IRISH BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2026

Jessamine O'Connor - Somewhere - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, brand new, published by Lilliput Press, May 2026.  'Back in the flat, Sylvia is no use. She doesn't have any ideas, all she suggests is get a job, take your time, get some money together,...

Nuala O'Faolain - Are You Somebody (30th Anniversary edition) - PB - BRAND NEW

Upon its original publication in 1996, Nuala O'Faolain's Are You Somebody? quickly became an cultural sensation in Ireland, sparking an 'emotional episode in public life in Ireland'. O'Faolain's...

Dermot Bolger - Glory Nights & Heartache : The Lives of Irish Soccer Supporters in Fifteen Matches - PB - BRAND NEW

Glory Nights and Heartache is a book for anyone who has stood on a terrace, celebrating a victory or swearing they are finished with football only to always be drawn back. It brings together writers...

Cormac Quinn - Murder on Lough Derg - PB - BRAND NEW

All journalist Jack Myers wants is a relaxing Irish holiday. Retreating from his demanding job as a foreign correspondent, he thinks he's found the perfect escape - the stately St Peter's Manor,...

Dean Fee - CTRL : Essays on Video Games - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, brand new, published by Lilliput Press, April 2026.  In CTRL, writers turn their focus to one of the most influential – and persistently misunderstood – art forms of the modern era...

Frank Connolly - Exposed : The Scandals that Rocked the State - PB - BRAND NEW

Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the price.   From the murky corridors of power to the empty streets of our ghost estates, Frank Connolly exposes the Ireland that decades of corruption...

James Durney - Boyhood's Fire: Na Fianna Éireann at War 1916-1986 - PB - BRAND NEW

Boyhood's Fire: Na Fianna Éireann at War 1916–1986 On 24 April 1916, 1,600 revolutionaries assembled in Dublin and declared an Irish Republic. Among those who advanced on the city’s strategic...

Alan Bradley - Unmasking Samantha Cookes - The Many Lives of a Serial Fraudster - PB - BRAND NEW

She seemed like the perfect nanny. Until she vanished – and the truth emerged. Unmasking Samantha Cookes is a chilling true story of a master manipulator who spent more than a decade reinventing...

Fintan Drury - Genocide - PB - BRAND NEW

Genocide: Sponsoring the Destruction of Palestine is Fintan Drury’s follow-up to Catastrophe: Nakba II, extending his forensic chronicle of the genocide in Gaza into its third year. Opening on 13...

Nessa O'Mahony - Dodder Daughter - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, brand new, published by Salmon Press, April 2026.  Nessa O’Mahony’s sixth collection, Dodder Daughter, explores the feminine in all its cycles, charting a river’s course through youth,...

Thomas F. O'Rahilly - Dánfhocail : Irish Epigrams in Verse - PB - BRAND NEW

Dánfhocail: Irish Epigrams in Verse is the first ever translation of the concise, poetic commentaries found throughout Irish manuscript and oral traditions, originally compiled by T.F. O’Rahilly...

David Sweetman - The Medieval Castles of Ireland - BRAND NEW

While ‘an Englishman’s home is his castle’, in Ireland virtually all castles were built for defensive purposes. The medieval castles of Ireland traces the development of the Irish medieval castle,...

Oliver Whelan - Landlords and Tenants in County Carlow, 1879–1960 - BRAND NEW

Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  This book chronicles the ending of landlordism in Carlow. In the depression of the late 1870s tenants were supported by town merchants in...

William H.A Williams - Midwives and Fairies - BRAND NEW

"Midwives and Fairies: The Folklore of Childbirth in Ireland and Great Britain" is based on extensive research in printed sources plus work in the archives of the Folklore Department at UCD. The book...

Robert O'Byrne - The Irish Aesthete : Buildings of Ireland : Lost and Found - HB - BRAND NEW

Since 2012 Robert O'Byrne has produced theirishaesthete.com, an award-winning site exploring the country's extensive architectural heritage through words and pictures, In 2024 Lilliput Press...

Kevin Rafter - Fearless! - Vincent Browne, MAGILL and Ireland in the 1980s - BRAND NEW

Magill was the magazine that held a mirror up to Ireland at its most turbulent. In an era marked by mass unemployment, emigration, ferocious battles over abortion and divorce, and the political duels...

Niamh Mac Cabe - Four Night Seas - PB - BRAND NEW

Set across liminal landscapes, Four Night Seas is a collection of stories from award-winning author Niamh Mac Cabe feature characters navigating emotional or existential thresholds – grieving,...

John Farrelly - Farrelly's Field Guide to Irish Faerie Folk - PB - BRAND NEW

Larger format Paperback, illustrated throughout by the author ( who has an excellent style) .  Immerse yourself in the world of Ireland's ancient folk magic.   Drawing on the faded pages of his...

Paddy Donnelly - The Upside-Down Lighthouse - HB - BRAND NEW

Hardcover, published by O'Brien Press, 2026 - a Grandad and Meara story.  On a mysterious, foggy island, way out at sea, stands an upside-down lighthouse. Come with Grandad and Meara to this...

Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW

Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different...

Orlaith McBride & John Gibney - The Story of Us : Independent Ireland and the 1926 Census - BRAND NEW

On 1 ͅ April 1926 the first census of an independent Irish state wasundertaken. Across the 26 counties over 700,000 census forms werecompleted by, or on behalf of, the 2,971,992 people living in the...

Ciara Mageean - My Greatest Race - BRAND NEW

DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND INCLUDED IN THE COST Co-written with Cliona Foley. Published by Gill Books. Few Irish track athletes are as universally loved as Ciara Mageean, who has remained endearingly...

Shane Smith - Loaf Tin Bakes - BRAND NEW

TRACKED AN POST DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE. In Loaf Tin Bakes, celebrated Irish chef Shane Smith gives loaf cakes the spotlight they deserve. Who has time to fuss over perfectly...

Ciara O'Connor - Skidderwolves - PB - BRAND NEW

The Skidderwolves are a pack of notorious wolves who keep everyone in twelve-year-old Rory McKenna’s village awake at night by skidding their way down Main Street, sending sparks of electricity...

Karen Harte - Effie is Offline - BRAND NEW

Fifteen-year-old Effie has spent her entire life in the spotlight as the daughter of @ourbighappyfamily, a famous Irish influencer family known for their picture-perfect posts. But after her dad’s...

Lesley Bond - Blasket Bound : Memoirs of an Ireland Caretaker - PB - BRAND NEW

Like those who came before me, I arrived as an outsider, but the island does not allow one to remain separate for long. It takes root and leaves a mark you cannot shake.’ Lesley Bond and her partner...

John McKenna - The Lock-Keeper's Wife - PB - BRAND NEW

Julie McDermot has just been released from ‘The Mental’, the psychiatric institution where her husband committed her after the devastating loss of their two infant children. Returning to her narrow,...

Caitriona Lally - Home Economics : A Memoir - BRAND NEW ( with Signed Adhesive Bookplate)

'Since I’ve had my first book published, I’ve earned more from cleaning than from writing. The home economics don’t add up.' HOME ECONOMICS is Caitríona Lally’s humorous, thought-provoking memoir of...

Enda Finnan - Navan Road - An Illustrated History - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE Enda Finnan examins the physical and social development of the Cabra /Navan Road district from the 18th to the 20th century. Tracing the...

Michael Loughman - James Ryan and the Development of the Irish State - BRAND NEW

This book examines the life of James Ryan (1892-1970) as a means by which to explore the emergence and development of the independent Irish state. As a figure who was at the centre of the...

Mary Ryan - It's Probably Your Period - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, to be published March 2026. Gill Books.  From hormones to contraceptives, fertility to menopause, work with your cycle to unlock better health.  Renowned endocrinologist Dr Mary Ryan is...

David Coleman - Fear Less - PB - BRAND NEW

The Ten-Step Guide to Helping Kids Take Charge of Anxiety.  Published by Gill Books, March 2026 David Coleman's work is focused on helping parents understand and manage anxiety in children and teens,...

Lucy Kennedy - Under the Floorboards of 39A -

Do you believe in magic? Well, you just need to look beneath your feet ... because under the creaky floorboards of lots and lots of houses in Ireland, but most particularly under those of a house...

Orla Drumgoole - The Irish Mammy Cooks - HB - BRAND NEW

Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  100 recipes that taste of home - HB, 256 pages,  illustrated , published FEBRUARY 2026, Gill Books. A huge bestselling success of a book...

John Waddell - The Celtic World - A History - HB - BRAND NEW

At the dawn of history the Celts occupied a vast swathe of Europe from Ireland in the west to lands south of the Black Sea in asia Minor. The study of this Celtic past has often been a dispited and...

Gerard Shannon - Rory O'Connor : To Defend the Republic - PB - BRAND NEW - ( With Signed Bookplate)

Best remembered for his tragic fate during the Irish Civil War, Rory O’Connor was in fact one of the most indispensable IRA leaders in the fight for Irish freedom in early twentieth-century Ireland...