Coming Soon - February 2026

Micheál Ó Conghaile - Stop Your Shenanigans : Colourful Irish Words for Everyday Use PB - BRAND NEW

Colourful Irish Words for Everyday Use In Ireland, the art of conversation / crua-chaint is highly valued. We like to 'put a skin on a story' / craiceann a chur ar scéal because words are not just words to us. They are alive, carrying echoes of...

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, lonely life along the canal, Julie is...

Tim MacGabhann - Found in a Context of Destruction - PB - BRAND NEW

Novelist and essayist Tim MacGabhann’s debut poetry collection demonstrates a rare confidence and coherence, charting the course of addiction and recovery in a series of formally assured and blackly funny poems which bring us on a delirious but...

Chris Lawlor - Little History of Wicklow - PB

County Wicklow's landscape is dotted with pre-Christian sites – Baltinglass is known as the 'Hillfort Capital of Ireland'. Saint Patrick landed in Wicklow in 432 AD and the county also boasts ecclesiastical sites, the most impressive being...

Colm Wallace - Irish History : Strange But True - PB - BRAND NEW

We all know of of the various wars, the Famine and the pivotal events which have made the Ireland what it is today, but few know the stranger aspects of the nation's past. From body snatchers, to pirate queens and Celtic vampires, Ireland's hidden...

John Crotty - The Irish Tricolour - Brand New

This important book reveals the untold story of the Irish tricolour: its true origins, a forgotten heroine, and the emblems it replaced. For the first time, a fully referenced history corrects long-standing myths and slurs surrounding Ireland's national...

Francis Kelly - Captain Francisco de Cuéllar: The Armada, Ireland, and the Wars of the Spanish Monarchy, 1578–1606 BRAND NEW

Captain Francisco de Cuéllar was an officer who served with the ill-fated Spanish Armada. He was shipwrecked on the coast of Co. Sligo in September 1588. Known to Irish history for the extraordinary account he wrote of his experiences in Ireland,...

Niamh Donnellan - Little Irish History Heroes - BRAND NEW

Meet the heroes from Irish history whose stories have stood the test of time! From the giant Fionn Mac Cumhaill who built a causeway to Scotland and tricked his rival Benandonner to bold Grace O'Malley and her pirate crew at sea; from great high king...

Lucy Kennedy - Under the Floorboards at 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 called 39A Cove Street in Dublin, there lives a whole...

David Edwards, Clodagh Tait & Padraig Lenihan ( Editors) - Age of Atrocity : Violence and Political Conflict in Early Modern Ireland -PB - BRAND NEW

This book examines one of the bloodiest epochs in Irish history. Part one covers the 16th century, revealing how efforts by the Tudor monarchy to curb the powers of the autonomous Irish lords degenerated into a bitter cultural and sectarian conflict...

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

100 recipes that taste of home - HB, 256 pages,  illustrated , FEBRUARY 2026, Gill Books.  Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  Orla Drumgoole is an Irish mammy who loves to cook, bake and feed people – food is...

Pat Dargan - Medieval Dublin : A History - PB - BRAND NEW

Provides an insightful exploration of Dublin's rich architectural heritage, spanning from the medieval period through the normal era to the late 15th century. Featuring 45 significant structures this guide offers a glimpse into medieval Dublin...

Molly Hennigan ( Editor) - An Asylum For My Affections : Sketches of Maeve Brennan- PB - BRAND NEW

On the occasion of her mother's birthday, the Irish writer Maeve Brennan wrote a letter to William Maxwell describing the emotional landscape provided by her mother. She wrote: 'She gave me an "asylum for my affections" and I learned that my affections...

J.P O'Sullivan / Veil of Silence : -How the Irish State Covered Up an IRA Murder and Framed a Garda Whistleblower PB - BRAND NEW

In 1985 John Corcoran, a Garda informer within the ranks of the Cork IRA, was exposed and brutally executed by militant republicans. No one has ever been charged. For decades, speculation was rife that the most senior ranked Gardaí allowed John...

Gerard Shannon - Liam Lynch : To Declare a Republic & Rory O'Connor - To Defend the Republic - 2 x PB - BRAND NEW

2 books on revolutionary era figures from historian Gerard Shannon. ( both also available singly)  This order will be shipped ( BOTH BOOKS TOGETHER) when the book on Rory O'Connor is published in February 2026.  Book 1- Liam Lynch - To Declare...

Gerard Shannon - Rory O'Connor : To Defend the Republic - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

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. He had several key roles in the revolutionary...