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Donal Skehan On Sunshine 106.8FM

November 30, 2010 – 3:10 pm

Recent IES Irish Published Book Of The Year Winner at the Irish Book Awards, Donal Skehan appeared on Sunshine 106.8FM this week speaking with Sean Ashmore who was sitting in for Lynsey Dolan from Dublin’s Talking, the interview is below:

Donal Skehan on Sunshine 106.8FM

You can buy Donal’s first book here and pre-order his forthcoming title here

Publishers Description
A stunningly illustrated collection of delicious and easy mood-boosting recipes.

If you could improve your mood, sleeping patterns, energy levels, and mental state tomorrow, in one quick and simple step, you would, right? Eating the right foods can do that and more for you. Keeping an open mind and a positive approach to what you eat is one of the most important steps when it comes to improving your health.

The Good Mood Food approach to cooking is by no means rocket science, but it is straightforward and full of health benefits. With delicious recipes for Gazpacho Salad, Sesame Chicken Satay Skewers, Real Baked Beans with Focaccia, Apple and Oatmeal Muffins, Ginger Lemon and Honey Tea, Baked Dill and Garlic Salmon, Baked Pears with Spiced Honey and Peanut Butter Cookies among others Good Mood Food is a healthy delight!

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Quick Link | [More Bad News For O'Callaghan's HMH] After Flouting Print Run Limits, Publisher Faces Dozens of Lawsuits

November 30, 2010 – 10:03 am

Photographers, photo agencies, artists, and others who have contributed content to textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt have filed more than 30 copyright infringement claims over the past five years in federal courts in Alaska, Florida, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York, Arizona, and other states. More claims are in the works, says attorney Chris Seidman of Harmon & Seidman LLC, which has represented most of the plaintiffs and has so far won settlements for about 20 of them.

“The scheme that Houghton employed was to license for the lowest amount it thought it could get away with, and then print whatever it wanted,” Seidman says. One HMH executive said in a court deposition that the publisher ignored print run limits in its photo licenses as meaningless numbers.

“It’s a compelling story of corporate greed and malfeasance,” says Seidman. “This venerable publisher has lost it’s way and veered off on a bad path of cheating the people who contribute to its existence, without whose contributions it wouldn’t exist.”

via After Flouting Print Run Limits, Publisher Faces Dozens of Lawsuits.

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November 26, 2010 – 6:56 pm

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Landy, Donoghue & Binchy Among The Winners At The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards

November 26, 2010 – 2:22 pm

An emotional Emma Donoghue spoke of the importance of recognition by her homeland as she accepted the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel Of The Year Award at Thursday evening’s ‘Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards in the Round Room Of the Mansion House.

It was a theme echoed by many of the winners, including Maeve Binchy who was awarded with a lifetime achievement award by the guest of Honour for the evening, President Mary McAleese.

Perhaps the least surprising winner of the evening was Late Last show host, Ryan Tubridy who won the Newcomer Of The Year Award.

Donal Óg Cusack won the John Murray Listeners’ Choice Award, Donal Skehan won the IES Irish Published Book Of The Year, Neil Richardson won the Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book Of The Year, Ross O’Carroll-Kelly the Easons Popular Fiction Book Of The Year, Gene Kerrigan won the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Book Of The Year,  Niamh Sharkey took the Junior category of the DAA Irish Children’s Book Of The Year while Derek Landy took the senior category as well as accepting his Book of the Decade award.

Tom Owens, Trading Director Eason and Chairman of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards, said, ‘The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards allow us the opportunity to celebrate and honour Ireland’s best literary talent. This year’s winning authors illustrate the diversity and vibrancy of the Irish book world, and each book is an outstanding literary achievement in its own right. As a country, we should be incredibly proud of these authors and the wealth of home-grown talent we have on offer.’

The full list of winners
The Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year: Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador)
RTÉ Radio 1′s The John Murray Show Listeners’ Choice Award: Come What May by Donal Og Cusack (Penguin Ireland)
The Ireland AM Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year: Dark Times in the City by Gene Kerrigan (Vintage)
The Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year: A Coward If I Return A Hero If I Fall by Neil Richardson (O’Brien Press)
Eason Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year: The Oh My God Delusion by Ross O’Carroll Kelly (Penguin Ireland)
Energise Sport Irish Sports Book of the Year: A Football Man by John Giles (Hachette Books Ireland)
Irish Newcomer of the Year: JFK in Ireland: Four Days that Changed a President by Ryan Tubridy (Collins)
International Education Services Best Irish Published Book of the Year: Good Mood Food by Donal Skehan (Mercier)
The Dublin Airport Authority Irish Children’s Book of the Year:
Junior - On the Road with Mavis and Marge by Niamh Sharkey (Walker Books)
Senior – Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil by Derek Landy (Harper Collins Children’s Books)

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Publishing Ireland Launches Great Irish Books For Christmas

November 25, 2010 – 9:25 am

Irish readers can win one of ten €100 One-4-All vouchers simply by buying a copy of one of 25 specially selected titles and emailing it to Publishing Ireland. The competition is part of the Irish book publishers associations new Christmas promotion, Great Irish Books.

Publishing Ireland has selected 25 titles that cover everything from Irish language books, Irish history, fiction and children’s books. The goal according to the association is to champion ‘Irish-published books, Irish publishers, and Irish bookshops’ with the aim of ‘making book-buyers think about what they are buying.’

Jean Harrington, president of Publishing Ireland said, ‘Irish publishers provide great Irish books; the quality and variety are second to none. This campaign celebrates and promotes books, and we would ask people to look out for some truly great Irish books when they are considering purchasing a book this Christmas.’

Con Collins, publisher at The Collins Press, who has three titles in the group of the 25 selected titles said, ‘This promotion highlights the best of what Irish publishers are producing and emphasises the importance of supporting Irish companies and writers and staying positive in difficult times. The Great Irish Books campaign is good for everyone: publishers, authors and readers.’

As part of the campaign, Publishing Ireland has set up a website, a Facebook page, a twitter account and is running ads in The Irish Times today to back the campaign.
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The Complete List
Gluaiseacht
Gabháil Syrinx
Where Are You Really From?
Yeats and Sligo
An Irish Country Christmas
Agus Rud Eile De And Another Thing
Máirtín Ó Direáin Na Dánta
Sceon na Mara
Great Endeavour: Ireland’s Antarctic Explorers
Abandoned Mansions of Ireland
Ireland’s Animals: Myths, Legends and Folklore
Cliúsaíocht í nGaeilge – Making Out in Irish
1916 Seachtar na Cásca
1972 And The Ulster Troubles
Strangest Genius – The Stained Glass Of Harry Clarke
An tEagrán Gaeilge/The Irish Issue
The Gathering of Souls
Leading Lights – The People Who’ve Inspired Me
Capital Sins
Renegades – Irish Republican Women 1900-1922
2016 – A New Proclamation for a New Generation
The Rebel Prince – The Moorehawke Trilogy: Book 3
A Coward If I Return, A Hero If I Fall – Stories of Irishmen in World War I
Lansdowne Road – The Stadium; the Matches; the Greatest Days
Sharp Sticks Driven Nails – Anthology of Short Stories

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Irish Top Ten Week Ending 20/11/2010

November 25, 2010 – 8:00 am

Hachette stay at number one with their John Giles autobiography. Tubridy’s JFK in Ireland had a rebound this week but the surprise package for me is One Day by David Nicholls which seems to have come from nowhere to number five, that can only be on the back of his winning the Popular Fiction Book of the Year award at the Galaxy National Book Awards, but the awards did not get a huge amount of media attention in Ireland, so in store promotion and word of mouth must be having an impact here.

1, 9781444720945, John Giles a Football Man, John Giles, 1,932
2, 9780141331980, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth, Jeff Kinney, 1,849
3, 9780718154776, Jamie’s 30-minute Meals, Jamie Oliver, 1,621
4, 9780007317592, JFK in Ireland:Four Days That Changed a President, Ryan Tubridy, 1,478
5, 9780340896983, One Day, David Nicholls, 1,433
6, 9781848270817, Coming Home, Patricia Scanlon, 1,429
7. 9781904994572, Guinness World Records 2011, 1,410
8, 9780717148417, Soundings:Poems We Did for Our Leaving Certificate, 1,263
9, 9781844881758, The Oh My God Delusion, Ross O’Carroll Kelly, 1,126
10, 9780330519922, Room, Emma Donoghue, 972

Data Supplied by Nielsen BookScan taken from the Irish Consumer Market week ending 20th November 2010
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Government To Review Zero Rate Of VAT On Books

November 24, 2010 – 2:48 pm

The zero rate of VAT applied to books in Ireland is to be reviewed as part of the country’s recently announced four-year plan.

On page 97 of the plan In the VAT section, the text states:

The Government will also examine further rebalancing of the VAT system and zero rated VAT items within the context of wider and ongoing EU level consideration of the matter.

Jean Harrington of Maverick House and President of Publishing Ireland said that it would be, ‘insane to introduce VAT on books especially when we are trying to build a knowledge economy.’ Harrington also aid that VAT on books would \be detrimental for people’s access to books’ and would ‘reduce the numbers of books libraries could buy.’

The 150 page document features a number of other VAT measure including a phased increase to 23% by 2014 which will impact ebook and digital book editions which are already subject to VAT at 21%.

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Lara Marlowe On Sunshine 106.8FM

November 24, 2010 – 1:29 pm

Lara Marlowe was on Dublin’s Talking with Lynsey Dolan on Sunshine 106.8FM this week. The interview is below:

Lara Marlowe on Sunshine 106.8FM

Lara’s book, The Things I’ve Seen can be bought here.

Publishers Description

New and selected pieces by the renowned international journalist and foreign correspondent, including stories from the Middle East, the Balkans, France (where she lived for a total of seventeen years), and also from the US, where she is currently the Washington Correspondent for The Irish Times.

The Things I’ve Seen is the first book to feature the award-winning work of journalist and foreign correspondent Lara Marlowe. From her beginnings as a reporter for the Financial Times, to her work for TIME Magazine and her most recent assignments with The Irish Times in Paris and Washington, this selection of Lara’s best reporting is full of the insight and reflection we have come to expect from the veteran reporter. Featuring a lengthy introduction on the nature of the correspondent’s work and charting her own career, this debut publication includes coverage of wars in Lebanon, former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine and Iraq.

Lara has covered every major conflict of the past three decades. She lived for eight years in Beirut, where she reported for the Financial Times and TIME Magazine. Irish readers are most familiar with the thirteen years she spent as the Paris-based correspondent for The Irish Times. The Things I’ve Seen features some of her best writing from that posting, including a lively portrait of Carla Bruni, whom she met in the singer and first lady’s private Paris residence.

The book covers the Obama administration’s first 18 months, the earthquake in Haiti and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Fintan O'Toole On Sunshine 106.8FM

November 24, 2010 – 12:43 pm

Fintan O’Toole was on Sunshine 106.8Fm with Lynsey Dolan on Dublin Talking this week. The interview is below:

Fintan O’ Toole On Sunshine 106.8FM

Fintan’s latest book, Enough Is Enough published by Faber is available here.

Publishers Description

The Republic of Ireland, which declared itself in 1949, allowed the Catholic Church to dominate its civil society and education system. Investment by American and European companies, and a welcoming tax regime, created the ‘Celtic Tiger’ of the 1990s. That brief burst of good fortune was destroyed by a corrupt political class which encouraged a wild property boom, leaving the country almost bankrupt.

What Ireland needs now is a programme of real change. It needs to become a fully modern republic in fact as well as name. This disastrous economic collapse also allows us to think through the kind of multiculturalism that Ireland needs, and to build institutions that can accommodate the sudden influx of migrants who have come to Ireland in the past 15 years. The State should take over the entire education system, for which it pays already, and make it fit for the 21st century. The political system is dysfunctional and is one of the main causes of the debacle we have just experienced. Ireland needs constitutional reform.

Politicians have been let get away with murder, and there is a fatalistic sense that nothing can change. The country needs to encourage participation in, and oversight and knowledge of politics, to make people feel that they have a right to challenge the old party machines and to make a difference. It is their country, after all.

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The William Hill Irish Sports Book Of The Year 2010 Shortlist Revealed

November 24, 2010 – 12:07 pm

The William Hill Irish Sports Book Of The Year 2010 shortlist marks an impressive result for the Irish-based foreign publishers with Hachette Ireland, Penguin Ireland and Transworld filling four of the six shortlist slots.

The last two slots are filled by UK-based Orion (part of the Hachette UK group) and Irish-based and owned Gill & Macmillan.

This year’s shortlist has a heavy emphasis on autobiography and memoir. The list features titles by John Giles, Bernard Dunne, Ruby Walsh and Tony Griffin.

Only two of the shortlisted books, The Club by Christy O’Connor and Days Of Heaven by Declan Lynch tackle stories beyond memoir.

The winning title will receive a €3,000 prize and the result will be announced in early December.

William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year 2010 – Shortlist
A Football Man – John Giles (Hachette Ireland)
My Story – Bernard Dunne (Penguin Ireland)
The Club – Christy O’Connor (Penguin Ireland)
Ruby – Ruby Walsh (Orion Publishing)
Days of Heaven – Declan Lynch (Gill and MacMillan)
Screaming at the Sky – Tony Griffin (Transworld Publishing)

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