Cork University Press

Fintan Vallely - Beating Time The Story of the Irish Bodhrán ( HB) - BRAND NEW ( MARCH 2025)

The bodhrán is a phenomenally popular instrument in Irish Traditional music, within which it and its playing techniques developed hugely in the latter half of the twentieth century. Now with...

Fintan Vallely -The Companion to Irish Traditional Music ( 3rd Edition) - HB - BRAND NEW 2024

Third Revised and expanded edition, May 2024. Cork University Press.  This extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand...

Kevin Barry, Tom Dunne, Richard Kearney & Edna Longley ( Editors ) - The Irish Review Number 1 ( 1986)

The Irish Review is a refereed journal. Since it first appeared in 1986 it has established itself as a journal of record. It provides a forum for critical and creative writing in English...

Kevin Barry, Tom Dunne, Richard Kearney & Edna Longley ( Editors ) - The Irish Review Number 3 ( 1988 )

The Irish Review is a refereed journal. Since it first appeared in 1986 it has established itself as a journal of record. It provides a forum for critical and creative writing in English...

Larkin, Emmet & Freundenberger, Herman ( Editors) - Prost, Joseph - A Redemptorist Missionary in Ireland 1851-1854 ( Irish Narratives Series)

The recollections of Joseph Prost, an Austrian priest who initiated the Redemptorist parish missionary campaign in Ireland in 1851, provides a fascinating chronicle of the ' devotional revolution' by...

Michael Hopkinson ( Editor) - Frank Henderson's Easter Rising : Recollections of a Dublin Volunteer - PB - BRAND NEW ( Irish Narratives Series )

In an engaging family memoir, Frank Henderson, who became Commandant of the Second Battalion of Irish Volunteers, reveals the influence of his parents and the Christian Brothers in molding his...

Nell McCafferty - A Woman to Blame : The Kerry Babies Case, PB BRAND NEW Attic Press ( Originally 1985)

A paperback reprint edition, 2024 , Attic Press, ( the original imprint from 1985)  of journalist Nell McCafferty's A Woman To Blame   Nell McCafferty was rarely better than her detailed...

Ralph Sheppard - The Birds of County Donegal Residents, Regulars and Rarities ( APRIL 2025) BRAND NEW

The Birds of County Donegal is the first complete record of the history and status of all 376 birds known to have occurred in County Donegal. In this comprehensive account every species and race...

Timothy G. McMahon - Pádraig Ó Fathaigh's War of Independence - Recollections of a Galway Gaelic Leaguer - PB - BRAND NEW ( Irish Narratives Series)

Padraig O Fathaigh ( 1879-1976) was a lifelong Gaelic Leaguer and teacher of Irish. Already a prominent member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish Volunteers before 1916, O Fathaigh was...