Books Ireland: List of Publications (October 2004)


Archaeology
  • Viking Age Dublin. Ruth Johnson. TownHouse. 80pp. €12.99 pb 24cm 1-86059-208-2. Illustrated account of recent archaeological finds. November
Architecture
  • The Honan Chapel: a golden vision. ed. Virginia Teehan and Elizabeth Wincott Heckett. Cork UP. 288pp. €59 £39 hb 32 cm 1-85918-346-8. A fine example of the Arts & Crafts movement. November
Arts
  • The Candlelight Painter. William Cauley with Micheál Ó hAodha. Farmar. 128pp. €14.99 pb 20cm 1-899047-11-5. The life of artist and traveller Willly Cauley with full-colour reproductions of his paintings. November
  • Irish Art Studies: essays in honour of Peter Harbison.  ed. Colum Hourihane. Four Courts. €55 hb 1-85182 847-8. December
  • The Life and Works of Harry Clarke. Nicola Gordon Bowe. Irish Academic Press. 35.2pp. €80 hb 24cm 0-7165-2452-X.  €35 pb -2534-8. Reprinted study of the great stained-glass artist. November
Autobiography
  • Clouds on My Window: a Dublin memoir. May O’Brien.  Brandon. 192pp. £9.99 €14.99 pb 22cm 0-86322-335-4.  She started work in 1947 in Liberty Hall. December
  • Nell. Nell McCafferty. Penguin Ireland. 320pp. £17.99 €25 hb 23cm 1-84488-012-5. Memoir of characteristically scorching honesty about the public and the private Nell. November
Biography
  • The Gore-Booths of Lissadell. Dermot James. Woodfield Press, 400pp. €25 pb 23cm 0-9534293-8-5, The lives and works of nine of the family - including new material on Constance - over 200 years. November
  • Patrick Tuohy from conversations with his friends. Patrick J. Murphy. TownHouse. 206pp. €30 hb 24cm 1-86059-228-7. The first ever book on the life of a neglected Irish painter. November
  • The Road from Ardoyne: the making of a president. Ray Mac Mánais. Brandon. 384pp. €29.99 £2ojn23cm 0-86322-333-8. Authorised biography of Mary McAleese. November
  • Sean O’Casey. Christopher Murray. Gill & Macmillan. 544pp. €29.99 £24.99 hb 23cm 0-7171-2750-8 With first access to his publishers’archives, claims to be definitive. November
  • Waterford People: a biographical dictionary. ed. T. N. Fewer. Ballylough Books, Callaghane, Co. Waterford. 220 pp €30 pb 22cm 0-9533704-6-1. Bio sketches of locals from AD 600 to 2004; some illustrations. December
Celtica
  • Heroic Poets and Poetic Heroes in Celtic traditions: CSANA Yearbook 3-4. ed. Joseph Falaky Nagy & Leshe Ellen Jones. Four Courts. €85 hb 1-85182-849-4. Dec.
Crime
  • Crime Lords. Paul Williams. Merlin. 400pp. €12.99 pb 20cm 1-903582-59-8. Day-to-day dealings of some of Ireland’s most notorious criminals; revised edn. Nov.
Criticism
  • Patterns in Dante. Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin & Jennifer Petrie. Four Courts. €55 hb l-85182-542-8. November
  • ‘Trén bhFearann Breac’: an díláithriú cultúir agus nualitríocht na Gaeilge, Máirín Nic Eoin. Cois Life. €25. Post-colonial literary criticism. January.
Current Affairs
  • The Irish Times Book of the Year 2004. ed. Peter  Murtagh. Gill & Macmillan. 256pp  €26.99 £19.99 hb 25cm 0-7171-3797-X. News and pics, September ’03 to  September ’04. November
Feminism
  • Documenting Irish Feminisms. Linda Connolly and Tina O’Toole, Woodfield Press, 396pp €18.50 pb 23cm 09534293-5-0. Illustrated with rare photos and documents, mapping the development of second-wave feminism. November
Folklore
  • An Bealach go Dún Ulún. Donncha Ó Laighin. Cló Iar Chonnachta. 100pp. and CD €15 pb 22cm 1-90242082-9. Stories and songs from the Cill Chartha Gaeltacht, Donegal. November.
Food & Drink
  • The Wine Guide 2005: the best of wine in Ireland. ed John Wilson. Farmar. 256pp €12.99 pb 22cm 1-89904714-X, Tenth edition of the best-selling independent guide. November
Gardening
  • Dermot Gardens 2. Dermot O’N eill. Poolbeg. €14.99 pb square 1-84223-184-7. Second book from a TV gardener. November
History
  • The Atlantean Irish: Ireland’s oriental and maritime heritage. Bob Quinn. Lilliput. €20 pb 23cm 1-84351-024-3. Pioneering study (revised 20 years on) of Ireland’s connections with an African and Islamic past. January
  • Belfast Politics: thoughts on the British constitution William Bruce and Henry Joy. UCD Press. 220pp. €19 £13.95 pb 1-904558-21-6. Classics of Irish History series. Abridged outline of a moderate political position for 179os. November
  • The Extension of Tudor rule in the O’Byrne & O’Toole lordships. Christopher Maginn. Four Courts. €55 hb 1-85182-803-6. November
  • The First Plots against James VII and I. Francis Edward. Four Courts. €55 hb 1-85182-790-0. December
  • The Galtee Boy: a Fenian prison narrative. John Sarsfield Casey. UCD Press. 208pp. €20 £14.95 pb 1-904558-22-4. Classics of Irish History series. Unpublished prison experiences of Cork activist in 1860s. November
  • The Green Republic: a visit to South Tyrone. A. P. A. O’Gara. UCD Press 272pp. €19 £14.50 pb 1-90455823-2. Classics of Irish History series. A ‘novel’ describing real events in Poyntzpass, c.1900. Nov.
  • Handbook of Medieval Irish records in the National Archives of the United Kingdom. ed. Paul Dryburgh & Brendan Smith. Four Courts. €55 hb 1-85182-799-4. November
  • Ireland: a social and cultural history 1922-2001. Terence Brown. Harper Press. £9.99 pb 0-00-712756-1. Updated edition. 1 November
  • The Irish Experience during the Second World War: a oral history.  Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon. Irish Academ Press. 272pp. €49 hb 0-7165-2810-X.  €25 pb -0-7165-2811-8. The young banker, the IRA volunteer interned in the Curragh, the soldier fighting in North Africa. November
  • The Irish Republic. Dorothy Macardle. Wolhound. 1046pp €50 23cm 0-86327-712-8. Reprint from 1937 of  the much-cited classic, commissioned by Dev.  November
  • Irish Secrets: German espionage in wartime Ireland 1939-1945. Mark M. Hull. Irish Academic Press. 406pp. €25 pb 24cm 0-7165-2807-X, Why German intelligence - a genuine threat to Irish neutrality and the Allies - ultimately failed. November
  • Irish Women and Nationalism: soldiers, new women and wicked bags. ed. Margaret Ward and Louise Ryan. Irish Academic Press. 248pp. €55 hb 24cm 0-7165-2766-9; €25 pb -2767-7. Historians, sociologists, literarl critics and culturists on women’s contribution to the nationalist movement. November
  • The Manor in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland. ed. James Lyttleton & Tadhg O’Keeffe. Four Courts. €50 hb 1-85182-746-3. November
  • Memories of West Wicklow, 1813-1939. William and Mary Hanbridge. UCD Press. 144pp. €17 £12.9-5 pb 1-9045-58-24-0. Classics of Irish History series. Unique account of Protestant small-farmer life. November.
  • Michael Moore c.1639-1726: the world of an Irish clerical migrant. Liam Chambers, Four Courts. €55 hb 1-85182-809-5. November.
  • The Moynihan Brothers in Peace and War 1909-1918: their new Ireland. ed. Deirdre McMahon. Irish  Academic Press. 256pp. €49.50 hb 24cm 0-7165-2755-3.  Portrait of two young men growing to maturity in the  most significant decade of twentieth-century Ireland.  November
  • Nineteenth-century Ireland: a guide to recent research. ed. Laurence M. Geary and Margaret  Kelleher. UCD Press. 320pp. €25 £18.95 pb 1-904558- 28-3; €50 £39.95 hb 1-904558-27-5. Scholars of many  disciplines assess and interpret recent studies. January.
  • Our Own Devices: national symbols and political conflict in twentieth century Ireland. Ewan Morris. Irish Academic Press. 272pp. €49.50 hb 24cm 0-7165-2663-8. Historical background to the controversy about symbols with new light on 20th-century political divisions. November
  • Patients, Potions and Physicians: a social history of medicine in Ireland 1654-2004. Tony Farmar. Farmar. 256pp.  €30 hb 24cm 1-899647-99-9. On the interaction of patients and doctors over 350 years; ill. November
  • Penal Era and Golden Age. ed. Thomas Bartlett and D. W. Hayton. Ulster Historical Foundation. 232pp. £2o hb 26cm 1-903688-45-0; £15 pb 1-903688-41-8. Reissue of essays on the 18th century. December
  • Reminiscences of Daniel O’Connell. William Cooke Taylor. UCD Press 160pp. €17 £12.95 pb 1-904558-25-9. Classics of Irish History series. liberal-unionist account of the liberator published after his death. November.
  • Republican Internment and the Prison Ship Argenta, 1922. Denise Kleinrichert. Irish Academic Press. 400pp. €25 pb 24cm 0-7165-2730-8. Into paperback: the words, writings and drawings of those interned. November
  • Renovation or Revolution? new territorial politics in Ireland and the United Kingdom. ed. John Coakley et al. UCD Press. 320pp. €25 £18.95 pb 1-904558-04-6. Perspectives in British-Irish Studies series. On redistribution of power and policy-making. January
  • Vanishing Kingdoms: the Irish chiefs and their families AD 900-2000. Walter Curley. Lilliput. 192pp. €30 hb 23cm 1-84351-056-1; €15 pb -055-3. Illustrated social and cultural history of the Gaelic aristocracy as seen in 20 chiefs-of-the-name. November
  • Women and Public Policy in Ireland: a documentary history 1922-1997. Richard B. Finnegan and James L. Wiles. Irish Academic Press, 450pp €50 hb 24cm 0-71652778-2. Pre-1972 policies and the changes of the 1972 Report of the Commission on the Status of Women. November
History Institutional
  • The Church of Ireland in Victorian Dublin. John  Crawford. Four Courts. €55 hb 1-85182-814-1. November
  • The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century. ed. Clare Hutton. Irish Academic Press. 224pp. €55 hb 24cm 07165-2780-4; €25 pb -3335-9. Examines Ireland’s publishing history and diverse roles which publishers, printers, readers, governments and censors play. November
  • The Irish Fertiliser Industry. Mark Cooper and John Davis. Irish Academic Press. 416pp. €65 hb 24cm 0-7165275o-2. Explores the development of this industry and its future in Ireland. November
  • Our Lady’s Hospice 1879-2004. Tim Healy. Formar. 128pp. €12.99 pb 22cm 1-899047-12-5. Illustrated history, marking its 125th year. November
  • The Royal Dublin Society, 1815-45. Kevin Bright. Four Courts. £45 hb 1-85182-813-3. November
History Local
  • Cavan: essays on the history of an Irish county. Irish Academic Press. 256 pp €45 hb €22 pb 24cm 0-71653331-6. Revised edn with a new introduction by the author. November
  • A History of County Derry. Sean McMahon. Gill & Macmillan. 192pp. €14.99 £9.99 pb 23cm 0-7171-3799-6. in a growing series. November
  • Springhill, an old Ulster House and the People who lived in it. Mina Lenox-Conyngham. Ulster Historical Foundation. 268pp £25 hb 29cm 1-903688-38-8. Colourful and atmospheric National Trust property. January
History Popular
  • Viking Age Dublin. Ruth Johnson. TownHouse. 80pp  €12.99 pb 24cm 1-86059-2o8-2. Vivid introduction to  Viking life, culture, industry, beliefs. November
Humour
  • I’m Irish Get me out of Here! Donal Ruane. Gill  Macmillan. 224pp. €10.99 £7.99 pb 20cm 0-7171-3861-5.  Some public obsessions by the author of Tales in a  Rearview Mirror. November
  • The Portadown News: the best bits. Newton Emerson. Gill & Macmillan. 192pp. €16.99 £12.99 pb 25cm 0-71713787-2. At last a really funny version of Ulster awfulness. November
Immigrants
  • Differently Irish: a cultural history exploring twenty-five years of Vietnamese-Irish identity. Mark Maguire. Woodfield Press, 300pp. €25 pb 23cm 09534293-9-3. Story of the Vietnamese-Irish from 1979: takeaway businesses, education, families. November
Joyceana
  • Joyce Studies 2004, Series Two, edited by Luca Crispi and Catherine Fahy, include the following 7 pamphlets giving the general reader snapshots of themes of concern to scholars in the Bloomsday centennial year. All November.
  • Humor Detection in Ulysses. Sebastian D.G. Knowles. National Library of Ireland. €5 pb 0-907328-50-4, [No. 7]
  • James Joyce Reader. Geert Lernout. National Library of Ireland. €5 pb 0-907328-51-2, No. 12.
  • Joyce and the Art of Shaving. Cheryl Herr. National Library of Ireland. 65 pb, 0-907328-48-2, No. 11.
  • Joyce, Race and Colonialism. Vincent J. Cheng. National Library of Ireland. €5 0-907328-45-8. No. 8.
  • Joyce’s Catholic Moments. A. Nicholas Fargnoli. National Library of Ireland. €5, pb 0-907328-47-4. No. 10. November
  • Taste and Consumption in Ulysses. Kimberly J. Devlin. National Library of Ireland. €5 pb 0-907328-46-6, No. 9. November
  • Ulysses for Beginners. Margot Norris. National Library of Ireland. €5 pb 0-907328-52-0, No. 13. November
Language
  • Dowtcha Boy: an anthology of Cork slang, Morty McCarthy. Collins Press, 96pp. €7.99, pb, 17cm 1-90346468-4, With cartoons by Fergus Keane, aiming to make you crabbit with Cork lingo and its quirky expressions. November
  • Learner’s Guide to Irish. Donna Wong. Cois Life, 224pp. €25 ringbound, 30 cm. Irish course directed at English speakers from beginner to intermediate. November.
  • Tuairimí. Honor Mhic Giolia Chlaoin. Cló Iar-Chonnachta. 40pp. €8, pb 21.5cm 1-902420-66-7. Short articles on various subjects for adults learning Irish. December.
  • Words Words Words: columns from The oldie.  Diarmaid Ó Muirithe. Lilliput. €15 22cm 1-845351-
  • 059-6. Sparkling essays on origins and usage of English: a tour d’horizon of dialects. November
Letters
  • Letters of Peter le Page Renouf (1822-97): Vol. 4, London (1864-97). ed. Kevin J. Cathcart. UCD Press. 500pp. €75;E55 hb 1-904558-03-8. Final volume of letters of the distinguished Egyptologist. November.
Lifeskills
  • Work and Worth: take back your life. Tony Humphreys.  Newleaf. 184pp. €10.99 £7.99 pb 22cm 0-7171-3860-7.  How to restore balance to our lives. November
Literature
  • Selected Prose of James Clarence Mangan. Jacques Chuto and Peter van de Kamp. Irish Academic Press. 360pp. €49.50 hb 24cm 0 -71652791-X €25 pb 0-7165-27928. Contains the best of Mangan’s prose. November
Media
  • Broadcasting and Public Life: IRTIt and current affairs.  John Horgan. Four Courts. C45 hb 1-85182-838-9; 1E19.95  pb-839-7. December
Music
  • Parley-Poet and Chanter. Pecker Dunne with Micheál Ó  hAodha. Farmar. 128pp. €14.99 pb 20cm 1-899047-16-6. The life of one of Ireland’s best known traditional  Traveller musicians and balladeers by himself,  November
North
  • The Failure of the Northern Ireland Peace Process. G. K. Peatling, Irish Academic Press. 320pp. €50 hb 0-716528o8-8; €22 pb 0-7165-3336-7. Criticisms from a variety of political and academic perspectives, highlighting the remaining highly resilient obstacles. November
Novels
  • The Affair. Anna Dillon. Poolbeg. €13.99 pb 1-84223-147-2.  ‘Michael Scott writing as a cuckolded woman.’  November
  • Ghost Writers. Johnny Gogan. Author at Grey Ridge, Dromahair, Co. Leitrim, tel. 071-9134900.192pp. €11.99 pb 21cm.  A supernatural Dublin tale by a film-maker. November
  • Hero Town. Bryan MacMahon. Brandon. 224pp. €22,99 £14.99 hb 23cm 0-86322-322-2. Posthumous magnum opus. November
  • Lake of Sorrows. Erin Hart. Hodder & Stoughton. 320pp. £10.99 pb 0-340-82762-9. Boggy mystery from author of Haunted Ground. November
  • Tara’s Fortune. Geraldine O’Neill. Orion. 448pp. £17.99 hb 23cm 0-75286-163-8; £10.99 pb -164-6. ‘A gorgeous, all-consuming saga sequel to Tara Flynn’. November
  • Valentine. Chet Raymo. Brandon. 288pp. €23.99 £14.99 hb 23cm 0-86322-327-3. About the man who gave his name to lovers. January
Poetry
  • After Every War: twentieth-century women poets. Eavan Boland. Princeton Univ. Press. 184pp. £12.9s hb 22cm 0-691-11745-4. Translations from the German of women in the WW2 era, on war and its effects. 26 November.
  • Anything Can Happen: a poem and essay, With 24 translations. Seamus Heaney. TownHouse 48pp. €12.99 pb 20cm 1-86059-235-X. Inspired by Horace, in support of Amnesty International. We messed this up in the September edition, so here’s a book for ... October!
  • The Doll With Two Backs. Maurice Harmon. Salmon. 80pp. €12 pb 20cm 1-903392-45-4. Academic and reviewer (for us occasionally): his second collection with Salmon. December
  • Nonetheless. Peter Sirr. Gallery Press. 80pp. €17.50 hb 1-85235-367-8 €11.40 pb -366-X. November
  • Sculpture in Black Ice. Breda Sullivan. Salmon. 80pp. €12 pb 20cm 1-903392-43-8. Third collection from award-winning Westmeath poet. November
  • Selected Poems. Peter Sirr. Gallery Press. 144pp. €20 hb 1-85235-369-4; €13.90 pb -368-6. November
Religion
  • The Beatified Irish Martyrs. ed. Patrick Corish &  Benignus Millet. Four Courts. £40 hb 1-85182-858-3.  November
  • The Spiritual Writings of Denis the Carthusian. Ide Ní  Riain. Four Courts. €55 hb 1-85182-860-5. December
Sport
  • Sport and the Irish: histories, identities, issues. ed. Alan Bairner. UCD Press. 320pp. €25 £18.95 pb 1904558-33-X. Historical, social and political significance of sport in Ireland. December.
  • The Throw-In: the GAA and the men who made it. Brendan Fullam. Wolfhound Press. 320pp. €19.99 hb 24cm 0-86327-925-2. Re-live moments that have thrilled thousands of fans down the decades. November
Transport
  • The Lighthouse of Ireland: a personal history. Richard M. Taylor. Coffins Press, 220pp. €25 hb 23cm 1-90346459-5. Illustrated tour round the coast, examining the lighthouses and their history. November
  • The Steam Age in Ireland: a collection of railway art. The Lord O’Neill. Colourpoint 160pp £30 24 x 30cm 1-904242-35-9. Eighty colour reproductions of paintings and other memorabilia. November
Travel
  • Dancing on the Waves: Romanian reflections, John Mulligan. Coffins Press. 200pp. €15 pb 22cm 1-90346473-0. His 86-mile walk along the Grand Canal from Dublin to the Shannon, and his ruminations on voluntary work in Romania. November
  • Postcards from Elsewhere: travels in the southern hemisphere. Barbara O’Shea. Merlin. 320pp. €12.99 pb 20cm 1-903582-58-X. Distinctive voices in a complex world of poverty and courage, conflict and dignity. November
Young People
  • Fantastic Farflung Facts for Fun. Mary Kingston. O’Brien Press. 32pp. €9.95 pb 26cm 0-86278-905-2. Originally televised inserts from RTÉ’s Disney Club. November.
  • An Seileitleán agus Véarsaí Seilí Eilí. Liam Ó Muirthile.  Cois Life, 48pp. €[?] 21cm 1-901176-47-9. Playful and  lighthearted poems suitable for ages 10-12, illustrated via Golden. November.

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