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The Most Recent Issues from 2009 below:

  • Issue 452 - 27/28 June 2009 - Irish Crime Fiction and True Crime
    All the Dead Voices by Declan Hughes
    The Dying Breed by Declan Hughes
    Bleed a River Deep by Brian McGilloway
    Gallow’s Lane by Brian McGilloway
    Dark Times in the City by Gene Kerrigan
    The Semantics of Murder by Aifric Campbell
    Mystery Man by Colin Bateman
    The Irish Gulag: How the State Betrayed Its Innocent Children by Bruce Arnold
    Brutal: The Untold Story of my Life Inside Whitey Bulger’s Irish Mob by Kevin Weeks
    Chaos and Conspiracy: The Framing of the McBrearty Family by Gerard Cunningham
    Dying to Survive by Rachel Keogh
    Private Investigator: My Years Undercover by Shirley Sleator

  • Issue 451 - 13/14 June 2009
    Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO by Clair Wills
    Our Struggle for Independence: Eyewitness Accounts from the pages of An Cosantoir edited by Terence O’Reilly
    Standing with Stones: A Photographic Journey Through Megalithic Britain and Ireland by Rupert Soskin
    An Architect Earl: Edward Augustus Stratford (1736-1801) 2nd Early of Aldborough by Ronald Lightbown
    The Splendid Cause: The Catholic Action Movement in Ireland in the 20th Century by Maurice Curtis
    Athlone in the Victorian Era by John Burke
    What’s the Best You Can Do? By Derek Rowlinson
    The Templars: The Secret History Revealed by Barbara Frale
    At the Edge of Ireland: Seasons on the Beara Peninsula by David Yeadon
    The Birth of the Fenian Movement; American Diary, Brooklyn, 1859 by James Stephens and edited by Marta Ramon
    Sir Walter Raleigh in Ireland by Sir John Pope Hennessy
    Short Stories by Patrick Pearse
    Granuaile: Grace O’Malley – Ireland’s Pirate Queen by Anne Chambers

  • Issue 450 - 6/7 June 2009 - Irish Literature
    Robert Henryson’s The Testament of Creddeid & Seven Fables translated by Seamus Heaney
    Plan B by Paul Muldoon with Photographs by Norman McBeath
    Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney on CD
    Making Music: Poems by Patrick Cotter
    Diviner by Eugene O’Connell
    The Complete Recordings of Ulysses on CD
    Ciaran Carson: Critical Essays edited by Elmer Kennedy-Andrews
    Elizabeth Bowen: New Critical Perspectives edited by Susan Osborn
    Flann O’Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist by Keith Hopper
    Treasures of the Unconscious by Niall McGrath
    The Dublin Review, Number 34, Spring 2009 edited by Brendan Barrington
    Eilis Ni Dhuibhne: Perspectives edited by Rebecca Pelan
    Night & Day: 24 Hours in the Life of Dublin City devised and edited by Dermot Bolger
    External Affairs by Dermot Bolger
    J.M. Synge Travelling Ireland: Essays 1898-1908 edited by Nicholas Grene
    Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama edited by John Harrington

  • Issue 449 - 30/31 May 2009
    Thomas Roberts, 1748-1777 by William Laffan and Brendan Rooney
    Great Family Food by Kevin Dundon
    Blasket Spirit: Stories from the Islands by Anita Fennelly
    A World of Our Own: A Journey of Love Through Autism by Aileen McCallan
    Tuesday’s Child by Kathy Evans
    A Mother’s Nightmare: My Fight to Get My Children Back by Louise Mason
    Wild Dublin: Exploring Nature in the City by Eanna Ni Lamhna
    Ruinairski by Paul Kilduff
    Not Enough Hours: The Secrets of Making Every Second Count by Owen Fitzpatrick
    50 Things You Didn’t Know About 1916 by Mick O’Farrell
    Hide & Speak Irish

  • Issue 448 - 9/10 May 2009 - New Irish Fiction
    Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
    All Names Have Been Changed by Claire Kilroy
    Happy Ever After? By Patricia Scanlan
    An Invitation to Dance by Marian Urich
    A Bit of a Scandal by Mary Rose Callaghan
    Tears of God by Christy Kenneally
    Yesterday’s Weather by Anne Enright
    Leaving the World by Douglas Kennedy
    Council of the Cursed by Peter Tremayne
    The Temple of Academe by Ross O’Carroll-Kelly
    Unconquered City by Diarmuid Scully
    The Kinsella Sisters by Kate Thompson
    God Save the Village Green by Keith Cullen
    Leaving Ardglass by William King

  • Issue 447 - 2/3 May 2009
    The Irish Times Universal World Atlas
    Sinn Fein and the Politics of Left Republicanism by Eoin O Broin
    The Captain and the King by Myles Dungan
    William Orpen: An Onlooker in France by Robert Upstone and Angela Weight
    Ireland’s Misfortune: The Turbulent Life of Kitty O’Shea by Elisabeth Kehoe
    Michael Logue and the Catholic Church of Ireland by John Privilege
    Governor: Inside the Maze by William McKee
    Debt Busters: Managing Your Money Through the Recession by Eddie Hobbs
    Damnyakee: A WWII Story of Tragedy and Survival off the West of Ireland by Thomas L. Walsh
    I Never Knew That About the Irish by Christopher Winn
    Feckin Book of Irish History by Colm Murphy and Donal O’Shea
    Irish Wit: From Behan and Wilde to Yer Man in the Pub by Sean McCann
    The Best of Irish: A Celebration of Incredible Ireland by Hannah Mulholland

  • Issue 446 - 25/26 April 2009
    Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006 by Paul Bew
    Freedom to Choose: Cork & Party Politics in Ireland, 1918-1932 by Micheal Martin
    Shipwreck Inventory of Ireland: Louth, Meath, Dublin, Wicklow compiled by Karl Brady
    Michael Logue and the Catholic Church in Ireland, 1879-1925 by John Privilege
    In Search of Islands : A Life of Conor O’Brien by Judith Hill
    All Politics is Local: A Guide to Local Elections in Ireland by Liam Weeks and Aodh Quinlivan
    The Magic of Irish Nature: The Celtic culture and its mythology by Patrick O’Sullivan
    An Adventure in Grief by Catherine de Courcy
    In Sunlight or in Shadow by Karen Wilhelm
    O Theagasc Teanga go Sealbhu Teanga: Muineadh agus Foghlaim na Gaeilge ar an Triu Leibheal edited by Riona Ni Fhrighill and Mairin Nic Eoin
    Cen t-am e? by Siobhain Grogan
    GF Woz Ere by Gabriel Fitzmaurice, with illustrations by Stella Macdonald
    The Bardic Apostles of Innisfree by Seamus Tansey
    50 Great Irish Ballads compiled by Robert Gogan

  • Issue 445 - 28/29 March 2009 - New Irish Fiction and Poetry
    Chosen Lights: Poets on Poems by John Montague edited by Peter Fallon
    The Truth About Love by Josephine Hart
    The Pleasant Light of Day by Philip O Ceallaigh
    Counting Down by Gerard Stempbridge
    The Love of Sisters by Eugene McCabe
    Big Parts by Shane Connaughton
    40 Fights Between Husbands and Wives by Colm Liddy
    None of My Affair by Fiona O'Brien
    Once in a Lifetime by Cathy Kelly
    Cardigan Bay by John Kerr
    The Killing Snows by Charles Egan
    The Truth Commissioner by David Park
    This Charming Man by Marian Keyes
    Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy

  • Issue 444 - 21/22 March 2009
    Blood on the Banner: The Republican Struggle in Clare by Padraig Og O Ruairc
    The Burnings 1920 by Pearse Lawlor
    Stories from Ireland by Ita Daly
    Head Rambles with Ireland’s Most Cantakerous Auld Fella by Richard O’Connor
    Lord of the Rams by Ronan Smith
    Antiquities of the Ring of Kerry by Jason Bolton
    Irish Railways: A New History by Tom Ferris
    Lost Railways of County Donegal by Stephen Johnson
    Lost Railways of Galway and the North West by Stephen Johnson
    Lost Railways of Limerick and the South West by Stephen Johnson
    Old Derry by John Hanna
    Crying in the Dark by Shane Dunphy
    Hush, Little Baby by Shane Dunphy
    Wednesday’s Child by Shane Dunphy

  • Issue 443 - 14/15 March 2009 - Irish History
    Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland by Piras Beaslai
    The Curious Case of the Mayo Librarian by Pat Walsh
    Coolacrease: The True Story of the Pearson Executions by Paddy Heaney et. al
    The Wicklow Military Road: History and Topography by Michael Fewer
    Fall of the Gaelic Lords, 1534-1616 by Patricia Kilroy
    An ‘Antiquarian Craze’: The Life, Times and Work in Archaeology of Patrick Lyons RIC (1861-1954) by Maire Lohan
    The Irish Famine by Gail Seekamp and Pierce Feiritear
    John Mitchel by James Quinn
    Thomas Kettle by Senia Paseta
    Denis Guiney by Peter Costello
    Michael Collins: The Man Who Won the War by T. Ryle Dwyer

  • Issue 442 - 7/8 March 2009
    A Divided Peace: An Irishman in the Holy Land by David Lynch
    What Happened to Sin? By Sean Fagan
    Theatres of the Troubles: Theatre, Resistance and Liberation in Ireland by Bill McDonnell
    Grabbing the Oyster: Anecdotes and Advice from Icons of Irish Business by Pearce Flannery
    Irish Times: Temporalities of Modernity by David Lloyd
    Anne’s Song by Anne Nolan
    Gunsmoke and Mirrors by Henry McDonald
    The Tipperary War Dead: A History of the Casualties of the First World War by Tom & Ruth Burnell
    Cailleach: The Hag of Beara by Leanne O’Sullivan
    Gardening the Soul by Sister Stan
    Seasons of the Day by Sister Stan
    Now is the Time: Spiritual Reflections by Sister Stan

  • Issue 441- New Irish Fiction - 14/15 February 2009
    The Holy City by Patrick McCabe
    John The Revelator by Peter Murphy
    Missing You Already by Pauline McLynn
    Shooting the Moon by Robert Fannin
    Confessions of an Angel by Ronan O’Brien
    Cardigan Bay by John Kerr
    Silverfish: A Collection of Short Stories edited by Brendan Maher
    Canary Wharf by Orna Ni Choileain
    Anything for Love by Sarah Webb
    Forgive & Forget by Patricia Scanlan
    Trauma by Patrick McGrath
    Blood Runs Cold by Alex Barclay

  • Issue 440 - Irish History and Politics - 7/8 February 2009
    New History of Ireland vol. 2: Medieval Ireland 1169-1534 edited by Art Cosgrove
    Creating Ireland: The Words and Events That Shaped Us by Paul Daly
    Ireland: Then and Now by Victoria Murphy
    Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland, 1891-1921 by Fergus Campbell
    Terrible Queer Creatures: Homosexuality in Irish History by Brian Lacey
    Gender and Power in Irish History edited by Maryann Gialanella Valiulis
    Irish Protestant Identities edited by Mervyn Busteed, Frank Neal and Jonathan Tonge
    Medieval History VIII edited by Sean Duffy
    Years of Darkness: The Troubles Remembered by Gordon Gillespie
    Two Brothers, Two Wars by Thomas McAlindon
    Republican Cobh and the East Cork Volunteers by Kieran McCarthy
    Sean Lester, Poland and the Nazi Takeover of Danzig by Paul McNamara

  • Issue 439 - 31 January 2009
    Irish Florilegium: Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland by Wendy Walsh and Charles Nelson
    Days We Remember by Deirdre Purcell
    The Emperor and the Irishman: Napoleon and Dr Barry O’Meara on St Helena by Dr Hubert O’Connor
    A Fine Statement: An Irish Poet’s Anthology edited by John McDonagh
    Republicanism in Ireland: Confronting Theories and Traditions edited by Iseult Honohan
    Tom, Ned and Kitty: An Intimate Portrait of an Irish Family by Eliza Pakenham
    Witchcraft and Whigs: The Life of Bishop Francis Hutchinton, 1660-1739 by Andrew Sneddon
    In the Shadows of Giants: A Social History of the Belfast Shipyards by Kevin Johnston
    Two in a Million by Ben Murnane
    Uncle Hugo by Paul Evans
    A Little Book of Hours by John F. Deane
    The Origami Crow: Journey into Japan, World Cup Summer 2002 by Eamonn Carr
    A Story to Be Told: Personal Reflections on the Irish Immigrant Experience in Canada edited by Eleanor McGrath
    The Fridge-Hiker’s Guide to Life by Tony Hawks
    The New Adventures of Keats & Chapman by Tom Mathews
    Sing Up: Irish Comic Songs and Satires for Every Occasion compiled and introduced by Fintan Vallely
    Compendium of Celtic Crafts by Judy Balchin et. al
    Handmade Celtic Cards by Paula Pascual
    Irish Myths and Legends: Fantastic Interactive Stories

  • Issue 438 - 24/25 January 2009
    Robert L. Chapman’s Ireland: Photographs from the Chapman Collection 1907-1957 compiled by Christiaan Corlett
    Ireland’s High Places: From the Mountains to the Sea by Rob Beighton
    Arctic 2 Antarctic: A Celtic Spirit of Fastnet Adventure by Michael Holland and Janet King
    King Dan: The Rise of Daniel O’Connell, 1775-1829 by Patrick Geoghegan
    Where Clare Leads by Richard Fitzpatrick
    Embracing Women: Making History in the Church of Ireland by Ginnie Kennerley
    Has God Logged Off?: The Quest for Meaning in the 21st Century by T.P. O’Mahony
    What Every Working Woman Should Know … and Do by Terry Prone
    From Small to Tall: How to Grow Your Company by Brody Sweeney
    Mouse Morris: His Extraordinary Racing Life by Declan Colley
    Kelly: A Memoir by Gerry Kelly
    Love in a Damp Climate by Quentin Fottrell
    Lying Eyes and the Hitman for Hire by Emer Connolly
    More Questions Than Answers: Reflections on Life in the Royal Ulster Constabulary by Kevin Sheehy
    Undercover Cop by Paddy Craig
    The Mummy’s Boys: Threats and Menaces from Ulster’s ParaMafia by Jim McDowell
    The Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising by Shane Hegarty and Fintan O’Toole

  • Issue 437 - Irish Cookbooks - 17/18 January 2009
    The Clatter of Forks and Spoons by Richard Corrigan
    Bake by Rachel Allen
    The Tannery Cookbook: An Irish Adventure with Food by Paul Flynn
    From Tide to Table by Georgina Campbell
    Cornucopia at Home by Eleanor Heffernan
    Easy Entertaining by Darina Allen
    Cooks Academy Cookbook by Vanessa Greenwood
    Celebrity Kitchen: Recipes and Stories from Famous Irish People compiled by Fiona Brophy
    Our Grannies’ Recipes edited by Eoin Purcell
    Georgina Campbell’s Guide to the Best Places to Eat, Drink and Stay in Ireland 2009
    Avoca Café Cookbook by Hugo Arnold with Lelie Hayes and photographs by Georgia Glynn Smith
    Avoca Café Cookbook 2 by Hugo Arnold with Lelie Hayes and photographs by Georgia Glynn Smith

  • Issue 436 - 10/11 January 2009
    Representing Art in Ireland: The Fenton Gallery
    A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes by Jonathan Bardon
    IRA: The Bombs and the Bullets: A History of Deadly Ingenuity by A.R. Oppenheimer
    Tain Bo Flidhais: The Mayo Tain by Stpehen Dunford
    Jack Lynch: A Biography by Dermot Keogh
    The Beatles and Ireland by Michael Lynch and Damian Smyth
    Tuned Out: Traditional Music and Identity in Northern Ireland by Fintan Vallely
    Boys and Girls Come Out to Play: Irish Singing Games by Maurice Leyden
    The Annals of Dublin: Photographs from the Father Browne Collection by E.E. O’Donnell
    A History of the Town of Belfast by George Benn
    Over the Counter: Cork’s Retail Heritage by Clare Keogh
    Ireland’s Ocean: A Natural History by Michael and Ethna Viney
    Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649: A Constitutional and Political Analysis by Micheal O Siochru
    Ireland Through the Looking Glass: Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen and Irish Cultural Debate by Carol Taaffe
    Through the Year with Brian D’Arcy
    Paidreacha na Gaeilge/Prayers in Irish edited by Donla ui Bhraonain
    Empty Pulpits: Ireland’s Retreat from Religion by Malachi O’Doherty
    Innocent: The Story of Shattered Childhood by Audrey Delaney
    Stones of Aran: Pilgrimmage by Tim Robinson

    The Issues of 2008 Below:

  • 'Best' Books of 2008 - Poetry - 15 December 2008
    An Leabhar Mor: The Great Book of Gaelic edited by Malcolm MacLean and Theo Dorgan
    Collected Poems by Ciaran Carson
    Life on Earth by Derek Mahon
    My Love Has Fared Inland by Medbh McGuckian
    Selected Poems of Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
    At Least for A While by Pearse Hutchinson
    Points West by Gerard Dawe
    Articulations: Poetry, Philosophy and the Shaping of Culture: Seamus Heaney, Royal Irish Academy Cunningham Medal, 28th January 2008

  • 'Best' Books of 2008 - Fiction - 14 December 2008
    Bad Day in Blackrock by Kevin Power
    Bird in the Snow by Michael Harding
    The Gift by Cecelia Ahern
    Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
    Disguise by Hugo Hamilton
    Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
    Boy & Man by Niall Williams
    The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
    Taking Pictures by Anne Enright
    Forgive & Forget by Patricia Scanlan
    The Truth Commissioner by David Park
    With My Lazy Eye by Julia Kelly
    Cré Na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain

  • 'Best' Books of 2008 - Non Fiction - 13 December 2008
    Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll
    Great Irish Houses with Forewords by Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin, The Honourable Desmond Guinness and Photography by Trevor Hunt
    Doorways of Ireland by Michael Fewer
    The Irish Pub by Turtle Bunbury and James Fennell
    The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution by Maurice Walsh
    Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness by Tim Robinson
    God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland by Micheal O Siochru
    The Battle of Tourmakeady: A Study of the IRA Ambush and Its Aftermath by Donal Buckley
    Traditional Boats of Ireland: History, Folklore and Construction edited by Criostoir Mac Carthaigh
    Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore by Ronan Kelly
    Ireland’s Misfortune: The Turbulent Life of Kitty O’Shea by Elizabeth Kehoe
    Angels in My Hair: The True Story of a Modern-Day Irish Mystic by Lorna Byrne
    Great Hatred Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland by Jonathan Powell
    Irish Walled Towns by John Givens

  • Issue 435 - 6/7 December 2008
    Great Birds of Britain and Europe by Jonathan Elphick and David Tipling
    The Island That Dared: Journeys in Cuba by Dervla Murphy
    The Irish Pub by Turtle Bunbury and James Fennell
    The Last Days of the Cork Docklands by Patrick Cummins
    Great Irish Heroes by Sean McMahon
    The Glenstal Book of Daily Prayer
    The Fenian Anthology by Joe Ambrose
    An Garda Siochana and the Scott Medal by Gerard O’Brien
    Vitali’s Ireland by Vitali Vitaliev
    Sunday Miscellany: A Selection from 2006-2008 edited by Cliodhna Ni Anluain
    Make Em Laugh: A Golden Age of Theatre in Ireland by Declan Hassett
    Anyway, Where Was I? By Geoff Hill
    More Overheard in Dublin: Dublin Wit
    Ireland’s Garden Birds by Oran O’Sullivan and Jim Wilson
    Birdwatching in Ireland by Eric Dempsey
    Surfing Britain and Ireland by Chris Nelson & Demi Taylor
    Emergency: Irish Hospitals in Chaos by Marie O’Connor
    County Antrim: Chasing the Light by Steven Hanna
    Wicked Irish Wit by Aubrey Malone
    The Devil is an Irishman by Eddie Lenihan
    The Feckin Book of Irish Love by Colin Murphy and Donal O’Dea
    Slanguage: A Dictionary of Irish Slang 3ed by Bernard Share
    The Tain translated from the Old Irish by Ciaran Carson

  • Issue 434 - 25 November 2008 - Irish Biographies & Memoirs
    Memoir of Andrew J. Byrne: Veteran of the American Civil War by Seamus Condon
    Brian Cowan: The Path to Power by Jason O’Toole
    A Memoir by Tim Pat Coogan
    A Restless Life by Leland Bardwell
    Taking a Stand: Memoirs of an Irish Priest by Joe McVeigh
    Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up by Gerry Ryan
    Joe Dolan: The Official Biography by Ronan Casey
    Clannad: Moments in a Lifetime by Barbara Bennett
    Sister Kate: Nursing Through the Troubles by Kate O’Hanlon
    An Ordinary Soldier by Doug Beattie
    Living Off the Land: Women Farmers of Today in Ireland by Josephine Russell
    Condemned: Letters from Death Row by Ray and Sean O Riain
    No Job for a Woman by Sandra Mara
    Ma, I’m Getting Meself a New Mammy by Martha Long
    Nobody Heard Me Cry: An Irish Boy Sold on the Streets, a Life Shattered by Abuse by John Devane
    Where’s Your Mama Gone by Kay O’Gorman
    U2 by U2 edited by Neil McCormick
    Heads: A Day in the Life by Gerry Anderson
    Inside Man: Life as an Irish Prison Officer by Philip Bray
    All Kinds of Everything by Dana Rosemary Scallon
    The Devil in the Red Dress: The Sharon Collins Story by Abigail Rieley
    Sophie’s Story by Susan McKay

  • Issue 433 - 22/23 November 2008 - Irish Fiction
    Bad Day in Blackrock by Kevin Power
    Bird in the Snow by Michael Harding
    Ball of Fire: Collected Stories by John Montague
    Rogha Scealta by Padraic O Conaire
    Open-Handed by Chris Binchy
    John by Niall Williams
    Reflections in a Tar-Barrell by Jack Harte
    Boys are Elastic, Girls are Fantastic and The Punching Man by Marsha Swan
    Enchanting Alice by Anne Dunlop
    Second Chances by Martina Reilly
    A Dance in Time by Orna Ross
    I Remember by Noelle Harrison
    Forever Friends by Kate McCabe
    The Lemur by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)
    American Skin by Ken Bruen
    The Beautiful Sound of Silence by Paul Charles
    Soul Murder by Andrew Nugent
    Undertow by Arlene Hunt
    Where No One Can Hear You Scream by Sarah McInerney
    Nights Beneath the Nation by Denis Kehoe
    The Sea and the Silence by Peter Cunningham
    Feels Like Maybe by Claire Allen
    Before I Forget by Melissa Hill
    Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern
    Sleep Softly Baby by Carol Magill
    The Matchmaker by Marita Conlon McKenna
    This Year It Will Be Different: Stories by Maeve Binchy
    Snow White Turtle Doves by Juliet Bressan

  • Issue 432 - 15/16 November 2008
    Remembering Mayo’s Fallen Heroes compiled by Michael Feeney
    Great Irish Houses with Forewords by Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin, The Honourable Desmond Guinness and Photography by Trevor Hunt
    Doorways of Ireland by Michael Fewer
    Bird’s Nest Soup by Hanna Greally
    Touching Greatness: Memorable Encounters with Golfing Legends by Dermot Gilleece
    The Republic of Ireland: International Football Facts by Dean Hayes
    Boss Cat: Roy Keane’s Epic First Season as a Premiership Manager by Nick Barnes
    Hurling: The Warrior Game by Diarmuid O’Flynn
    Blood Brothers: The Inside Story of the Cork Hurlers, 1996-2008 by Michael Moynihan
    The Best of the West: GAA Greats of Connacht by John Scally
    Sam, Liam, Strikes and Schemozzles: How Well Do You Know Your GAA? By JP Corkery and Ciaran Loughran
    Final Whistle: The Paddy Russell Story by Paddy Russell
    Munster: 2008 Champions of Europe from the Irish Examiner
    Ronan O’Gara: My Autobiography
    Axel: A Memoir by Anthony Foley
    Princes of Pigskin: A Century of Kerry Footballers by Joe O Muircheartaigh & TJ Flynn
    Our Name is On the Cup: The Stories of Liam MacCarthy and Sam Maguire by Sean Meaney
    Three Kings: Cork, Kilkenny & Tipperary: The Battle for Hurling Supremacy by Ralph Riegel
    Sonia O’Sullivan: My Story
    Robert Dunlop: Life and Times of a Legend by Jimmy Walker

  • Issue 431 - 12/13 November 2008 - Irish Politics and Poetry
    Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll
    Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-1945 edited by Gerald Dawe
    First Citizen: Mary McAleese and the Irish Presidency by Patsy McGarry
    Countdown to Unite: Debating Irish Reunification by Richard Humphreys
    Another Europe? After the Third No by Gwyn Prins
    How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
    The Builders: How a Small Group of Property Developers Fuelled the Building Boom and Transformed Ireland by Frank McDonald and Kathy Sheridan
    Ireland’s International Financial Services Centre: A Story of Global Financial Success by Fiona Reddan
    The New America by Mark Little
    How the Peace Was Won by Brian Rowan
    Interrogating Irish Policies by William Kingston
    Nothing to Declare: The Drug Smuggler’s Deadly Trade by Ann Murray
    Our Lives Out Loud: In Pursuit of Justice & Equality by Ann Louise Gilligan and Katherine Zappone
    Collected Poems by Ciaran Carson
    Life on Earth by Derek Mahon
    My Love Has Fared Inland by Medbh McGuckian

  • Issue 430 - 8/9 November 2008 - New Irish History
    The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution by Maurice Walsh
    Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness by Tim Robinson
    Knock: The Virgin’s Apparition in 19th Century Ireland by Eugene Hynes
    Great Irish Lives edited by Charles Lysaght
    Ireland and Irish America: Culture, Class and Transatlantic Migration by Kerby A. Miller
    Decoding the IRA by Tom Mahon and James J. Gilroy
    We Declare: Landmark Documents in Ireland’s History by Richard Aldous
    In the Wake of the Great Rebellion: Republicanism, Agrarianism and Banditry in Ireland After 1798 by James G. Patterson
    The Road to the Somme: Men of the Ulster Division Tell Their Story by Philip Orr
    Shadows of Doubt by Noel Redican
    Tallaght, 1835-50: A Rural Place by Sean Bagnall
    Print Culture in Loughrea, 1850-1900: Reading, Writing and Printing in an Irish Provincial Town by Bernadette Lally
    The Fishery of Arklow, 1800-1950 by Jim Rees
    The Diocese of Lismore, 1801-69 by RB MacCarthy
    The Downfall of Hagan: Sligo Ribbonism in 1842 by Jennifer Kelly
    The Murder of Major Mahon, Strokestown, County Roscommon, 1847 by Padraig Vesey

  • Issue 429 - 18/19 October 2008 - New Irish Fiction
    The Gift by Cecelia Ahern
    Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
    Molly Fox’s Birthday by Deirdre Madden
    Country of the Grand by Gerard Donovan
    The Idea of Love by Louise Dean
    The Silence of the Glasshouse by Martin Malone
    The Likeness by Tana French
    Find the Lady by Tom Mac Intyre
    The Bright Side by Alex Coleman
    Saving Grace by Ciara Geraghty
    Someone Special by Sheila O’Flanagan
    Between the Sheets by Colette Caddle
    Loves Lies Bleeding by Kate Thompson
    Notions by Colin Fox
    Where the Heart Is by Mairead O’Driscoll
    Na Comharsana Nua by Eamonn O Loingsigh
    Hitler and Mars Bars by Dianne Ascroft
    The Queen’s Tale: The Struggle for the Survival of Ireland: A 14th Century Novel by DJ Birmingham
    The Deportees by Roddy Doyle

  • Issue 428 - 11/12 October 2008
    Keylines for Living: Words to Inspire and Sustain You by Ann Henning Jocelyn
    The North: A View From the Skies by Esler Crawford
    Inishmurray: Monks and Pilgrims in an Atlantic Landscape by Jerry O’Sullivan and Tomas O Carragain
    Kenny’s Choice: 101 Irish Books You Must Read by Des Kenny
    Weaving Dreams: A True Irish Love Story by Noel Donegan and Luz Java
    What the Doctor Ordered: An Encyclopaedia of Wexford Opera Festival Since 1951 edited by Kevin Lewis
    Island of the Setting Sun: In Search of Ireland’s Ancient Astronomers by Anthony Murphy and Richard Moore
    Lakeshore Loops: Exploring Ireland’s Lakes by John Dunne
    Walking the Back Roads: A Journey from Donegal to Clonmacnoiose by Michael McMonagle
    The Railway House: Tales from an Irish Fireside by Barry Kennerk
    The Ships of Rosslare Harbour by Brian Clear, Leo Coy, John Boyce and Brian Boyce
    Daddy, Please Don’t by Barbara Naughton
    Walking Shandon: A Guide to Cork’s Historic Heart by Peter Foynes

  • Issue 427 - 4/5 October 2008 - Irish Biographies, Memoirs, et. al.
    Even on Days when it Rains by Julia O’Donnell
    Scars That Run Deep by Patrick Touher
    In Harm’s Way by Sean Hogan
    Chairman of the Boards, Master of the Mile by Eamonn Coghlan
    Hear My Silence: Surviving Depression by Karina Colgan
    Hush Little Baby by Shane Dunphy
    Once a Brother: An Irish Christian Brother’s Story by Patrick C. Power
    Jasper Wolfe of Skiddereen by Jasper Ungoed-Thomas
    God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland by Micheal O Siochru
    The Sailor in the Wardrobe by Hugo Hamilton
    Unstoppable Brilliance: Irish Geniuses and Asperger’s Syndrome by Antoinette Walker and Michael Fitzgerald
    Kings of the Turf: Ireland’s Top Racehorse Trainers by Michael Clower
    Hidden Soldier: An Irish Legionnaire’s Wars from Bosnia to Iraq by Padraig O’Keeffe

  • Issue 426 - 27/28 September 2008 - New Irish Poetry and Plays
    An Leabhar Mor: The Great Book of Gaelic edited by Malcolm MacLean and Theo Dorgan
    Selected Poems of Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
    The Sphere of Birds by Ciaran Berry
    Lament for Art O’Leary by Vona Groarke
    At Least for A While by Pearse Hutchinson
    Points West by Gerard Dawe
    Venetial Epigrams: Translations from Goethe by Sean Lysaght
    The Essential Gabriel Fitzmaurice
    Methuen Anthology of Irish Plays edited and introduced by Patrick Lonergen
    Blaiseadh Pinn: Nuascribhneoireacht Ghaeilge edited by Alan Keogh
    The Ulster Reciter: Ballads, Poems and Recitations for Every Occasion edited by Joe McPartland

  • Issue 425 - 6/7 September 2008 - New Irish History
    The Civil War in Kerry by Tom Doyle
    The Battle of Tourmakeady: A Study of the IRA Ambush and Its Aftermath by Donal Buckley
    IRA Internments and the Irish Government: Subversives and the State, 1939-1962 by John Maguire
    Divine Right?: The Parnell Split in Meath by David Lawlor
    A Nation of Extremes: The Pioneers in Twentieth-Century Ireland by Diarmaid Ferriter
    The Civil Service and the Revolution in Ireland, 1912-1938 by Martin Maguire
    Oxford Guide to Literary Britain and Ireland edited by Daniel Hahn and Nicholas Robins
    Troubled Waters: Shipwrecks and Heartache on the Irish Sea by Patrick Ferguson
    The History of the Galway Races by Francis P.M. Hyland
    On tSeanam Anall: Scealta Mhici Bhain Ui Bheirn by Micheal Mac Giolla Esabuic

  • Issue 424 - 30/31 August 2008 - New Irish Fiction
    Disguise by Hugo Hamilton
    Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
    Boy & Man by Niall Williams
    Memoirs of Captain Rock by Thomas Moore
    Sanctuary by Ken Bruen
    In Exile by Billy O’Callaghan
    Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death by Gyles Brandreth
    This Champagne Mojito is the Last Thing I Own by Ross O’Carroll-Kelly
    The Book Club by Kate McCabe
    My Husband’s Lover by Erin Kaye
    With My Lazy Eye by Julia Kelly
    Two Days in Biarritz by Michelle Jackson
    Lessons in Heartbreak by Cathy Kelly
    I Saw You by Julie Parsons
    Dun an Airgid by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne

  • Issue 423 - 23/24 August 2008
    Bear in Mind These Dead by Susan McKay
    Written in Stone: The History of Belfast City Cemetery by Tom Hartley
    Newgrange by Geraldine and Matthew Stout
    Irish Agriculture: A Price History by Liam Kennedy and Peter Solar
    Strangers to Citizens: Irish on the Move 1600-1800 by Mary Ann Lyons and Thomas O’Connor
    Queen’s Thinkers: The Intellectual Heritage of a University edited by Alvin Jackson and David N. Livingstone
    Beijing for Beginners: An Irishman in the People’s Republic by Gary Finnegan
    Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Race by Nick Ward
    Christy Ring: Hurling’s Greatest by Tim Horgan
    Dick Fitzgerald: King in a Kingdom of Kings by Tom Looney
    Miami Showband Massacre: A Survivor’s Search for Truth by Stephen Travers and Neil Fetherstonhaugh
    Ireland Burning by Paul Cunningham
    Irish Songs: Traditional
    A Beginner’s Guide to Ireland’s Wild Flowers from the Sherkin Island Marine Station

  • Issue 422 - 16/17 August 2008
    Irish War on Drugs: The Seductive Folly of Prohibition by Paul O’Mahony
    Westlife: Our Story
    Stealing Water: A Secret Life in a South African City by Tim Ecott
    Ireland’s Olympians: Beijing and Beyond by Niall O’Flynn
    The Alderman Tom Kelly, 1868-1942 and Dublin Corporation by Sheila Carden
    Public Opinion, Politics and Society in Contemporary Ireland by Pat Lyons
    Ecoscape Ireland by Catherine Mack
    Twentieth-Century Irish Literature: A Reader’s Guide by Aaron Kelly
    Bram Stoker: A Literary Life by Lisa Hopkins
    Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction by Angela Kingston
    Narratives of Class in New Irish and Scottish Literature by Mary M. McGlynn

  • Issue 421 - 9/10 August 2008
    Traditional Boats of Ireland: History, Folklore and Construction edited by Criostoir Mac Carthaigh
    The Williamite Wars in Ireland, 1688-1691 by John Childs
    The Murders at Wildgoose Lodge by Terence Dooley
    Radical Politics in Modern Ireland: The Irish Socialist Republican Party, 1896-1904 by David Lynch, with a foreword by Diarmaid Ferriter
    All Our Yesterdays: Father Browne’s Photographs of Children and Their Favourite Poems edited by E.E. O’Donnell
    South Belfast: History and Guide by Norman Weatherall and George Templeton
    Irish Wild Plants: Myths, Legends & Folklore by Niall Mac Coitir
    A Burren Journal by Sarah Poyntz
    The Shores of Connemara by Seamas Mac an Iomaire
    Shannon Floodlands: A Natural History by Stephen Heery
    Shannon Navigation Charts from ERA Maptec
    Village Walks: Ireland – 50 Adventures on Foot
    The Tain Way Map and Guide by EastWest Mapping
    Corrib County: A Rambler’s Guide and Map
    The Burren
    Medieval Galway: A Rambler’s Guide and Map by Anne Korff
    Map of Kerry and Beara by A.B. O’Connor
    Kenmare, Tuosist-Sneem Guide Map by A.B. O’Connor
    The Bere Island Experience

  • Issue 420 - 2/3 August 2008
    A New History of Ireland vol. 1: Prehistoric and Early Ireland edited by Daibhi O Croinin
    Making Peace with the Past!: Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles by Graham Dawson
    Transforming the Peace Process edited by Aaron Edwards and Stephen Bloomer
    Through Streets Broad and Narrow: A History of Dublin Trams by Michael Corcoran
    Thomas Kinsella: Designing for the Exact Needs by Maurice Harmon
    Ulster Literary Theatre and the Northern Revival by Eugene McNulty
    Guide to Irish Mythology by Daragh Smyth
    The Generation Game by David McWilliams
    Something Beginning with P edited by Seamus Cashman
    Michael Collins’s Intelligence War: The Struggle Between the British and the IRA 1919-1921 by Michael Foy
    Justice for Raymond by Raymond McCord
    What to See in Northern Ireland by Alf McCreary
    Things to See and Do in Belfast by Alf McCreary
    The Irish Chateaux: In Search of the Descendants of the Wild Geese by Renagh Holohan

  • Issue 419 - 26/27 July 2008 - Irish Fiction
    Mutiny on the Bounty by John Boyne
    The Reapers by John Connolly
    If Not Now … by Denyse Devlin
    Going It Alone by Clare Dowling
    The Miracle of Grace by Kate Kerrigan
    None of My Affair by Fiona O’Brien
    Guarding Maggie by Ellen McCarthy
    The Summer of Secrets by Martina Reilly
    Tara’s Destiny by Geraldine O’Neill
    The Magician by Michael Scott
    The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
    Death’s Shadow by Darren Shan
    Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
    Redemption Falls by Joseph O’Connor
    Walking the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan
    Antarctica by Claire Keegan

  • Issue 418 - 5/6 July 2008 - Irish Biography
    Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore by Ronan Kelly
    Ireland’s Misfortune: The Turbulent Life of Kitty O’Shea by Elizabeth Kehoe
    My Father’s Watch: The Story of a Child Prisoner in 70s Britain by Patrick Maguire
    Days of Fear: Diary of a 1920s Hunger Striker by Frank Gallagher
    The Green Marine: An Irishman’s War in Iraq by Graham Dale
    Lights, Camera, Action: The Adventures of a Special Effects Director by Gerry Johnson
    Siobhan’s Miracle by Ellen and Derek Jameson
    Hungry for Home: Leaving the Blaskets by Cole Moreton
    Ma, He Sold Me For a Few Cigarettes by Martha Long
    A Life Interrupted by Malachy Walsh
    Tales of a Degenerate Poker Player by Derek Kelly
    Little Lady, One Big Man, Ocean: Rowing the Atlantic by Paul Gleeson and Tori Holmes

  • 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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