IRISH BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2026

Sophie Toscan du Plantier - Love of the Land -BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE.  Love of the Land is a remarkable literary discovery: a previously unpublished work by Sophie Toscan du Plantier, written during her time on...

Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha - Mainistir na Feola - HB - BRAND NEW

Poems about the body and the spirit, poems about language and human rights, poems about poetry itself - they are all here in this second collection from Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha. With maturity and...

Micí Sheáin Néill Ó Baoill - Maith Thú a Mhicí - HB - BRAND NEW

Declan Murphy - One Man and His Dog : On a Quest for Ireland’s Wild Orchids- BRAND NEW

In this wonderful new work of nature writing, naturalist Declan Murphy undertakes an unforgettable journey across Ireland in search of its rarest and most beguiling orchids, accompanied always by his...

Emmet O'Connor - War to the Death! The Waterford Farm Strikes of 1922 and 1923 - PB- BRAND NEW

Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  In War to the Death! The Waterford Farm Strikes of 1922 and 1923, leading labour historian Emmet O’Connor delves into an intense local...

Karen Fitzgibbon - Tell the Truth - PB - 2026 - BRAND NEW

A woman is accused of murdering her husband. Twelve jurors must decide her fate. Marion McMahon lies in her cell, guarding a secret that could set her free. But she will never tell. She is safer on...

Ciaran Carson - X+Y=K - PB - BRAND NEW

X + Y = K is the final, astonishing work by the late Ciaran Carson - an electrifying fusion of memoir, ghost story, and speculative fiction that pushes his lifelong preoccupations with memory, time,...

Saoirse Ethnic Hands Company - Tastes of Home : A Sanctuary Cookbook - PB - BRAND NEW

DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST Tastes of Home: A Sanctuary Cookbook is a multicultural community cookbook published by Mercier Press, Ireland’s oldest independent publisher, and...

A. O'Connor - The Expectation - PB - BRAND NEW

A missing woman. A suspicious death. And a housekeeper who knows too much. Ireland, 1847. As famine devastates County Kerry, Nancy Spencer arrives at Thornbury Hall to take up the position of...

Shona Shirley Macdonald - The Amazing Jam - HB - BRAND NEW

Grub the cat loves to travel the world, jamming with his band. He wants to try something new, so he decides to enter a jam-making competition. Singing crazy music as the jam bubbles, has Grub created...

Curlew Editions - Winter Papers : Volume 12 - HB

Vol 12 of Winter Papers Ireland’s annual arts anthology is publishedby Curlew Editions. It will offer fiction, non-fiction, poetry photography, visual arts, along with craft interviews and...

Miriam O'Donohoe - It Dosen't Get Any Better Than This - PB - SIGNED - BRAND NEW

Published by Revival Press, Limerick, August 2026, paperback, 107 pages.  Illustrated throughout with the author's own b&w photographs of rural Clare (and South Galway), Burren landscapes, nature and...

Richard S. Grayson - Cork : The Irish Revolution, 1912-23 - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE Events in County Cork during the Irish Revolution point to there being many Corks between 1912 and 1923. The county contributed some of the...

J.P Donleavy - The Unexpurgated Code - PB - BRAND NEW

BRAND NEW, published by Lilliput Press, 2026. Reprint.  The Unexpurgated Code is J.P. Donleavy at his most gloriously mischievous; a wry, impeccably-phrased manual for surviving the theatre of...

Paul Rouse & Cathal Billings - An Spórt agus an Réabhlóid in Éirinn - BRAND NEW

AS GAEILGE  This remarkable book by Cathal Billings and Paul Rouse explores the importance of sport in the Irish Revolution. The first three decades of the twentieth century brought profound...

Noel Dorr - Irish or British or Both - BRAND NEW

DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICEMore than a generation after the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement brought an end to decades of violence in Northern Ireland, the central constitutional...

Joseph E. A. Connell Jnr - An Unfinished Republic : De Valera and the Politics of Negotiation - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND VIA N POST IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE He was not a conciliator. His political policy was distinguished by an unwavering belief that his view, and only his view, was...

Alan Nolan - Lights, Camera, Mayhem! (The Grand Central Cinema Club) - PB - BRAND NEW

Dublin, 1937 A gang of movie-mad kids meet at the Grand Central Cinema on O’Connell Street and form a club to make their OWN films! Jem, Juno, Sylvie and friends are thrilled to meet world-famous...

Judi Curtin - Gracie - PB - BRAND NEW

From best-selling award-winner Judi Curtin It’s 1930. Twelve-year-old Gracie has always lived in a tiny cottage bursting with brothers and sisters, until she's sent to stay with her widowed Aunt Peg...

Tom McCaughren & Erika McGann - Swim, Little Otter ( Illustrated by Shannon Bergin) - HB - BRAND NEW

Poor Little Otter can’t swim. The deep, dark river is just too scary. But he has to learn to swim or he won’t be a real otter. Maybe his new friend Tom Cat can help …

Micheál ó Conghaile - Faraor Géar nár Cailleadh Mé - PB - BRAND NEW

San úrscéal seo, a fheictear trí shúile Bhríd Ní Mháille, an bhean a chum‘Amhrán an Bhá’ agus ‘Amhrán South Boston’, tugtar léargas ar a saol imBoston, an t-uaigneas agus an briseadh croí tar éis...

Frank Reidy - Go Gaineamh Rua - PB - BRAND NEW

Faoi scáth na gcainteanna Angla- Éireannacha i dtús na seachtóidí agus go luath sna 1980idí, tugann an t-úrscéal seo spléachadh dúinn ar an spiaireachtagus ar spiairí. Déanann an t-údar cur síos ar...

Micheál Ó Máille - An Cheathrú Rua : Loachas na Leithinse - PB - BRAND NEW

Saothar cuimsitheach staire a thugann cuireadh don léitheoir dul ar thuras amachun scéal na háite a rianú. Insítear scéal an cheantair trí shúile a mhuintire, lecnuasach breá de ghrianghraif fite...

John Walsh - Ar Lámh Shábhála? Coimisiún na Gaeltachta 1926 - PB - BRAND NEW

Cloch mhíle ba ea 1926 i stair na hÉireann, tráth ar cuireadh go leor cor nua i saol na tíre a mairfeadh a rian go ceann i bhfad ina dhiaidh sin. Thosaigh an chéad stáisiún raidió 2RN ag craoladh, a...

Patricia Forde & Phillip Cullen - An Peata is Fearr - BRAND NEW - HB

Fáilte chuig Siopa na bPeataí! Tá an tOllamh Seán Mac Amadáin réidh le gach cúnamh agus comhairle a thabhairt! Ach cén peata a mholfaidh sé? Agus an mbeidh sé éasca i ndáiríre aire a thabhairt don...

Máire Zepf - Dearg - PB - BRAND NEW

Tá Fionn an-phaiseanta faoi go leor rudaí sa tsaol – a cuid cairde, an teanga, cearta daonna– ach aon uair a dhéanann sí iarracht labhairt os comhair daoine eile, teipeann ar a misneach. Nuair a...

Gavan Reilly - The Secret Life of Leinster House - BRAND NEW - PB

THE SMALLER FORMAT PAPERBACK EDITION OF THE 2025 BESTSELLER.  What is it like to run for election? How do public representatives deal with the cut-throat competition from their rivals - and their own...

Gary Murphy - Brian Cowen - Anatomy of a Taoiseach - HB - BRAND NEW

An insightful, searing and clear-eyed account of Taoiseach Brian Cowen and his time as leader of the country during Ireland's greatest crisis From the author of the bestselling Haughey, Gary Murphy...

Margaret Kelleher - Mary and Padraic Colum Lives and the Dream - PB - BRAND NEW

Mary Colum was an influential reviewer and critic, feared for her rapier wit by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Her husband Padraic Colum was a successful author of children’s stories, a...

Sinéad Sheehy & Ann Ní Chíobháin - Toasties - HB - BRAND NEW

Book 19 in the Blasta Books series , published by Blasta / Nine Bean Rows, 2026.    Whether it's a lunchtime mainstay, a midnight snack or eaten while hidden in a snug with a pint and a packet of...

Rory Sweetnam & Lisa Marr - New Zealand’s Irish Revolution - BRAND NEW

Offering original New Zealand perspectives on the Irish Revolution from the third Home Rule crisis to the establishment of the Irish Free State, this collection explores the political, social, and...

Tim McCarthy - Boomshakalaka : Winning Against the Odds - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST This book could very easily be seen as a general sports book, and it would be a very good sports book. But it is much more than that. … There...

John Concannon - The Bucket Man : John Concannon and the JFC Group - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE John Concannon is an Irish businessman, philanthropist, and star of RTÉ's The Secret Millionaire. A native of Kilconly, Tuam, Concannon is the...

Declan Lynch - Roll Away the Stone : When Journalism was the Best Job in the World - BRAND NEW

Working in the media used to be fun. You were part of a thriving industry in print and broadcasting with a licence to speak your mind and a chance to bring down the government every week. You could...

Sue Rainsford - From Out of My Heart - PB -BRAND NEW

Lilliput Press , October 2026 When Phyllipa, a scholar chasing the lingering pulse of Edgar Allan Poe, hears of Lana, a woman living in an isolated and river-ruled religious community, who claims to...

Jan Carson - No Vacancy : Hotel Stories - PB - BRAND NEW

No Vacancy is a short collection of micro-fiction inspired by Jan Carson's various (and numerous) hotel visits of recent years. Whether it's winning ownership of the Isle of Man in a game of pool or...

Charlotte Elizabeth McManus - The Professor in Erin

This Ireland I find myself in is unlike the Ireland I was taught about when I was at school ... A German scholar exploring ruins in Dungannon hits his head in a fall. He wakes to find himself in a...

Anthony Murphy - Ireland : Land of Legend - BRAND NEW

Ireland is a land steeped in story. Generations of Irish people have narrated their relationship with this island – its people, its landscapes, its monuments and sacred stone temples, its birds and...

Martina Devlin - Glorious Monsters - PB - BRAND NEW

Rome, 1819. Into the sun‑struck streets of the Eternal City ar­rive the Shelleys: brilliant, volatile, and dangerously entangled. When Irish artist Amelia Curran encounters Mary Shelley, her...

Donagh Quigley - Irish Herbal Apothecary : Native Irish Herbs for Everyday Use - HB - BRAND NEW (with SIGNED bookplate)

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE. This is a preorder, copies will ship for or by the publication date of 30th October 2026.  GET A FREE 140gr Handmade Lavender, Rosemary Thyme...

Owen O'Shea - Unchanged and Unchangeable : Austin Stack and the Irish Revolution - HB - BRAND NEW

Biography of the Kerry revolutionary.  Austin Stack was one of the central figures in the Irish revolutionary period. From his role in the lead-up to the 1916 Rising, through his senior positions in...

Joe Harrington - Once Upon a Road : The History and Times of an Irish Butter Road. The 1747 Turnpike from Listowel to Cork. HB - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE.  Once Upon a Road’ by Joe Harrington, is an account of the very first Butter Road from Kerry to the Cork Butter Market. Its 364 full colour...

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh - The Lives of Pádraic Ó Conaire - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, brand new, published by Mercier Press. Pádraic Ó Conaire (1882–1928) was an Irish writer and journalist who is considered the first author to incorporate modernist themes into...

Colm O'Regan - Tipping Away - BRAND NEW

Tipping Away is Colm O’Regan’s sharp, funny return to the rich world of Hiberno-English, following the bestselling success of Gallivanting with Words. From placenames and fishing boats to kitchens,...

Michael Cronin - Ireland: Why it matters to be an island - BRAND NEW

It is a simple fact that Ireland is an island nation. But how often do we consider what it means to be an islander?Michael Cronin argues that we tend to ignore the fundamental fact of our island...

Mark Mellett - Blue Heart : War, Climate and the Battle for the Ocean that Keeps us Alive - HB - BRAND NEW

Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the price. War, Climate and the Battle for the Ocean that Keeps us Alive   DescriptionIn Blue Heart, Mark Mellett, former Vice Admiral and head of the...

Manchán Magan - Seeing What's Hidden - HB - BRAND NEW

FREE TRACKED AN POST DELIVERY INCLUDED IN IRELAND The third book in the trilogy from the late Manchán Magan, who completed the book shortly before his death in October 2025.  In his final book,...

Carsten Krieger - Clare : Wild Shores, Rugged Landscapes- BRAND NEW

When he first came to Clare as a visitor almost thirty years ago, acclaimed photographer Carsten Krieger knew he had found his home. Through his photographs, he brings us on a tour of its famous...

Kevin Moran - The Doomsday Club : Bog Bodies - PB - BRAND NEW

A school trip to the remote island of Inis Fola is supposed to be exciting. But before long, kids start to disappear and haunting blue lights are seen across the bog. Are the stories of a demon...

Jennifer Farley - A Children's Atlas of Ireland - BRAND NEW

DEIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE From hedgerows to haunted houses, bog bodies to big battles, discover Ireland as you've never seen it before. This atlas gives a flavour of all things...

Ann Ingle - Still Here : Everything I Know About Being Older - BRAND NEW

‘How did you get so old?’The morning when Ann Ingle’s grandson asked her that question led to musings on ageing and a life well lived. Told with warmth and humour, Ann grapples with how ageing has...

Rosemary Day - On The Air : 100 Years of Irish Radio - BRAND NEW

On The Air : 100 Years of Irish Radioby Rosemary Day (Author) For 100 years, radio has been the voice of the nation, bringing us together and reflecting our changing society. From the first broadcast...