Puffin Ireland, the children’s and young adult imprint of the Penguin Group in Ireland will be launched today by Robert Dunbar in Eason O’Connell Street.

The launch event celebrates the imprint’s first three titles, Angel Kiss by Laura Jane Cassidy, Friend’s Forever: The Time Spell by Judi Curtain and My Dad Is Ten Years Old by Mark Sullivan.

Based out of the Penguin Ireland offices in Stephen’s Green, Puffin Ireland is headed up by Paddy O’Doherty.

David Maybury ran an interview with Paddy some time ago, it is worth reading here.

CROSS POSTED ON IPN EVENTS

Dublin Book Festival, IPN will be running a Pecha Kucha (Don’t know what means, check this out) event in the Good Room on Saturday 5th March 2011. The Good Room takes place in the Mercantile Bar and Grill, 28 Dame Street, Dublin 2.
Talking about Thinking about Books will run from 4pm-5pm and entry is FREE.

The aim is to offer a high-octane series of short presentations from writers, publishers and creative about books, publishing, creativity and fun.

Speakers will have only 6 minutes and 40 seconds to impress and what’s more they will be presenting with 20 slides in their decks* all of which are set to automatically move on after 20 seconds!

So far we have three excellent speakers, David Maybury and Catherine Ryan-Howard and Zoe Faulder. If you are interested in speaking, get in touch: Editor @ IrishPublishingNews.com

Expect fun and entertainment with a lesson (but the good kind) or two mixed in!
See you there.

*Presentations

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Watch this. It’s excellent until the band starts talking!

The living and working conditions of artists in the Republic and North of Ireland.
On the one hand, you wonder why we should worry too much about this? On the other it does seem sad!
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S&S joins iBookstore
I wonder when we’ll see it?
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Electric Picnic | David Donohue and Me
If you happen to find yourself in a field in Stradbally this weekend (namely at Electric Picnic), enjoying the music, comedians, art, dancing and literary what-nots – then this is for you.
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Down These Green Streets …
Good news this!
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Cor Klaasen Exhibition
This is an excellent idea.
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Response: The digital era has not made publishers defunct
Worth reading
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I am number four.
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Is there a role for the publisher in a digital market?
Interesting post from Zoe
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Third edition of OED unlikely to appear in print format
I don’t know why anyone would expect it would? Isn’t it better in digital form anyway, more useful?
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Paperbacks: Tom Widger
IF YOU thought there was little more to be said about this most discussed period in the country’s history, think again. Ann Matthews has dug deep and dug well and surfaces with some new information.
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Champagne bubbles remain fizzy for finale
In 2008 in Renards, the Dublin nightclub where Amanda Brunker once worked as a hostess, the self-styled model, TV presenter, party girl and former Miss Ireland launched Champagne Kisses, the first in a trilogy of novels charting the doings of one Eva “Da Diva” Valentine, gossip columnist, party animal and general good-time girl.
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Celebrity chef with a recipe for the Famine
Fascinating story!
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Beauty, harshness, menace and the spine of steel worthy of high art
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Seamus Heaney’s book of resurrections
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It was a bit of a kip, but it was our kip
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Review: Dan Donnelly 1788 – 1820 by Patrick Myler
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Elementary
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Book-post!
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Upwardly mobile | moving in and what not
And he discusses new digs!
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A rather excellent video featuring Jamie Byng, who’ll be appearing at Mountains To Sea in Dun Laoghaire in September

Upwardly mobile | moving in and what not
And he discusses new digs!
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Book Launch: Renegades: Irish Republican Women 1900-1922
Ann was on Pat Kenny yesterday, interesting book this one.
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Moving on
This really should be read, considered, parsed, filed and re-visited by publishers across the globe. It’s message, however unpalatable, is a vital one!
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Gollancz appoints Nash as digital publisher
On a very selfish level I admire Gollancz as a publisher, if only because they publish some of the finest sci-fi and fantasy.
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Miriam O’Callaghan and Mercier Press title
And why wouldn’t they? (I commissioned Moxie while working at Mercier Press)
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Sell, Socialise and Survive at the Frankfurt Book Fair
Good advice on Frankfurt. IPN will be there so don’t be afraid to send us your stories and releases!
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Edinburgh
Nice note on Edinburgh from Laura!
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Waterstone’s to open bar and restaurants
I think this makes sense, but don’t quote me on it!
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Samsung launches e-reader with W H Smith
When will the ebook and ereading bug bite home here? 
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PW Select: A Quarterly Service for Self-Published Authors to Launch in December
Publishers Weekly will launch a quarterly magazine in December focusing on announcements and reviews of self-published titles. However, listed self-published titles will come at a fee of $149 to the author and reviews will only be on selected titles.
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Publicity for Mercier Press titles
Three of Mercier Press titles were reviewed in national papers at the weekend.
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Reivew: Rules for a Perfect Life by Niamh Greene
IN Rules for a Perfect Life, each of the 27 chapters, like those in some self-help manuals, is headed by a maxim, which will, if followed, apparently change your life for the better.
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Tales of the Burren, and other places
A nice list of new local history titles
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Ireland’s desperadoes of the veld
Masked Raiders: Irish Banditry in Southern Africa, 1880-1899, By Charles van Onselen
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Book Club: Tenderwire by Claire Kilroy
An interesting move this!
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Review: Jumping in Puddles by Claire Allan
The Balamory lookalike seaside village of Rathinch may look postcard-perfect to summer visitors. But for locals who live there all year, it is a place of squinting windows, a hotbed of righteous gossip.
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French Kissies From The USA
Tana French has really been getting the good from the US and Declan is right to point it out!
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And they’re off!
Help the runners! They done good!
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DLR LIBRARY BLOG
You know i HATED* this book, but several of my friends loved it.
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SO much so that I stopped reading it and dropped it back to the library, a rarity in my world.

Ceann an Bhóthair by Séamus Ó hAodha
Stunning cover
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One year on …
A year in blogging, it aint easy!
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Storymap, Dublin
Cool much?
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Sci Fi Novelists Take Note
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Plucky David or pirate of the Caribbean?
Does what it says on the tin!
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Some novel ways to end on a high
Great post on endings!
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A life less ordinary – Florence Broadhurst
Quite the post this! Bit of a rollercoaster
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Spies of the Modern World
Spies, spies, spies!
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Street Sessions at the Willie Clancy Summer School, Miltown Malbay
Cool street sessions! I like
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The World: Gone To Hell In A Hand-Basket, Apparently
Declan sure knows his crime fiction
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The Philosophy and Vision of a Self-Published Writer
Interesting post!
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DLR LIBRARY BLOG
I love these DLR Library posts, they really are trying to reach out to their readers.
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The Bryce Is Right
Nice post from Declan, they all are!
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Critically Acclaimed Books I thought were awful
Great post and catty too!
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Thanks to Damien & David for spreading the Eddie Lenihan joy!

Will Europe’s Three Million Orphan Books Ever Be Digitized?
An even better one!
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Should the EC Legislate Clearances for Digital Book Rights?
A good question.
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Quercus buys new Stef Penney novel
Given Penny’s previous enormous success and Costa win, you’d have to think this one has a big future!
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DLR Review
These short reviews are good, but DLR Libraries need to title their posts!
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La Saga des Wildenstern
Nice covers for Foreign editions of Oisin’s books!
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What happened to Synge’s muse
Another big review for Ghost Light, I wonder will it stay in the Top ten!
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TRUTH, The Whole Truth And Nothing But
An excellent essay by Declan
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DIY Nuclear Reactors
What’s not to like here?
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sex, money and intrigue: the case that had it all
Abigail Rieley covered the Celine Cawley case as a court reporter and she was there every day during the trial of Cawley’s husband Eamonn Lillis who is now serving his sentence for her manslaughter.
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Day jobs and writers (5)
And here’s part five!
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Introducing E2BU, indispensible for anybody investing in ebook enhancement
I’m not convinced by Enhanced Ebooks, but if you are going to invest in them, then spending time with these folks sure won’t hurt your chances of success!
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We want your shillings | Special Effect 10k Run
Good luck to David
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The Review From The Blue House
Declan talks about the effect of reviews many many moons after the book is released!
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Why French E-books Don’t Deserve Lower VAT
VAT, the bedeviller of most ebook schemes in EUROPE!
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Clare County Library launches Space Hop – this year’s Summer Reading Challenge
All fifteen branches of Clare County Library are getting ready to launch children into orbit for an intergalactic adventure that will keep them reading throughout the school summer holidays – with the 2010 Summer Reading Challenge. And it’s all free fun, which is good news for parents!
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Recessionista Research: the What, the Why and the How

Recessionista Research: the What, the Why and the How

Presenter: Niamh O’Sullivan (Librarian, Irish Blood Transfusion Service)

Date: Thursday 1st July 2010

Time: 10am – 1pm (Registration 9.30am)

Venue: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Fee: Free to LIR members, €40 for non-members
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Shh, Don’t Tell Anyone
But the Poetry Divas are all set to ride again. . . there is a really special boutique festival this weekend at Ballinlough Castle, Co. Westmeath.
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Starbucks Wi-Fi and the Future of Paid Content
Interesting look at this issue and what y means. I’m not sure it’s as big a deal as some have made out, but this is worth reading.
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Gardening with Peter Dowdall: The Importance of the Natural World is published today
Gardening books are a much bigger deal than we realise.
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Perusing the papers
Nice round up by David Maybury!
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Review of The Big O by Declan Burke
Declan is great!
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Bloomsday has kicked off!
Indeed it did/will!
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Review: The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle
WAS there ever such a man as Henry Smart? It is a question that has nagged at the hero of Roddy Doyle’s trilogy, which is completed with this book, from the moment he first appeared, a decade ago, in A Star Called Henry.
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Does IMPAC have an impact?
Nice article by Sinead Gleeson on the IPMAC awards and not just because Irish Publishing News gets a mention!
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Nobody Move, This Is A Review: Brooklyn’s Finest (18s)
Three Brooklyn cops have very different careers: Eddie (Richard Gere), about to retire, no longer cares about doing the right thing; undercover drug agent Sal (Ethan Hawke) is bending the rules until they break; while Tango (Don Cheadle) is so far undercover that he’s beginning to forget who the good guys are.
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A writer at a ‘slight angle to the trend’
THE FALL, by Anthony Cronin:MEMOIRIST, BIOGRAPHER, critic, journalist, novelist (whose comic masterpiece The Life Of Reillyis being re-issued later this year), tireless agitator for the arts in the public and political spheres, inspirational figure to generations of Irish writers – Anthony Cronin is all of these things. But the publication of this, his 12th volume of poetry, is a timely reminder of the fact that poetry has always been his core business.
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Riding the Tiger
We’ve been waiting for some time for a novel about the Celtic Tiger. Our best writers — Banville, Toibin, O’Connor, Colum McCann — have all been stuck in the past. But here at last is a novel that exposes what the boom did to us, the way we completely lost the run of ourselves as the property bubble made us (briefly) rich. It’s all here, the corrupt nexus of politicians, developers and bankers, the greed, the vulgarity, the 4x4s and trophy homes, the drink, the drugs, the sex.
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Review: Capital Sins by Peter Cunningham
We’ve been waiting for some time for a novel about the Celtic Tiger. Our best writers — Banville, Toibin, O’Connor, Colum McCann — have all been stuck in the past. But here at last is a novel that exposes what the boom did to us, the way we completely lost the run of ourselves as the property bubble made us (briefly) rich. It’s all here, the corrupt nexus of politicians, developers and bankers, the greed, the vulgarity, the 4x4s and trophy homes, the drink, the drugs, the sex.
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Review: Falling Slowly by Robert Fannin
The first few pages of Robert Fannin’s second novel are slow and ponderous as he sets the scene — Trollope-style — in Bristol. Then the pace suddenly quickens and tension rises as protagonist Desmond Doyle finds his girlfriend, Daphne, dead in the bath, having cut her wrists. There are inconsistencies in her wounds and the devastated Doyle is arrested on suspicion of murder.
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Review: Rules for a Perfect Life by Niamh Greene
Niamh Greene’s playful sense of fun has already made her a bestseller with her earlier books like Secret Diary of a Demented Housewife and Letters to a Love Rat. The demented diaries was a huge hit with stressed out Yummy Mummies both here and in the UK and sold over 80,000 copies.
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Osprey launches military game for iPhone
Innovative!
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The medicine of the mind
Bon Iver are a very fine band!
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The Making of A Bestseller
You know, it is moments like this one that make publishing so magi I think. most people in the industry never have them of course, but every now and then ….
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Spooks Apprentice | FREE!
The spooks apprentice is an incredible book and the rest of the series is pretty damn good too!
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What Fowl Beast, His Hour Come Round At Last …
This should be fun! Colfer is a man of many talents it seems!
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Sales and audiences rise at ‘inspiring’ Hay
Numbers at the Hay Festival topped 200,000…
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Orange prize winners outstrip Booker sales
I’m not sure this is a huge surprise, The Orange prize has trended a little more mainstream in terms of winners. Read more…

Guest blog from Conor Kostick
I have to say, I like author guest post such as this, they are full of information
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New podcasts featuring Pádraig J Daly and Mary Montague
I love that Dedalus is now podcasting! I really do.

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Carina Press Launch with First Ten e-Book Titles
I like what Harlequin are doing and Angela James is very talented, the best of luck to Carina!
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Competition: Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, Midnight Poe and The Happy Prince at Dalkey Book Festival
A great line up this!
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David Maybury who visited the store this lunchtime and took the image, that the Hughes & Hughes store in Stephen’s Green is trading and has new stock.