Books Ireland (April-May 2004): A Hundred Books due in June-August.

Archaeology
  • The Burren and Aran islands: Exploring the archaeology. Carleton Jones. Collins Press. 220pp. €35 hb 24 cm sq. 1-903464-61-7; €25 pb 1-903464-49-8. With 160 colour and b/w photos, drawings and plans. June


Autobiography
  • Memories of an Islander: a life on Scattery and beyond. Don Scanlan. Clasp Press. 86pp. €10pb 16 x 21cm 1-900545-17-9. Recollections of a unique way of life during 19205 to 405. June
  • The Same Age as the State. Máire Cruise-O’Brien. O’Brien. €19.95 £13.99 pb 0-86278-885-4. Paperback of the book reviewed in our April issue. August
  • A Spring in my Step. Joan McDonnell. Collins Press. 220pp €12.95 pb 20 cm 1-903464-60-9. Poignant memoir about growing up with polio. June
  • The Storyteller. Eamon Kelly. Mercier Press. 320pp. €16.95 1-85635-439-3. The definitive autobiography of Ireland’s master storyteller. June.

Aviation
  • Army Aviation in Ulster. Guy Warner and Ken Boyd.  Colourpoint 208pp. £16 pb 26 cm 1-904242-27-8. From  1913 to 2004, fully illustrated. July

Biography
  • Maeve Brennan of the New Yorker. Angela Bourke. Cape.  192pp. £16.99 hb 23 cm 0-224-06260-3. life of the  Dublin writer, daughter of the WW2 Irish Minister in  Washington DC. June

Criticism
  • Studies in Children’s literature, 1500-2000. ed. Celia  Keenan & Mary Shine Thompson. Four Courts. €45; £40  $45 hb 1-85182-853-2. June

Dance
  • The Story of Irish Dance. Helen Brennan. Brandon. 188pp. €14.99 22 cm 0-86322-328-1. Reissue of an entertaining and useful study. 9 June


Folklore
  • Folklore of Clare. Thomas Johnson Westropp. Clasp Press. 132pp. €12.00 pb 24 cm 1-900545-16-0. Comprehensive survey of lore relating to forts, lakes, rivers, wells. June

Food
  • A Taste of the Place: food and recipes from the 32 counties. Éamon Ó Catháin. Liberties. NPG 0-9545335-3-4. June

Guides
  • Cork: a pocket guide. Paul Cussen. Collins Press. €8.99 pb 18 cm 1-903464-53-6. The 2005 European City of Culture: what to see and where to eat. June

History
  • Irish Governments and the Guardianship of Historical Records, 1922-72. Gerard O’Brien. Four Courts. €55 £50 $55 hb 1-85182-864-8. June
  • The Irish Ordnance Survey: history, culture and memory. Gillian Smith. Four Courts. €45 £40 $45 hb 1-85182-861-3. June
  • The Land for the People: the land question in independent Ireland. Terence Dooley. UCD Press. 304pp. €25 £18.95 pb 1-904558-15-1; 1E50 £39.95 hb -14-3. History of land distribution in Ireland after independence. June.
  • Medicine and Charity in Ireland 1718-1851. Laurence M. Geary. UCD Press. 304pp. €25 £18.95 pb 1-904558-18-6; i65o £39,95 hb -17-8. July.

History Local
  • The Antiquities of County Clare. John O’Donovan & Eugene Curry. Clasp Press. 323pp. C2too pb 23 cm 1-900545-i5-2. from Ordnance Survey letters, 1839: details of every parish in the county June
  • Dictionary of Irish Local History. Joseph Byrne. Mercier Press. 288pp. €20 pb 1-85635-423-7. One-stop resource for all historians. June.
  • Listowel and its Vicinity Since 1973. J. Anthony Gaughan, Currach Press, 168pp. €10.99 pb 21 cm 1-85607-912-0. Recent history of town and hinterland covering art, sport, commerce and education. June.
  • Medieval Dublin V. ed. Sein Duffy. Four Courts. €55 £45 $55 hb 1-85182-801-X, €24.95 £19.95 $30 pb -8o2-8. July

Humour
  • Pints of Porter. John B. Keane. Mercier Press. 128pp. €10.95 1-85635-438-5. Collection of essays by best-loved writerjohn B. Keane. June
  • Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: the miseducation years. Paul Howard. O’Brien. €9.95 £6.99 pb 0-86278-852-8. Our hero’s early years as rugger-bugger at Castlerock. June

Joyceana
  • A Bloomsday Postcard. Niall Murphy. Lilliput, 336pp. €20 pb 1-84351-043-X €40 hb -050-2. Reproductions Of 240 postcards mailed in Dublin on 16 June 1904. June
  • Faithful Departed: the Dublin of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Kieran and Des Hickey. Lilliput 104pp. €15.00 pb 1-84351-044-8. Reissue of haunting turn of the century photos from the Lawrence collection. June
  • James Joyce’s Dublin: a topographical guide to the Dublin of Ulysses. Ian Gunn and Clive Hart. Thames &  Hudson. 160pp. £28 hb30 cm 0-500-51159-4. With over a hundred maps and photos. June
  • Joyce in Art. ed. Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes. Lilliput. 400pp €35 Pb 1-84351-052-9. Book of the RHA exhibition with reproductions from Man Ray, Matisee, Bacon and many more. June
  • The Joyce We Knew: memoirs of joyce. ed. Ulick  O’Connor. Brandon. 128pp. €11.99 pb 20 cm  0-86322-324-9.The man himself. June [rep.]
  • A New and Complex Sensation: essays on Joyce’s Dubliners. ed. Oona Frawley. Lilliput 272pp. €20 pb 1-84351-051-o. Twenty fresh perspectives on his short stories. June

Language
  • Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State 1922-1939. Philip O’Leary. UCD Press. 784pp. €90 £65 hb 1-904558-13-5. A selection with original Irish and English translations. July.
  • Irish Grammar Book. Nollaig Mac Congáil. Cló Iar-Chonnachta. 222 pp, €15 pb 21 cm 1-902420-49-7. The rules of Irish grammar presented in English. July.

Nature
  • Flora Hibernica: the wild flowers, plants and trees of Ireland. Jonathan Pilcher and Valerie Hall. Collins Press. €25 pb 28 cm 1-903464-51-X. Colour illustrated description including habitats. June
  • Hope and History: making peace in Ireland. Gerry Adams. Brandon. 416pp. €12.99 pb 0-86322-330-3. Into paperback for an essential account. 15 June
  • Representing the Troubles: text and images, 1970-2000  ed. Brian Cliff & Eibhear Walshe. Four Courts. €55 £55  $55 hb 1-85182-854-0. June
  • The SAS in Ireland. Raymond Murray. Mercier Press. 502 pp. €20 pb 1-85635-437-7. History of British Army  Special Services Air Services Regiment in Ireland from 1969 through 1989. June

Novels
  • Fillums. Hugh Leonard. Methuen. 240pp. £15.99 hb 0-413-77166-0. Hypocrisy and scandal in a wartime seaside town. 25 June.
  • Gazumped! Sarah O’Brien. Hodder. 432pp. €8.99 pb 0-340-83564-8. The course of true love in the property business. July
  • The Virgo Club. Suzanne Power. Hodder. 456pp. €8.99 pb  0-340-83565-6. Four women cook up a wicked plan.  June

Obiter Dicta
  • Talk Nation: Irish people on everything and anything, Aubrey Malone. Currach Press. 300pp. €12.99 pb 13 cm 1-85607-913-9. Bite-sized chunks of wit and wisdom for beside your bed or in the loo. June.

Poetry
  • Drunken Sailor. John Montague. Gallery Press. 88pp.  €11.40 pb 1-85235-360-0; €17.50 hb 1-85235-361-9.  Ireland’s beloved elder poet muses on the themes  Yeats embraced in later poems - friends, family and  the ‘so many deaths’. July
  • The Book of the Angel. Medbh McGuckian. Gallery Press. 88pp. €11.40 pb 1-85235-362-7, €17.50 hb 1-85235-363-5. In her tenth collection, the Belfast poet contemplates the ‘eternal mystery of the incarnation’. June
  • Dark Pool. Ben Howard. Salmon. 88pp. €12 pb 20 cm 1-903392-32-2. Howard’s fifth collection, titled for Dublin. July
  • Fiacha Fola. Celia de Fréine. Cló Iar-Chonnachta. 70pp. €8 pb 22 cm 1-902420-88-8. A moving personal account of the Hepatitis C scandal. August.
  • Funeral Game. Noel Monahan. Salmon. 72pp. €12 pb 20 cm 1-903392-12-8. Monahan’s fourth collection. Title poem won the SeaCat National Poetry Award. June
  • Refuge at DeSoto Bend. Eamorm Wall. Salmon. 80pp. €12 pb 20 cm 1-903392-36-5. Fourth collection from a well-known expatriate. June
  • Time Out: poems in remembrance of madness. Thomas Krampt. Salmon. 104pp. €12 pb 20 cm 1-903392-38-1. long-awaited collection from American poet on madness and transformation. June

Reference
  • Guide to Evening Classes in Cork city and county. Collins Press. €5 pb 17 cm 1-903464-66-8. Annual guide to self-improvement. July

Religion
  • The Cosmic Circle: Jesus and ecology. Edward P. Echlin. Columba. 144pp. €8.99 pb 22 cm 1-85607-451-X. On the inclusion of the earth in his ministry. June
  • Homilies for Weddings and Funerals. Joseph Pollard. Columba. 128 pp. €8.99 pb 22 cm 1-85607-448-X. Priming the homilist’s head and heart. June
  • In Search of Christ: a prayer book for searchers. James O’Halloran SDB. Columba. 144pp. €12.99 pb 19 cm 1-85607-452-8. Getting to know Christ the man. June
  • New Life for old: on desire and becoming human. Vincent MacNamara. Columba. 64pp. €6.99 pb 22 cm 1-85607-439-0. Towards integral human development. June

Short stories
  • The Stealing Steps. John Arden. Methuen. £7.99 pb. Into paperback for a book recently praised in BI. 1 July

Sociology
  • The Information Revolution and Ireland: prospects and challenges. Lee Komito. UM Press. 256pp. €22 £15.9s pb 1-904558-07-0. How new information and communications technology is an integral part of society. August.

Sport
  • O’Brien Pocket History of Gaelic Sports. Eamonn Sweeney. O’Brien. €6.95 £4.99 pb 0-86278-854-4. Useful pocket-history by a leading journalist. August

Topography
  • The Hook Peninsula. Billy Coffer. Cork UP. 260pp. €40 $40 £25 hb 30 cm 1-85918-378-6. Well illustrated study of landscape, archaeology and more. June

Young People
  • Helpful Hannah. Mane Burlington. O’Brien. €5.50 £3.99 pb 0-86278-837-4. Hannah had the best of intentions ... Author illustrates. August.
  • Shoestring Soup. Fergus Lyons. O’Brien. €5.50 £3.99 pb 0-86278-871-4. No. 30 in the early-reader Panda series. August.

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