Coming Soon - September 2026

Matthew Potter - Donegal Town : 1474-1974 - BRAND NEW

Donegal town is one of the most historic places in Ireland, and has given its name to Co. Donegal. It has been a Gaelic town, Plantation town, estate town and market town. Owned successively by three great families, the O’Donnells...

Lesley Whiteside - A Miserable Thing to be a Woman : Mary Anne Tyrrell ( 1821-94) and her Landed Estate - BRAND NEW

This study of a woman’s management of a middle-sized estate contributes to the understanding of agrarian society and the role of women in it. At the age of 32, this beautiful woman, having suffered the early death of her parents, husband and two...

Sinéad McSweeney & Ronan Foley - Ireland's First Sanitorium : The St Ann's Hill Hydro, County Cork 1843-1953 - BRAND NEW

The St Ann’s Hill Hydropathic Establishment, or The Hydro, was Ireland’s first and pre-eminent sanitorium. The Hydro was built in in Co. Cork in 1843 and closed its doors 110 years later. Founded by Dr Richard Barter and run by three...

Brian Leahy - Scandal, Satire and the Battle for Reputation in Limerick's Ascendancy - 1815-20 ' Unconquerable Malice' - BRAND NEW

Step into the turbulent world of nineteenth-century Limerick, where scandal, ambition and razor-sharp wit collide. This gripping account unravels the explosive feud between barrister-poet Thomas Grady, the controversial banker George Evans Bruce, and the...

Brian Fennell - The life and politics of Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde, 1862-1935 (Maynooth Studies in Local History Series) - BRAND NEW

This book examines the life and political career of a significant yet often overlooked figure in Irish nationalism. Politically active from 1885 to 1934, Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde’s career spanned the Home Rule struggle, the First World War, the...

Neil Cronin - John Boyle, the Freeholder and pre-Famine Cork society: 'This Wild Infuriate' (Maynooth Studies in Local History Series) - BRAND NEW

John Boyle was an orphan with a difficult upbringing, impoverishedand a social misfit, yet he achieved great prominence in earlynineteenth-century Cork. A disruptor, he doggedly challenged thestatus quo. In politics, he was a vehement Vetoist and a...

Dónal Gallagher - Edged in Blue : A Rock ‘n’ Roll Odyssey with Rory Gallagher - BRAND NEW

Edged in Blue: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Odyssey with Rory Gallagher To be published by Red Stripe Press, September 2026.  RORY GALLAGHER was the original Irish rock star musician, whose artistry with a road-worn ’61 Fender Stratocaster...

Diarmuid O'Flynn - Not a Patch on the Oul’ Fella The Life of a Club Hurler - BRAND NEW

Hurling is a test, a constant mental, moral, physical test that goes beyond skill. Family. Club Hurling. North Cork. These are the things that shaped Diarmuid O’Flynn’s life. He played club hurling from an early age and captained his club,...

Frank Hopkins - A Motley Crew : True Tales from Ireland's Criminal Past - PB - BRAND NEW

Ireland’s criminal history is filled with more than notorious villains and heroic rebels. It is crowded with people who stumbled, schemed or sang their way into the record books: ballad-makers arrested for sedition, children forced into dangerous...

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 of Charles Haughey and Garret FitzGerald, Magill...