Books Ireland (Feb. 2004): Books Published & First Flush

Anthologies
  • Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English, 1789-1939. ed. Stephen Regan. Oxford UP 616pp. £10.99 pb 20 CM 0-19-284038-X In the Oxford World’s Classics series. February

Archaeology
  • Newgrange: Temple to Life. Chris O’Callaghan. Mercier Press. 128pp. €14.95 1-85635-428-8. Exciting new theory on Ireland’s oldest and most revered structure, illustrated. March.

Architecture
  • Irish Architectural Review, vol. 4. ed. John O’Regan. RIA1 (distrib. Gandon). 240pp. €35 hb 25 cm 0-94684-682-0; 1925 pb. 0-94684-683-9. Annual architectural review, with competition awards, Soo colour illustrations. February
  • Living Under Thatch. Barry O’Reilly. Mercier Press. Bopp. 1E14.95 1-85635-429-6. A celebration of traditional thatched houses including a history and photographs. February.
  • Mulvin Architects: Work. Anne Street Press (distrib. Gandon). 156pp. €25 pb 25 cm 0-94684-625-1. Monograph on one of Ireland’s leading architectural practices. 250 colour illustrations. March.
  • New Irish Architecture 19: AA1 awards 2004. ed. John O’Regan and Nicola Dearey. AAI (distrib. Gandon. 192dpp. €20 pb. 24 cm 0-94803-707-5. The best of contemporary Irish architecture with 150 colour illustrations the always-controversial assessors’ comments. March.

Art Visual
  • Frances Hegarty: Works 1970-2004. Gandon Editions. 48pp. €10 pb. 27 cm 0-94803-708-3. Monograph on a leading video and installation artist, coinciding with an exhibition in Sligo. 36 illustrations. February.
  • George Petrie (1790-1866): The Re-Discovery of Ireland’s past. Peter Murray. Crawford MunicipalArt Gallery. (distrib. Gandon). 180pp. €30 hb 25 CM 0-94803-709-1; €20 pb 0-94803-710-5. Monograph on the topographical drawings of the 19th-century historian, antiquarian and music collector, coinciding with an exhibition in Cork. 100 illustrations. March

Autobiography
  • As I Saw It. Padraig Faulkner. Wolfhound. 300pp.  €12.99 pb 20 CM 0-86327-909-0. Personal account of major political events includingthe Arms Crisis. March
  • The Kid Glove Pilot. Alan Deller. Colourpoint. 128pp. £8.99 (prov..) pb 21cm 1-904242-20-0. Wartime career starting as a saboteur and graduating to flying Short Sunderland flying boats. March

Biography
  • John B. Gus Smith & Des Hickey. Mercier Press. 352pp. €15.95 1-85635-431-8. Biography charting Keane’s drama and a portrait of the man himself. February.
  • The Love Story of W. B. Yeats and Maud Gonne. Margery Brady. Mercier Press. 128pp. €9.95 0-85342-953-9. Story of Yeats and the woman he immortalised in his poetry. March.
  • Mulvany’s Legacy. John J. O’Sullivan. Mercier Press. 192pp. €14.95 1-85635-427-X Story of Ireland’s little-known entrepreneur William Thomas Mulvany, 1806-85. March.

Celtica
  • The Celtic Gift of Nature. ed. Alexander Carmichael. Floris. 128pp. £9.99 hb 19 cm 0-86315-441-7. Illustrated selections from Carmina Gadefica with English translations. 25 March
  • Celtic Rituals: a guide to ancient Celtic spirituality. Alexei Kondratiev. Collins Press. 264pp. €11.95 pb 23 cm 1-898256-31-4. Reprint: how the Celtic traditions can help renew spiritual links in the age of materialism. February
  • The Sacred Whore: Sheela, Goddess of the Celts.  Maureen Concannon. CollinS. 256pp. C2o pb  1-903464-52-8. The story of Sheela na Gigs, their  history, location and psychological significance. March
  • Sun and Cross: from Megalithic Culture to Early Christianity in Ireland. Jakob Streit. Floris. 224pp. £14.99 pb 25 cm 0-86315-440-9. Gift edn. of book first published in English in 1984 (German 1977). 25 March

Crime
  • Break-Out! Great Prison Escapes. Paddy Hayes. O’Brien Press. 248pp. €9.95 pb B 0-86278-875-7. Bizarre, daring and sometimes downright farcical, the incredible true stories of Ireland’s jailbreakers. March

Criticism
  • The City in French Writing: the Eighteenth-century Experience /  Écrire la ville aux dix-huitième siècle. ed. Siofra Pierse. UCD Press. 208 pp. €38 £29.95 hb 22 cm i-904558-08-9. Essays in French and English. February.
  • Iris Murdoch: The Essential Guide. Margaret Reynolds and Jonathan Noakes. Vintage. 224pp. £5.99 pb 0-09-945222-7. ‘Living texts’ series. February
  • Roddy Doyle: The Essential Guide. Margaret Reynolds and Jonathan Noakes. Vintage. 224pp. £5.99 pb 0-og-945219-7. ‘Living texts’ series. February
  • Superstition of the Irish Country People. Padraic O’Farrell. Mercier Press. 128pp. €9.95 1-85635-440-7. Customs and beliefs held in fear by generations of Irish. March.

History
  • Colmán of Cloyne: A Study. Paul MacCotter. Four Courts. €35 £30 $35 hb 1-85182-793-5. March
  • The Irish Hedge School and its Books, 1695-1831. Antonia McManus. Four Courts. €24. £19,95 $25 pb 1-85182-812-5. February
  • The Island of St Patrick: Church and Ruling Dynasties in Fingal and Meath, 400-1148. ed. Ailbhe Mac Shamhráin. Four Courts. €35 £30 $35 hb 1-85182-867-2. March
  • Medieval Ireland: the Barryscourt Lectures 1-X. ed. John Ludlow & Noel Jameson. Barryscourt Trust (distrib. Gandon). 394pp. €35 hb 24 cm 0-94684-630-8. Ten essays on medieval Ireland by the leading authorities. 384 illustrations. February
  • The Oxford Companion to Irish History, 2nd edn. ed. S. J. Connolly. Oxford UP. 672pp. £16.99 pb 23 cm 0-19-28o5ol-o. 96 experts contribute to an encyclopedic overview. March
  • Sending out Ireland’s Poor: Assisted Emigration to North America. Gerard Moran. Four Courts. €55 £55 $55 hb 1-85182-824-9. March
  • The World of Geoffrey Keating: History, Myth and Religion in Seventeenth-century Ireland. Bernadette Cunningham. Four Courts.E24.95 £19.95 $30 pb i-85i82-806-0. March
  • A Haunted Land: Ireland’s Ghosts. Bob Curran. O’Brien Press. 192pp. €9.95 pb 8 0-86278-859-5. Amazing variety of stories of hauntings throughout the country. March
  • A New Anatomy of Ireland: the Irish protestants, 1649-1770. Toby Barnard. Yale UP. 352pp. £14.99 pb 23 cm 0-300-10114-7. Into paperback for last year’s elegant book. February

Language
  • Dictionary of Irish Quotations. Seán Sheehan. Mercier Press. 128pp. €9.95 1-85635-052-5. A variety of remarks by Irish people on a number of topics. March.
  • Irish! Thornton B. Edwards. Mercier Press. 192pp. €12.95 1-85635-420-2. Expressions and phrases on all things Irish, including drink, food, history and mythology. March.
  • Who Needs Irish? eflections on the IRISH LANGUAGE in the New Millennium. ed. Ciarin MacMurchaidh. Veritas. 160pp. pb €14.95 pb 2 1cm 1-85390-777-4. Essays dealing with various issues regarding the Irish language. March

Literature
  • James Clarence Mangan: Selected Writings. ed. Sean Ryder. UCD Press. 528pp. €50; £39.95 hb 24 cm 1-904558-09-7, €25 £19.95 pb 23cm l-900621-92-4. Generous selection of his verse in his own prose settings, and some prose as well. February.

Novels
  • The Alphabet Sisters. Monica Mcinerney. Tivoli. 400pp. €9.99.£6.99 pb 0-7171-3749-X. Family saga set in Ireland and Australia. March
  • Dublin. Edward Rutherfurd. Century. 1008pp. £18.99 hv 0-7126-800-4. From pagan Celts to Free State by the author of London. March
  • Everyone’s got a Bono Story. Anne-Marie O’Connor. Tivoli. 352pp. €9.99 £6.99 Pb 0-7171-3599-3. “Hilariously hip debut”. February
  • Famine. Liam O’Flaherty. Wolfhound. 432pp. €12 pb 20cm 1-903582-20-2. Reissue of a classic. March
  • A Girl of her Time. Margaret Kaine. Poolbeg. 169.99 pb 1-84223-139-1. Margaret has won prizes for her romantic novels. February
  • The House on Eccles Road. Judith Kitchen. Pocket Books / TownHouse. 256pp. 169.99 £6.99 pb 20 CM 1-9o3650-64-x. Debut novel recording a day in the life of Molly and Leo Bluhm of Dublin, Ohio. February
  • An Irish Solution. Cormac Millar. Penguin Ireland. 307pp. 22cm 1-844-88025-7. A sly, sophisticated début crime novel set in Dublin. 4 March.
  • Look Before you Leap. Alison Norrington. Poolbeg. 1E9.99 pb 1-84223-133-2. Will Tara be able to handle the truth about Slimey Simey? February
  • The Master. Colm Tóibin. Picador 470pp. £16.99 hb 0-330-48565-2. Based on the reality of Henry James’s life. March.
  • Red Letter Day. Colette Caddle. Poolbeg. 169.99 pb 1-84223-120-0. A young widow finds solace in someones husband. March
  • Remember José Inga. James O’Halloran. Columba. 168pp. €10.99 Pb22cm 1-85607-414-5. South America in the turbulent 1970s when the church was fighting for the rights of the poor. February.
  • Tangled up in You. Gemma English. Poolbeg. €9.99 pb 1-84223-173-1. Matthew’s drop-dead gorgeous, but also drops Keelan. March
  • The Woman from Kerry. Anne Doughty. Blackstaff. £6.99 0-85640-754-2. Saga set in nineteenth-century Ireland, from the author of On a Clear Day. March
  • The Woman He Loves. Suzanne Higgins. Poolbeg. iEg.99 pb 1-84223-093-X  ‘Sizzling’ sequel to The Power of a Woman which set Sunday mirror pulses racing. February
  • The State of Grace. Catherine Donnelly. Tivoli. 352pp. €9.99 £6.99 pb 0-7171-3674-4. Published last year by Sitric at €12.99. In our Summer issue Sue Leonard said she couldn’t relate to the heroine. February
  • Tatty. Christine Dwyer Hickey. New island. 205pp. €10.99 pb 1-90430-151-7. ‘A devastatingly affecting insight into the mind of a child.’ March.

Poetry
  • The Faber Yeats. ed. Seamus Heaney. Faber. £6.99 pb 0-571-22296-X. A selection. February
  • Hare Soup. Dorothy Molloy. Faber. 164pp. £8.99 pb 0-571-21989-6. A Ballina poet about whom Faber is startled and excited. February
  • Poems from the Irish. Gabriel Fitzmaurice. Mercier Press. 192pp. €12.95 1-86023-156-X. Dual-language collection spanning four hundred years. February.
  • Snow Water. Michael Longley. Cape. 80pp. £8 pb 20 CM 0-224-07257-9. Bilocator poet (‘adopted home’ W. Mayo, but ‘now lives in Belfast’). March
  • Vincent Woods, Lives and Miracles (Arlen Press), 134pp.; collection in four parts about single life.

Politics
  • Fatal influence: The Impact of Ireland on British Politics 1920.1925. Kevin Matthews. UCD Press. 336pp. + 8pp. Pls. 4 maps. €50 £39.95 hb 24 cm 1-904558-06-2; €25 pb £18.95 23 cm -05-4. How independence affected British politics longer and stronger than previously realised. February.

Stories
  • Girls Are Back in Town. Various Authors. Pocket Books / TownHouse. 432pp. €9.99 £6.99 pb 18 cm 1-903650-63-1. Following the successful Irish GirlsAbout Town, another collection from Ireland’s best-known women writers. March
  • The Swing of Things. Sean O’Reilly. Faber. 300pp. £12.99 pb 0-571-22130-0. ‘Stories of the everyday that become momentous and mythical’. February

Travel
  • Seal  i  Neipeal. Cathal Ó Searcaigh. Cló Ia-Chonnachta. 184pp. €20 20cm sq. 1-902420-60-8; a travel book about the mountain kingdom of Nepal. March

Religion
  • I Must he Talking to Myself : Dialogue in the Roman Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council. Mark Patrick Hederman. Veritas. 156pp. €l4.95 pb 21CM 1-85390-747-2. History of dialogue in the Church since the sixties. March.

FIRST FLUSH (Books received)
  • The life and Music of Brian Boydell, ed. Gareth Cox et al (IAP), 132pp. [incls. Alex Klein, Michael Taylor, Hazewll Farrell, Harry White.]
  • Gerard Fanning, Canower Sound (Booterstown: Sinbone Press), 22pp.
  • Michael Coady, One Another (Gallery), 180pp.
  • John McNamee, Out to Lunch (The author), CD
  • Frank McGuinness, The Stone Jug [here called third collection]



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