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.
The IPN Book of The Month
Death on the Hill, The Killing of Celine Cawley
Abigail Rieley
9781847172181
€11.99 | Paperback | 208pp
The O’Brien Press
True Crime | June 2010
About The Book
On 15 December 2008, two screams shattered the peace of the affluent Windgate Road in Howth, Co Dublin. Celine Cawley, founder of the hugely successful Toytown Films, former model and ‘Bond girl’, lay dying on the patio of her home. A major garda search got underway for the balaclava-wearing burglar that Celine’s husband, Eamonn Lillis, had described so vividly as his wife’s attacker. But it quickly became clear that there was no burglar, and the finger of suspicion pointed squarely at Lillis himself.
Journalist Abigail Rieley, who covered the trial for the Irish Independent, gives a step-by-step account of the day of the killing, the garda investigations, explores the relationship between Lillis and Cawley and between Lillis and his mistress, and gives a day-by-day account of the sensational trial and its impact on the families.
New Town Soul
Dermot Bolger
9781848409460
€ 9.00 | Paperback | 256pp
Little Island
Children’s, supernatural fiction | June 2010
About The Book
New Town Soul is a thriller for young adults, set in Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
‘New Town Soul is taut, mysterious and gripping to the last word. Dermot Bolger gets under the skin of the teenage experience and explores the dark side of the teenage psyche. A beautifully crafted thriller’ - Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl
‘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.
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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.
News
The Irish At The London Book Fair 2011
Irish Publishing News travelled to Earl’s Court in London for the first day of the London Book Fair on Monday. The trip was enjoyable and the fair itself pretty packed, a relief I imagine for the Fair after last year’s poor Ash Cloud impacted attendances.
EoinPurcell@LBF2011
The Irish at the fair seemed busy with representatives from a large number of Publishing Ireland’s members in attendance, notably Maverick House, Mercier Press, O’Brien Press, Blackhall Publishing, Little Island, Liberties Press, The Stinging Fly and Adam’s Cloud.