BRAND NEW & NEW RELEASES - October 2024

Theresa O'Donohoe - Ireland at the Crossroads : Lisdoonvarna, Direct Provision and the Far Right - PB - BRAND NEW

Confusion, anger, and division set in as news leaked that a Direct Provision centre for 115 asylum seekers was being opened in Lisdoonvarna in February 2018. Stories of robbery and rape, along with videos of riots and destruction, were fuelling racism...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of Central Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2023 ( Murder Most Local - Book 6 )

This is the 6th book in the Murder Most Local Series of County Cork. This covers all the remaining county From Ballincollig to Mallow, Glanmire to Fermoy and everywhere in between. Like the books for the rest of Cork, this book tells the stories of...

David O'Donoghue - Line of Fire : Journeys Through a Media Minefield - PB - BRAND NEW

A thrilling chase through a media minefield – from Belfast riots to intrigue at a Paris news agency, then on to Singapore, New York and elsewhere. Author David O’Donoghue harks back to a lost world of clattering typewriters in a frenetic RTE...

Donal Ryan - Heart Be at Peace - PB - BRAND NEW

In Heart, Be at Peace, which can be read independently, Donal Ryan picks up the twenty-one voices from The Spinning Heart ten years on, in 2019.Small-town Ireland is a different place, the economy having recovered from the economic crash that served as a...

Sarah Cassidy & Kunak McGann - The A-Z of an Irish Christmas

Everything you don't want foreigners to know about how we celebrate Christmas in Ireland. We can't be doing with Calling Birds, French Hens or Partridges in Pear Trees: but if it's Annuals, The Dinner, The Big Shop or The Wexford...

Peter J Bentley - Artificial Intelligence in Byte-Sized Chunks - PB - BRAND NEW 2024

Artificial intelligence is headline news with the launch of the latest online services such as ChatGPT and Google Bard. But when did we start making computers mimic the human mind? And what is the reality of the capabilities of AI now, and in the...

Simon Doyle - Snow Boys - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

Dean O’Donnell is a wallflower with a secret and a voice that could steal the show. Preferring to blend into the background at his high school, his world tilts on its axis when he is chosen for a major solo in the upcoming Christmas choir...

Simon Doyle - Runaway Skies - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

19-year-old French student Kaiser “Kai” Kateb has too many secrets to keep. And to his deeply religious parents, the fact that he’s gay isn’t even the worst of it—He’s the only one who knows what happened to...

Simon Doyle - Runaway Train - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

When nineteen-year-old Denis Murphy sneaks onto an exclusive overnight train from Dublin to Belfast, he wasn’t counting on being caught. Or falling in love. But he has some trust issues to overcome first. Oliver Lloyd is famous just for being rich,...

Kunak McGann - Everything is Mnásome - 365 Days of Celebrating Irish Women - HB - BRAND NEW

Need a reason to feel mnásome? Look no further! For each day of the year, we celebrate Irish women, their extraordinary achievements and landmark victories. From stone-throwing suffragists, scientific geniuses and intrepid adventurers to...

Paul Delaney & Deirdre Madden ( Editors) - David Marcus : Editing IRELAND - PB - BRAND NEW 2024

David Marcus was Ireland’s most important and influential literary editor of the twentieth century. Born into Cork’s small Jewish community in 1924, his remarkable career spanned sixty years and saw him work with countless writers of note...

Bobby Aherne - The Story of Tayto - BRAND NEW

FREE PACK OF TAYTO WITH EVERY PURCHASE ( CHEESE & ONION, Island of Ireland only)    From humble origins back in 1954, when Joe 'Spud' Murphy opened a small factory on O'Rahilly Parade in Dublin city, this is the definitive story of an Irish...

Anne Chambers - T.K Whitaker : Irishman of the 20th Century - PB - BRAND NEW

Throughout his long life of public service, Dr T.K. Whitaker’s contribution to the economic, financial, social, educational, political and cultural evolution of the Irish state was unprecedented. In this new edition of his biography, author Anne...

Leona Forde - Milly McCarthy and the Christmas Calamity - PB - BRAND NEW

It’s coming up to Christmas and Milly’s class is prepping for their end-of-term performance. This year they’ve decided on a festive concert, so they can each showcase their favourite talent. Milly can’t wait to take part –...

JP McMahon - An Irish Food Story : 100 Foods That Made Us - HB - BRAND NEW

‘This book is about the story of Irish food and food in Ireland. They may seem like the same thing, but they’re not.’  An Irish Food Story looks at history, culture and identity in Ireland through 100 foods. From farmhouse...

Gaelle Bélem - There's a Monster Behind the Door - PB ( Translated by Laetittia Saint-Loubert)

In 1980s' Reunion, monsters lurk beneath the surface of vibrant island life, ready to pounce at the slightest disturbance.'In the heat of the Tropic of Capricorn, on the flanks of an active volcano, the sharks would tear apart your favourite magazine if...

James Crombie - Murmurations - HB - BRAND NEW

 As seen in THE IRISH TIMES, IRISH INDEPENDENT, RTÉ, IRISH EXAMINER, THE JOURNAL and many more…. In the dusk hours of a November evening in 2020, James Crombie set out for the shore of Lough Ennell, Co. Westmeath with no goal except to...

T.F O'Sullivan - Goodly Barrow : A Voyage on an Irish River - PB - NEW Edition

Goodly Barrow is a long-unavailable classic that charts the history and character of Ireland’s second-longest river, from the Slieve Bloom Mountains to the sea in Waterford. T.F. O’Sullivan’s riverine narrative embraces legend and...

Eithne Massey - The Salmon of Knowledge - HB - BRAND NEW

Long ago in Ireland, there lived a boy called Fionn, who wanted to know everything. Fionn goes to live with the wisest man in Ireland, hoping to find answers to his many questions. But Finnegas has a secret. He knows how to get all the knowledge in the...

Maysa Odeh - A Map For Falasteen - PB - BRAND NEW ( Picture Book )

Illustrated by Aliaa Betawi.  Can a place exist if it's not on a map?At school, Falasteen and her classmates are tasked with finding their families' home countries on a map, but no matter how hard she looks, Falasteen can't find Palestine.Confused,...

Alice Taylor - A Place Called Home- HB - BRAND NEW

In fact, two places called home … For over sixty years, Alice Taylor has lived in the village of Innishannon, the gateway to West Cork. But her childhood was spent on a farm in North Cork, near the Kerry border, and her memories of that homeplace...

Enya Martin - One For the Girlos - PB - BRAND NEW

Laugh, cringe and nod along with Enya Martin in her funny and disarmingly honest look at friendship. This tongue-in-cheek manual dives headfirst into the complexities of female friendships, offering relatable anecdotes and sage advice for managing every...

Lucy Sweeney Byrne - Let's Dance - PB - BRAND NEW

I’ve seen how the clouds look when viewed from above, stretched pink and gold-tinged for miles and miles and miles. I’ve seen a single cumulus cloud against a blue sky from my seat outside a café below, thrumming still in upness...

Richard Nairn - Future Wild : Nature Restoration in Ireland - PB

Published by New Island on October 4th 2024, bestselling ecology writer Richard Nairn presents an inspiring and practical call to restore nature. Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  Ireland has little left of its original...

Des Ekin - The Brutish Empire : Four Centuries of Colonial Atrocities- PB - BRAND NEW

For centuries, a small island nation cast a shadow across the world. The British Empire’s methods of expansion were often brutal, usually devastating. From Amritsar to Zululand, from the Opium Wars in China to the deliberate infection of Native...

Trevor Birney - Shooting Crows : Mass Murder, State Collusion and Press Freedom- PB - BRAND NEW

BRAND NEW - TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST.  Everyone knows where they were when Ray Houghton outfoxed the Italian goalkeeper in the 1994 World Cup finals. Every television in the country was tuned in to the match, and The...

Rebecca Brownlie - Abandoned Ireland : Volume 2 - BRAND NEW

In Abandoned Ireland 2, photographer Rebecca Brownlie travels further off the beaten path to explore and showcase Ireland’s forgotten buildings before nature or the demolition man claims them forever. Through her evocative...

Cormac O'Malley & Patrick J Mahoney - The Enchanted Bay: Tales and Legends from Ernie O’Malley’s Irish Folklore Collection - BRAND NEW

It is a little-known fact that Ernie O’Malley, renowned for his role in Ireland’s revolutionary struggle, was also a passionate collector of Irish folklore. Centred on O’Malley’s native Clew Bay and its environs and transcribed by...

Kieran Fanning - Haunted Ireland - An Atlas of Ghost Stories From Every County - BRAND NEW

Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning on a visit to every county in Ireland through 32 spooky stories. From well-known hauntings like The Ghost of Loftus Hall and The White Lady of Kinsale,...

Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy. Could he really be as great as...

Nicola Hanney - Stronger - BRAND NEW

PAPERBACK - BRAND NEW,  2024. In 2017, against all odds, Nicola Hanney survived a terminal cancer diagnosis and marched on to live life. When she matched with Garda Paul Moody on a dating app, she thought her dreams had come true, but never did she...

Patsy Peril with Deirdre Nuttall - Swimming Upstream : One Man's Fight to Save Wild Atlantic Salmon

Patsy Peril was born in 1943 in Coonagh, a small fishing community on the Shannon, not far from Limerick. His family fished from a traditional gandelow boat, using hemp nets. Further upriver was Ardnacrusha, the enormous hydro-electric station, opened in...

Eric Haughan - Unbeatable - Dublin's Incredible Six in a Row - BRAND NEW - PB

In late August 2014, Donegal's footballers smashed and grabbed an All-Ireland semi-final victory from Jim Gavin's seemingly unstoppable Dublin team. It would be the last Championship game the Boys in Blue would lose for 2,540 days. Their hearts hardened...

Patricia Forde & Steve Simpson - Ná Dúisigh an Páiste - PB - As Gaeilge - BRAND NEW

Scéal spraíúil, draíochtúil eile ó Patricia Forde agus Steve Simpson, cruthaitheoirí ‘Mise agus an Dragún’ *** Tá Orcó tinn tuirseach de gach duine sa teach a rá...

Gérard Moncomble & Fréderic Pillot - Cé a ghoid mo chuid bia? ( Mise Máire Treasa Mí-abha ) - PB - Brand New - As Gaeilge

Is fuath le Máire Treasa nuair a bhíonn daoine ag goid a cuid rudaí – go háirithe a cuid bia. Ach cé hé an gadaí gránna? Le cúnamh ó Shibéal, tugann Máire...

Catherine Swift, Brian Hodkinson & Tom Donovan, ( Editors) - Limestone and River : Essays on Limerick History in Honour of Liam Irwin - BRAND NEW

From Viking trading place to modern hi-tech city, Limerick’s long history as Ireland’s oldest Atlantic port has been played out against its natural backdrop of limestone and river. The stone circles of Lough Gur, the Norman strongholds of...

Manchán Magan - Thirty Two Words For Field - HB - BRAND NEW

  TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The Irish language has thirty-two words for field. Among them are: Geamhar – a field of corn-grass Tuar – a field for cattle at...

Garry Bannister - Teasáras Gaeilge-Béarla / Irish-English Thesaurus - BRAND NEW HB

  Brand New!  Teasáras Gaeilge–Béarla le Garry Bannister, eagrán nua iomlánaithe de mhórshaothar an údair aitheanta. Beagnach 700,000 focal ánn 1088 leathanach Mórshaothar...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of South Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 ( Murder Most Local - Book 4 )

This book, the fourth published in the ( ongoing) Murder Most Local Series, contains accounts of a large number of true life historical murders from the south Cork area .  This is true crime at a local level. 36 real life true historical murders in...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of West Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2020 ( Murder Most Local - Book 3 )

This book, the third published in the ( ongoing) Murder Most Local Series, contains accounts of a large number of true life historical murders from the west Cork area . True crime meets local history. This book contains 39 true historical murders in...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of North Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2019 ( Murder Most Local - Book 2 )

This book, the second published in the ( ongoing) Murder Most Local Series, contains accounts of over 30 true life historical murders from the north Cork area ( The wide area from Mitchelstown in the east , westwards to the Kerry border) . Some are well...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of Mid Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 ( Murder Most Local - Book 5 )

This book, the fifth published in the ( ongoing) Murder Most Local Series, contains accounts of 36 true life historical murders in mid Cork ( broadly covering the area bound by millstreet , Macroom, kanturk to Gougane barra)  , Some are well known...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of East Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2019 ( Murder Most Local - Book 1 )

This book, the first published in the (ongoing) Murder Most Local Series, contains accounts of 47 true life historical murders in East Cork , Some are well known cases that have lived on in folklore, others are long forgotten, only to be revealed in this...

Patricia Forde - Ar Strae - PB - As Gaeilge

Tá Nizar i bhfad ó bhaile. B’éigean dó a bhaile sa tSiria a fhágáil nuair a thosaigh an cogadh. Tá cónaí anois air in óstán in Éirinn, agus níl a fhios aige...