The Garden

On a devastated orchid farm in Southern Florida, Swallow, an Irish migrant worker and ex-marine, faces a reckoning in the illegal hunt for an endangered ghost orchid.

Paul Perry

• New Island Books
• 9781848407992
• 244 pages
• €14.95
• Hardback
• Ireland
• Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Dipping into Life

Following on from his books of reflections, Dipping Into Lent and Dipping Into Advent, Alan Hilliard opens up space for us to engage with our emotional and spiritual response to ordinary life. The loss, fear, isolation, and fragmentation of Covid-19 has

Alan Hilliard

• Messenger Publications
• 9781788123471
• 120 pages
• €12.95
• Paperback / softback
• Ireland
• Christian prayer

Crimson and Gold: Life as a Limerick

Now a Benedictine Monk of Glenstal Abbey, Hederman continues to explore how we as Irish Roman Catholics can hone in on the most precious aspects of our faith and cancel the surrounding noise. More pressingly, the author invites us to ask where ‘God’ is to

Mark Patrick Hederman

• Columba Press
• 9781782183792
• 260 pages
• €19.99
• Hardback
• Ireland
• Autobiography: general

Churches in the Irish Landscape Ad 400-1100

Between the fifth century and the ninth, several thousand churches were founded in Ireland the premise of this book is that landscape archaeology is one of the most fruitful ways to study them.

Tomas O Carragain

• Cork University Press
• 9781782054306
• 520 pages
• €49.00
• Hardback
• Ireland
• British & Irish history

Chief O’Neill: The Chicago Police Chief who saved Irish Music

His books of Irish music are famous worldwide, yet the amazing life story of Francis O’Neill (1848-1936) is not as well known. At sixteen he became a sailor, leaving Cork to travel the world. By twenty, he had circumnavigated the globe having many adventu

Ronan O'Driscoll

• Somerville Press
• 9781838254407
• 296 pages
• €17.99
• Paperback / softback
• Ireland
• Historical fiction

Books from the Attic: Treasures from an Irish Childhood

Alice Taylor takes a journey back to the 1940s and 1950s in rural Ireland through the well-used schoolbooks that she has kept from that time. Poetry, legends, stories and history evoke a way of life, and pace of life, that's long changed.

Alice Taylor; Emma Byrne (The O'Brien Press Ltd)

• O'Brien Press Ltd
• 9781788492690
• 256 pages
• €12.99
• Paperback / softback
• Ireland
• Memoirs

The Black & Tans, 1920-1921: A complete alphabetical list, short history and genealogical guide

In this book Jim Herlihy lists alphabetically, every individual member of these three distinct groups who was liable to be called a 'Black and Tan.' The lists include the RIC registered number, surname, forename, birth year, native country & county, relig

Jim Herlihy

• Open Air
• 9781846829871
• 404 pages
• €50.00
• Hardback
• Ireland
• History

The Black & Tans, 1920-1921: A complete alphabetical list, short history and genealogical guide

In this book Jim Herlihy lists alphabetically, every individual member of these three distinct groups who was liable to be called a 'Black and Tan.' The lists include the RIC registered number, surname, forename, birth year, native country & county, relig

Jim Herlihy

• Four Courts Press Ltd
• 9781846829604
• 352 pages
• €29.95
• Paperback / softback
• Ireland
• History

Bitheagsulacht na hEireann: Crainn agus toir

Oisin Duffy; Una Fitzpatrick; Lynda Weekes; Padraic de Bhaldraithe; Oisin Duffy; Lynda Weekes

• National Biodiversity Data Centre
• 9781911172123
• 80 pages
• €17.99
• Paperback / softback
• Ireland
• Trees, wildflowers & plants

Ballymacandy: The Story of a Kerry Ambush

On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police officers lay dead and another died a day later.

Owen O'Shea

• Merrion Press
• 9781785373879
• 272 pages
• €14.95
• Paperback / softback
• Ireland
• Military history