by Josephine Hart
    The Pleasant Light of Day by Philip O Ceallaigh
    Counting Down by Gerard Stempbridge
    The Love of Sisters by Eugene McCabe
    Big Parts by Shane Connaughton
    40 Fights Between Husbands and Wives by Colm Liddy
    None of My Affair by Fiona O'Brien
    Once in a Lifetime by Cathy Kelly
    Cardigan Bay by John Kerr
    The Killing Snows by Charles Egan
    The Truth Commissioner by David Park
    This Charming Man by Marian Keyes
    Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy

  • Issue 444 - 21/22 March 2009
     Blood on the Banner: The Republican Struggle in Clare by Padraig Og O Ruairc
    The Burnings 1920 by Pearse Lawlor
    Stories from Ireland by Ita Daly
    Head Rambles with Ireland’s Most Cantakerous Auld Fella by Richard O’Connor
    Lord of the Rams by Ronan Smith
    Antiquities of the Ring of Kerry by Jason Bolton
    Irish Railways: A New History by Tom Ferris
    Lost Railways of County Donegal by Stephen Johnson
    Lost Railways of Galway and the North West by Stephen Johnson
    Lost Railways of Limerick and the South West by Stephen Johnson
    Old Derry by John Hanna
    Crying in the Dark by Shane Dunphy
    Hush, Little Baby by Shane Dunphy
    Wednesday’s Child by Shane Dunphy

  • Issue 443 - 14/15 March 2009 - Irish History
     Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland by Piras Beaslai
    The Curious Case of the Mayo Librarian by Pat Walsh
    Coolacrease: The True Story of the Pearson Executions by Paddy Heaney et. al
    The Wicklow Military Road: History and Topography by Michael Fewer
    Fall of the Gaelic Lords, 1534-1616 by Patricia Kilroy
    An ‘Antiquarian Craze’: The Life, Times and Work in Archaeology of Patrick Lyons RIC (1861-1954) by Maire Lohan
    The Irish Famine by Gail Seekamp and Pierce Feiritear
    John Mitchel by James Quinn
    Thomas Kettle by Senia Paseta
    Denis Guiney by Peter Costello
    Michael Collins: The Man Who Won the War by T. Ryle Dwyer

  • Issue 442 - 7/8 March 2009
     A Divided Peace: An Irishman in the Holy Land by David Lynch
    What Happened to Sin? By Sean Fagan
    Theatres of the Troubles: Theatre, Resistance and Liberation in Ireland by Bill McDonnell
    Grabbing the Oyster: Anecdotes and Advice from Icons of Irish Business by Pearce Flannery
    Irish Times: Temporalities of Modernity by David Lloyd
    Anne’s Song by Anne Nolan
    Gunsmoke and Mirrors by Henry McDonald
    The Tipperary War Dead: A History of the Casualties of the First World War by Tom & Ruth Burnell
    Cailleach: The Hag of Beara by Leanne O’Sullivan
    Gardening the Soul by Sister Stan
    Seasons of the Day by Sister Stan
    Now is the Time: Spiritual Reflections by Sister Stan

  • Issue 441- New Irish Fiction - 14/15 February 2009
     The Holy City by Patrick McCabe
    John The Revelator by Peter Murphy
    Missing You Already by Pauline McLynn
    Shooting the Moon by Robert Fannin
    Confessions of an Angel by Ronan O’Brien
    Cardigan Bay by John Kerr
    Silverfish: A Collection of Short Stories edited by Brendan Maher
    Canary Wharf by Orna Ni Choileain
    Anything for Love by Sarah Webb
    Forgive & Forget by Patricia Scanlan
    Trauma by Patrick McGrath
    Blood Runs Cold by Alex Barclay

  • Issue 440 - Irish History and Politics - 7/8 February 2009
     New History of Ireland vol. 2: Medieval Ireland 1169-1534 edited by Art Cosgrove
    Creating Ireland: The Words and Events That Shaped Us by Paul Daly
    Ireland: Then and Now by Victoria Murphy
    Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland, 1891-1921 by Fergus Campbell
    Terrible Queer Creatures: Homosexuality in Irish History by Brian Lacey
    Gender and Power in Irish History edited by Maryann Gialanella Valiulis
    Irish Protestant Identities edited by Mervyn Busteed, Frank Neal and Jonathan Tonge
    Medieval History VIII edited by Sean Duffy
    Years of Darkness: The Troubles Remembered by Gordon Gillespie
    Two Brothers, Two Wars by Thomas McAlindon
    Republican Cobh and the East Cork Volunteers by Kieran McCarthy
    Sean Lester, Poland and the Nazi Takeover of Danzig by Paul McNamara

  • Issue 439 - 31 January 2009
     Irish Florilegium: Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland by Wendy Walsh and Charles Nelson
    Days We Remember by Deirdre Purcell
    The Emperor and the Irishman: Napoleon and Dr Barry O’Meara on St Helena by Dr Hubert O’Connor
    A Fine Statement: An Irish Poet’s Anthology edited by John McDonagh
    Republicanism in Ireland: Confronting Theories and Traditions edited by Iseult Honohan
    Tom, Ned and Kitty: An Intimate Portrait of an Irish Family by Eliza Pakenham
    Witchcraft and Whigs: The Life of Bishop Francis Hutchinton, 1660-1739 by Andrew Sneddon
    In the Shadows of Giants: A Social History of the Belfast Shipyards by Kevin Johnston
    Two in a Million by Ben Murnane
    Uncle Hugo by Paul Evans
    A Little Book of Hours by John F. Deane
    The Origami Crow: Journey into Japan, World Cup Summer 2002 by Eamonn Carr
    A Story to Be Told: Personal Reflections on the Irish Immigrant Experience in Canada edited by Eleanor McGrath
    The Fridge-Hiker’s Guide to Life by Tony Hawks
    The New Adventures of Keats & Chapman by Tom Mathews
    Sing Up: Irish Comic Songs and Satires for Every Occasion compiled and introduced by Fintan Vallely
    Compendium of Celtic Crafts by Judy Balchin et. al
    Handmade Celtic Cards by Paula Pascual
    Irish Myths and Legends: Fantastic Interactive Stories

  • Issue 438 - 24/25 January 2009
     Robert L. Chapman’s Ireland: Photographs from the Chapman Collection 1907-1957 compiled by Christiaan Corlett
    Ireland’s High Places: From the Mountains to the Sea by Rob Beighton
    Arctic 2 Antarctic: A Celtic Spirit of Fastnet Adventure by Michael Holland and Janet King
    King Dan: The Rise of Daniel O’Connell, 1775-1829 by Patrick Geoghegan
    Where Clare Leads by Richard Fitzpatrick
    Embracing Women: Making History in the Church of Ireland by Ginnie Kennerley
    Has God Logged Off?: The Quest for Meaning in the 21st Century by T.P. O’Mahony
    What Every Working Woman Should Know … and Do by Terry Prone
    From Small to Tall: How to Grow Your Company by Brody Sweeney
    Mouse Morris: His Extraordinary Racing Life by Declan Colley
    Kelly: A Memoir by Gerry Kelly
    Love in a Damp Climate by Quentin Fottrell
    Lying Eyes and the Hitman for Hire by Emer Connolly
    More Questions Than Answers: Reflections on Life in the Royal Ulster Constabulary by Kevin Sheehy
    Undercover Cop by Paddy Craig
    The Mummy’s Boys: Threats and Menaces from Ulster’s ParaMafia by Jim McDowell
    The Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising by Shane Hegarty and Fintan O’Toole

  • Issue 437 - Irish Cookbooks - 17/18 January 2009
     The Clatter of Forks and Spoons by Richard Corrigan
    Bake by Rachel Allen
    The Tannery Cookbook: An Irish Adventure with Food by Paul Flynn
    From Tide to Table by Georgina Campbell
    Cornucopia at Home by Eleanor Heffernan
    Easy Entertaining by Darina Allen
    Cooks Academy Cookbook by Vanessa Greenwood
    Celebrity Kitchen: Recipes and Stories from Famous Irish People compiled by Fiona Brophy
    Our Grannies’ Recipes edited by Eoin Purcell
    Georgina Campbell’s Guide to the Best Places to Eat, Drink and Stay in Ireland 2009
    Avoca Café Cookbook by Hugo Arnold with Lelie Hayes and photographs by Georgia Glynn Smith
    Avoca Café Cookbook 2 by Hugo Arnold with Lelie Hayes and photographs by Georgia Glynn Smith

  • Issue 436 - 10/11 January 2009
     Representing Art in Ireland: The Fenton Gallery
    A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes by Jonathan Bardon
    IRA: The Bombs and the Bullets: A History of Deadly Ingenuity by A.R. Oppenheimer
    Tain Bo Flidhais: The Mayo Tain by Stpehen Dunford
    Jack Lynch: A Biography by Dermot Keogh
    The Beatles and Ireland by Michael Lynch and Damian Smyth
    Tuned Out: Traditional Music and Identity in Northern Ireland by Fintan Vallely
    Boys and Girls Come Out to Play: Irish Singing Games by Maurice Leyden
    The Annals of Dublin: Photographs from the Father Browne Collection by E.E. O’Donnell
    A History of the Town of Belfast by George Benn
    Over the Counter: Cork’s Retail Heritage by Clare Keogh
    Ireland’s Ocean: A Natural History by Michael and Ethna Viney
    Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649: A Constitutional and Political Analysis by Micheal O Siochru
    Ireland Through the Looking Glass: Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen and Irish Cultural Debate by Carol Taaffe
    Through the Year with Brian D’Arcy
    Paidreacha na Gaeilge/Prayers in Irish edited by Donla ui Bhraonain
    Empty Pulpits: Ireland’s Retreat from Religion by Malachi O’Doherty
    Innocent: The Story of Shattered Childhood by Audrey Delaney
    Stones of Aran: Pilgrimmage by Tim Robinson

    The Issues of 2008 Below:

  • 'Best' Books of 2008 - Poetry - 15 December 2008
     An Leabhar Mor: The Great Book of Gaelic edited by Malcolm MacLean and Theo Dorgan
    Collected Poems by Ciaran Carson
    Life on Earth by Derek Mahon
    My Love Has Fared Inland by Medbh McGuckian
    Selected Poems of Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
    At Least for A While by Pearse Hutchinson
    Points West by Gerard Dawe
    Articulations: Poetry, Philosophy and the Shaping of Culture: Seamus Heaney, Royal Irish Academy Cunningham Medal, 28th January 2008

  • 'Best' Books of 2008 - Fiction - 14 December 2008
     Bad Day in Blackrock by Kevin Power
    Bird in the Snow by Michael Harding
    The Gift by Cecelia Ahern
    Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
    Disguise by Hugo Hamilton
    Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
    Boy & Man by Niall Williams
    The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
    Taking Pictures by Anne Enright
    Forgive & Forget by Patricia Scanlan
    The Truth Commissioner by David Park
    With My Lazy Eye by Julia Kelly
    Cré Na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain

  • 'Best' Books of 2008 - Non Fiction - 13 December 2008
     Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll
    Great Irish Houses with Forewords by Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin, The Honourable Desmond Guinness and Photography by Trevor Hunt
    Doorways of Ireland by Michael Fewer
    The Irish Pub by Turtle Bunbury and James Fennell
    The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution by Maurice Walsh
    Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness by Tim Robinson
    God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland by Micheal O Siochru
    The Battle of Tourmakeady: A Study of the IRA Ambush and Its Aftermath by Donal Buckley
    Traditional Boats of Ireland: History, Folklore and Construction edited by Criostoir Mac Carthaigh
    Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore by Ronan Kelly
    Ireland’s Misfortune: The Turbulent Life of Kitty O’Shea by Elizabeth Kehoe
    Angels in My Hair: The True Story of a Modern-Day Irish Mystic by Lorna Byrne
    Great Hatred Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland by Jonathan Powell
    Irish Walled Towns by John Givens

  • Issue 435 - 6/7 December 2008
     Great Birds of Britain and Europe by Jonathan Elphick and David Tipling
    The Island That Dared: Journeys in Cuba by Dervla Murphy
    The Irish Pub by Turtle Bunbury and James Fennell
    The Last Days of the Cork Docklands by Patrick Cummins
    Great Irish Heroes by Sean McMahon
    The Glenstal Book of Daily Prayer
    The Fenian Anthology by Joe Ambrose
    An Garda Siochana and the Scott Medal by Gerard O’Brien
    Vitali’s Ireland by Vitali Vitaliev
    Sunday Miscellany: A Selection from 2006-2008 edited by Cliodhna Ni Anluain
    Make Em Laugh: A Golden Age of Theatre in Ireland by Declan Hassett
    Anyway, Where Was I? By Geoff Hill
    More Overheard in Dublin: Dublin Wit
    Ireland’s Garden Birds by Oran O’Sullivan and Jim Wilson
    Birdwatching in Ireland by Eric Dempsey
    Surfing Britain and Ireland by Chris Nelson & Demi Taylor
    Emergency: Irish Hospitals in Chaos by Marie O’Connor
    County Antrim: Chasing the Light by Steven Hanna
    Wicked Irish Wit by Aubrey Malone
    The Devil is an Irishman by Eddie Lenihan
    The Feckin Book of Irish Love by Colin Murphy and Donal O’Dea
    Slanguage: A Dictionary of Irish Slang 3ed by Bernard Share
    The Tain translated from the Old Irish by Ciaran Carson

  • Issue 434 - 25 November 2008 - Irish Biographies & Memoirs
     Memoir of Andrew J. Byrne: Veteran of the American Civil War by Seamus Condon
    Brian Cowan: The Path to Power by Jason O’Toole
    A Memoir by Tim Pat Coogan
    A Restless Life by Leland Bardwell
    Taking a Stand: Memoirs of an Irish Priest by Joe McVeigh
    Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up by Gerry Ryan
    Joe Dolan: The Official Biography by Ronan Casey
    Clannad: Moments in a Lifetime by Barbara Bennett
    Sister Kate: Nursing Through the Troubles by Kate O’Hanlon
    An Ordinary Soldier by Doug Beattie
    Living Off the Land: Women Farmers of Today in Ireland by Josephine Russell
    Condemned: Letters from Death Row by Ray and Sean O Riain
    No Job for a Woman by Sandra Mara
    Ma, I’m Getting Meself a New Mammy by Martha Long
    Nobody Heard Me Cry: An Irish Boy Sold on the Streets, a Life Shattered by Abuse by John Devane
    Where’s Your Mama Gone by Kay O’Gorman
    U2 by U2 edited by Neil McCormick
    Heads: A Day in the Life by Gerry Anderson
    Inside Man: Life as an Irish Prison Officer by Philip Bray
    All Kinds of Everything by Dana Rosemary Scallon
    The Devil in the Red Dress: The Sharon Collins Story by Abigail Rieley
    Sophie’s Story by Susan McKay

  • Issue 433 - 22/23 November 2008 - Irish Fiction
     Bad Day in Blackrock by Kevin Power
    Bird in the Snow by Michael Harding
    Ball of Fire: Collected Stories by John Montague
    Rogha Scealta by Padraic O Conaire
    Open-Handed by Chris Binchy
    John by Niall Williams
    Reflections in a Tar-Barrell by Jack Harte
    Boys are Elastic, Girls are Fantastic and The Punching Man by Marsha Swan
    Enchanting Alice by Anne Dunlop
    Second Chances by Martina Reilly
    A Dance in Time by Orna Ross
    I Remember by Noelle Harrison
    Forever Friends by Kate McCabe
    The Lemur by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)
    American Skin by Ken Bruen
    The Beautiful Sound of Silence by Paul Charles
    Soul Murder by Andrew Nugent
    Undertow by Arlene Hunt
    Where No One Can Hear You Scream by Sarah McInerney
    Nights Beneath the Nation by Denis Kehoe
    The Sea and the Silence by Peter Cunningham
    Feels Like Maybe by Claire Allen
    Before I Forget by Melissa Hill
    Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern
    Sleep Softly Baby by Carol Magill
    The Matchmaker by Marita Conlon McKenna
    This Year It Will Be Different: Stories by Maeve Binchy
    Snow White Turtle Doves by Juliet Bressan

  • Issue 432 - 15/16 November 2008
     Remembering Mayo’s Fallen Heroes compiled by Michael Feeney
    Great Irish Houses with Forewords by Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin, The Honourable Desmond Guinness and Photography by Trevor Hunt
    Doorways of Ireland by Michael Fewer
    Bird’s Nest Soup by Hanna Greally
    Touching Greatness: Memorable Encounters with Golfing Legends by Dermot Gilleece
    The Republic of Ireland: International Football Facts by Dean Hayes
    Boss Cat: Roy Keane’s Epic First Season as a Premiership Manager by Nick Barnes
    Hurling: The Warrior Game by Diarmuid O’Flynn
    Blood Brothers: The Inside Story of the Cork Hurlers, 1996-2008 by Michael Moynihan
    The Best of the West: GAA Greats of Connacht by John Scally
    Sam, Liam, Strikes and Schemozzles: How Well Do You Know Your GAA? By JP Corkery and Ciaran Loughran
    Final Whistle: The Paddy Russell Story by Paddy Russell
    Munster: 2008 Champions of Europe from the Irish Examiner
    Ronan O’Gara: My Autobiography
    Axel: A Memoir by Anthony Foley
    Princes of Pigskin: A Century of Kerry Footballers by Joe O Muircheartaigh & TJ Flynn
    Our Name is On the Cup: The Stories of Liam MacCarthy and Sam Maguire by Sean Meaney
    Three Kings: Cork, Kilkenny & Tipperary: The Battle for Hurling Supremacy by Ralph Riegel
    Sonia O’Sullivan: My Story
    Robert Dunlop: Life and Times of a Legend by Jimmy Walker

  • Issue 431 - 12/13 November 2008 - Irish Politics and Poetry
     Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll
    Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-1945 edited by Gerald Dawe
    First Citizen: Mary McAleese and the Irish Presidency by Patsy McGarry
    Countdown to Unite: Debating Irish Reunification by Richard Humphreys
    Another Europe? After the Third No by Gwyn Prins
    How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
    The Builders: How a Small Group of Property Developers Fuelled the Building Boom and Transformed Ireland by Frank McDonald and Kathy Sheridan
    Ireland’s International Financial Services Centre: A Story of Global Financial Success by Fiona Reddan
    The New America by Mark Little
    How the Peace Was Won by Brian Rowan
    Interrogating Irish Policies by William Kingston
    Nothing to Declare: The Drug Smuggler’s Deadly Trade by Ann Murray
    Our Lives Out Loud: In Pursuit of Justice & Equality by Ann Louise Gilligan and Katherine Zappone
    Collected Poems by Ciaran Carson
    Life on Earth by Derek Mahon
    My Love Has Fared Inland by Medbh McGuckian

  • Issue 430 - 8/9 November 2008 - New Irish History
     The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution by Maurice Walsh
    Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness by Tim Robinson
    Knock: The Virgin’s Apparition in 19th Century Ireland by Eugene Hynes
    Great Irish Lives edited by Charles Lysaght
    Ireland and Irish America: Culture, Class and Transatlantic Migration by Kerby A. Miller
    Decoding the IRA by Tom Mahon and James J. Gilroy
    We Declare: Landmark Documents in Ireland’s History by Richard Aldous
    In the Wake of the Great Rebellion: Republicanism, Agrarianism and Banditry in Ireland After 1798 by James G. Patterson
    The Road to the Somme: Men of the Ulster Division Tell Their Story by Philip Orr
    Shadows of Doubt by Noel Redican
    Tallaght, 1835-50: A Rural Place by Sean Bagnall
    Print Culture in Loughrea, 1850-1900: Reading, Writing and Printing in an Irish Provincial Town by Bernadette Lally
    The Fishery of Arklow, 1800-1950 by Jim Rees
    The Diocese of Lismore, 1801-69 by RB MacCarthy
    The Downfall of Hagan: Sligo Ribbonism in 1842 by Jennifer Kelly
    The Murder of Major Mahon, Strokestown, County Roscommon, 1847 by Padraig Vesey

  • Issue 429 - 18/19 October 2008 - New Irish Fiction
     The Gift by Cecelia Ahern
    Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
    Molly Fox’s Birthday by Deirdre Madden
    Country of the Grand by Gerard Donovan
    The Idea of Love by Louise Dean
    The Silence of the Glasshouse by Martin Malone
    The Likeness by Tana French
    Find the Lady by Tom Mac Intyre
    The Bright Side by Alex Coleman
    Saving Grace by Ciara Geraghty
    Someone Special by Sheila O’Flanagan
    Between the Sheets by Colette Caddle
    Loves Lies Bleeding by Kate Thompson
    Notions by Colin Fox
    Where the Heart Is by Mairead O’Driscoll
    Na Comharsana Nua by Eamonn O Loingsigh
    Hitler and Mars Bars by Dianne Ascroft
    The Queen’s Tale: The Struggle for the Survival of Ireland: A 14th Century Novel by DJ Birmingham
    The Deportees by Roddy Doyle

  • Issue 428 - 11/12 October 2008
     Keylines for Living: Words to Inspire and Sustain You by Ann Henning Jocelyn
    The North: A View From the Skies by Esler Crawford
    Inishmurray: Monks and Pilgrims in an Atlantic Landscape by Jerry O’Sullivan and Tomas O Carragain
    Kenny’s Choice: 101 Irish Books You Must Read by Des Kenny
    Weaving Dreams: A True Irish Love Story by Noel Donegan and Luz Java
    What the Doctor Ordered: An Encyclopaedia of Wexford Opera Festival Since 1951 edited by Kevin Lewis
    Island of the Setting Sun: In Search of Ireland’s Ancient Astronomers by Anthony Murphy and Richard Moore
    Lakeshore Loops: Exploring Ireland’s Lakes by John Dunne
    Walking the Back Roads: A Journey from Donegal to Clonmacnoiose by Michael McMonagle
    The Railway House: Tales from an Irish Fireside by Barry Kennerk
    The Ships of Rosslare Harbour by Brian Clear, Leo Coy, John Boyce and Brian Boyce
    Daddy, Please Don’t by Barbara Naughton
    Walking Shandon: A Guide to Cork’s Historic Heart by Peter Foynes

  • Issue 427 - 4/5 October 2008 - Irish Biographies, Memoirs, et. al.
    Even on Days when it Rains by Julia O’Donnell
    Scars That Run Deep by Patrick Touher
    In Harm’s Way by Sean Hogan
    Chairman of the Boards, Master of the Mile by Eamonn Coghlan
    Hear My Silence: Surviving Depression by Karina Colgan
    Hush Little Baby by Shane Dunphy
    Once a Brother: An Irish Christian Brother’s Story by Patrick C. Power
    Jasper Wolfe of Skiddereen by Jasper Ungoed-Thomas
    God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland by Micheal O Siochru
    The Sailor in the Wardrobe by Hugo Hamilton
    Unstoppable Brilliance: Irish Geniuses and Asperger’s Syndrome by Antoinette Walker and Michael Fitzgerald
    Kings of the Turf: Ireland’s Top Racehorse Trainers by Michael Clower
    Hidden Soldier: An Irish Legionnaire’s Wars from Bosnia to Iraq by Padraig O’Keeffe

  • Issue 426 - 27/28 September 2008 - New Irish Poetry and Plays
     An Leabhar Mor: The Great Book of Gaelic edited by Malcolm MacLean and Theo Dorgan
    Selected Poems of Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
    The Sphere of Birds by Ciaran Berry
    Lament for Art O’Leary by Vona Groarke
    At Least for A While by Pearse Hutchinson
    Points West by Gerard Dawe
    Venetial Epigrams: Translations from Goethe by Sean Lysaght
    The Essential Gabriel Fitzmaurice
    Methuen Anthology of Irish Plays edited and introduced by Patrick Lonergen
    Blaiseadh Pinn: Nuascribhneoireacht Ghaeilge edited by Alan Keogh
    The Ulster Reciter: Ballads, Poems and Recitations for Every Occasion edited by Joe McPartland

  • Issue 425 - 6/7 September 2008 - New Irish History
     The Civil War in Kerry by Tom Doyle
    The Battle of Tourmakeady: A Study of the IRA Ambush and Its Aftermath by Donal Buckley
    IRA Internments and the Irish Government: Subversives and the State, 1939-1962 by John Maguire
    Divine Right?: The Parnell Split in Meath by David Lawlor
    A Nation of Extremes: The Pioneers in Twentieth-Century Ireland by Diarmaid Ferriter
    The Civil Service and the Revolution in Ireland, 1912-1938 by Martin Maguire
    Oxford Guide to Literary Britain and Ireland edited by Daniel Hahn and Nicholas Robins
    Troubled Waters: Shipwrecks and Heartache on the Irish Sea by Patrick Ferguson
    The History of the Galway Races by Francis P.M. Hyland
    On tSeanam Anall: Scealta Mhici Bhain Ui Bheirn by Micheal Mac Giolla Esabuic

  • Issue 424 - 30/31 August 2008 - New Irish Fiction
     Disguise by Hugo Hamilton
    Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
    Boy & Man by Niall Williams
    Memoirs of Captain Rock by Thomas Moore
    Sanctuary by Ken Bruen
    In Exile by Billy O’Callaghan
    Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death by Gyles Brandreth
    This Champagne Mojito is the Last Thing I Own by Ross O’Carroll-Kelly
    The Book Club by Kate McCabe
    My Husband’s Lover by Erin Kaye
    With My Lazy Eye by Julia Kelly
    Two Days in Biarritz by Michelle Jackson
    Lessons in Heartbreak by Cathy Kelly
    I Saw You by Julie Parsons
    Dun an Airgid by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne

  • Issue 423 - 23/24 August 2008
     Bear in Mind These Dead by Susan McKay
    Written in Stone: The History of Belfast City Cemetery by Tom Hartley
    Newgrange by Geraldine and Matthew Stout
    Irish Agriculture: A Price History by Liam Kennedy and Peter Solar
    Strangers to Citizens: Irish on the Move 1600-1800 by Mary Ann Lyons and Thomas O’Connor
    Queen’s Thinkers: The Intellectual Heritage of a University edited by Alvin Jackson and David N. Livingstone
    Beijing for Beginners: An Irishman in the People’s Republic by Gary Finnegan
    Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Race by Nick Ward
    Christy Ring: Hurling’s Greatest by Tim Horgan
    Dick Fitzgerald: King in a Kingdom of Kings by Tom Looney
    Miami Showband Massacre: A Survivor’s Search for Truth by Stephen Travers and Neil Fetherstonhaugh
    Ireland Burning by Paul Cunningham
    Irish Songs: Traditional
    A Beginner’s Guide to Ireland’s Wild Flowers from the Sherkin Island Marine Station

  • Issue 422 - 16/17 August 2008
     Irish War on Drugs: The Seductive Folly of Prohibition by Paul O’Mahony
    Westlife: Our Story
    Stealing Water: A Secret Life in a South African City by Tim Ecott
    Ireland’s Olympians: Beijing and Beyond by Niall O’Flynn
    The Alderman Tom Kelly, 1868-1942 and Dublin Corporation by Sheila Carden
    Public Opinion, Politics and Society in Contemporary Ireland by Pat Lyons
    Ecoscape Ireland by Catherine Mack
    Twentieth-Century Irish Literature: A Reader’s Guide by Aaron Kelly
    Bram Stoker: A Literary Life by Lisa Hopkins
    Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction by Angela Kingston
    Narratives of Class in New Irish and Scottish Literature by Mary M. McGlynn

  • Issue 421 - 9/10 August 2008
     Traditional Boats of Ireland: History, Folklore and Construction edited by Criostoir Mac Carthaigh
    The Williamite Wars in Ireland, 1688-1691 by John Childs
    The Murders at Wildgoose Lodge by Terence Dooley
    Radical Politics in Modern Ireland: The Irish Socialist Republican Party, 1896-1904 by David Lynch, with a foreword by Diarmaid Ferriter
    All Our Yesterdays: Father Browne’s Photographs of Children and Their Favourite Poems edited by E.E. O’Donnell
    South Belfast: History and Guide by Norman Weatherall and George Templeton
    Irish Wild Plants: Myths, Legends & Folklore by Niall Mac Coitir
    A Burren Journal by Sarah Poyntz
    The Shores of Connemara by Seamas Mac an Iomaire
    Shannon Floodlands: A Natural History by Stephen Heery
    Shannon Navigation Charts from ERA Maptec
    Village Walks: Ireland – 50 Adventures on Foot
    The Tain Way Map and Guide by EastWest Mapping
    Corrib County: A Rambler’s Guide and Map
    The Burren
    Medieval Galway: A Rambler’s Guide and Map by Anne Korff
    Map of Kerry and Beara by A.B. O’Connor
    Kenmare, Tuosist-Sneem Guide Map by A.B. O’Connor
    The Bere Island Experience

  • Issue 420 - 2/3 August 2008
     A New History of Ireland vol. 1: Prehistoric and Early Ireland edited by Daibhi O Croinin
    Making Peace with the Past!: Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles by Graham Dawson
    Transforming the Peace Process edited by Aaron Edwards and Stephen Bloomer
    Through Streets Broad and Narrow: A History of Dublin Trams by Michael Corcoran
    Thomas Kinsella: Designing for the Exact Needs by Maurice Harmon
    Ulster Literary Theatre and the Northern Revival by Eugene McNulty
    Guide to Irish Mythology by Daragh Smyth
    The Generation Game by David McWilliams
    Something Beginning with P edited by Seamus Cashman
    Michael Collins’s Intelligence War: The Struggle Between the British and the IRA 1919-1921 by Michael Foy
    Justice for Raymond by Raymond McCord
    What to See in Northern Ireland by Alf McCreary
    Things to See and Do in Belfast by Alf McCreary
    The Irish Chateaux: In Search of the Descendants of the Wild Geese by Renagh Holohan

  • Issue 419 - 26/27 July 2008 - Irish Fiction
     Mutiny on the Bounty by John Boyne
    The Reapers by John Connolly
    If Not Now … by Denyse Devlin
    Going It Alone by Clare Dowling
    The Miracle of Grace by Kate Kerrigan
    None of My Affair by Fiona O’Brien
    Guarding Maggie by Ellen McCarthy
    The Summer of Secrets by Martina Reilly
    Tara’s Destiny by Geraldine O’Neill
    The Magician by Michael Scott
    The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
    Death’s Shadow by Darren Shan
    Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
    Redemption Falls by Joseph O’Connor
    Walking the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan
    Antarctica by Claire Keegan

  • Issue 418 - 5/6 July 2008 - Irish Biography
     Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore by Ronan Kelly
    Ireland’s Misfortune: The Turbulent Life of Kitty O’Shea by Elizabeth Kehoe
    My Father’s Watch: The Story of a Child Prisoner in 70s Britain by Patrick Maguire
    Days of Fear: Diary of a 1920s Hunger Striker by Frank Gallagher
    The Green Marine: An Irishman’s War in Iraq by Graham Dale
    Lights, Camera, Action: The Adventures of a Special Effects Director by Gerry Johnson
    Siobhan’s Miracle by Ellen and Derek Jameson
    Hungry for Home: Leaving the Blaskets by Cole Moreton
    Ma, He Sold Me For a Few Cigarettes by Martha Long
    A Life Interrupted by Malachy Walsh
    Tales of a Degenerate Poker Player by Derek Kelly
    Little Lady, One Big Man, Ocean: Rowing the Atlantic by Paul Gleeson and Tori Holmes

  • Special Issue - 21/22 June 2008 - Irish Ancestry
     Sources for Irish Family History compiled by James G. Ryan
    Tracing Your Irish History by Anthony Adolph
    Tracing Your Irish Ancestors 3rd ed by John Grenham
    How to Trace Your Irish Ancestors by Ian Maxwell
    Tracing your Roscommon Ancestors by John Hamrock
    Tracing Your Limerick Ancestors by Margaret Franklin
    Tracing Your Mayo Ancestors by Brian Smith
    Tracing Your Kerry Ancestors by Michael H. O’Connor
    Tracing Your Dublin Ancestors by James G. Ryan and Brian Smith
    Longford and its People by David Leahy
    Irish Church Records 2ed by James G. Ryan
    Irish Ancestors: A Pocket Guide by John Grenham
    Irish Families: Their Names, Arms & Origins by Edward MacLysaght

  • Issue 417 - 14/15 June 2008
     Ireland: A View From Above by Christopher Moriarty and Antonio Attini
    Irish Houses and Gardens from the Archives of Country Life by Sean O’Reilly
    Wexford: A Town and Its Landscape by Billy Colfer
    Dublin by Paul Baker
    Wild Dublin: Exploring Nature in the City by Eanna Ni Lamhna
    Dublin’s Magical Museums by Muriel Bolger
    South Dublin – How to Get By on, Like, 10,000 Euro a Day by Ross O’Carroll-Kelly
    Favourite Irish Proverbs text by Jo O’Donoghue and Photography and Design by Lily Lenihan
    Tactics of the Rich by Paul Overy
    Eleven Houses: A Memoir of Childhood by Christopher Fitz-Simon
    Rachel’s Favourite Food at Home by Rachel Allen
    Souls of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Pepe Charles and Honey Dew II by Damien Tiernan

  • Issue 416 - 7/8 June 2008 - New Irish Fiction
     The Truth Will Out by Anna McPartlin
    Are You Ready? by Amanda Hearty
    I Never Fancied Him Anyway by Claudia Carroll
    Bad Behaviour by Sheila O’Flanagan
    The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens
    A Horse with My Name by Colin Bateman
    The Bloomsday Dead by Adrian McKinty
    Take a Look At Me Now by Anita Notaro
    Gilded Shadows by Mary Rochford
    Star Gazing by Kate Thompson
    Angel at My Back by Mary Stanley
    Bullet and the Ark by Peter Sheridan
    Lighthouse by Chris Binchy
    Three’s a Crowd by Sheila O’Flanagan
    The Second Child by John Boyne


  • Issue 415 - 31 May 2008
     Seamus Heaney: A Bibliography, 1959-2003 by Rand Brandes and Michael J. Durkan
    The Maeve Binchy Writer’s Club by Maeve Binchy
    Modern Irish Poetry 1800-2000 by Justin Quinn
    Aran Islands and Connemara by J. M. Synge
    The Atlas of the Island of Ireland: Mapping Social and Economic Change by Justin Gleeson et. al.
    Saints of the Celtic Church by Martin Wallace
    Angels in My Hair: The True Story of a Modern-Day Irish Mystic by Lorna Byrne
    David Trimble: The Price of Peace by Frank Millar
    Eating Scenery: West Cork, The People and the Place by Alannah Hopkin
    An Emerald Odyssey: In Search of the Gods of Golf and Ireland by Paul J. Zingg
    The Untouchables: Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau and Its War on Organised Crime by Paul Williams
    Watching the Door: Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast by Kevin Myers
    Borderlands by Brian McGilloway
    Keys to the Kingdom by Jack O’Connor


  • Issue 414 - 17/18 May 2008 - New Irish History
     Mapping Meath in the Early 19th Century by Arnold Horner
    Chief O’Neill’s Sketchy Recollections of an Eventful Life in Chicago by Francis O’Neill
    The Paper Wall: Newspapers and Propaganda in Ireland, 1919-1921 by Ian Kenneally
    Forgotten Soldiers: The Irishmen Shot at Dawn by Stephen Walker
    Not While I Have Ammo: A History of Captain Connie Mackey, Defender of the Strand by Jim Corbett
    Kathleen Clarke: Revolutionary Woman by Kathleen Clarke
    Michael Davitt by John Devoy
    Dan Donovan: An Everyman’s Life by Vera Ryan
    Rendering to God and Caesar: The Irish Churches and the Two States in Ireland, 1949-73 by Daithi O Corrain
    The Way that I Went by Robert Lloyd Praeger with an introduction by Michael Viney
    No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years, 1900-1923 by Sinead McCoole
    Rare Old Dublin: Heroes, Hawkers and Hoors by Frank Hopkins

  • Issue 413 - 3/4 May 2008
     Unfulfilled Promise: Donogh O’Malley by PJ Browne
    The Vatican Pimpernel: The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty
    The Irish Man Who Ran for England by Jim Hogan
    Over My Shoulder: A Memoir by Norma McMaster
    Brief Encounters: A Memoir by Edith Newman Devlin
    There’s Something About Mary by Mary Banotti
    St. Patrick: The Real Story As Told In His Own Words translated by Jim McCormack
    The National Gallery of Ireland: An Essential Guide by Raymond Keaveney
    Images of Cork City: Shared Moments by Crian Lillis
    Bumper Book of Simplex Crosswords from the Irish Times by Mary O’Brien
    The Irish B& B Cookbook by Ann Mulligan

  • Issue 412 - 26/27 April 2008 - New Irish Fiction and Poetry
     The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
    Taking Pictures by Anne Enright
    Forgive & Forget by Patricia Scanlan
    Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern
    Orpheus Rising by Colin Bateman
    Pusakis at Paros and other Stories by Miriam Gallagher
    The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories by Brian J. Showers
    A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
    At a Time Like This by Catherine Dunne
    The Gathering by Anne Enright
    The Poet’s Chair: The First Nine Years of the Ireland Chair of Poetry: John Montague, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Paul Durcan, with a foreword by Seamus Heaney

  • Issue 411 - 19/20 April 2008
     Great Hatred Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland by Jonathan Powell
    Dublin’s Docklands Reinvented: The Post-Industrial Regeneration of a European City Quarter by Niamh Moore
    Exploring Georgian Dublin by Pat Dargan
    Redmond: The Parnellite by Dermot Meleady
    The Shannon Navigation by Ruth Delaney
    The Parish by Alice Taylor
    In the Tracks of the West Clare Railway by Eddie Lenihan
    Paisley: Demagogue to Democrat? By Ed Moloney
    UVF: The Endgame by Jim Cusack and Henry McDonald
    Pocket History of the Irish Famine by Ruan O’Donnell
    West of Ireland Walks by Kevin Corcoran
    Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c.1140-1540 by Dianne Hall
    Donkey’s Years: Memories of a Life As Story Told by Aidan Higgins
    A Starving People: Life and Death in West Clare, 1845-1851 by Ignatius Murphy
    Before the Famine Struck: Life in West Clare, 1834-1845 by Ignatius Murphy

  • Issue 410 - 12/13 April 2008
     Articulations: Poetry, Philosophy and the Shaping of Culture: Seamus Heaney, Royal Irish Academy Cunningham Medal, 28th January 2008
    Spying on Ireland: British Intelligence and Irish Neutrality During the Second World War by Eunan O’Halpin
    A New History of Ireland by Christine Kinealy
    The Irish Voter: The Nature of Electoral Competition in the Republic of Ireland by Michael Marsh et. al.
    Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections, 1919-64 by Kate O’Malley
    From the Margins to the Centre: A History of the Irish Times by Dermot James
    Joseph Walshe: Irish Foreign Policy 1922-1946 by Aengus Nolan
    Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the Nation’s Architecture of Containment by James M. Smith
    Walled Gardens: Scenes from an Irish Childhood by Annabel Davis-Goff
    Ireland’s Professional Amateurs: A Sports Season at Its Purest by Andy Mendlowitz
    Ireland: Land of Celtic Myths and Legend by Simona Tarchetti
    The Donegal Woman by John Throne

  • Issue 409 - 4/5 April 2008
     The Irish Folklore Commission: History, Ideology, Methodology by Micheal Briody
    The Poet’s Chair: The First Nine Years of the Ireland Chair of Poetry by John Montague, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Paul Durcan with a forword by Seamus Heaney
    Dublin Explorer
    Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940 by Maria Luddy
    The Girl in the Wicker Basket by Anne Kenny
    Good Times and Bad:From the Coombe to the Kremlin: A Memoir by Seamus Martin
    Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema by Roderick Flynn and Patrick Brereton
    Blarney Castle: Its History, Development and Purpost by Mark Samuel and Kate Hamlyn
    New Contexts: Re-Framing Nineteenth-Century Irish Women’s Prices edited by Hiedi Hansson
    Roddy Connolly and the Struggle for Socialism in Ireland by Charlie McGuire
    Shadows of the Gunmen: Violence and Culture in Modern Ireland edited by Danine Farquharson and Sean Farrell

  • Issue 408 - 29 March 2008 - Irish Fiction and Poetry
     The Truth Commissioner by David Park
    Bloodstorm by Sam Millar
    Caulfield by Philip Lumley
    Somewhere in Between by Ruth Gilligan
    It Must Be Love by Sharon Owens
    For All We Know by Ciaran Carson
    Selected Poems of John Jordan edited by Hugh McFadden
    To Ring in Silence: New and Selected Poems by Paddy Bushe
    The Big Snow by David Park
    The Healing by David Park
    Swallowing the Sun by David Park
    Oranges from Spain by David Park
    The International by Glenn Patterson

  • Issue 407 - 19 March 2008
     Beyond the Wire: Former Prisoners and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland by Peter Shirlow and Kieran McEvoy
    Eoin O’Duffy: A Self-Made Hero by Fearghal McGarry
    Ireland’s Economic Success: Reasons and Lessons by Paul Sweeney
    Words We Use by Diarmaid O Muirithe
    Macnas Joyful Abandonment by Terry Dineen
    Power, Politics and Pharmaceuticals: Drug Regulation in Ireland in a Global Context Edited by Orla O’Donovan and Kathy Glavanis-Grantham
    Columbia Jail Journal by James Monaghan
    Ireland’s New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815-1922 by Malcolm Campbell
    Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland Since 1945 by Henry Patterson and Eric Kaufmann
    Tourism, Landscape and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland by William H.A. Williams

  • Issue 406 - 10 March 2008 - Irish History
     Blood on the Streets: 1916 & The Battle for Mount Street Bridge by Paul O’Brien
    The Biggest Show in Town: Record of the International Exhibition, Dublin 1907 by Ken Finlay
    The Bray and Enniskerry Railway by Liam Clare
    Irish Walled Towns by John Givens
    Haunted Belfast by Joe Baker
    Rising Out: Sean Connolly of Longford by Ernie O’Malley
    British-Irish Relations and Northern Ireland: From Violent Politics to Conflict Regulation by Brendan O’Duffy
    In Belfast by the Sea by Frank Frankfort Moore
    Carson’s Army: The Ulster Volunteer Force 1910-22 by Timothy Bowman
    Devolution and Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland edited by Paul Carmichael et. al
    Immigration and Social Change in the Republic of Ireland edited by Bryan Fanning
    The Great White Fair: The Herbert Park Exhibition of 1907 by Gerard Siggins
    Maritime Ireland: An Archaeology of Coastal Communities by Aidan O’Sullivan and Colin Breen

  • Issue 405 - 1 March 2008 - Irish Sports
     Padraig Harrington’s Journey to the Open by Padraig Harrington
    Croke Park: An Illustrated History by Tim Carey
    The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Gaelic Football and Hurling by Donal Keenan
    Journey to Adventure by Pat Falvey
    Princes of Pigskin: A Century of Kerry Footballers by Joe O Muircheartaigh and TJ Flynn
    White Line Fever: An Illustrated History of Irish Road Racing by Alastair McCook
    Giants of Gaelic Football : All Time Greats by Sean Og O’Ceallachain
    The Munich Air Disaster by Stephen Morrin
    Classic Munster Hurling Finals by Seamus J. King
    Staying the Distance by Ronnie Delaney
    The Dubs: Dublin GAA Since the 1940s by Sean Og O Ceallachain

  • Issue 404 - 9 February 2008 - Autobiographies, Biographies and Memoirs
     Roger Casement: Imperalist Rebel Revolutionary by Seamas O Siochain
    Between Comrades: James Connolly’s Letters and Correspondence 189-1916 edited by Donal Nevin
    Arthur’s Round: The Life and Times of Brewing Legend Arthur Guinness by Patrick Guinness
    Lapsed Agnostic by John Waters
    Joycean Murmoirs: Fritz Senn on James Joyce edited by Christine O’Neill
    A Provisional Dictator: James Stephens and the Fenian Movement by Marta Ramon
    All Kinds of Everything by Dana Rosemary Scallon
    Radio Man: 40 Years of Broadcasting by Brendan Balfe
    Off Screen: A Memoir by Sheamus Smith
    Walls of Silence: Robert McCartney by Catherine McCartney
    The Insider: The Belfast Prison Diaries of Eamonn Boyce, 1956-62 edited by Anna Bryson
    To The Limits of Endurance: One Irishman’s War by Jack Harte
    No Deals: An Addict’s Journey to Freedom by Jackie Burke
    Unsolved: Nine Irish Murders Files Still Open by Barry Cummins

  • Issue 403 - 2 February 2008
     With My Lazy Eye by Julia Kelly
    Lessons in Heartbreak by Cathy Kelly
    Tell Me This is Normal: New and Selected Poems by Julie O’Callaghan
    The River Field by John MacKenna
    Brandon 25 edited by Steve McDonagh
    Dulse by Frank McGuinness
    Laugh at Gilded Butterflies: A Selection of Favourite Poems chosen by Ulick O’Connor
    Winterwood by Patrick McCabe

  • Issue 402 - 26 January 2008
     Irish Republicanism in Scotland 1858-1916: Fenians in Exile by Mairtin Sean O Cathain
    Hold & Firm: John Charles McQuaid and the Second Vatican Council by Francis Xavier Carty
    Rule 42 and All That by Sean Kelly
    Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland, 1850-1922 by Caitriona Clear
    South Tipperary 1570-1841: Religion, Land and Rivalry by David Butler
    Divine Right?: The Parnell Split in Meath by David Lawlor
    Stop Howling at the Moon by Eamon O’Donnell
    The Suspect: The Story of Rachel O’Reilly’s Murder by Jenny Friel
    The Discovery of the Dingle Diamond by C.P.R. May
    The Longest Rebellion by Chris Lawlor
    Global Ireland by Tom Inglis

  • Issue 401 - 19 January 2008
     Hidden Dublin: Deadbeats, Dossers and Decent Skins by Frank Hopkins
    Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland by Richard English
    Raiders of the Caribbean: Ireland’s Cricket World Cup by Trent Johnston and Gerard Siggins
    Tracing Your Irish Family History by Anthony Adolph
    Before Sunday: The Life Stories of the Bloody Sunday Victims by Jennifer Faus
    Souls of the Sea: The Tragic Story of Seven Lives Lost by Damien Tiernan
    Lyn’s Escape by Lyn Madden
    Martin Cahill: My Father by Frances Cahill
    The High Society: Drugs and the Irish Middle Class by Justine Delaney Wilson
    Cre Na Cille by Mairtin O Cadhain

  • Issue 400! - 12 January 2008 - The 'Best' Books of 2007
     Non-Fiction
    Temples of Stone: Exploring the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland by Carleton Jones
    Judging Dev by Diarmaid Ferriter
    Dublin An Urban History: The Plan of the City by Niall McCullough
    The Insider: The Belfast Prison Diaries of Eamonn Boyce, 1956-62 edited by Anna Bryson
    The Making of the Irish Constitution 1937 by Dermot Keogh and Andrew McCarthy
    Achill Voices by Robert Redmond
    Follow Me Down to Dublin: The City Through the Voices of Its Peoples by Deirdre Purcell
    Contested Island: Ireland 1460-1630 by S.J. Connolly
    Luck and the Irish: A History of Change 1970-200 by R.F. Foster
    Dublin: A View from the Ground by Neil Hegarty
    The High Crosses of Ireland: Inspirations in Stone by Elinor D.U. Powell
    Sean MacBride: A Life by Elizabeth Keane

    Fiction and Poetry
    Ireland’s Other Poetry: Anonymous to Zozimus edited by John Wyse Jackson and Hector McDonnell
    Barnacle Soup and other stories from the west of Ireland by Josie Gray, with Tess Gallagher
    The Gathering by Anne Enright
    Foolish Mortals by Jennifer Johnston
    Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories by John McGahern
    Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
    Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
    The Fifty Minute Mermaid by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, translated from the Irish by Paul Muldoon
    Somewhere the Wave: new poems by Derek Mahon with drawings and watercolours by Bernadette Kiely
    The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)

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