September tends to be a big month for books. A combination of the first flush of christmas fare and a rash of titles that could be released anytime during the year but which would suffer against the massive bulk of titles that will hit the shelves in October. It is an interesting bag this month with two books of the Month, both non-fiction.

About The Book
Open Dissent is an analysis of the financial crisis from the point of view of someone on the inside.
With 35 years’ experience in banking internationally and, latterly, in Ireland, Mike Soden was one of those at helm, shaping and changing modern banking. Mike Soden retired as chief executive of Bank of Ireland in 2004 after a 35-year career in Irish and international banking. He has since become a frequent and popular contributor to the Irish media on financial and economic matters.

A History of the Internet and the Digital Future
Johnny Ryan
9781861897770
£17.95 | HB | 248pp
Reaktion Press
Technology | September 2010

About The Book
A great adjustment in human affairs is underway. Political, commercial and cultural life is changing from the centralized, hierarchical and standardized structures of the industrial age to something radically different: the economy of the emerging digital era.

A History of the Internet and the Digital Future tells the story of the development of the Internet from the 1950s to the present, and examines how the balance of power has shifted between the individual and the state in the areas of censorship, copyright infringement, intellectual freedom and terrorism and warfare.

About The Book
The abbot of Iona in the late 7th century, Adomnán, a kinsmen of the founder St Columba, was one of the most remarkable thinkers of his era. The author of the magnificent Life of Columba as well a widely-influential guide to the Holy Places of the Near East, he was also responsible for the celebrated Cáin Adomnáin – a ground-breaking law tract on the protection of non-combatants. Adomnán was also a major figure in the Easter Controversy and his scholarship directly influenced that of Bede. The studies in this volume,  rising from a conference held on Iona on the 13th centenary of Adomnán’s death, celebrate his achievements.

Desmond Leslie The Biography of an Irish Gentleman 1921-2001
Robert O’Byrne
9781843511632
€ 20.00 | HB | 216pp
The Lilliput Press
Biography | September 2010

About The Book
Film producer, writer and cult UFOlogist, Desmond Leslie was one of Ireland’s leading eccentrics. This is the first biography of his extraordinary life.

Will Mammy Be Coming Back for Me?
Shane Dunphy
9780717143863
€ 14.99 | PB | 256pp
Gill & Macmillan
Biography | September 2010

About The Book
When Shane Dunphy first met Jason he was a tiny, tortured five-year-old who had stopped speaking, and who terrorised others with his angry, violent behaviour. Gradually, with remarkable patience, Shane and the team win Jason’s trust and, slowly, he begins to speak and reach out for the help and comfort he so desperately needs. Eleven years later, Shane is shocked to find Jason’s file coming across his desk again.

The Big Book Of Hope
Various
9781842234679
€ 15.99 | TPB |
Poolbeg
Charity | September 2010

About The Book
This extraordinary collection celebrates The HOPE Foundation and – hopefully – will play a significant role in publicizing and supporting its courageous work. A potent blend offiction, memoir and non-fiction, the contributions explore the theme of ’hope’ and its vital presence in all our lives.

Across The Divide
Brian Gallagher
97818471726
€ 7.99 | PB | 240pp
O’Brien Press
Children’s | September 2010

About The Book
What happens when your best friend ought to be your enemy?
Liam and Nora form an unlikely friendship when he lends her a helping hand during a music competition. Liam’s father, a mechanic, is a proud trade union member, while Nora’s father is a prosperous wine importer. When Jim Larkin takes on the might of the employers in 1913, resulting in strikes, riots and lockouts, Liam and Nora’s friendship is challenged and their loyalties torn.

Age 14 An Irish Boy Soldier
Geert Spillebeen
9781848890565
€ 6.99 | PB | 224pp
The Collins Press
Children’s | September 2010

About The Book
The tragedy of child soldiers today is something we associate with distant wars, in Sudan, Sierra Leone, or Sri Lanka. To twelve-year-old Patrick Condon from Ballybricken, County Waterford, the war seems distant too. Wishing to escape his impoverished life, he adopts the identity of his seventeen-year-old brother John, and enlists in the British army in 1913. He enjoys his newfound independence and makes friends easily. His training drills feel almost like a game, and the battle that breaks out following the murder of the Austrian Crown Prince seems far away. But the war is very real, and it is only a matter of time before John is at the front, achieving the adventure and glory he craves in the most tragic way possible.

Dancing In The Dark
P.R. Prendergast
9781847171856
€ 7.99 | PB | 192pp
O’Brien Press
Children’s | September 2010

About The Book
Things haven’t been easy for Jessie since her brother James – sports star and popular kid – died. Her mum and dad are lost in grief and she’s feeling isolated at school; when the popular girls on her dance team give her a hard time, she just can’t seem to remember the routines …
… and Jessie can still see James. Talk to him, or quarrel with him, more like! They always bickered when James was alive, so why change now?

Eva’s Journey
Judi Curtin
9781847172242
€ 7.99 | PB | 272pp
O’Brien Press
Children’s | September 2010

About The Book
Rich, spoilt, high-maintenance Eva Gordon likes fancy, sophisticated things so when her parents sell their sell their holiday home and their expensive car Eva can’t understand why her dad can’t fix things.
But when Eva’s dad loses his job and she has to move house and change schools, she realises life has changed for good. She’s determined to hate her new life, until a chance visit to a fortune teller gives her the idea that doing good may help her to get her old life back. Eva (with the help of her friend Victoria) starts to help all around her, whether they want it or not!

Hugh O’Flaherty His Wartime Exploits
Alison Walsh
9781848890589
€ 6.99 | PB | 128pp
The Collins Press
Children’s | September 2010

About The Book
Hugh O’Flaherty, a cheerful Kerryman who loved sport, was in Rome in 1939 when the Second World War broke out. Unable to watch from the safe haven of the Vatican as people were arrested and sometimes killed, he set up an escape organisation for Allied POWs, Jews and others who needed help. By the time the Allies freed the city, he had helped over 6,500 people. At a time when the church is in crisis, this is an enduring story of one priest’s battle for good in the face of evil, recounted with the pace of a thriller. Written especially for children, this is based on the best-selling biography, The Vatican Pimpernel by Brian Fleming.

It’s Great Being Little
Nita Fitzgerald
Illustrated by Francesca Carabelli
9781847171764
€ 7.99 | PB | 32pp
O’Brien Press
Children’s | September 2010

About The Book
‘I don’t want to be little,’ Susie tells her granny. ‘I want to be BIG.’
‘What?’ says Granny. ‘But It’s GREAT being little. Why, you can do all sorts of things …’
A charming, beautifully illustrated story for all little people who can’t wait to be big.

The Snowmelt River
Frank P Ryan
9781874082484
€ 8.99 | PB |
Swift Publishers
Children’s | September 2010

About The Book
Four friends are drawn to the fabled mountain of Slievenamon, a mountain enshrined in magic and legend, on the summit of which is the Gate of Feimhin, which will take them into the enchanted but war-ravaged world of Tir, a strange land of magic and wonder.

Understanding Ireland’s Economic Crisis Prospects For Recovery
Stephen Kinsella/Anthony Leddin
9781842181980
€ 30.00 | PB | 250pp
Blackhall Publishing
Economics | September 2010

About The Book
This book contributes both macro- and micro-economic perspectives, with chapters written from diverse perspectives on the same theme – just how small open economies might prosper in the medium term, following a domestic and international economic downturn of historic proportions. Understanding Ireland’s Economic Crisis will be policy relevant, accessible, and written to stimulate public debate.

An Irish Country Christmas
Patrick Taylor
9780863224225
€ 19.99 | HB | 480pp
Brandon
Fiction | September 2010

About The Book
Christmas is drawing nigh, but there is little peace to be found on earth, especially for a young doctor plying his trade in the glens of rural Ireland. But the wintry days and nights are not without a few tidings of comfort and joy. Between their hectic medical practice, Rugby Club parties, and the  Christmas Pageant, the two doctors still find time to play Santa Claus to a struggling single mother with a sick child and not enough money in the bank. Snow is rare in Ulster, and so are miracles, but that doesn’t mean they never happen. . .

Becoming Scarlett
Ciara Geraghty
9780340963500
£ 7.99 | PB | pp
hachette Ireland
Fiction | September 2010

About The Book
Now, Scarlett is back in her childhood home with her plan in tatters and a baby on the way, while John Smith – actuary, proper grown-up and Scarlett’s boyfriend – has left her to join an archaeological dig in a tiny village somewhere in Brazil.
But that’s not the worst bit.

The worst bit is she can’t be sure who the father of the baby is . . . even though she’s slept with exactly four-and-a-half men in her entire 35 years.

Rules for a Perfect Life
Niamh Greene
9780141048659
€ 9.99 | PB | 336pp
Penguin
Fiction | September 2010

About The Book

Rules for a perfect life . . .
Rule One: Do not ditch the man everyone says is perfect for you because he eats the last yellow jelly-baby in the bag.
Rule Two: Do not move to a shack in the country to ‘find yourself’ and inadvertently become an object of ridicule for the locals.
Rule Three: Do not fall for a man who has two children who hate you, a saintly dead wife you can never live up to and a mother who thinks you are the hired help.
Maggie wants the perfect life – but if she keeps breaking the rules can she ever have it?

Sarah Love
Geraldine O’Neill
9781842234303
€ 15.99 | TPB | pp
Poolbeg
Fiction | September 2010

About The Book
As she puts the final stitches in her perfect wedding dress, Sarah Love receives dreadful news which wrecks all her future plans. Heartbroken and humiliated, she leaps at a chance to make a fresh start away from her native Tullamore. Within a week she has crossed the Irish Sea, and is lodging with other young women in a house off Newcastle city centre, just a short walk from Harrison’s the rundown knitting and sewing shop where she will work for reserved and troubled spinster, Lucy Harrison. Sarah now finds herself amongst people of different classes, religion and race, and when her Irish nationality is attacked she must discover the skills to survive.

Since You’ve Been Gone
Emma Heatherington
9781842234099
€ 9.99 | PB | pp
Poolbeg
Fiction | September 2010

About The Book
They call it Little Hollywood, and Millfield – a village nestled somewhere in the north of Ireland – is truly stage and screen obsessed. Taylor Smith, TV actor and media darling, is Millfield’s pride and joy – and then he lands a juicy part in the real Hollywood . . . Erin O’Brien is the love of his life. She’s a TV personality in her own right but, with Taylor away in the Hollywood Hills, she finds it difficult to cope. But that’s what a glass or three of red wine is for, isn’t it?

The Cards Of The Gambler
Benedict Kiely
9781848400825
€ 10.99 | PB | 250pp
New Island
Fiction | September 2010

About The Book
This classic novel from renowned novelist, short-story writer and broadcaster Benedict Kiely follows the trials of a doctor who becomes a gambler and loses everything.

The Only Glow Of The Day
Martin Malone
9781848400771
€ 11.99 | PB | 250pp
New Island
Fiction | September 2010

About The Book
A new historical novel from the author of The Silence of the Glasshouse, based on the author’s one-hour play for RTÉ Radio 1, Rosanna Night Walker.
It is the winter of 1863 and Rosanna Doyle is living rough on the Curragh grasslands, within walking distance of a large military encampment. The novel follows her arrival at a ‘wren’s nest’ (furze bush), her life among the women there, and her meeting with journalist Richard Tone.
The novel is grounded in historical fact; the character of Tone, the pressman who writes about the lives of the ‘wren women’, is based on a journalist who Charles Dickens sent to write about the women living rough in the Curragh

The Parson’s Revels: Notes & Introduction by Catherine Skeen
William Dunkin
9781846822778
€29.95 | HB | 160pp
Four Courts Press
Fiction | September 2010
About The Book
William Dunkin (1705–65) is the most undeservedly neglected of eighteenth century Irish poets. Swift called him ‘the best English poet in the Kingdom’ and his contemporaries considered him as good as Pope. But Dunkin’s works were last printed in 1770 and few readers have had a chance to enjoy his energetic and original verse since then. This edition of The Parson’s Revels, one of his most entertaining poems, has been transcribed from a contemporary manuscript and edited by Dr Catherine Skeen of Villanova University. It  introduces to a new audience one of the most lively and humorous poets of 18th-century Ireland.

Ireland’s Animals Myths, Legends and Folklore
Niall Mac Coitir
9781848890602
€ 27.99 | HB | 296pp
The Collins Press
Folklore | September 2010

About The Book
This compilation of folklore, legends and history relating to animals in Ireland uses the Classical elements of fire, earth, air and water to discuss the personalities and spirits of animals. It includes description of their relations with people and being hunted for food, fur, sport, or as vermin, as well as their position today. Find out how and when non-native animals arrived in Ireland and how the boundary between wild and domestic animals has been more uncertain than people realise.

An Irish Butcher Shop
Pat Whelan
9781848890596
€ 25.00 | HB | 280pp
The Collins Press
Food & Drink | September 2010

About The Book
Good meat is one of life’s sublime pleasures. Pat Whelan has a passion for everything about it, so it’s no surprise Rick Stein lists him as one of his Food Heroes. From the quickest pan-fried steak to a slow-cooked dish, Pat understands how to get the best taste experience from cooking.  His knowledge of animals and butchery gives him an edge and Pat is enthusiastic about teaching everyone the joys of meat cookery. Each cut requires a certain method of cooking, and he outlines methods and recipes for popular and less fashionable cuts of meat. This book is intended to demystify meat cookery and help people explore its wonderful taste opportunities. It includes Pat’s favourite tried and tested recipes; dishes that sum up his warm, family-oriented and eclectic outlook on life.  Evocative recipe shots and outstanding recipes for today’s kitchen capture the quality of the produce of James Whelan Butchers.

Itsa Cookbook
Domini Kemp
978071747427
€ 19.99 | PB | 224pp
Gill & Macmillan
Food & Drink | September 2010

About The Book
Irish Times food writer, chef and restaurateur Domini Kemp has compiled a mouth-watering collection of her favourite recipes aimed at the everyday cook. Her recipes include everything from kitchen basics, such as tomato sauce and roast chicken, to imaginative mid-week suppers for the whole family, easy side dishes, fun and healthy brunches, foolproof dishes for entertaining and sweet things for all occasions. Domini’s recipes appeal to anyone with an interest in getting busy in the kitchen.

Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin A history
Kenneth Milne
9781846822704
€24.95 | PB | 480pp
Four Courts Press
Guidebook | September 2010

About The Book
In its architecture, administration, worship, and the people who made those things possible, Christ Church Cathedral has reflected the changing face of Ireland. It has experienced the trauma of the Reformation, and, centuries later, of disestablishment and of political independence. Whether pre-Reformation as an Augustinian priory, or post-Reformation as the monarch’s Chapel Royal in Ireland, or indeed from the late nineteenth century as metropolitan cathedral for the Church of Ireland dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough, Christ Church has played a prominent part in national and civic life in Ireland. This volume, which utilises the rich archival and architectural remains of the cathedral to throw light on many aspects of everyday life in Dublin, is the first full-scale history of the cathedral to be written.

Flagging Stress How To Beat Toxic Stress – Before It Beats You
Dr Harry Barry
9781905483310
€ 12.99 | PB | 224pp
Liberties Press
Health | September 2010

About The Book
Third instalment of Dr Harry Barry’s hugely successful Flagging books; topical given economic climate creating higher suicide rates and increased mental health issues.

Tackling Depression: A Practical Guide to The Everyday Management of Depression
Ian Birthistle
9781842181966
€ 15.00 | PB | 200pp
Blackhall Publishing
Health | September 2010
About The Book
Written from a professional point of view, and grounded by the author’s personal experience, Tackling Depression is an insightful and useful book for those suffering from depression and their loved ones.

Golden Years: The Irish Guide To Planning Your Finances For Retirement
Declan Lyons
9781905483761
€ 11.99 | PB | 128pp
Liberties Press
How To | September 2010

About The Book
A vital book for those wanting to be prepared for retirement or those facing retirement who need to get their finaces in order.

Overhead in Dublin Rides Again
Gerard Kelly/Sinead Kelly
9780717145416
€ 6.99 | PB | 144pp
Gill & Macmillan
Humour | September 2010

About The Book
More Overheard in Dublin: another 500 quotes from the ever popular website…
Taxi driver complaining about Tániste Mary Coughlan:
‘I didn’t like her when she sung either!’

A Coward if I Return, A Hero if I Fall
Stories of Irishmen in World War I

Neil Richardson
9781847171313
€ 19.99 | PB | 368pp
O’Brien Press
Irish History | September 2010

About The Book
IRELAND’S FORGOTTEN LEGACY In 1914-1918, two hundred thousand Irishmen from all religions and backgrounds went to war. At least thirty-five thousand never came home. Those that did were scarred for the rest of their lives. Many of these survivors found themselves abandoned and ostracised by their countrymen, their voices seldom heard.
The book includes:
The Irish soldier firing the first shot
The first Victoria Cross
Leading the way at Gallipoli and the Somme
North and South fighting side by side at Messines Ridge
Ireland’s flying aces
Brothers-in-arms – heart-rending stories of family sacrifice
The lucky escapes of some; the tragic end of others
The homecoming – why there was no hero’s welcome

A Hundred Years A-Growing
Gillian Finan
9781907593062
€ 25.00 | HB | 224pp
Liberties Press
Irish History | September 2010

About The Book
Co-inciding with their centenary, this lavishly illustrated book, with images from the past 100 years, documents one of the best-known and most respected organisations in the country. With well-known personalities such as Sonia O’Sullivan, Kathryn Thomas, Una Healy, Myrtle Allen, Sr Stanislaus Kennedy, and former justice Catherine McGuinness, among the many former Guides, A Hundred Years A-Growing is a celebration of this youth-driven girl-only organisation.

Behind the Green Curtain: Ireland’s Phoney Neutrality during World War II
T Ryle Dwyer
9780717146505
€ 14.99 | PB | 352pp
Gill & macmillan
Irish History | September 2010

About The Book
Irish diplomats spied for the United States during the course of the war. Irish diplomats in Europe carried messages and supplied information to the OSS – the predecessor of the CIA – with the full knowledge and consent of de Valera. Behind the Green Curtain is a comprehensive account of Irish neutrality, focusing strongly on the American – and to a lesser extent the Canadian – connection. It confirms beyond any doubt that Ireland made a positive and partisan contribution to the allied war effort. Neutrality has become a shibboleth of modern Irish politics. Behind the Green Curtain explodes the myth behind that shibboleth in the most decisive way.

Cork’s St Patrick’s Street A History
Antoin O’Callaghan
9781848890572
€ 29.99 | HB | 240pp
The Collins Press
Irish History | September 2010

About The Book
This unique and wide-ranging history traces the evolution of St Patrick’s Street, from the motivation behind its naming after the national rather than local saint, through times of war and of peace, of famine, fire, depression and boom. Affectionately known as ‘Pana’ to generations of Corkonians, this street has provided a place for assembly in communal sorrow, celebration, or anger, in religious processions, parades and protests. St Patrick’s Street lies at the heart of Cork life, and the history of its people and buildings is in many ways the history of the city, and, in a broader sense, of the nation. Here, that history is engagingly related, and copiously illustrated with photographs, maps, and plans.

If Maps Could Speaks
Richard Kirwan
9781907535093
€ 14.99 | PB | pp
Londubh Books
Irish History | September 2010

About The Book
If Maps Could Speak is an engaging combination of memoir, history and stories about people and places. Richard Kirwan, a former Director of Ordnance Survey Ireland, takes the reader behind the scenes into the minds and work of the early map-makers with accounts of their inventions, adventures, endurance and heroism in pre-Famine Ireland. Their struggles and achievements are counterpointed by the successful efforts of the author and the OS staff to bring the mapping of Ireland up to date with the help of photographic and computer technology in the final decades of the twentieth century.

News From A New Republic: Ireland In The 1950ss
Tom Garvin
9780717146598
€ 24.99 | HB | 256pp
Gill & Macmillan
Irish History | September 2010

About The Book
Tom Garvin’s survey of the 1950s is an interpretative narrative, based largely on a close reading of contemporary newspaper reports and analyses. He identifies the primary causes of the calamity as a revolutionary gerontocracy that overstayed its welcome; the blocking power of powerful special interest groups who alone benefited from economic protection; and an ideology of rural frugality, buttressed by an under-developed educational system and supported by the moral monopoly of the Catholic Church.

Shadow of the Brotherhood The Temple Bar Shootings
Barry Kennerk
9781856356947
€ 14.99 | HB | 352pp
Mercier Press
Irish History  | September 2010

About The Book
When gunmen disappear into the Dublin fog, they leave two seriously wounded police constables in their wake. An immediate investigation is launched by Dublin Castle, which soon uncovers the existence of a Fenian assassination squad that has policemen, informers and judges in its sights. With pressure on the Irish administration from an anxious British government, Superintendent Daniel Ryan and his G squad of detectives must run the gang to ground.
Through innovative use of eyewitness testimonies, police reports, medical notes and other material, the authorcasts a magnifying glass on Victorian Dublin – a city in which the footsteps of the assassin are never far away.

2016 A New Proclamation for a New Generation
Gerard O’Neill
9781856356848
€ 14.99 | PB | 160pp
Mercier Press
Irish History | September 2010

About The Book
One of the most powerful legacies of the Easter Rising of 1916 is the Proclamation of Independence. Its words – ‘The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and all of its parts, cherishing all of the children of the nation equally …’ have resonated down through the years. But how relevant is a document drafted at the start of the twentieth century to Ireland in the twenty-first century? Ireland in 2016 will be a very different country to Ireland in 1916, but not everything will have changed. The 2016 Proclamation explores the relevance of the original proclamation to Ireland today and invites the reader to determine what they would want to proclaim for Ireland and the Irish in the years ahead. It asks the question: if we had to write it, what would the 2016 Proclamation say?

Hidden Belfast: Benevolence, Blackguards and Balloon Heads
Raymond O’Regan
9781856356893
€19.99 | HB | 256pp
Mercier Press
Irish History | September 2010

About The Book
Hidden Belfast highlights some of the unique and quirky elements of the city’s past, and tells the stories of some fascinating rogues and scoundrels that history has overlooked. Discover the intriguing stories behind characters like Bruce Ismay, (Managing Director of the White Star Line, who ordered Harland and Wolff to reduce the number of lifeboats on the Titanic from 48 to 16 because additional lifeboats would obscure the view of the first-class passengers), the infamous Sir Edward May and his equally infamous son-in-law (the second Marquis of Donegall, who had a reputation of not paying his bills and became known as ‘Lord Done ‘em all’) and Waddell Cunningham who in 1786 attempted to set up a Belfast Slaveship Company). Other tales include well-known figures who are associated with Belfast like The Duke of Wellington, Dean Jonathan Swift, Anthony Trollope, James Sheridan Knowles, Sir John Soane (Architect of the Bank of England), James Murray (discoverer of Milk of Magnesia), Dunlop (inventor of the pneumatic tyre), Litvinov (Stalin’s Foreign Minister) and Chaim Herzog (the longest serving President of Israel). Their stories show Belfast to have been a place of learning and radical views, especially in the Nineteenth Century when it embraced the industrial revolution and became a world leader in shipbuilding, linen and cigarettes.

Medieval Dublin X
Seán Duffy
9781846822216
€24.95 | PB | 328pp
9781846822209
€50.00 | HB | 328pp
Four Courts Press
Irish History | September 2010

About The Book
This 10th volume of proceedings of the annual Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium contains reports on recent archaeological excavations: Sinéad Phelan found evidence for Hiberno-Norse activity on Hammond Lane; Giles Dawkes discusses his excavations at Church Street and May Lane; Alan Hayden relays his findings from a dig on the site of a late-medieval mill in St Augustine’s Street; and Edmund O’Donovan’s excavation at St Nahi’s church in Dundrum revealed a series of fortified enclosures around the early monastic foundation. Other papers include Stephen Harrison’s fresh look at a furnished Viking grave discovered in Bride Street in the 19th century. Historical perspectives on the medieval city and county are provided by Áine Foley’s essay on crime in the royal manors of medieval Dublin (Crumlin, Esker, Saggart and Newcastle Lyons) in the early 14th century. Sparky Booker identifies a perhaps surprising level of Gaelicization in 15th-century Dublin. Clare Downham focuses on historical records relating to Viking bases in 9th-century Ireland. The volume concludes with a hitherto unpublished essay by the late Professor A.J. Otway-Ruthven on the town in medieval Ireland.

Murder At Shandy Hall
Michael Sheridan
9781842234396
€ 15.99 | TPB | pp
Poolbeg
Irish History | September 2010

About The Book
Against a tranquil rural backdrop – the sleepy County Cork village of Dripsey near Coachford – a sensational Victorian murder is played out with a potent mix of love, lust, betrayal, and ultimately naked hatred. The entry of a young and beautiful governess into Shandy Hall, the home of a retired British Army surgeon Dr Philip Cross, acts as a catalyst for an act of horror that prompts suspicion, an exhumation, an inquest, and a charged courtroom drama that grabs newspaper headlines all over the world.

The eighteenth-century Dublin town house
Christine Casey
9781846821875
€45.00 | HB | 312pp
Four Courts Press
Irish History | September 2010

About The Book
In the 18th century Dublin grew spectacularly; in the last quarter of a century, understanding of that growth has increased enormously. This book brings together a range of perspectives on the subject of the 18th-century Dublin town house, illuminating the political, economic and cultural activities of Dubliners, the resulting physical growth of the city and changing architectural manifestations. Some of the studies focus on questions of style and technique; others seek to relate the places in which people lodge to the lives they passed in them. The essays draw on an impressive variety of sources including archaeological investigations of sites and documentary evidence such as maps, leases, and family correspondence.

The Dublin region in the Middle Ages Settlement, land-use and economy
Margaret/Michael Murphy/Potterton
9781846822667
€50.00 | HB | 608pp
Four Courts Press
Irish History  | September 2010
About The Book
This is the first major publication of the Discovery Programme’s Medieval Rural Settlement Project. The book is a study of the medieval region that contained and was defined by the presence of Ireland’s largest nucleated settlement. Combining documentary and archaeological data this volume explores the primary settlement features of the hinterland area (all of Co. Dublin and large parts of Kildare, Meath and Wicklow), including defensive monuments, manors, the church and the Pale. It examines the way s in which resources of the region were managed and exploited to produce food, fuel and raw materials for both town and country, and investigates the processing of the raw materials for human consumption. Then as now, the city profoundly affected its surrounding area through its demands for resources and through the ownership of land by Dubliners (ecclesiastics and lay) and the control of trade by city merchants. In addition to presenting a timely examination of urban-rural interaction, the volume contributes to wider debates on topics such as settlement landscapes, the role of lordship and the productivity of agriculture.

The Greatest Bleeding Hearts Racket in the World: Irish Hospitals Sweepstake
Damien Corless
9780717146697
16.99 | PB | 256pp
Gill & Macmillan
Irish History | September 2010

About The Book
This is a tale of greed, adventure, fraud and intrigue spanning decades. It’s one of the twentieth century’s boldest success stories and one of its most brazen scandals. And now it’s almost forgotten. Only the term ‘Irish Sweeps’ lingers, part of North American folk memory, unthinkingly used today as a by-word for ‘hitting the jackpot’. The Sweeps provided a plotline for Hollywood movies, Broadway musicals and classic TV shows. Now, The Greatest Bleeding Hearts Racket in the World tells the whole story. It is a terrific read.

A Pint And A Haircut
Garret Pearse
9781907535161
€ 12.99 | PB | pp
Londubh Books
Memoir | September 2010

About The Book
All Irish people have at least one good story to tell – A Pint and a Haircut is the proof of that. The collection takes its title from a story provided by James Smith from Cavan, whose father’s pub provided not just pints to local farmers on their way home from the creamery but haircuts – courtesy of an enterprising customer. Garret Pearse’s own story dates from an internship with Guinness. But not all the stories concern – or even mention – the demon drink. There are sad stories and happy stories, funny stories and hopeful ones and quirky ones.

Heaps of Trouble
Emelyn Heaps
9781848890411
€ 12.99 | PB | 256pp
The Collins Press
Memoir | September 2010

About The Book
Set against the lively backdrop of Everybody’s toyshop in Inchicore in Dublin, one word sums it up: trouble. But this vivid depiction of boyhood in the 1950s and 1960s, his parents mostly at loggerheads, especially his alcoholic father, as they bounced from sobriety to drunkenness, is never bitter. Emelyn does not ‘look back in anger’. Early schooldays at infamous Golden Bridge Convent, injured at age ten in an explosion, which kills his beloved only sister, and going to court in search of ‘Compo’, are in turn distressing, sad and hilarious. Grief has its consolation when compo is in the offing. Description of this tragedy turning the family upside down is unflinching while mischief as a streetwise gurrier during his years at CUS School is wonderfully madcap. From the start to the heart-stopping finish after a summer working in St James Hospital, we are drawn into his triumphs and disasters with laughter and sadness never far away. And then there is a love story.

Medical Maverick
Risteárd Mulcahy
9781907593024
€ 19.99 | PB | 320pp
9781907593079
€ 25.00 | HB | 320pp
Liberties Press
Memoir | September 2010

About The Book
Autobiography of one of the most renowned and groundbreaking physicians Ireland has ever produced, Risteárd Mulcahy – internationally-renowned cardiologist and health campaigner, researcher, historian, exercise enthusiast and environmentalist. Medical Maverick offers a unique and often surprising insight into the rich, varied and extraordinary life of one of the most prominent, respected and outspoken medical men in Ireland.

The Lamp And The Lullaby
Bill Long
9781848400726
€ 15.99 | PB | 224pp
New Island
Memoir | September 2010

About The Book
Ireland’s longest-surviving recipient of a heart transplant, Bill Long has been, at various times: in the British Navy, a journalist, a cyclist, a public relations officer, a ‘serious’ writer, a broadcaster and documentary-maker. He has made over 200 contributions to RTÉ’s Sunday Miscellany programme.

The Long Road Home
Mary Lynch
9781907535086
€ 15.99 | PB | 224pp
Londubh Books
Memoir | September 2010

About The Book
The Long Road Home is the story of Mary Lynch’s journey back to acknowledging the pain and terror of her youthful experiences in what was effectively a war zone. Only then could she heal and move on. At another level, this book is about healing the pain of a nation by acknowledging its sense of abandonment and loss. Anyone who has ever suffered trauma will recognise and take solace from Mary’s inspiring story.

Bust: How the Courts Have Exposed the Rotten Heart of the Irish Economy
Dearbhail McDonald
9781844882359
€ 17.99 | TPB | 274pp
Penguin Ireland
Politics | September 2010

About The Book
When, after fifteen years of runaway growth based largely on property speculation, the Irish economy finally crashed, the main villains – Ireland’s bankers and developers – tried to keep themselves out of sight. But they couldn’t keep themselves out of court – and it is in the courtrooms that the full, sickening drama of the Irish meltdown is being played out.

Scandal Nation: Key Events That Shook And Shaped Ireland
Michael Clifford/Shane Coleman
9781444712605
£ 13.99 | TPB | pp
Hachette Ireland
Politics | September 2010

About The Book
We are where we are has become one of the great truisms of the current crisis facing the country. But how did we get here and can an inspection of the roots of our modern failings – of government, state agencies and church – help us to pave a way forward?
Scandal Nation argues the case as it analyses twelve key events since the foundation of the Irish state that shaped us as a nation. It examines the culture within which these events occurred, how they unfolded and their impact on what followed

Penguin Book of Irish Poetry
Edited by Patrick Crotty
9780141439457
€ 50.00 | HB | 1120pp
Penguin Classics
Non-fiction | September 2010

About The Book
The definitive anthology of Ireland’s astonishing 1500-year poetic legacy. The Penguin Book of Irish Verse features the work of three Nobel laureates – W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney – as well as Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Moore, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Eavan Boland and James Joyce. It also includes epigrams, traditional verses and Old Irish songs, with 250 new English translations by the greatest poets currently working, including Seamus Heaney and Ciarán Carson.

The Kingdom
Joe O’Mahony
9780717146673
€ 16.99 | PB | 320pp
Gill & Macmillan
Sport | September 2010

About The Book
Celebrate Kerry football in all its glory with this fantastic book.
Kerry is the football county. Winner of more All-Ireland titles than any other. It has never failed to win the Championship in any decade since the start of the twentieth century. Joe O’Mahony’s book traces the history of the game in the Kingdom from its earliest origins, and explains why it has an almost religious hold over Kerry people.

The Holy Spirit in the Fathers of the Church
Vincent Twomey/Janet Rutherford
9781846822551
€50.00 | HB | 240pp
Four Courts Press
Theology | September 2010

About The Book
This volume contains the proceedings of the Seventh International Maynooth Patristic Conference held in 2008. Contents include: The Holy Spirit in the theology of Irenaeus; Cyril of Jerusalem on the Holy Spirit; Didymus the Blind’s de Spiritu Sancto and the development of Nicene pneumatology; St Augustine on the place of the Holy Spirit in the formation of the Gospels; The Holy Spirit in St Fulgentius of Ruspe’s Ad Moninum; The Holy Spirit in Isaac of Ninevah and East Syrian Mysticism; The Holy Spirit in the ecclesiology of Photios of Constantinople; Three modern ‘fathers’ on the filioque: good, bad, or indifferent?; The Holy Spirit and the Marian typology of St Ambrose at Vatican II.

West Cork: A Place Apart
Jo Kerrigan/Richard Mills
9781847171665
€24.99 | HB | 160pp
O’Brien Press
Travel | September 2010

About The Book
A thoughtful, deeply felt invitation to sample the splendours of West Cork for local and visitor alike.
A world of stunning landscapes, craggy cliffs, colourful villages, wild bogland, glorious harbours, fabulous beaches, rocky mountains, West Cork stands apart as one of the most desirable places to live, work, visit.

Prim Improper
Deirdre Sullivan
9781848409484
€7.99 | PB | 250pp
Little Island
Young Adult | September 2010

About The Book
Beyond the fence everything is dark, but in here is our own lit-up world. Just me and Flight. Our breath snakes into the night like the aftermath of a firework.’
The only riding fifteen-year-old Declan has ever done is joyriding. When he’s forced to stay with his snobby cousin ‘Princess’ Vicky, he’s shocked to find himself falling in love with horses. Vicky would do anything to keep Declan out of her already perfect life and away from her precious showjumper, Flight, no matter who gets hurt…

Taking Flight
Sheena Wilkinson
9781848409491
€9.99 | PB | 320pp
Little Island
Young Adult | September 2010

About The Book
Beyond the fence everything is dark, but in here is our own lit-up world. Just me and Flight. Our breath snakes into the night like the aftermath of a firework.’
The only riding fifteen-year-old Declan has ever done is joyriding. When he’s forced to stay with his snobby cousin ‘Princess’ Vicky, he’s shocked to find himself falling in love with horses. Vicky would do anything to keep Declan out of her already perfect life and away from her precious showjumper, Flight, no matter who gets hurt…

The Rebel price
Celine Kiernan
9781847171122
€ 10.99 | TPB | 320pp
O’Brien Press
Young Adult | September 2010

About The Book
After a joyful reunion, it seems that the years of war have left their scars on brothers Alberon and Razi, and it’s not long before their differences come between them.
Alberon is determined to protect the Kingdom by strength rather than diplomacy. He proudly reveals his great hope – Lorcan Moorehawke’s ‘Bloody Machine’. But Razi fears the Machine will rot the Kingdom’s soul and undo all the good that their father has achieved in his short reign.

It is an interesting selection of titles this month. September should see a rush and October a flood. Hopefully you will see something interesting in that too.

About The Book
Lansdowne Road has long been renowned as a sacred place for international rugby and soccer. In this affectionate history, the authors lift the lid on its greatest days and nights.
From the birth of the stadium in 1873 till it closed for rebuilding in 2006, they bring to life fascinating stories such as that of the Native American lacrosse team, the brilliant athletic stars of the 1940s and 1950s, and the American Football experiment.

The triple crowns, stirring victories and memorable goals and tries that brought the crowd worldwide fame as ‘The Lansdowne Roar’ are all here, as well as the moments of comedy and tragedy that marked the life of Ireland’s oldest stadium.

If I Trust In You
Deidre Eustace
9780956016355
€ 8.99 | PB | 364pp
Hawk Hill Publishing
Fiction | August 2010

About The Book
Addy O’Driscoll has it all. Life on the south east coast of Ireland with loving husband Barry couldn’t be more idyllic. For Addy’s best friend Louise, still recovering from the loss of her first love Tom, life has been very different but will a new job and the attentions of local teacher Jim Ryan bring her happiness once again?

About The Book
In 1828, the Mary Russell sailed into Cork Harbour from the West Indies. Seven crewmen lay in the main salon, brutally murdered by the captain. The trial was a sensation as survivors revealed a tale of danger and delusion. But what really happened? This bizarre tragedy and the dramatic court case are unravelled in this gripping account.

Green & Gold Ireland a Clean Energy World Leader?
John Travers
9781848890435
€ 14.99 | PB | 264pp
The Collins Press
Current Affairs | August 2010

About The Book
While many agree that Ireland can become a world leader in clean energy, there is little agreement on how. John Travers examines the challenge and opportunity facing Ireland. He assesses how alternatives will enable us to meet our needs, achieve energy independence, and provide an opportunity for Ireland to become a world leader and global beacon of clean energy.

The Wild Garden A new illustrated edition with photographs & notes by Charles Nelson
William Robinson
9781848890350
€ 29.99 | HB | 236pp
The Collins Press
Gardening/History | August 2010

About The Book
The Wild Garden, one of the most influential books published in the history of gardening, was first published in 1870. It challenged the prevailing formal bedding style, advocating the use of hardy perennials and annuals to provide long-lasting, self-perpetuating displays. The book has a special resonance for Irish gardens and gardeners, as Robinson is Irish and trained as a gardener in Ireland. This edition, the first published in Ireland, is augmented with captivating photographs and notes by Charles Nelson, whose introductory essay sets Robinson and his book in context.

Privilege & Poverty The Life and Times of Irish Painter & Naturalist Alexander Williams RHA 1846–1930
Gordon T. Ledbetter
9781848890343
€ 40.00 | hb | 376pp
The Collins Press
Art/Biography | August  2010

About The Book
Alexander Williams was the first artist to open the West of Ireland to a broad audience. His life was extraordinarily wide-ranging. A landscape painter, he was also an apprentice hatter, a taxidermist and a professional singer. Illustrated with a wide selection of his work, this biography illuminates the diversity of his life and times with material found nowhere else.

Missing in Action: The 50 Year Search for Ireland’s Missing Soldier
Ralph/John Riegel/O’Mahony
9781856356947
€ 14.99 | PB | 256pp
Mercier Press
Irish Military History  | August 2010

About The Book
On 15 September 1961, Trooper Patrick Mullins (18) was posted missing after a bloody ambush of an Irish UN convoy in a suburb of Elizabethville in the Katanga province of the Congo. Injured, out-gunned and out-numbered, Tpr Mullins fought with astonishing courage as he desperately tried to save his dying comrade and reach friendly lines. But after a fierce gun-fight from his crippled armoured car, Patrick Mullins was killed and his body taken as spoils of war by the tribal militia supporting the Katangan rebels. When Ireland finally ended its UN mission in the Congo and the last battalion shipped home, Tpr Mullins’ body remained buried in an unknown Congolese grave. With the 50th anniversary of his death fast approaching, the Mullins family remain caught in the terrible nightmare of maintaining an empty grave for him at the foothills of the Galtee Mountains.This fascinating book describes Tpr Mullins’ story, the struggle to find his body and the difficulties in bringing it home.

Renegades Irish Republican Women 1900-1922
Ann Matthews
9781856356848
€ 19.99 | PB | 352pp
Mercier Press
History  | August 2010

About The Book
Renegades details the tragedies, triumphs, politics and conflicts experienced by Irish women during the country’s War of Independence and Civil War. It will shock and possibly disturb any romanticised views of their role in this period of Irish history because the reality of the abuse of women within the general population by both sides in both Wars is absent in most histories of the period. But this ‘war on women’, which manifested itself in the form of physical and sexual assaults meant that many women suffered a terror that was not confined to armed conflict. The book also explores the separation of republican women during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, into two distinct groups. Cumann na mBan members perceived their role to be purely military and so they did not engage in politics. On the other hand the political women, who by this time perceived themselves as the female political elite, were proactive in pursuit of a significant position in Irish politics, especially when the Sinn Fe?in party was reformed in October 1917.

IRA Jailbreaks 1918-1921
9781856356893
€19.99 | PB | 320pp
Mercier Press
Irish History  | August 2010

About The Book
IRA Jailbreaks 1918—1921 features the factual accounts of 25 daring rescues, rescue attempts and jailbreaks which raised the morale of nationalist Ireland and brought world-wide ridicule and discredit on the prison and internment camp systems in Britain and Ireland.  With stories of their resistence to the degrading criminal code by the political prisoners, the hunger strikes and jail riots, the savage beatings and punishments the prisoners suffered during their incarceration, their accounts offer a window on the world of the men who fought and were imprisoned during the struggle for Ireland’s independence. Here is history documented by the men who made it.

Oral and print cultures in Ireland, 1600-1900
Marc Caball/Andrew Carpenter, eds
9781846821950
€55.00 | HB | 160pp
Four Courts Press
Social History | August 2010

About The Book
In charting previously unexplored patterns of communicative practice, these essays by leading experts examine the interchange between written and verbal cultures in Ireland from the 17th century to the beginning of the 19th century.

An English-Irish lexicon of scientific and technological space-related terminology
Susan McKenna Lawlor/Damien Ó Muirí
9781846822698
€24.95 | HB | 152pp
Four Courts Press
Reference | August 2010

About The Book
This unique lexicon features over 3,500 astronautical terms, listed alphabetically in English, with their Irish translation. It is a stand-alone edition based on a twenty-language lexicon prepared by the International Academy of Astronautics on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary in 2010. This book contains a comprehensive introductory essay, providing background information on the International Academy of Astronautics and its work to develop a multi-lingual lexicon of space-related terminology. The preface also discusses the astronomical heritage of Ireland; the Irish language; the method of translation adopted in preparing the present English-Irish lexicon; and some of the practical problems encountered in translating scientific and technical terms into Irish.

From the Viking word-hoard A dictionary of Scandinavian words in the languages of Britain and Ireland
Diarmaid Ó Muirithe
9781846821738
€50.00 | HB | 352pp
Four Courts Press
Reference | August 2010

About The Book
At the beginning of the 9th century the growing population of the three great branches of the Scandinavian race who people the countries abutting the Baltic – the Norsemen or Northmen, the Swedes and Danes – began a great outward movement which was caused both by political changes and their enterprising nature. Thus the 9th century came to be known as the Age of the Vikings, Víkinga-Öld. The Danish emigration directed its course to the north-east of England. The second migration was Norse, whose settlers gradually peopled the coasts of Ireland, northern Scotland and the Isle of Man. They left a lasting linguistic heritage. This book is a glossary of words in the various language of Britain and Ireland which owe their origin to the intrepid raiders and merchants of Scandinavia.

The Dublin region in the Middle Ages Settlement, land-use and economy
Margaret/Michael Murphy/Potterton
9781846822667
€50.00 | HB | 608pp
Four Courts Press
Geography | August 2010

About The Book
This is the first major publication of the Discovery Programme’s Medieval Rural Settlement Project. The book is a study of the medieval region that contained and was defined by the presence of Ireland’s largest nucleated settlement. Combining documentary and archaeological data this volume explores the primary settlement features of the hinterland area (all of Co. Dublin and large parts of Kildare, Meath and Wicklow), including defensive monuments, manors, the church and the Pale. It examines the way s in which resources of the region were managed and exploited to produce food, fuel and raw materials for both town and country, and investigates the processing of the raw materials for human consumption. Then as now, the city profoundly affected its surrounding area through its demands for resources and through the ownership of land by Dubliners and the control of trade by city merchants. In addition to presenting a timely examination of urban-rural interaction, the volume contributes to wider debates on topics such as settlement landscapes, the role of lordship and the productivity of agriculture.

Pieces of My Heart
Sinéad Moriarty
9781844881512
€ 15.99 | TPB | 448pp
Penguin Ireland
Fiction | August 2010

About The Book
Ava is a wife, lover, mother, daughter, friend, fixer, boss … so many different people, in fact, she no longer knows what it means to be herself …

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Mini Scientist in the Garden
Lisa Burke
9781405356190
€ 9.99 | HB | 24pp
DK
Children’s Non-Fiction | August 2010

About The Book
Fun experiments in the garden for mini scientists

Mini Scientist in the Kitchen
Lisa Burke
9781405356183
€ 9.99 | HB | 24pp
DK
Children’s Non-Fiction | August 2010

About The Book
Fun experiments in the kitchen for mini scientists

Collusion
Stuart Neville
9781846552809
£12.99 | TPB | 368pp
Harvil Secker
Fiction | August 2010

About The Book
A fast-paced thriller about duty and revenge, Collusion is the blistering sequel to The Twelve, one of the most highly acclaimed debuts of recent years.

Lansdowne Through The Years
Edward Newman
9781444711370
£13.99 | TPB | 320pp
Hachette Ireland
Sport | August 2010

About The Book
Accompanied by evocative photographs, these recollections provide the perfect record of Irish rugby’s greatest days and greatest deeds to commemorate the opening of the new Aviva Stadium.

Kicking On
Dave Hannigan
9781847171894
€ 7.99 | PB | 192pp
The O’Brien Press
Children’s Fiction | August 2010

About The Book
Latest in the hugely popular sports fiction series from O’Brien Press, with authentic GAA match action and adventures on and off the field, the first children’s book by well-known sports journalist Dave Hannigan, Age 9+

Vet among the Pigeons
Gillian Hick
9781847172082
€ 11.99 | PB | 256pp
The O’Brien Press
Memoir | August 2010

About The Book
More hilarious true-life tales from Wicklow vet Gillian Hick, following on from the success of Vet  the Loose.

A very quiet month for Irish Publishers, but expect to see a renewed flow in August & a huge flow in September.

A Preparation for Death

Hello, Heartbreak
Amy Huberman
9780141044767
€ 8.99 | B | 336pp
Penguin
Fiction | July 2010

About The Book
You’d think twenty-seven years would be enough time to wise up to the rules of love and loss, especially Rule Number 1: Do not, at any time, let him see how much he has hurt you.

But no, Izzy Keegan was probably off doing sambuca shots when that lesson was taught. So, starting with public humiliation (that infamous blow-up with her Ex and his new woman … huge mistake), and taking in temporary insanity, rebound sex, and a night in a police cell along the way, Izzy has to make up her own rules for coping with heartbreak.

You’d think twenty-seven years would be enough time to wise up to the rules of love and loss. Make that twenty-seven and a bit ..

Artemis Fowl and The Atlantis Complex
Eoin Colfer
9780141328041
€ 14.99 | TPB | 336pp
Penguin
Fiction | July 2010

About The Book
Young Artemis has frequently used high-tech fairy magic to mastermind the most devious criminal activity of the new century. Now, at a conference in Iceland, Artemis has gathered the fairies to present his latest idea to save the world from global warming. But Artemis is behaving strangely – he seems different. Something terrible has happened to him . . .

Artemis Fowl has become nice.

Troubled Waters: A social and cultural history of Ireland’s sea fisheries
Jim Mac Laughlin
9781846822582
€55.00 | HB | 414pp; ills.pp
Four Courts Press
Social History | July 2010

About The Book
This is the most comprehensive study of the history of sea fishing in Ireland to date. It charts the evolution of fisheries from the earliest times, and discusses the historical importance of the coastal economy to the country’s maritime communities. Troubled Waters demonstrates the significant roles played by inshore and deep-sea fishing in the evolution of modern Irish society. The author argues that the general neglect of Ireland’s sea fisheries by historians and social commentators is matched only by political marginalisation of the country’s fishing industry. Topics examined include the archaeology of Irish fishing; cultural representations of coastal workers in Irish art and literature; the internationalisation of Irish waters in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; the organisation of fish shambles and markets in coastal Ireland; the social world and working lives of Irish fishing communities; and the ‘crowded shoreline’ of nineteenth-century Ireland.

Medieval Italy, medieval and early modern women essays in honour of Christine Meek
Conor Kostick Ed.
9781846822223
€55.00 | HB | 300pppp
Four Courts Press
Literary Critcism | July 2010

About The Book
This book pays tribute to Professor Christine Meek with sixteen essays that present the latest research in the evolution of Italian society towards the Renaissance and also provide fascinating and original studies of the actions of medieval women – in battle, as political leaders and as leaders of religious communities.

From the Viking Word-Hoard: A dictionary of Scandinavian words in the languages of Britain and Ireland
Diarmaid O Muirithe
9781846821738
€50.00 | HB | 240pppp
Four Courts Press
Archeaology | July 2010

About The Book
At the beginning of the 9th century the growing population of the three great branches of the Scandinavian race who people the countries abutting the Baltic – the Norsemen or Northmen, the Swedes and Danes – began a great outward movement which was caused both by political changes and their enterprising nature. Thus the 9th century came to be known as the Age of the Vikings, Víkinga-Öld. The Danish emigration directed its course to the north-east of England. The second migration was Norse, whose settlers gradually peopled the coasts of Ireland, northern Scotland and the Isle of Man. They left a lasting linguistic heritage. This book is a glossary of words in the various language of Britain and Ireland which owe their origin to the intrepid raiders and merchants of Scandinavia.

Suburban Affiliations Social Relations in the Greater Dublin Area
Mary P Corcoran
9781906359478
€ 28.00 | PB | 360pp
UCD Press
Social Sciences | July 2010

About The Book
“Suburban Affiliations” presents the reader with a thorough and engaging study of the everyday civic and social relations that are observed in suburban localities, in this case in Dublin, Ireland. It provides insight into the ways in which suburbs develop and consolidate across time, with the authors’ analysis presented against a backdrop of the extensive American and European literature on suburbs.

Military Aviation in Ireland, 1921-45
Michael C. O’Malley
9781906359485 | HB | € 60.00
9781906359492 | PB | € 28.00
360pp
UCD Press
History | July 2010

About The Book
Military Aviation in Ireland charts the history of the Air Corps from its early days as the Military Air Service established by Michael Collins in 1922 to the ineffective air operations conducted during the Second World War period.

Liffey Ships and Shipbuilding
Pat Sweeney
9781856356855
€19.99/£17.50 | PB | 384pppp
Mercier Press
History | July 2010

About The Book
This book provides a comprehensive history of the four shipbuilding yards that have operated along Dublin’s River Liffey since shipbuilding began there. It begins with the Walpole and Webb shipyard from the early 1830′s and documents the progression of the shipbuilding industry in Dublin throughout the First World War, the Great Depression, the Second World War and the vital part the shipyards played in keeping the neutral Irish merchant fleet operating in order to feed the country during the war – resulting in secret talks with the British navy about building ships in Dublin for the British during the Second World War. The narrative goes up to 1969 and the author then details the efforts that have been made to revive Dublin’s shipbuilding industry in more recent years.

Executed for Ireland: The Patrick Moran Story
May Moran
9781856356619
€16.99/£14.99 | PB | 256pppp
Mercier Press
Biography/Memoir | July 2010
About The Book
Born in Boyle, Co Roscommon, Patrick Moran lived most of his adult life in Dublin where he took an active part in the GAA, the Gaelic League, trade union and the Irish Volunteers. He was an active participant in the 1916 Rising and was deported to England after the surrender. On his return in August 1916 he renewed his interest in football and hurling, became a founder member of the Grocers, Vintners and Allied Trades Assistants Trade Union and he helped to reorganise the Volunteers in Dublin and in his native Roscommon. He was arrested following the assassinations of British Intelligence Officers in Dublin on Bloody Sunday, 21 November 1920, and was finally charged and convicted by a court martial for the murder of Lieutenants Ames and Bennett. He was executed by hanging in March 1921 amid calls from civil and religious leaders for the king of England to exercise the Prerogative of Mercy in the upsurge of overwhelming belief that he was innocent.

It is a much smaller list of books published in June than previous months, not an enormous surprise given the time of year but also a number of publishers did not submit titles. Hopefully that will be address for July.

‘A terrific read, unsettling at times; filled with suspense, the intensity of teen relationships and soul music – at last teenagers can experience one of Ireland’s best writers’ - John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

This Ain’t No Video Game, Kid!
Kevin Stevens
9781848409477
€ 9.00 | Paperback | 190pp
Little Island
Children’s fiction | June 2010

About The Book
Jack Klements lives in Seattle with his parents and is doing just fine. But when his swaggering Irish cousin Finn turns up, Jack can tell this is not going to be a good summer. Finn is obsessed with a violent computer game, and when he meets a Latino gang in the inner city, he thinks he can have a slice of the action.
How can Jack reconcile the demands of his straight-laced parents, the pressure to be loyal to his wayward cousin, and his growing attraction to Carina, who hangs out with the gang? If only Finn would disappear! But then he does just that, and Jack is more torn than ever …
This Ain’t No Video Game, Kid! is Kevin Stevens’s debut as a writer for young adults. It is a tense and gritty story Set in Seattle, and tells of home values threatened by street culture, with the menace of gang violence never far away.

Mr Bawman Wants to Tango
Mogue Doyle
9781905483419
€12.99 | Paperback | 214 pp
Liberties Press
Fiction | June 2010

About The Book
Mr Bawman Wants to Tango intertwines the pleasures of adolescence with the overly regulated and sometimes even menacing environment of a Catholic boarding school, which one can face either by showing Hank Chinaski-like indifference or keeping a stiff upper lip. Sure to reverberate given the current scandals in the media in relation to the Catholic Church.

Dangerous Pity
Elizabeth Wassell
9781905483983
€12.99 | Hardback | 192pp
Liberties Press
Fiction | June 2010

About The Book
Dangerous Pity is an instantly engaging novel; the central characters mix desire, regret, grief and obsession in a heady cocktail, and the descriptions of Nice and its cultural landscape are beautifully intriguing.

Gardening With Peter Dowdall
Peter Dowdall
9781855942158
€ 25.00 | Hardback | 200pp
Cork University Press
Gardening | June 2010

About The Book
This book aims to share with readers the basic tools, techniques and principles of how to create and maintain a beautiful garden through Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Straightforward, no-nonsense language and advice, along with simple photography showing the practicalities of gardening will advise budding gardeners on how to build their garden from a naked skeleton through to a beautifully garbed wonderland. The book will give people a greater understanding of the part that gardening and nature plays in their lives, in their health and in their general wellbeing.

Out of the Earth Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts
Christine Cusick
9781859184547
€ 39.00 | Paperback | 200pp
Cork University Press
Literature | June 2010

About The Book
Within the current climate of both literary and environmental studies “Out of the Earth”:  Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts is an unprecedented integration of Irish Studies and Ecocriticism that is both timely and necessary. The essays offer ecocritical readings of Irish literary and cultural texts of various genres, including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama and the visual image.

Penny on Safari
Eileen O’Hely
9781856355728
€ 8.99 | Paperback | 224pp
Mercier Press
Children’s Fiction 8-12 | June 2010

About The Book
Ralph, Sarah and the rest of their class visit the zoo. Despite the fabulous attractions on offer they learn that the zookeeper may be forced to close his business and make way for a factory that creates TEXTA pens. With Black Texta doing everything in his power to make sure the zoo does close, Penny and her friends are forced to take action to try and stop him, but will they succeed and save the zoo? Find out in this wonderful new addition to the Penny the Pencil Series.

Blood & Thunder Inside an Ulster Protestant Band
Darach MacDonald
9781856356725
€ 14.99 | Paperback | 352pp
Mercier Press
History | June 2010

About The Book
There are 584 marching bands in Northern Ireland, yet their existence and activities are unreported apart from newsof flashpoint tensions and riots. This book reveals the inside story on the most dynamic Irish cultural phenomenon of the early twenty-first century. It argues that in many respects the ‘Blood and Thunder’ bands fulfil a role in northern Ireland similar to the GAA in the Republic, by espousing their culture, passing on traditional skills and instilling local pride in young participants who compete against each other over a season that extends from Marchto October.Woven around the diary of an outside observer with an ‘insider’s viewpoint’ during the 2009 Blood and Thunder and season, the book focuses on the prize-winning Castlederg Young Loyalist Flute Band and examines thecultural, historical, social and political nature of Blood and Thunder bands.

With the IRA in the Fight for Freedom 1919 to the Truce The Red Path of Glory
The Kerryman
9781856356879
£ 19.99 | Paperback | 480pp
Mercier Press
Irish History | June 2010

About The Book
With the IRA in the Fight for Freedom offers eyewitness and first hand accounts of Ireland’s struggle for independence in various parts of the country. It presents a representative picture of the fight by the IRA for
independence and of the reign of terror endured by the civilian population. Only idealism and courage on the part of the freedom fighters and the steadfast support of the Irish people could have carried such an unequal struggle through to the end.With barracks attacks, ambushes and shootings, it brings to life a conflict that is fading from the collective memory of county and country and offers a fascinating perspective on the struggle for independence, directly from the men who took part in the actions themselves.

Rules for a Perfect Life
Niamh Greene
9781844882014
€ 14.99 | Trade Paperback | 336pp
Penguin Ireland
Fiction | June 2010

About The Book
Rules for a perfect life . . .
Rule One: Do not ditch the man everyone says is perfect for you because he eats the last yellow jelly-baby in the bag.
Rule Two: Do not move to a shack in the country to ‘find yourself’ and inadvertently become an object of ridicule for the locals.
Rule Three: Do not fall for a man who has two children who hate you, a saintly dead wife you can never live up to and a mother who thinks you are the hired help.
Maggie wants the perfect life – but if she keeps breaking the rules can she ever have it?

Deep Deception, Ireland’s Swimming Scandals (New Updated Edition)
Justine McCarthy
9781847172044
€11.99 | Paperback |
The O’Brien Press
Current Affairs | June 2010

About The Book
A new and updated edition of the widely-praised examination of Ireland’s swimming scandals. In candid interviews, survivors outline the effects of the abuse – psychiatric illnesses, broken marriages, financial hardship, and alcohol and drug addiction. This book examines the structures of Irish swimming, looks at the reasons these men escaped justice for so long and assesses the measures that have been taken to protect children in the aftermath of the scandals.

The Bankers: How the Banks Brought Ireland to Its Knees
Shane Ross
9780141044446
€ 11.99 | Mass Market Paperback | 312pp
Penguin
Non-Fiction | June 2010

About The Book
Two years ago, the Irish economy was still booming and the state coffers overflowing; now, the country faces an unprecedented crisis. The story of how we got from there to here is a tawdry tale of collusion, back-scratching and denial among bankers, developers, regulators and politicians.

Rhino What You Did Last Summer
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly
9781844881772
€ 10.99 | Mass Market Paperback | 416pp
Penguin
Non-Fiction | June 2010

About The Book
Fame. Fortune. Screaming girls. The adoration of strangers. I’ve had it all before, yet nothing could have prepared this Horny Little Devil for his new life in the City of Angels. Sacked as the coach of the Andorra rugby team and on the run from the sister I never knew I had, I decided to head west, vowing to win back my wife and daughter from a risk assessor predicting economic doom for the world. Imagine my shock when I discovered that my old dear, on a nationwide book tour, was already busy charming America out of its collective elasticated pants.

We Need to Talk About Ross
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly
9781844881796
€ 10.99 | Mass Market Paperback | 264pp
Penguin
Non-Fiction | June 2010

About The Book
Now, for the first time, the lid is lifted on the enigma that is South Dublin’s most eligible married man. In more than a hundred interviews with his family and friends – those who’ve loved him, hated him and slept with him – the first ever composite portrait of the Celtic Tiger’s most famous cub emerges.

Showtime
Pat Leahy
9781844882250
€ 11.99 | Mass Market Paperback | 384pp
Penguin
Non-Fiction | June 2010

About The Book
In boom and in bust, Ireland has been led by Fianna Fáil. Showtime gets behind the party’s remarkable dominance of the political landscape and leading political writer Pat Leahy, tells the gripping story of how it won, kept and has used power since the mid-1990s.
Showtime is politics in the raw: the exciting, enlightening and sometimes disturbing story of a remarkable era that changed the face of modern Ireland.

Remembering Rachel A True Story of Betrayal and Murder
Rose Callaly
9781844882199
€ 11.99 | Mass Market Paperback | 336pp
Penguin
Non-Fiction | June 2010

About The Book
The day Rose Callaly found her daughter Rachel’s battered body was only the start of her nightmares.
Shortly afterwards Rose became certain that the person who had killed her beautiful daughter was Rachel’s husband, Joe O’Reilly. After what seemed like an eternity, O’Reilly was charged. But that was the start of another ordeal – the revelation of just how much he despised his wife and the unfolding of his ingenious plan to kill her, a plan that set Rose up to discover the murder scene.
Remembering Rachel is the shocking and heart-breaking story of Rachel Callaly’s short life and brutal death. It is also a remarkable account of what it is like to be at the heart of a sensational and tragic murder case. And finally, it is a touching portrait of motherly love and the bond that survives death.

The Annals of the Four Masters Irish history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century
Bernadette Cunningham
9781846822032
€50.00 | Hardback | 384pp
Four Courts Press
Irish History | June 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. This study surveys the scholarly and political context, both Irish and European, that inspired the annalists, reconstructing the networks of professional expertise and patronage that contributed to the pursuit of scholarship about the Irish past. The original manuscripts of these annals are used to illuminate how the annalists collaborated in the production and revision of their magnum opus, while comparison with the extant source texts consulted by the annalists reveals their priorities and their understanding of the world in which they lived.

The Irish Church and the Tudor Reformations
Henry A. Jefferies
9781846820502
€55.00 | Hardback | 352pp
Four Courts Press
Irish History | June 2010

About The Book
This book presents a new interpretation of the state of the Irish Church before the Tudor reformations. Part I shows that the Irish Church, far from being in decline, enjoyed an upsurge in lay support before Henry VIII’s reformation. Part II shows how the Tudor reformations failed to address the pre-existing weaknesses of the Irish Church, and how the problems of the Irish Church were exacerbated as Tudor policy in Ireland became increasingly militarist and expansionist. In the face of the widespread continued attachment to Catholicism and the increasing political alienation from the Elizabethan regime, the established Church found its congregations haemorrhaging until by the early 17th century, the Church of Ireland was the custodian of ruined church buildings staffed by a skeleton-crew of mainly British-born pluralists.

The Irish Annals Their genesis, evolution and history
D.P. Mc Carthy
9781846820489
€60.00 | Hardback | 464pp
Four Courts Press
Irish History | June 2010

About The Book
This ambitious and wide-ranging book surveys the extant manuscripts of all the major annals known from medieval Ireland and offers challenging new interpretations of the methodologies of the chroniclers …. this is a book to be reckoned with. It is an exhilarating read for its entirely fresh approach to the evidence; for the way it debunks and revises so much of the pre-existing scholarship on the Irish annals; for the penetrating light it shines on the shortcomings of the methodologies of Irish manuscript scholarship over the past 200 years and not least for the courteous but devastating way in which it exposes the perils of past failures to re-examine at first hand the primary manuscript evidence, a practice which we all know must form the raw material of worthwhile scholarly research’, Dr Bernadette Cunningham, Irish Archives

Age of Atrocity violence and political conflict in early modern Ireland
David Edwards, Padraig Lenihan & Clodagh Tait, eds
9781846822674
€24.95 | Paperback | 320pp
Four Courts Press
Irish History | June 2010

About The Book
This book examines one of the bloodiest epochs in Irish history. Part one covers the 16th century, revealing how efforts by the Tudor monarchy to curb the powers of the autonomous Irish lords degenerated into a bitter cultural and sectarian conflict characterized by summary killings and massacres. The second part pays particular attention to the 1641 rebellion and the Confederate Wars.

Michael Davitt Freelance radical and frondeur
Laurence Marley
9781846822650
€29.95 | Paperback | 328pp
Four Courts Press
Irish Biography | June 2010

About The Book
This book certainly adds to our knowledge of this intriguing Irish historical figure … The book is in fact an Aladdin’s cave of information. From the very beginning, the author throws new light on Davitt and his family …  Laurence Marley’s Michael Davitt breaks extraordinary ground in our knowledge of Ireland’s first modern truly international statesman.’ Des Kenny, Verbal

Medieval Lough Cé History, archaeology, and landscape
Thomas Finan, ed.
9781846821042
€45.00 | Hardback | 192pp
Four Courts Press
Archeaology | June 2010

About The Book
The role of Lough Cé and its relationship to the various lordships of north Roscommon in the later Middle Ages is examined in this collection of essays. Lough Cé was a vital geographic feature in relation to the MacDermot and O’Conor dynasties of the 13th and 14th century, and was the scene of a number of military incursions on the part of English lordships in the mid-13th century. Yet, this lake, and the history and archaeology of the region surrounding the lake, has rarely been examined as a landscape feature in, and of, itself.

Joe Holmes – Here I Am Amongst You songs, music and traditions of an Ulsterman
Len Graham
9781846822513
€55.00 | Hardback | 328pp
€25.00 | Paperback | 328pp
Four Courts Press
Music | June 2010

About The Book
An account of the folklore and repertoire of one of the most influential singers and traditional fiddlers in Ireland – Joe Holmes (1906–78) of County Antrim. It journeys into the heart of a diverse traditional life in Ulster giving a detailed and comprehensive account of the world of a singer musician in the 20th century.

Visual, material & print culture in nineteenth-century Ireland
Ciara Breathnach & Catherine Lawless, eds
9781846822135
€55.00 | Hardback | 320pp
Four Courts Press
Art | June 2010

About The Book
Proceedings of the latest Conference on the study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland.

Rules of the Road, Official Edition
Road Safety Authority
9781847172228
€5.00 | Paperback | 232pp
The O’Brien Press
Reference | June 2010

About The Book
Following the rules of the road saves lives and prevents injury.
Written in straightforward language and aimed at all road users – drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and horse-riders – the Rules of the Road sets out the laws, and details best driving practice.official edition of the Rules of the Road from the Road Safety Authority, published by The O’Brien Press, June 2010

Flagging the Problem: A new approach to mental health
Dr Harry Barry
9781905483976
€14.99 | Paperback | 356pp
Liberties Press
Health | June 2010

About The Book
Paperback edition of bestselling book by Dr Harry Barry. Flagging the Problem uses a completely new way of identifying and dealing with mental-health problems. The system, which uses colour-coded flags for various mental states and problems, was developed a medical doctor following years of treating people with mental-health problems.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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+

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.

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…

About The Book
A beautiful meditation on love, belonging and the impossibility of escape’ Observer.

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.

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.

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.

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 Towns

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

About The Book
Explores the relationship between Ireland and Irish-Americans and how this changed during World War II.

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.

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.

About The Book
Celebrates the life and work of the greatest American historian of Ireland

About The Book
Questions what contribution the Tribunal has made to the accontability of the Garda Siochana

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

About The Book
Considers the politics of the Protestant Unionist Loyalist population in Northern Ireland during and following the peace process.

About The Book
A History of the A.A, Alcoholics Anonymous

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

The first edition of Published This Month, for April 2010, is below.

I’ve added the Number One Children’s title for April, Derek Landy’s Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days (HarperCollins | £ 10.99 | PB | Children’s Fiction | April 2010) because, the post needed a brighter header. There is a wonderful audio extract on the HarperCollins UK site.

The list is woefully incomplete but I’m hoping we can improve that as the service progresses. Publishers, send any additional titles direct to monthlybooks{AT}irishpublishingnews.com

Or you can download this excel file, fill it in and send it back by e-mail (it would sure make my life easier).

The Boys of St Columb’s: From the 1947 Education Act to the 1968 Civil Rights Movement – Profiles of Eight Remarkable Men from Derry
Maurice Fitzpatrick
9781905785773
€17.95 | PB | pp
The Liffey Press
Biography | April 2010

About The Book
The Boys of St. Columb’s tells the story of the first generation of children to receive free secondary education as a result of the ground-breaking 1947 Education Act in Northern Ireland.

About The Book
A martyr and a hero to his countrymen, Denis Barry is overlooked today. This book seeks to rescue this hugely respected Cork man from relative anonymity. Denis Barry toiled in the shadows of McSwiney and MacCurtain in the tumultuous period of the Irish War of Independence.

About The Book
Perry the Polar Bear is a brave cub who goes on a mission to save the polar bears and their home. This eco-friendly book teaches children about the effects of global warming and reminds us that anyone can make a difference

About The Book
A career book without the waffle for post-Celtic Tiger times, The Career Book has not been written to help you – it aims to help you to help yourself.

About The Book
Some of the most famous lines in Irish poetry come from the pen of William Butler Yeats, poet, patriot, dramatist and senator. This illustrated collection of forty of his best-loved works, on Love, Politics, Old Age, Myth and Legend includes people, places and events that were important to him.

About The Book
Danny, Mario and Me is a story of friendship between three teenage boys in an Irish border town in the 80s. Taidg, Danny and Mario are best friends, thick as thieves, untouchable, until one Friday night, when Danny hangs himself in a field at the back of his family home.

About The Book
When Desmond Doyle finds his girlfriend dead in the bath, having cut her wrists, he is devastated. But there are inconsistencies with how suicide wounds would be inflicted and he quickly comes under suspicion and is arrested for murder. Though soon released, Detective Inspector Harry Kneebone is convinced of Doyle’s involvement.

Family Life, An Inspector Starran Mystery

About The Book
In ones and twos the Sweeney clan and their partners, wives and children gather at Liam Sweeney’s farm on the outskirts of Ramelton, County Donegal to celebrate Liam’s birthday. The banter and storytelling is great as they await the arrival of the single missing family member. But when Inspector Starrett arrives unexpectedly at the farm it becomes clear that all is not well.

If I Never See You Again
NIamh O’Connor
9781848270916
£ 12.99 | PB | pp
Transworld Ireland
Fiction | April 2010

About The Book
In trouble at work and at home, Detective Inspector Jo Bermingham  soon discovers that someone has been playing the gangland at its own game – one in which there are no rules, and in which she – and her family – are in terrible danger …

About The Book
King of Country is Howard Wright’s first, much-anticipated, full-length poetry collection. Wright’s keen, painters eye never fails to see the irony in the mundane, rendering found art out of theeveryday in this wry and wily collection.

About The Book
Louisa is fed up with every aspect of her life. Boyfriend, job, flat – all these need an instant and radical makeover. And so she decides to change it all in favour of a carefree existence, exchanging her house for a trailer, her car for a motorbike, and her smart clothes for leisure wear.

About The Book
In Dublin, a newspaper editor called Cartwright is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on Cartwright’s desk. And in the dossier Owen finds a photograph, which brings him back, once again, to a dusty road in Africa and to the woman he once loved

About The Book
Beth Prendergast has fallen hook, line and sinker for her boss. But when Beth discovers she is pregnant he makes it clear that a baby was never part of his plan. Is Beth really ready to take on motherhood all on her own?

About The Book
Though she doesn’t know it, the day Aoife spots a neglected walled garden is the day her life begins again …

About The Book
The Ballymun Trilogy is a unique attempt by a leading Irish playwright to capture the birth, demolition and regeneration of a satellite town. From These Green Heights was previously published on its own by New Island, while The Townlands of Brazil and The Consequences of Lightning are previously unpublished.

About The Book
Building to a heart-stopping finale, with a cast of credible and colourful characters from the criminal underworld and police ranks alike, The Gathering of Souls is an authentic, dark tale of obsession, revenge and redemption.

About The Book
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society.

About The Book
Dorian Gray, an extraordinarily beautiful youth, looks at his newly-painted portrait and despairs at the thought of how time will alter his looks. If only he could be beautiful forever – yes, he would give his soul for that!

About The Book
In any normal situation Fiona and Sarah would be friends. They are both smart and loving, great mothers, brilliant at life. And they both need a pal. But when Sarah arrives in Fiona’s small town on the Clare coast, it’s not a normal situation

About The Book
Debut novel from established short-story writer and poet about a 10-year-old girl who lives with her separated mother and two brothers. Set against the semi-urban backdrop of the River Liffey in 1980, the story unfolds through the narrator’s observations and interactions, and her naïve interpretations of adult conversations and behaviour. Heartbreaking at times, but also optimistic, humorous and enchanting.

About The Book
Introduction to Equity Investment Fund Accounting explains the basic principles of investment fund accounting in a jargon-free manner. This will come as good news to those with little prior exposure to this complex area of finance.

About The Book
We all have recipes that are dear to our hearts, passed on to us from our grannies, grandads, great aunts and uncles. This book is the culmination of an effort to collect, document and sample those recipes.

About The Book
The message is simple: excellent food is available at affordable prices. You just have to know what you’re looking for – and where to find it. Shrewd Food is the definitive guide. Inspired by the hugely popular website shrewdfood.ie, set up in 2009 by dedicated foodie and home-cook extraordinaire Elizabeth Carthy – who knows first-hand the challenges of feeding a family on a budget

About The Book
The Aran Islands produced writers such as Liam O’Flaherty and Tim Robinson who were inspired by their surroundings. The drystone-wall field-boundary system of the islands is one of Ireland’s richest cultural landscapes, retaining remarkable continuity with the past – Celtic occupation, Christianity, invasion, famine and evictions – a unique combination of the forces of humankind and nature.

About The Book
Combining an analysis of the major events of the year with the oral testimony of a wide range of respondents, this book tells the story of the most extraordinary year of the modern Northern conflict, as well as analysing its impact upon subsequent events.

About The Book
This book is an introductory guide for students and researchers in the history of Irish education from 1790 – 1922.

About The Book
A clear, lively, account of all the significant battles in irish history, from pre-history to the Normans to the Black and Tans in 1920-1, concluding with the Battle of the Bogside in 1969.

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This book studies the history of diplomatic and security relations between Ireland and Britain, giving context to the role of Anglo-Irish relations in the early years of the Northern Ireland Troubles. The conclusions are controversial. It is a history of a relationship, rather than any particular state, and thus contains criticism of all actors, including those in the Stormont government.

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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.

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This collection of essays celebrates Professor Thorlac Turville-Petre for his scholarly work in late medieval English literature, in particular for his contributions to editorial scholarship and Middle English alliterative poetry.

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Portrait of one of Cork’s foremost guerrilla leaders, who fought in the War of Independence and the Civil War and was a leading politician in the Fianna Fáil Government for two decades until his untimely death in 1957.

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Follows the military course of the Civil War in Kerry in August and September 1922, focusing on specific engagements and tactics.

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Declan Lynch recalls the great moments — Packie’s save and his leap into immortality; Pavarotti’s ‘Nessun Dorma’ and U2’s ‘Put ’Em Under Pressure’; Kevin Sheedy’s sweet strike; and all that drinking. Days of Heaven is full of hilarious accounts of how the Irish abandoned reality in that glorious time called Italia 90.

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The Rise and Fall of the Irish Pub is the story the journey from dark days into glorious sunshine and back again into darkening shadows. Since the Irish pub, like Ireland itself, is remarkably resilient and has prospered for more than two millennia, the author argues that it will undoubtedly be able to reinvent itself requiring further chapters in its long and glorious history.

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This is the first volume of a two-part collection following on from O’Leary’s “Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State 1922-1939″.

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St Columbanus is widely regarded as the first of the great Irish Christian missionaries to Europe. Unlike his predecessor and (almost) namesake, Columba of Iona, Columbanus undertook exile for life as he set off to bring the particularly Irish form of monasticism to the continent.

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The Live-Long Code reveals health expert Dermot O’Connor’s proven programme to significantly improve vitality and increase your lifespan.

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As well as offering a series of exercises in deepening your skills in breathing, this book covers the constructive use of breathing in movement, healing, stillness and general well being.

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This memoir is of particular interest because, unlike most accounts of imprisonment during this period, it was written with propagandistic intent and was first published by The Talbot Press in 1917.

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Growing up in the suburbs of Dublin, Aidan Storey was the youngest of seven, a much-loved, happy child who enjoyed family life and all the usual rough-and-tumble games he played with friends in his garden. The only difference was, when the friends left and the garden was quiet, Aidan was visited by Angels.

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A leading detective reveals the truth behind the headlines of some of Northern Ireland’s most violent crimes. Alan Simpson was the senior investigating officer in the case of the controversial killing of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane. As he writes here, “from the outset there was suspicion of security forces collusion in the murder.”

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Francesca faced the dawn of the new millennium debilitated by ill-health and despair, without any hope or faith in her future. This was until the loving angels and spirits that she remembered watching over her as a young girl returned to save her in adulthood.

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Where Are You Really From? is a fascinating and powerful memoir about oneman’s struggle to establish his own identity and a moving tribute to the woman who risked everything to keep her son.

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Most people who write memoirs tell about the harm that has been done to them by others. But in this book the author writes about the pain and hurt she inflicted on her family. When she started writing, every word she put down was infused with shame and guilt. How could this devoted mother, whose whole world was her family, have left her five children?

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Eddie shows how, by taking control of your response to the new world order, you can prosper in unforeseen new ways. Energise is the essential starting point for getting to grips with the imminent age of scarcity.

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This book outlines the career of one of the most distinguished figures in Irish musical life in the first half of the twentieth century — a Bavarian organist, Aloys Fleischmann senior, whose son would later become Professor of Music in UCC.  Fleischmann senior came to international attention through his work with the North Cathedral Choir in Cork, which was regarded as one of the finest of its kind.  He prolific composer who wrote nearly 400 works, and he was a highly respected teacher whose students included Séan Ó Riada.

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Taking his backdoor as a starting point, Joseph Horgan goes on a quest to explore the natural world, bringing with him the words of Patrick Kavanagh and others – writers, poets, naturalists and scientists – who roamed and wrote about the Irish countryside.

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Drifting Under the Moon will considerably advance his reputation, the new poems revealing an increased awareness of craft, a broadening and deepening of his vision.

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Encountering Zoe contains new and selected poetry from Tom MacIntyre, one of Ireland’s most respected writers. MacIntyre is a dual-language writer who has written six other books of poetry, as well as many plays for the Abbey Theatre (Peacock Stage).

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In poems laced with the blackest humour Kevin Higgins spares no-one, least of all himself.  In this his third collection of poetry,  he takes the reader through the hubris of boom time Ireland and out the other side into a strange country where everything is suddenly broken again.

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‘Gerard Smyth has a painstaking eye for the telling detail… in his hands the impact of simplicity is extraordinary’
- Philip Casey
‘He may do for Dublin in verse what Joyce did for it in prose’ – Michael Hartnett

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Bertie Ahern and the Drumcondra Mafia takes the reader inside the organisation and examines how they not only established the most efficient electoral machine in the country but put ‘their man’ in the most senior political office in the state. It also details how, in his rise to power, Ahern acquired substantial sums of money while propagating the image of a man with no interest in money.

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The story of contemporary Ireland is inseparable from the story of the official republican movement, a story told here for the first time – from the clash between Catholic nationalist and socialist republicanism in the 1960s and ’70s through the Workers’ Party’s eventual rejection of irredentism.

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Contains a wealth of savvy information on airlines, tour operators, self-catering hotels, timing and middlemen: essential advice and tips to equip people to deal with the world of travel, which has changed so much over the past decade.