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  • Issue 90 Featuring New Irish Poetry and Plays ...
    The Beauty of the Moon by Anne Haverty
    Brow Head by John Boland
    A Little Bit of Heaven: An Irish-American Anthology edited by Sean McMahon
    The Friendship Tree: The Life and Poems of Davoren Hanna
    Observatory by Daragh Carville
    Many Yong Men of Twenty / Moll / The Chastitute by John B. Keane
    Rough Magic First Plays edited by Siobhan Bourke
    The Ballad of the HMS Belfast by Ciaran Carson

  • Issue 89 Featuring ...
    Rethinking Northern Ireland edited by David Miller
    Defenders or Criminals?: Loyalist Prisoners and Criminalisation by Colin Crawford
    The Irish Health System in the 21st Century edited by Austin Leahy and Miriam Wiley
    Woman and Poverty in Ireland by Brian Nolan and Dorothy Watson
    Freedom of Angels: Surviving Goldenbridge Orphanage by Bernadette Fahy
    Lost Soul?: The Catholic Church Today by Daniel O'Leary
    Bowen's Court and Seven Winters by Elizabeth Bowen

  • Issue 88 Featuring Gift Books
    Irish Country Style: A Celebration of Ireland's Enduring Charms by Bill Laws
    Literary Ireland photography by Tom Kelly and text by Peter Somerville-Large
    Irish Moments by Bernd Weisbrod
    Irish Blessing: A Photographic Celebration collected with an introduction by Ashley Shannon
    Irish Voices: 50 Years of Irish Life 1916-1966 by Peter Somerville-Large
    The Celts: Life, Myth and Art by Juliette Pearce

  • Issue 87 Featuring New Irish History
    Black 47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy and Memory by Cormac O'Grada
    Ironing the Land: The COming of the Railway to Ireland by Kevin O'Connor
    Before the Revolution: Nationalism, Social Change and Ireland's Catholic Elite, 1879-1922 by Senia Paseta
    A Dream of Liberty: Constance Markievicz's Vision of Ireland by Sari Oikarinen
    The Pleasing Hours by Cynthia O'Connor
    A Walk Through Rebel Dublin 1916 by Mick O'Farrell
    In Sligo Long Ago: Aspects of Town and Country Over Two Centuries by John C. McTernan

  • Issue 86 Featuring New Irish Fiction
    Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
    Wayward Angel by Elaine Crowley
    Too Little, Too Late by Colette Caddle
    Light in the Head by Brain Langan
    Miss Harrie Elliott by Marian O'Neill
    Mary, Mary by Julie Parsons
    The House by the Shore by Mary Joyce
    The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett

  • Issue 85 Featuring ...
    The Truth About the Irish by Terry Eagleton
    Step Together: Ireland's Emergency Army 1939-1945 by Donal McCarron
    Brits Speak Out: British Soldiers of the Northern Ireland Conflict compiled by John Lindsay
    The Jesuits in Dublin by E.E. O'Donnell
    Consplawkus: A Writer's Life by Criostoir O'Flynn
    One Sad Ungathered Rose: Schizophrenia - a Mother's Story by Susan Poole Lives Less Ordinary: 32 Irish Portraits by Judy Kravis and Peter Morgan

  • Issue 84 Featuring ...
    Ireland: A Natural History by David Cabot
    Discovering Celtic Christianity by Bruce Reed Pullen
    Cast a Cold Eye by Michael B. Yeats
    Folktales of Ireland edited by Sean O'Sullivan
    A Song for Mary: An Irish-American Memoir by Dennis Smith
    Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts collected and narrated by Patrick Kennedy
    Policing Northern Ireland: Proposals for a New Start by John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary

  • Issue 83 Featuring ...
    Lewis's Cork: A Topographical Dictionary of the Parishes, Towns and Villages of Cork City and County
    The Skellig Story by Des Lavelle
    In the Legion of the Vanguard by John A. Pinkman edited by Francis E. Maguire
    1798 Diary by Ruan O'Donnell
    A Makeshift Majority: First Inter-Party Government, 1948-1952 by David McCullagh
    Killybegs: Then and Now by Donald Martin
    Home Farm: The Story of a Dublin Football Club 1928-1998 by Dr. Brendan Menton

  • Issue 82 Featuring ...
    Death of a Hero: Captain Robert Nairac, GC and the Undercover War in Northern Ireland by John Parker
    Fatal Encounter: The Story of the Gibraltar Killings by Nicholas Eckert
    Northern Ireland's Troubles: The Human Costs by Marie-Therese Fay, Mike Morrissey and Marie Smyth
    Do Schools Differ" by Emer Smyth
    The Irish and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Robert A. Stradling
    Great Irish Voices: Over 400 Years of Irish Oratory edited by Gerard Reid
    Tipperary in the Year of the Rebellion 1798 by William J. Hayes
    Celtic Christianity: Making Myths and Chasing Dreams by Ian Bradley

  • Issue 81 Featuring ...
    Cultural Traditions Dictionary by Gary Law
    Irish Archaeology Illustrated edited by Michael Ryan
    The Bitter World: Ireland's Job Famine and Its Aftermath by Mike Allen
    From the Inside: A Priest's View of the Catholic Church by Tony Flannery
    The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland by Mairead Corrigan Maguire
    A Treasury of Celtic Design
    The Passion of Jerome by Dermot Bolger

  • Issue 80 Featuring ...
    Cassa by Lilian Roberts Finlay
    The Cork Cook Book edited by Nuala Fenton
    C.S. Lewis at Home in Ireland by David Bleakley
    Trams of the Hill of Howth by James Kilroy
    The Last Years of the 'Wee Donegal': The County Donegal Railways in Colour by Robert Robotham
    When the Normans Came to Ireland by Maurice Sheehy
    Allyn's Embarrassing & Mysterious Irish Adventures by Carol McGinley

  • Issue 79 Featuring ...
    Big Fellow, Long Fellow: A Joint Biogfraphy of Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera by T. Ryle Dwyer
    Brother Against Brother by Liam Deasy
    Ireland 1905-25 Volume 1 Text & Historiography by Russell Rees
    Ireland 1905-25 VOlume 2 Documents & Analysis by A.C. Hepburn
    Memoir: My Life and Themes by Conor Cruise O'Brien
    Deeds Not Words: Irish Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen in Two World Wars by David Robertson

  • Issue 78 Featuring ...
    Loughs of Ireland: A Flyfisher's Guide 3rd edition by Peter O'Reilly
    Rivers of Ireland: A Flyfisher's Guide 4th edition by Peter O'Reilly
    Between the Mountains and the Sea: Dun Laoghaire and Rathdown County by Peter Pearson
    Showjumping Legends: Ireland 1868-1998 by Michael Slavin
    The Candle Factory: 500 Years of Rathborne's, Master Chandlers by Bernard Neary
    Anti-Racism: An Irish Perspective by Marian Tannam, Suzanne Smith and Suzie Flood

  • Issue 77 Featuring Poetry and Drama ...
    Seamus Heaney by Helen Vendler
    What the Hammer by Dermot Healy
    Selected Poems by Michael Longley
    Portia Coughlan by Marina Carr
    Our Lady of Sligo by Sebastian Barry
    Bandanna by Paul Muldoon
    Three Plays by Martin Lynch

  • Issue 76 Featuring ...
    War and Peace in Northern Ireland by Eamonn McCann
    Dis/Agreeing Ireland: Contexts, Obstacles, Hopes edited by James Anderson and James Goodman
    Irish Historical Documents since 1800 edited by Alan O'Day and John Stevenson
    Brendan Behan: A Life by Michael O'Sullivan
    The Brothers Behan by Brian Behan with Aubrey Dillon-Malone
    Technical Virgins by Elaine Crowley
    Red-Headed Rebel: Susan L. Mitchell - Poet and Mystic of the Irish Cultural Renaissance by Hilary Pyle
    Joan Denise Moriarty: Founder of the Irish National Ballet edited by Ruth Fleishmann

  • Issue 75 Featuring ...
    Irish Country by Nicholas Mosse
    Dublin's Victorian Houses by Mary E. Daly, Mona Hearn and Peter Pearson
    Wild Wicklow: Nature in the Garden of Ireland by Richard Naird and Miriam Crowley
    Ireland from the Sea by Andrew Phelan
    Irish Carnegie Libraries: A Catalogue and Architectural History by Brendan Grimes
    Walking Ireland by Tom Lawton
    A Close Shave with the Devil: Stories of Dublin by Ena May

  • Issue 74 Featuring ...
    Gangland by Paul Williams
    King Scum: The Life and Crimes of Tony Felloni, Dublin's Heroin Boss by Paul Reynolds
    Killers: Murder in Ireland by Stephen Rea
    Sophia's Story by Susan McKay
    Breaking the Bank: How the National Irish Bank Scandal was Exposed by George Lee and Charlie Bird
    Faith & Duty: The True Story of a Soldier's War in Northern Ireland by Nicky Curtis

  • Issue 73 Featuring ...
    Stone Buildings: Conservation, Repair, Building by Patrick McAfee
    Siege City: The Story of Derry and Londonderry
    Ancient Ireland: Life Before the Celts by Laurence Flanagan
    Dublin Voices: An Oral Folk History
    All Our Yesterdays by Declan Hassett
    Mary Robinson: The Authorised Biography by Olivia O'Leary and Helen Burke
    The Springs of Affection by Maeve Brennan

  • Issue 72 Featuring ...
    Brace Yourself Bridge It! by Martin Turner
    Drawing Conclusions: A Cartoon History of Anglo-Irish Relations 1798-1998 by Ray Douglas, Liam Harte and Jim O'hara
    Death of a Chieftain by John Montague
    A Love Present and other stories by John Montague
    The Victory of Sinn Fein by P.S. O'Hegarty
    Some Ethical Questions of Peace and War by Walter McDonald
    Into the Light: An Illustrated Guide to the Photographic Collections in the National Library of Ireland by Sarah Rouse

  • Issue 71 Featuring ...
    Home to Roost by Liz Kavanagh
    Ireland's Master Storyteller: The Collected Stories of Eamon Kelly
    Modern Irish Lives: Dictionary of 20th Century Biography by Louis Mcredmond
    From Public Defiance to Guerrilla Warfare by Joost Augusteijn The Mob: History of Irish Gangsters in America by James Durney
    Clann na Poblachta by Eithne MacDermott
    Human Rights Have No Borders: Voice of Irish Poets edited by Kenneth Morgan and Almut Schlepper

  • Issue 70 Featuring ...
    Birth of a Republic by Eoin Neeson
    Mama Tina by Christina Noble
    Doing Irish Local History: Pursuit and Practice by Raymond Gillespie and Myrtle Hill
    The Craic: A Journey Through Ireland by Mark McCrum
    Sold Into Marriage: One Girl's Living Nightmare by Sean Boyne
    State Violence: Northern Ireland 1969-1997 by Raymond Murray
    A Dictionary of Hiberno-English edited and compiled by Terence Patrick Dolan

  • Issue 69 Featuring ...
    Irish Houses: Eclectic and Unique Interiors by Ianthe Ruthven
    By Swerve of Shore: Exploring Dublin's Coast by Michael Fewer
    Revolutionary Imperialist: William Smith O'Brien 1803-1864 by Richard Davis
    The Fenians in Context: Irish Politics and Society 1848-1882 by R.V. Comerford
    The Lost Theatres of Dublin by Philip Ryan
    Irish Theatre Handbook from the Theatre Shop
    An Age of Innocence: Irish Culture 1930-1960 by Brian Fallon

  • Issue 68 Featuring ...
    Frank O'Connor: A Life by Jim McKeon
    Zulu: An Irish-American's Quest to Discover Her Roots by Joan Mathieu
    The Unappeasable Host: Studies in Irish Identities by Robert Tracy
    Mercier Companion to Irish Literature by Sean McMahon and Jo O'Donoghue
    Celtic Heritage Saints by Marian Kenny
    Lenihan: His Life and Loyalties by James Downey
    Reading Paul Muldoon by Clair Wills

  • Issue 67 Featuring New Irish Fiction
    Two Moons by Jennifer Johnston
    Emerald Underground by Michael Collins
    Sad Bastard by Hugo Hamilton
    The Song of the Tide by Mary Ryan
    The Silk Weaver by Gabrielle Warnock
    Consequences of the Heart by Peter Cunningham

  • Issue 66 Featuring ...
    Steps on My Pilgrim Way: Memories and Reflections by Cardinal Cahal Daly
    Celtic Christianity: A Sacred Tradition, A Vision of Hope by Timothy Joyce
    Kerry: A Natural History by Terry Carruthers
    Walk Guide: East of Ireland 3rd Edition by Jean Boydell, David Hermann & Miriam Joyce McCarthy
    Gardens of Remembrance by Thomas McCarthy

  • Issue 65 Featuring ...
    Celtic Quilting by Gail Lawther
    Celtic Cross Stitch by Gail Lawther
    Savouring Ireland: Cooking Through the Ages by Nuala Cullen
    A Pocket History of Irish Traditional Music by Gearoid O hAllmhurain
    Dublin on a Shoestring by Dublin Bus

  • Issue 64 Featuring New Irish Poetry
    Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney
    Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge
    The Lost Land by Eavan Boland
    The Alexandrine Plan by Ciaran Carson
    Taking My Letters Back: New and Selected Poems by Dermot Bolger
    Shelmailer by Medbh McGuckian
    Hay by Paul Muldoon

  • Issue 63 Featuring ...
    The Making of Ireland: From Ancient Times to the Present by James Lydon
    Snakes and Ladders by Fergus Finlay
    Divided Society: Ethnic Minorities and Racism in Northern Ireland edited by Paul Hainsworth
    Studies in Irish Cistercian History by Colmcille O Conbhuidhe edited by Finbarr Donovan
    Battleground: The Making of 'Saving Private Ryan' in Ireland by Tom Mooney and Stephen Eustace

  • Issue 62 Featuring ...
    A Meteor Shining Brightly: Essays on Major General Patrick R. Cleburne edited by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn
    A Short History of Tipperary Military Barracks (Infantry) 1874-1922 compiled by Walter O'Shea
    A Short History of the Third Tipperary Brigade by John R. Shelley
    Irish Pubs by Barrie Pepper
    Where the River Flows: Annamoe Rectory by Vera Pettigrew

  • Issue 60 Featuring ...
    Irish Home Rule 1867-1921 by Alan O'day
    1916 Rebellion Handbook with an introducation by Damien Kiberd
    1916 Proclamation (poster)
    Death of an Irish Tinker by Bartholomew Gill
    Mary, Mary by Julie Parsons

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