IPN Book of the month is:
Peeler | Kevin McCarthy |Mercier Press | 10.99 | PB
Below are the titles I have been supplied with for May 2010. A few notes:
1) I’m having some links issues so I will reinstate them over the weekend
2) I am only listing titles I have been supplied directly using this excel sheet in future, no other submission format can be tolerated as it introduces delays and errors.
3) That said I think this is an interesting list and I am looking forward to June’s collection. The deadline for submission and inclusion in the June list is Wednesday 26 May 2010.
Dancing Priest: A Biography of Father Neil HoranAidan O’Connor
9781907535079
€ 9.99 | PB | 192pp
Londubh
Biography | May 2010
About The Book
The first biography of Father Neil Horan will reveal the man behind the scandals: an in-depth account of his life, from humble childhood to world-famous publicity-stunt man, including Neil Horan’s own religious beliefs.
Joey Dunlop: King Of The Roads (10th Anniversary Edition)Stephen Davison
9781847172013
€19.99 | HB | pp
The O’Brien Press
Biography | May 2010
About The Book
This full colour pictorial tribute captures the legendary Joey Dunlop in action, his triumphant racing moments, with his family, on his relief missions to Romania. A fitting record of one of the greatest motorcyclists ever.
Who Is Roger Casement: A New PerspectiveMichael Laubscher
9781845889821
€16.99 | | pp
The History Press Ireland
Biography | May 2010
About The Book
Who is Roger Casement? is history with a difference; it is an excursion into the early twentieth century, when the final dramatic events of Roger Casement’s life were unfolding.
Understanding the Customer: The Art of SellingHilary Kenny
9781907535062
€ 9.99 | PB | 160pp
Londubh Books
Business | May 2010
About The Book
A step-by-steppractical guide to strategic business selling. Draws on a wide range of research and good practice and on case studies and interviews to provide easy-to-follow guidelines for genuine, lasting success in selling.
It’s Called DyslexiaJennifer Moore-Mallinos
9781847172037
€9.99 | PB | 36pp
The O’Brien Press
Children’s | May 2010
About The Book
Published in association with the Dyslexia Association of Ireland, a story about overcoming the challenges posed by dyslexia, ideal for parents and children. The only book of its kind in Ireland.
The Catalpa Adventure: Escape To FreedomVincent McDonnell
9781848890381
€ 6.99 | PB | 128pp
The Collins Press
Children’s | May 2010
About The Book
In April 1875 the whaler Catalpa sailed from New Bedford, USA, on a daring mission: to rescue six Fenian prisoners from the toughest prison in Western Australia. On Easter Monday 1876, the prisoners made their bid for freedom. After a hair-raising dash to the coast, they scrambled into a rowing boat which would take them to the waiting Catalpa. But the prisoners’ ordeal wasn’t over – the alarm had been raised. A race against time ensued.
Tiger BootsJoe O’Brien
9781847172099
€7.99 | PB | 192pp
The O’Brien Press
Children’s | May 2010
About The Book
Latest in the hugely popular series about the adventures of football-mad Danny Wilde and his team, Littlestown Crokes, for children aged 9+
Truly Tasty: Over 100 special recipes created by Ireland’s top chefs for adults living with kidney diseaseValerie Twomey
9781855942141
€ 19.95 | HB | 332pp
Cork University Press
Cookery | May 2010
About The Book
Truly Tasty is a unique cookery book in that all the recipes have been created by Ireland’s top chefs for adults living with kidney disease in Ireland. The book is the brainchild of Valerie Twomey, herself a kidney transplant recipient, who has spent over a year compiling it. Every recipe has been expertly analysed by dietitians from the Irish Nutrition & Dietetic Institute, ensuring that each one can be easily incorporated into the renal diet.
PeelerMcCarthy Kevin
9781856366596
€10.99/£9.50 | PB | 488pp
Mercier Press
Crime Fiction | May 2010
About The Book
West Cork. November 1920. The Irish War of Independence rages. The body of a young woman is found brutally murdered on a windswept hillside, a scrapboard sign covering her mutilated body reads ‘TRATOR’ traitor. Acting Sergeant Séan O’Keefe of the Royal Irish Constabulary is assigned to investigate the crime, aided by sinister detectives sent from Dublin Castle to ensure he finds the killer, just so long as the killer he finds best serves the purposes of the crown in Ireland…
Love and SummerWilliam Trevor
9780141042190
€ 9.99 | PB | pp
Penguin
Fiction | May 2010
About The Book
A beautiful meditation on love, belonging and the impossibility of escape’ Observer.
My Father’s LandsGer Burke
9781907017018
€ 13.99 | PB | 442pp
Wordsonthestreet
Fiction | May 2010
About The Book
My Father’s Lands is a searing love story and a poignant insight into the last stand of the old Gaelic world against English supremacy prior to the Ulster Plantation. The treaty of Surrender and re-grant made by Henry VIII with the Irish chieftains, by which they surrendered their lands to the Crown and were re-granted them under English law, started a progression that would change Ireland from an assortment of independent chiefdoms into England’s first colony. Moving across Ireland, England and Spain this saga weaves an unforgettable tapestry of passion, divided loyalty, betrayal and courage.
The AvenueJames Lawless
9781907017025
£ 11.99 | PB | 230pp
Wordsonthestreet
Fiction | May 2010
About The Book
The story of Francis Copeland, middle-aged librarian, life and marriage in a rut, childless he befriends the children of the avenue. Emerging from a life behind books, raw suburban truths are exposed as Francis slowly unravels the secrets of the avenue.
The Compassionate Intentions of IllnessTony Humphreys
9780955226199
€ 14.95 | PB | 160pp
Cork University Press
Health | May 2010
About The Book
Illness, death and dying are part and parcel of human life. Despite amazing advances in medical science there is never going to be a time when we can prevent against ever having the experience of illness. This book seeks to add to the alleviation of the suffering of illness by finding greater understanding of the psychological meaning and purpose of that experience.
Croagh Patrick: A Place of Pilgrimage, A Place of BeautyHarry Hughes
9781847171986
€9.99 | PB | 80pp
The O’Brien Press
Heritage | May 2010
About The Book
Wonderful photographs and illustrations capture the sheer beauty and spirit of one of Ireland’s most sacred places. ‘absolutely packed with fact, myth, folklore and handed down stories about Croagh Patrick itself’ – Western People
Exploring Ireland’s Historic TownsPat Dargan
9781845889760
€ 14.99 | PB | pp
The History Press Ireland
Heritage | May 2010
About The Book
Exploring Ireland’s Historic Towns sheds new light on the streets and squares of Ireland, drawing our attention to the historic context in which they developed.
Ireland: Glorious LandscapesCarston Krieger
9781847171948
€12.99 | PB | 144pp
The O’Brien Press
Heritage | May 2010
About The Book
An evocative collection of over 200 wonderful photographs showing the beauty and diversity of Ireland’s landscape, covering both well known and obscure places, accompanied by atmospheric text.
Strangest Genius: The Stained Glass Of Harry GlarkeMichael/Lucy Cullen/Costigan
9781845889715
€ 60.00 | HB | pp
The History Press Ireland
Heritage | May 2010
About The Book
Harry Clarke (1889 to 1931) was undoubtedly Ireland’s greatest stained-glass artist. During his short life Harry created stained-glass windows for churches, private dwellings and commercial venues throughout Ireland and England, and as far a-field as the USA and Australia.
Burren Villages: Tales of History and Imagination Poyntz Sarah
9781856356749
€16.99/£14.99 | PB | 256pp
Mercier Press
Heritage | May 2010
About The Book
The villages written about in this book all have their own character and Burren Villages takes readers on a journey which they will want to repeat again and again. The trails and paths that wind like grey ribbons across the hills are a journey through time. The Burren holds many secrets. interpreting its innermost inscrutable thoughts is not an easy challenge. People set out to capture it; instead it captures them. Burrenophilia is not as well known as Francophelia or Anglophelia but is a recognised bona fida philia. With contributions from locally and nationally renowned writers such as Fintan O’Toole, Michael Loughrey and many others.
Challenge to Democracy: Militant Catholicism in Modern IrelandDr. Maurice Curtis
9781845889692
€16.99 | PB | pp
The History Press Ireland
History | May 2010
About The Book
In the newly independent Ireland, Militant Catholicism played a crucial role in asserting the Catholic Church’s influence on both politics and society.
Ireland and Irish Americans 1932-1945: The Search for IdentityJohn Day Tully
9780716529767
€49.95 | HB | pp
Irish Academic Press
History | May 2010
About The Book
Explores the relationship between Ireland and Irish-Americans and how this changed during World War II.
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The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century Bernadette Cunningham (author)
9781846822032
€50.00 | HB | pp
Four Courts Press Ltd
History | May 2010
About The Book
There was something about the form and substance of the Annals of the Four Masters, compiled in the 1630s, that allowed them to become accepted as an authentic, reliable and comprehensive record of Gaelic society. Drawing on a rich heritage of manuscript sources on Irish history, these annals have long been regarded as an essential element of the cultural capital of a community that valued its Gaelic past. The Four Masters’ approach to making their own annals conveys their regard for the older written records that had preserved for them, in manuscript, the history of their ancestors.
The Young Ireland Rebellion and LimerickLaurence Fenton
9781856356602
€12.99/£14.99 | PB | 224pp
Mercier Press
History | May 2010
About The Book
1848: The Young Ireland Rebellion and Limerick examines the colourful and complex local dimensions to one of the key, if inglorious, events in Irish history.Limerick was the hometown of the Young Ireland leader William Smith O’Brien and the Young Ireland club there, the Sarsfield Club, was among the most active in the country.
Power and Popular Culture in Modern Ireland: Essays in Honour of James S. Donnelly Jnr
Michael De Nie
9780716530657
€45.00 | HB | pp
Irish Academic Press
Irish Studies | May 2010
About The Book
Celebrates the life and work of the greatest American historian of Ireland
The Blue Wall of Silence: The Morris Tribunal and Police Accountability in IrelandVicky Conway
€ 60.00 | HB | 9780716530305
€ 24.95 | PB | 9780716530312
Irish Academic Press
Law Crime social Justice | May 2010
About The Book
Questions what contribution the Tribunal has made to the accontability of the Garda Siochana
Occasions for Writing: essays on Medieval and Renaissance literature, politics and societyJohn Scattergood (author)
9781846821790
€55.00 | HB | pp
Four Courts Press Ltd
Literar Criticism | May 2010
About The Book
In 1974, in an introduction to Ben Jonson’s poetry, Thom Gunn wrote: ‘all poetry is occasional: whether the occasion is an external event like a birthday or a declaration of war, whether it is an occasion of the imagination, or whether it is in some sort a combination of the two.’ Most of the texts which make up the subject matter for the essays in this book are ‘occasional’ less in the sense that they are generated by ‘occasions of the imagination; and more in the sense that they are responses to ‘external’ factors.
Revolutionary Limerick: The Republican Campaign for Independence in Limerick 1913-1921John O Callaghan
€60.00 | HB | 9780716530572
€24.95 | PB | 9780716530589
Irish Academic Press
Military History | May 2010
About The Book
This book explores the course and significance of the republican campaign for independence in Limerick between the formation of the Irish Volunteers in 1913 and the Truce of July 1921. It provides an insight into national developments while revealing the developments and trends which were unique to Limerick.
Ireland’s Lighthouses: A Photo EssayJohn Eagle
9781848890244
€ 199.99 | PB | 216pp
The Collins Press
Natural History | May 2010
About The Book
The first time he saw Roche’s Point lighthouse marking Cork Harbour, John Eagle knew he was smitten. ‘Coming from an inland town, there was so much excitement in the sea,’ he explains, ‘and lighthouses encap-sulated all that.’ Lighthouses have played an important role on Ireland’s extensive and dramatic coastline since the fifth century, lighting the way for many a cargo and passenger ship while ensuring that those who made their living on the sea made it home safely. During a project that lasted over ten years, John made several daring boat and helicopter trips to capture unique images of these wind-swept, wave-lashed buildings.
Come What May: The AutobiographyDónal Óg Cusack
9780141044514
€ 9.99 | PB | pp
Penguin
Non-Fiction | May 2010
About The Book
Dónal Óg Cusack is the most compelling and controversial figure in the GAA today. In Come What May, Dónal Óg tells the story of the highs and lows on the pitch – including three All-Ireland victories – and off it with candour and courage. This is a book about friendship and loyalty and conflict and being true to yourself. It is unlike any other Irish sporting memoir ever published.
Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac LivesBrian Dillon
9780141044057
€ 10.99 | PB | pp
Penguin
Non-Fiction | May 2010
About The Book
Brian Dillon looks at nine prominent hypochondriacs – James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Daniel Paul Schreber, Alice James, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol – and what their lives tell us about the way the mind works with, and against, the body. His findings are stimulating and surprising, and the stories he tells are often moving, sometimes hilarious, and always gripping.
Who Really Runs Ireland: The Story of the Elite who led Ireland from Bust to Boom … and back againMatt Cooper
9781844881673
€ 10.99 | PB | pp
Penguin
Non-Fiction | May 2010
About The Book
Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?
The Poetry of Medbh McGuckianRichard Kirkland
9781859184653
€ 39.00 | HB | 272pp
Cork University Press
Poetry | May 2010
About The Book
This is the first collection of essays solely dedicated to the achievement of this remarkable Irish poet. The book contains eleven essays by internationally known scholars, a new interview with McGuckian herself, and a detailed bibliography. McGuckian’s critical reputation has grown dramatically over the last decade and she is now a poet with an international reputation. This collection provides a timely and engaging appraisal of her work.
Irish Women and Street Politics 1956-1973: This could be contagiousTara Keenan Thomson
€ 60.00 | HB | 9780716530268
€ 24.95 | PB | 9780716530275
Irish Academic Press
Political History | May 2010
About The Book
Probing History of radicalism in both parts of Ireland from 1956-73 by charting the interaction between feminism and republicamism and left wing politics.
Ulster’s Last Stand: Reconstructing Unionism after the Peace ProcessJames McAuley
€ 60.00 | HB | 9780716530329
€ 24.95 | PB | 9780716530336
Irish Academic Press
Political History | May 2010
About The Book
Considers the politics of the Protestant Unionist Loyalist population in Northern Ireland during and following the peace process.
Benign anarchy: Alcoholics Anonymous in IrelandShane Butler
€ 60.00 | HB | 9780716530633
€ 24.95 | PB | 9780716530633
Irish Academic Press
Social History | May 2010
About The Book
A History of the A.A, Alcoholics Anonymous
Benedict XVI and the Sacred LiturgyNeil J. Roy & Janet E. Rutherford (editors)
9781846822544
€30.00 | HB | pp
Four Courts Press Ltd
Theology | May 2010
About The Book
This book aims to provide a general overview of some of the more important themes in Benedict XVI’s liturgical writings. It serves as a broad introduction to issues central to Benedict XVI’s concern for authentic renewal of Catholic worship, according to the principles set out by the Second Vatican Council, and to his critique of liturgical innovations deviant from those principles.
Generations of Priests: Thomas McGovern (author). With foreword by George, Cardinal pell, archbishop of Sydney
€50.00 | HB | 9781846822568
€25.00 | PB | 9781846822575
Four Courts Press Ltd
Theology | May 2010
About The Book
This book illustrates the richness of the Catholic priesthood by reference to the lives of ten men who, at different stages in history, committed themselves fully to follow Christ as labourers in his vineyard. These men – St John Chrysostom, St John Fisher, St Oliver Plunkett, the Curé of Ars, Cardinal Newman, Archbishop John Baptist Lamy, St Pius X, Blessed Cardinal Clement von Galen, St Josemaría Escrivá, Pope John Paul II – although following very different paths, have several elements in common arising from the holiness of their lives. Thus we find in all a deep personal love for Christ, a willingness to sacrifice themselves generously for the salvation of souls, a great loyalty to the Magisterium, and a rich human sensibility.
George Tyrrell and Catholic modernismOliver P. Rafferty SJ (editor)
9781846822360
€45.00 | HB | pp
Four Courts Press Ltd
Theology | May 2010
About The Book
This work re-evaluates the life and thought of George Tyrrell, one of the most prominent of the modernist thinkers, on the centenary of his death. A Jesuit priest, he was dismissed from the order and excommunicated from the church for his views. The problems he tried to grapple with – the relation of science to religion, questions of meaning and modernity, issues of the articulation of Christian ideas in modern culture – have a peculiarly contemporary ring. These articles attempt to set Tyrrell’s work within the framework of early 20th-century Catholic ideas and to draw some conclusions about his thinking for present day concerns.
Moral Theology after Humanae Vitae: fundamental issues in moral theology and sexual ethicsD. Vincent Twomey SVD (author)
9781846822018
€35.00 | HB | pp
Four Courts Press Ltd
Theology | May 2010
About The Book
The author discusses some of the major developments in fundamental moral theology which were sparked off by the publication of the hugely controversial encyclical, Humanae Vitae (1968), as well as the impact of its rejection by many leading moral theologians. Within the broader cultural background of modernity, Professor Twomey analyses this dissent and attempts to sketch an alternative moral theology based on the recovery of virtue as the context for moral reflection and on a new appreciation of the nature of sexuality. He also attempts a positive appreciation of the generally neglected ‘doctrinal content’ of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical that shook the world when it appeared in order to explain why Humanae Vitae remains to this day a sign of contradiction within the Church and beyond.
The Navarre Bible [Old Testament]: Exodus: Standard Edition Navarre Bible Editors
9781846822070
€13.95 | PB | pp
Four Courts Press Ltd
Theology | May 2010
About The Book
‘Exodus’, meaning ‘going out’, is the title the Greek translators gave the second book of the Bible, the second book of the Pentateuch. This Navarre Bible volume contains the entire text of Exodus, together with a commentary. The children of Israel initially enjoyed peace and prosperity in Egypt, but under a new regime they were oppressed and enslaved. Eventually God in his providence chose Moses as their leader and liberator; and they made good their escape (probably in the 13th century BC).
The Navarre Bible [Old Testament]: Genesis: Standard Edition Navarre Bible Editors
9781846822063
€13.95 | PB | pp
Four Courts Press Ltd
Theology | May 2010
About The Book
Genesis – which deals with the ‘origins’ of the world and mankind – is the first book of the Bible, the first book of the Pentateuch, the Law of Moses, the Hebrew Torah. The author is not attempting to write a scholarly account (which would be based on the primitive scientific notions of his time); to understand this book correctly, the reader must remember that the focus of Genesis is a religious one. The commentary found here takes account of modern scholarship, which it sets in the context of the abiding teaching of the Church and the insights of the Fathers and other revered authors.
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