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The Most Recent Issues from 2008 Below:

  • Special Issue - 21/22 June 2008 - Irish Ancestry
    Sources for Irish Family History compiled by James G. Ryan
    Tracing Your Irish History by Anthony Adolph
    Tracing Your Irish Ancestors 3rd ed by John Grenham
    How to Trace Your Irish Ancestors by Ian Maxwell
    Tracing your Roscommon Ancestors by John Hamrock
    Tracing Your Limerick Ancestors by Margaret Franklin
    Tracing Your Mayo Ancestors by Brian Smith
    Tracing Your Kerry Ancestors by Michael H. O’Connor
    Tracing Your Dublin Ancestors by James G. Ryan and Brian Smith
    Longford and its People by David Leahy
    Irish Church Records 2ed by James G. Ryan
    Irish Ancestors: A Pocket Guide by John Grenham
    Irish Families: Their Names, Arms & Origins by Edward MacLysaght

  • Issue 417 - 14/15 June 2008
    Ireland: A View From Above by Christopher Moriarty and Antonio Attini
    Irish Houses and Gardens from the Archives of Country Life by Sean O’Reilly
    Wexford: A Town and Its Landscape by Billy Colfer
    Dublin by Paul Baker
    Wild Dublin: Exploring Nature in the City by Eanna Ni Lamhna
    Dublin’s Magical Museums by Muriel Bolger
    South Dublin – How to Get By on, Like, 10,000 Euro a Day by Ross O’Carroll-Kelly
    Favourite Irish Proverbs text by Jo O’Donoghue and Photography and Design by Lily Lenihan
    Tactics of the Rich by Paul Overy
    Eleven Houses: A Memoir of Childhood by Christopher Fitz-Simon
    Rachel’s Favourite Food at Home by Rachel Allen
    Souls of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Pepe Charles and Honey Dew II by Damien Tiernan

  • Issue 416 - 7/8 June 2008 - New Irish Fiction
    The Truth Will Out by Anna McPartlin
    Are You Ready? by Amanda Hearty
    I Never Fancied Him Anyway by Claudia Carroll
    Bad Behaviour by Sheila O’Flanagan
    The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens
    A Horse with My Name by Colin Bateman
    The Bloomsday Dead by Adrian McKinty
    Take a Look At Me Now by Anita Notaro
    Gilded Shadows by Mary Rochford
    Star Gazing by Kate Thompson
    Angel at My Back by Mary Stanley
    Bullet and the Ark by Peter Sheridan
    Lighthouse by Chris Binchy
    Three’s a Crowd by Sheila O’Flanagan
    The Second Child by John Boyne


  • Issue 415 - 31 May 2008
    Seamus Heaney: A Bibliography, 1959-2003 by Rand Brandes and Michael J. Durkan
    The Maeve Binchy Writer’s Club by Maeve Binchy
    Modern Irish Poetry 1800-2000 by Justin Quinn
    Aran Islands and Connemara by J. M. Synge
    The Atlas of the Island of Ireland: Mapping Social and Economic Change by Justin Gleeson et. al.
    Saints of the Celtic Church by Martin Wallace
    Angels in My Hair: The True Story of a Modern-Day Irish Mystic by Lorna Byrne
    David Trimble: The Price of Peace by Frank Millar
    Eating Scenery: West Cork, The People and the Place by Alannah Hopkin
    An Emerald Odyssey: In Search of the Gods of Golf and Ireland by Paul J. Zingg
    The Untouchables: Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau and Its War on Organised Crime by Paul Williams
    Watching the Door: Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast by Kevin Myers
    Borderlands by Brian McGilloway
    Keys to the Kingdom by Jack O’Connor


  • Issue 414 - 17/18 May 2008 - New Irish History
    Mapping Meath in the Early 19th Century by Arnold Horner
    Chief O’Neill’s Sketchy Recollections of an Eventful Life in Chicago by Francis O’Neill
    The Paper Wall: Newspapers and Propaganda in Ireland, 1919-1921 by Ian Kenneally
    Forgotten Soldiers: The Irishmen Shot at Dawn by Stephen Walker
    Not While I Have Ammo: A History of Captain Connie Mackey, Defender of the Strand by Jim Corbett
    Kathleen Clarke: Revolutionary Woman by Kathleen Clarke
    Michael Davitt by John Devoy
    Dan Donovan: An Everyman’s Life by Vera Ryan
    Rendering to God and Caesar: The Irish Churches and the Two States in Ireland, 1949-73 by Daithi O Corrain
    The Way that I Went by Robert Lloyd Praeger with an introduction by Michael Viney
    No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years, 1900-1923 by Sinead McCoole
    Rare Old Dublin: Heroes, Hawkers and Hoors by Frank Hopkins

  • Issue 413 - 3/4 May 2008
    Unfulfilled Promise: Donogh O’Malley by PJ Browne
    The Vatican Pimpernel: The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty
    The Irish Man Who Ran for England by Jim Hogan
    Over My Shoulder: A Memoir by Norma McMaster
    Brief Encounters: A Memoir by Edith Newman Devlin
    There’s Something About Mary by Mary Banotti
    St. Patrick: The Real Story As Told In His Own Words translated by Jim McCormack
    The National Gallery of Ireland: An Essential Guide by Raymond Keaveney
    Images of Cork City: Shared Moments by Crian Lillis
    Bumper Book of Simplex Crosswords from the Irish Times by Mary O’Brien
    The Irish B& B Cookbook by Ann Mulligan

  • Issue 412 - 26/27 April 2008 - New Irish Fiction and Poetry
    The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
    Taking Pictures by Anne Enright
    Forgive & Forget by Patricia Scanlan
    Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern
    Orpheus Rising by Colin Bateman
    Pusakis at Paros and other Stories by Miriam Gallagher
    The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories by Brian J. Showers
    A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
    At a Time Like This by Catherine Dunne
    The Gathering by Anne Enright
    The Poet’s Chair: The First Nine Years of the Ireland Chair of Poetry: John Montague, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Paul Durcan, with a foreword by Seamus Heaney

  • Issue 411 - 19/20 April 2008
    Great Hatred Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland by Jonathan Powell
    Dublin’s Docklands Reinvented: The Post-Industrial Regeneration of a European City Quarter by Niamh Moore
    Exploring Georgian Dublin by Pat Dargan
    Redmond: The Parnellite by Dermot Meleady
    The Shannon Navigation by Ruth Delaney
    The Parish by Alice Taylor
    In the Tracks of the West Clare Railway by Eddie Lenihan
    Paisley: Demagogue to Democrat? By Ed Moloney
    UVF: The Endgame by Jim Cusack and Henry McDonald
    Pocket History of the Irish Famine by Ruan O’Donnell
    West of Ireland Walks by Kevin Corcoran
    Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c.1140-1540 by Dianne Hall
    Donkey’s Years: Memories of a Life As Story Told by Aidan Higgins
    A Starving People: Life and Death in West Clare, 1845-1851 by Ignatius Murphy
    Before the Famine Struck: Life in West Clare, 1834-1845 by Ignatius Murphy

  • Issue 410 - 12/13 April 2008
    Articulations: Poetry, Philosophy and the Shaping of Culture: Seamus Heaney, Royal Irish Academy Cunningham Medal, 28th January 2008
    Spying on Ireland: British Intelligence and Irish Neutrality During the Second World War by Eunan O’Halpin
    A New History of Ireland by Christine Kinealy
    The Irish Voter: The Nature of Electoral Competition in the Republic of Ireland by Michael Marsh et. al.
    Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections, 1919-64 by Kate O’Malley
    From the Margins to the Centre: A History of the Irish Times by Dermot James
    Joseph Walshe: Irish Foreign Policy 1922-1946 by Aengus Nolan
    Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the Nation’s Architecture of Containment by James M. Smith
    Walled Gardens: Scenes from an Irish Childhood by Annabel Davis-Goff
    Ireland’s Professional Amateurs: A Sports Season at Its Purest by Andy Mendlowitz
    Ireland: Land of Celtic Myths and Legend by Simona Tarchetti
    The Donegal Woman by John Throne

  • Issue 409 - 4/5 April 2008
    The Irish Folklore Commission: History, Ideology, Methodology by Micheal Briody
    The Poet’s Chair: The First Nine Years of the Ireland Chair of Poetry by John Montague, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Paul Durcan with a forword by Seamus Heaney
    Dublin Explorer
    Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940 by Maria Luddy
    The Girl in the Wicker Basket by Anne Kenny
    Good Times and Bad:From the Coombe to the Kremlin: A Memoir by Seamus Martin
    Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema by Roderick Flynn and Patrick Brereton
    Blarney Castle: Its History, Development and Purpost by Mark Samuel and Kate Hamlyn
    New Contexts: Re-Framing Nineteenth-Century Irish Women’s Prices edited by Hiedi Hansson
    Roddy Connolly and the Struggle for Socialism in Ireland by Charlie McGuire
    Shadows of the Gunmen: Violence and Culture in Modern Ireland edited by Danine Farquharson and Sean Farrell

  • Issue 408 - 29 March 2008 - Irish Fiction and Poetry
    The Truth Commissioner by David Park
    Bloodstorm by Sam Millar
    Caulfield by Philip Lumley
    Somewhere in Between by Ruth Gilligan
    It Must Be Love by Sharon Owens
    For All We Know by Ciaran Carson
    Selected Poems of John Jordan edited by Hugh McFadden
    To Ring in Silence: New and Selected Poems by Paddy Bushe
    The Big Snow by David Park
    The Healing by David Park
    Swallowing the Sun by David Park
    Oranges from Spain by David Park
    The International by Glenn Patterson

  • Issue 407 - 19 March 2008
    Beyond the Wire: Former Prisoners and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland by Peter Shirlow and Kieran McEvoy
    Eoin O’Duffy: A Self-Made Hero by Fearghal McGarry
    Ireland’s Economic Success: Reasons and Lessons by Paul Sweeney
    Words We Use by Diarmaid O Muirithe
    Macnas Joyful Abandonment by Terry Dineen
    Power, Politics and Pharmaceuticals: Drug Regulation in Ireland in a Global Context Edited by Orla O’Donovan and Kathy Glavanis-Grantham
    Columbia Jail Journal by James Monaghan
    Ireland’s New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815-1922 by Malcolm Campbell
    Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland Since 1945 by Henry Patterson and Eric Kaufmann
    Tourism, Landscape and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland by William H.A. Williams

  • Issue 406 - 10 March 2008 - Irish History
    Blood on the Streets: 1916 & The Battle for Mount Street Bridge by Paul O’Brien
    The Biggest Show in Town: Record of the International Exhibition, Dublin 1907 by Ken Finlay
    The Bray and Enniskerry Railway by Liam Clare
    Irish Walled Towns by John Givens
    Haunted Belfast by Joe Baker
    Rising Out: Sean Connolly of Longford by Ernie O’Malley
    British-Irish Relations and Northern Ireland: From Violent Politics to Conflict Regulation by Brendan O’Duffy
    In Belfast by the Sea by Frank Frankfort Moore
    Carson’s Army: The Ulster Volunteer Force 1910-22 by Timothy Bowman
    Devolution and Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland edited by Paul Carmichael et. al
    Immigration and Social Change in the Republic of Ireland edited by Bryan Fanning
    The Great White Fair: The Herbert Park Exhibition of 1907 by Gerard Siggins
    Maritime Ireland: An Archaeology of Coastal Communities by Aidan O’Sullivan and Colin Breen

  • Issue 405 - 1 March 2008 - Irish Sports
    Padraig Harrington’s Journey to the Open by Padraig Harrington
    Croke Park: An Illustrated History by Tim Carey
    The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Gaelic Football and Hurling by Donal Keenan
    Journey to Adventure by Pat Falvey
    Princes of Pigskin: A Century of Kerry Footballers by Joe O Muircheartaigh and TJ Flynn
    White Line Fever: An Illustrated History of Irish Road Racing by Alastair McCook
    Giants of Gaelic Football : All Time Greats by Sean Og O’Ceallachain
    The Munich Air Disaster by Stephen Morrin
    Classic Munster Hurling Finals by Seamus J. King
    Staying the Distance by Ronnie Delaney
    The Dubs: Dublin GAA Since the 1940s by Sean Og O Ceallachain

  • Issue 404 - 9 February 2008 - Autobiographies, Biographies and Memoirs
    Roger Casement: Imperalist Rebel Revolutionary by Seamas O Siochain
    Between Comrades: James Connolly’s Letters and Correspondence 189-1916 edited by Donal Nevin
    Arthur’s Round: The Life and Times of Brewing Legend Arthur Guinness by Patrick Guinness
    Lapsed Agnostic by John Waters
    Joycean Murmoirs: Fritz Senn on James Joyce edited by Christine O’Neill
    A Provisional Dictator: James Stephens and the Fenian Movement by Marta Ramon
    All Kinds of Everything by Dana Rosemary Scallon
    Radio Man: 40 Years of Broadcasting by Brendan Balfe
    Off Screen: A Memoir by Sheamus Smith
    Walls of Silence: Robert McCartney by Catherine McCartney
    The Insider: The Belfast Prison Diaries of Eamonn Boyce, 1956-62 edited by Anna Bryson
    To The Limits of Endurance: One Irishman’s War by Jack Harte
    No Deals: An Addict’s Journey to Freedom by Jackie Burke
    Unsolved: Nine Irish Murders Files Still Open by Barry Cummins

  • Issue 403 - 2 February 2008
    With My Lazy Eye by Julia Kelly
    Lessons in Heartbreak by Cathy Kelly
    Tell Me This is Normal: New and Selected Poems by Julie O’Callaghan
    The River Field by John MacKenna
    Brandon 25 edited by Steve McDonagh
    Dulse by Frank McGuinness
    Laugh at Gilded Butterflies: A Selection of Favourite Poems chosen by Ulick O’Connor
    Winterwood by Patrick McCabe

  • Issue 402 - 26 January 2008
    Irish Republicanism in Scotland 1858-1916: Fenians in Exile by Mairtin Sean O Cathain
    Hold & Firm: John Charles McQuaid and the Second Vatican Council by Francis Xavier Carty
    Rule 42 and All That by Sean Kelly
    Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland, 1850-1922 by Caitriona Clear
    South Tipperary 1570-1841: Religion, Land and Rivalry by David Butler
    Divine Right?: The Parnell Split in Meath by David Lawlor
    Stop Howling at the Moon by Eamon O’Donnell
    The Suspect: The Story of Rachel O’Reilly’s Murder by Jenny Friel
    The Discovery of the Dingle Diamond by C.P.R. May
    The Longest Rebellion by Chris Lawlor
    Global Ireland by Tom Inglis

  • Issue 401 - 19 January 2008
    Hidden Dublin: Deadbeats, Dossers and Decent Skins by Frank Hopkins
    Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland by Richard English
    Raiders of the Caribbean: Ireland’s Cricket World Cup by Trent Johnston and Gerard Siggins
    Tracing Your Irish Family History by Anthony Adolph
    Before Sunday: The Life Stories of the Bloody Sunday Victims by Jennifer Faus
    Souls of the Sea: The Tragic Story of Seven Lives Lost by Damien Tiernan
    Lyn’s Escape by Lyn Madden
    Martin Cahill: My Father by Frances Cahill
    The High Society: Drugs and the Irish Middle Class by Justine Delaney Wilson
    Cre Na Cille by Mairtin O Cadhain

  • Issue 400! - 12 January 2008 - The 'Best' Books of 2007
    Non-Fiction
    Temples of Stone: Exploring the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland by Carleton Jones
    Judging Dev by Diarmaid Ferriter
    Dublin An Urban History: The Plan of the City by Niall McCullough
    The Insider: The Belfast Prison Diaries of Eamonn Boyce, 1956-62 edited by Anna Bryson
    The Making of the Irish Constitution 1937 by Dermot Keogh and Andrew McCarthy
    Achill Voices by Robert Redmond
    Follow Me Down to Dublin: The City Through the Voices of Its Peoples by Deirdre Purcell
    Contested Island: Ireland 1460-1630 by S.J. Connolly
    Luck and the Irish: A History of Change 1970-200 by R.F. Foster
    Dublin: A View from the Ground by Neil Hegarty
    The High Crosses of Ireland: Inspirations in Stone by Elinor D.U. Powell
    Sean MacBride: A Life by Elizabeth Keane

    Fiction and Poetry
    Ireland’s Other Poetry: Anonymous to Zozimus edited by John Wyse Jackson and Hector McDonnell
    Barnacle Soup and other stories from the west of Ireland by Josie Gray, with Tess Gallagher
    The Gathering by Anne Enright
    Foolish Mortals by Jennifer Johnston
    Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories by John McGahern
    Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
    Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
    The Fifty Minute Mermaid by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, translated from the Irish by Paul Muldoon
    Somewhere the Wave: new poems by Derek Mahon with drawings and watercolours by Bernadette Kiely
    The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)

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