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  • Issue 399 - 24 November 2007
    Temples of Stone: Exploring the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland by Carleton Jones
    The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 by Brendan O’Donoghue
    Reinterpreting Emmet: Essays on the Life and Legacy of Robert Emmet edited by Anne Dolan, Patrick Geoghegan and Darryl Jones
    Ireland’s Rugby Giants by Ivan Martin
    King’s of the Turf: Ireland’s Top Racehorse Trainers by Michael Clower
    Oxford Companion to Irish History 2ed edited by S.J. Connolly
    Sean Treacy and the Tan War by Joe Ambrose
    The Miami Showband Massacre: A Survivor’s Search for the Truth by Stephen Travers with Neil Fetherstonhaugh
    Jack Doyle: Gorgeous Gael by Michael Taub
    Asking for Trouble by Patricia Craig
    The Bitter Pill: An Insider’s Shocking Expose of the Irish Health System by Doctor X
    Dublin PopOut City Guide
    Guinness: The 250-Year Quest for the Perfect Pint by Bill Yenne
    The Dirty Dozen: Ireland’s Motor Racing Legends by John Kenny

  • Issue 398 - 17 November 2007 - Irish Fiction and Poetry
    The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)
    This Year It Will be Different by Maeve Binchy
    Foolish Mortals by Jennifer Johnston
    Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
    Horse Latitudes by Paul Muldoon
    New and Selected Poems by Pat Boran
    The Company of Horses by Peter Fallon
    Out of Breath by Eamon Grennan
    The Fifty Minute Mermaid by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, translated from the Irish by Paul Muldoon
    Snow Negatives by Enda Coyle-Greene
    The Poetry of Derek Mahon by Hugh Haughton
    Somewhere the Wave new poems by Derek Mahon
    District and Circle by Seamus Heaney

  • Issue 397 - 9 November 2007
    Judging Dev by Diarmaid Ferriter Luck and the Irish: A History of Change 1970-200 by R.F. Foster
    The High Crosses of Ireland: Inspirations in Stone by Elinor D.U. Powell
    Legends of Irish Boxing by Barry Flynn
    Eleven Houses: A Memoir of Childhood by Christopher Fitz-Simon
    The Pear is Ripe: A Memoir by John Montague
    Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast by Kevin Kiely
    Hidden Streams: A New History of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown by Brian Mac Aongusa
    The Book of Celtic Verse: A Treasury of Poetry, Dreams and Visions edited by John Matthews
    Personal Narratives of Irish and Scottish Migration, 1921-65 by Angela McCarthy
    Achill Voices by Robert Redmond
    Finding Birds in Ireland: The Complete Guide by Eric Dempsey and Michael O’Clery

  • Issue 396 - 3 November 2007
    Great Irish Speeches edited by Richard Aldous, with a foreword by Colm Toibin
    The Generation Game by David McWilliams
    Ireland: The Politics of Enmity, 1789-2006 by Paul Bew
    Hugh Doran: Photographer
    Forgotten Heroes: Galway Soldiers of the Great War 1914-18 by William Henry
    Hidden Soldier: An Irish Legionnaire’s Wars from Bosnia to Iraq by Padraig O’Keeffe
    Watch My Lips, I’m Speaking by Baroness May Blood
    The Billionaire Who Wasn’t: How Chuck Feeney Made and Gave Away a Fortune by Conor O’Cleary
    Are Ye With the Band: A Memoir of the Showband Era by Jimmy Higgins
    No Man’s Land: The Story of a Man Who Became a Woman by Paula Grieg
    Farang: Thailand Through the Eyes of an Ex-Pat by Iain Corness
    The Kings of September: The Day Offaly Denied Kerry Five in a Row by Michael Foley
    The Irish Book of Lists by Julian Ashe
    Life in an Irish Castle
    Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children Who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles by David McKittrick et. al.

  • Issue 395 - 26 October 2007 - Irish Fiction
    The Deportees by Roddy Doyle
    The Third Party by Glenn Patterson
    Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
    The Christmas Club by Stephen Price
    A Simple Twist of Fate by Neville Thompson
    Zugzwang by Ronan Bennett
    The History of Things by Sean Moncrieff
    The Miracle of Grace by Kate Kerrigan
    Do You Want What I Want? By Denise Deegan
    All You Need is Love by Mary Malone
    I Never Fancied Him Anyway by Claudia Carroll
    When the Boys Are Away by Sarah Webb
    The Pride of Parnell Street: A Play by Sebastian Barry

  • Issue 394 - 19 October 2007
    The Field Day Archive by Cormac O Duibhne
    The Dublin Review Reader edited by Brendan Barrington
    Michael Collins: A Life in Pictures by Chrissy Osborne
    Rachel’s Food for Living by Rachel Allen
    Irish Travellers, Tinkers No More: Photographs by Alen McWheeney
    Murders at Wildgoose Lodge: Agrarian Crime and Punishment in Pre-Famine Ireland by Terence Dooley
    Irish Theatre Handbook 4th edition edited by Liz Carroll
    Ma. He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes by Martha Long
    Manchan’s Travels: A Journey Through India by Manchan Magan
    This Champagne Mojito is the Last Thing I Own by Ross O’Carroll-Kelly
    That’s My Baby by Pol O Conghaile

  • Issue 393 - 13 October 2007 - Irish History
    A Candle in the Window: A History of the Barony of Castleknock by Jim Lacey
    Dorothy Macardle: A Life by Nadia Clare Smith
    Trouble with the Law: Crimes and trials from Ireland’s past edited by Liam Clare and Máire Ní Chearbhaill
    Causes for Concern: Irish Politics, Culture and Society by Michael D. Higgins, with a foreword by Declan Kiberd
    The History of Ireland by Finbarr Madden
    The Mayo Evictions of 1860 by Gerard Moran
    A South Roscommon Emigrant: Emigration and Return, 1890-1920 by Diane Dunnigan
    Edenderry, County Offaly, and the Downshire Estate, 1790-1800 by Ciaran Reilly
    Local Government in 19th Century County Dublin: The Grand Jury by David Broderick
    Restoration Strabane, 1660-1714: Economy and Society in Provincial Ireland by William J. Roulston

  • Issue 392 - 6 October 2007
    An Irish Eye by Gerry Adams
    How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads by Daniel Cassidy
    Contemporary Ireland: A Sociological Map edited by Sara O’Sullivan
    Cosmopolitan Ireland: Globalisation and Quality of Life by Carmen Kuhling & Kieran Keohane
    Seamus Heaney and the Emblems of Hope by Karen Marguerite Moloney
    Changing Ireland in International Comparison edited by Betty Hilliard and Maire Nic Ghiola Phadraig
    Anzacs and Ireland by Jeff Kildea
    Dublin: City Spot Guide by Pat Levy
    Belfast: City Spot Guide by Louise McGrath
    Cork: City Spots Guide by Sean Sheehan

  • Issue 391 - 15 September 2007 - Irish Romance Fiction
    A Place Called Here by Cecelia Ahern
    Finding Ava by Kathy Rodgers
    Confessions of an Air Hostess by Marisa Mackle
    Absolute Beginners by Mairead O’Driscoll
    As Easy As That by Mary O’Sullivan
    High Potential by Ber Carroll
    Ship of Dreams by Martina Devlin
    The Light of Evening by Edna O’Brien
    The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien
    The Girl with Green Eyes by Edna O’Brien
    Girls in their Married Bliss by Edna O’Brien

  • Issue 390 - 8 September 2007 - Irish Crime Fiction
    The Dust of Death by Paul Charles
    In the Woods by Tana French
    A Secret Place by Patricia Rainsford
    Second Burial by Brian Nugent
    The Four Courts Murder by Brian Nugent
    The Colour of Blood by Declan Hughes
    The Wrong Kind of Blood by Declan Hughes
    Sweetwater by Paul Charles
    Cross by Ken Bruen
    Bishop’s Pawn by K.T. McCaffrey
    Borderlands by Brian McGilloway

  • Issue 389 - 1 September 2007 - Irish Fiction
    Julius Winsome by Gerard Donovan
    I Predict a Riot by Colin Bateman
    12:23. Paris. 31st August 1997 by Eoin McNamee
    The Companion by Lorcan Roche
    According to Luke by Gerard Stembridge
    The Glass Room by Kate Holmquist
    The Midnight Choir by Gene Kerrigan
    Zoli by Colm McCann
    The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry

  • Issue 388 - 25 August 2007
    Sean Scully: Walls of Aran with an introduction by Colm Toibin
    Stones of Adoration: Sacred Stones and Mystic Megaliths of Ireland by Christine Zucchelli
    Jack’s World: Farming on the Sheep’s Head Peninsula, 1920-2003 by Sean Sheehan
    History of Dublin Cinemas by Marc Zimmermann
    Social Movements and Ireland edited by Linda Connolly and Niamh Hourgan
    Mother and Child: Maternity and Child Welfare in Dublin, 1922-60 by Lindsey Earner-Byrne
    Diary of an Irish Countrywoman translated and edited by Tomas de Bhaldraithe
    Decieved: A True Story by Sarah Smith
    Michael O’Leary: A Life in Full Flight by Alan Ruddock
    A Year at Ballymaloe Cookery School by Darina Allen

  • Issue 387 - 18 August 2007
    The Williamite Wars in Ireland, 1688-1691 by John Childs
    People and Place: A Census Atlas of the Republic of Ireland edited by James A. Walsh
    People, Politics and Power: From O’Connell to Ahern by Stephen Collins
    The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History by Eric Kaufmann
    The Orange Order by Mervyn Jess
    Every Dark Hour: A History of Kilmainham Jail by Niamh O’Sullivan
    A Journey into Ireland’s Literary Revival by Rodd Felton
    The Making and Remaking of the Good Friday Agreement by Paul Bew
    The Miracle of Fatima Mansions: An Escape from Drug Addiction by Shay Byrne
    The Rector Who Wouldn’t Pray for Rain by Patrick Semple
    Irish Travellers by Michael Hayes
    Sea Angling in Ireland by John Rafferty
    101 Things You Didn’t Know About Irish History by Ryan Hackney

  • Issue 386 - 4 August 2007 - Recent Reprints and New in Paperback
    An Prionsa Beag (The Little Prince) by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry (translated into Irish by Breandán Ó Doibhlin
    Connemara Listening to the Wind by Tim Robinson
    Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy
    Luke Kelly by Des Geraghty
    Matters of Life and Death by Bernard MacLaverty
    Mothers and Sons by Colm Toibin
    This is Charlie Bird by Charlie Bird
    Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
    The Vanishing Acts of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
    The Singer and the Song: Sixty Irish Songwriters and their Favourite Songs by Audrey Healy
    Against the Tide by Noel Browne

  • Issue 385 - 28 July 2007 - Irish History
    Fighting for Dublin: The British Battle for Dublin, 1919-1921 by William Sheehan
    The Second World War and Irish Women: An Oral History by Mary Muldowney
    Framing the West: Images of Rural Ireland 1891-1920 edited by Ciara Breathnach with a foreword by Cormac O Grada
    Donegal: The Making of a Northern County edited by Jim Mac Laughlin
    James Joyce’s Dublin Houses and Nora Barnacle’s Galway by Vivien Igoe
    An Archaeology of Southwest Ireland 1570-1670 by Colin Breen
    Nation States: The Cultures of Irish Nationalism by Michael Mays
    Great Irish Writers by Martin Wallace

  • Issue 384 - 21 July 2007 - Irish Literature and Poetry
    Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
    Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories by John McGahern
    Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
    The Dublin Review number 27, Summer 2007 edited by Brendan Barrington
    Field Day Review 2007 edited by Seamus Deane and Breandan Mac Suibhne
    The Mouth of a River by Sean Lysaght
    Next Door by John McAuliffe
    Hawks and Doves by Alan Gillis
    Collected Poems 1956-2001 by Thomas Kinsella
    Selected Poems of Thomas Kinsella
    Poems 1956-2006 read by Thomas Kinsella
    Complicated Pleasures by Billy Ramsell
    The Tamarit Poems & a Selection of poems from Arabic Andalusia by Federico Garcia Lorca translated by Michael Smith
    The Formation of an Irish Literary Canon in the mid-Twentieth Century by Wei Kao

  • Issue 383 - 23 June 2007 - Irish Transport
    Dublin Bus: Changing with the City, 1987-2006 by Jonathan McDonnell, Darren Hall and Ian Molloy
    Bus Eireann: A Pictorial History 1987-2006 by Ian Molloy, Darren Hall and Jonathan McDonnell
    Iarnrod Eireann by Tom Ferris
    Lost Railways of Co. Dublin and the South East by Stephen Johnson
    Lost Railways of Dundalk and the North East by Stephen Johnson
    Wheels Around Kerry by Cyril McIntyre
    Wheels Around Connaught by Cyril McIntyre
    Wheels Around Dublin by Cyril McIntyre
    Wheels Around Cork by Cyril McIntyre
    Old Irish Country Life by Hugh Oram

  • Issue 382 - 16 June 2007 - Bloomsday! - Irish Literature & Fiction
    The Letters of Bernard Shaw to The Times collected and annotated by Ronald Ford
    Irish Writers on Writing edited by Eavan Boland
    Redemption Falls by Joseph O’Connor
    Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders by Gyles Brandreth
    Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan
    The Gathering by Anne Enright
    Ride On by Stephen J. Martin
    Secret Diary of a Demented Housewife by Niamh Greene

  • Issue 381 - 9 June 2007
    Irish Furniture by the Knight of Glin and James Peill
    A Provisional Dictator: James Stephens and the Fenian Movement
    Four Irish Rebel Plays edited by James Moran
    The Phoenix Park Murders: Conspiracy, Betrayal and Retribution by Senan Molony
    Exploring the History and Heritage of Irish Landscapes by Patrick J. Duffy
    Celtic Way of Seeing by Frank MacEowen
    Sean O Dalaigh: Eigse agus Iomarbha by Proinsias O Drisceoil
    Bibeanna: Memories from a Corner of Ireland edited by Brenda Ni Shuilleabhain
    No Place for a Boy: A Life at Harland & Wolff by Tom McCluskie
    We Lost Our Baby: One Couple’s Story of Miscarriage and Its Aftermath by Siobhan O’Neill-White and David White
    Troubled Epic: On Location with Ryan’s Daughter by Michael Tanner
    Paddy on the Hardwood: A Journey in Irish Hoops by Rus Bradburd
    The Irish Scissor Sisters by Mick McCaffrey

  • Issue 380 - 2 June 2007
    A Drama in Muslin by George Moore
    Hurrish by Emily Lawless
    Fardorougha the Miser by William Carleton
    Ormond by Maria Edgeworth
    The Nowlans by John Banim
    Lord Kilgobbin by Charles Lever
    The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien
    The Dalkey Arcive by Flann O’Brien
    The Best of Myles by Flann O’Brien
    At Swim Two Birds by Flann O’Brien
    Almost Everything by Patrick Kavanagh
    Beyond the Pale by Austin Clarke
    MacGowran Speaking Beckett
    The Rough Field by John Montague
    The Poet and the Piper by Seamus Heaney and Liam O’Flynn
    With Respect to Mr. Joyce by David Norris

  • Issue 379 - 26 May 2007 - Recent Reprints
    Irish Family Feuds: Battles Over Money, Sex and Power by Liam Collins
    Stone Mad by Seamus Murphy
    Fear of the Collar: My Terrifying Chidhood in Artane by Patrick Touher
    The Irish Republic by Dorothy Macardle
    Locke’s Distillery: A History by Andrew Bielenberg
    Vanishing Ireland by James Fennell and Turtle Bunbury
    British Voices from the Irish War of Independence 1918-1921 by William Sherman
    Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge
    Illustrated Favourite Poems We Learned in School by Thomas F. Walsh.
    An Chead Chloch by Padraic O Conaire
    Diamonds and Hole in My Shoes: A Memoir by Deirdre Purcell
    Between the Mountains and the Sea: Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County by Peter Pearson

  • Issue 378 - 19 May 2007 - Irish Fiction
    The Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories 2006-7 edited by David Marcus
    Soft Voices Whispering by Adrienne Dines
    Placements by Rose MacBride
    American Girls by Susan Millar DuMars
    Nothing Happens in Carmincross by Benedict Kiely
    Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins
    Black Cat Black Dog by John Creed
    The Illusionist by Jennifer Johnston
    The Free and Easy by Anne Haverty
    Tenderwire by Claire Kilroy
    Pretending by Caroline Williams
    Animals by Keith Ridgway
    Where the Rain Gets In by Adrian White
    All Because of You by Melissa Hill
    Cinderella’s Sister by Anne Dunlop

  • Issue 377 - 12 May 2007
    Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States edited by J.J. Lee and Marion R. Casey
    Opening the Field: Irish Women, Texts and Contexts edited by Patricia Boyle Haberstroh & Christine St. Peter
    Emily Lawless 1845-1913: Writing the Interscape by Heidi Hansson
    Angel in Disguise by Victoria Mary Clarke
    Dropping the Habit by Marion Dante
    Ryanland: A No-Frills Odyssey Across the New Europe by Philip Nolan
    The Hidden Places of Ireland 6th edition by David Gerrard
    Ireland on Stage: Beckett and After edited by Hiroko Mikami, Minako Okamura and Naoko Yagi
    Minor Offences: Ireland’s Cradle of Crime by Tom Tuite

  • Issue 376 - 5 May 2007 - Irish History
    1916: The Long Revolution edited by Gabriel Doherty and Dermot Keogh
    Comrades: Inside the War of Independence by Annie Ryan
    Easter 1916: Birth of the Irish Republic by Michael McNally
    On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean: Songs and Singers in Tory Island by Lillis O’Laoire
    Cumann na mBan and the Irish Revolution by Cal McCarthy
    That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland During the Second World War b Claire Wills
    Irish Regiments in the World Wars by David Murphy
    The Telling Year: Belfast 1972 by Malachi O’Doherty
    Eyewitness to Irish History by Peter Beresford Ellis
    The Emergency: Neutral Ireland 1939-1945 by Brian Grivin

  • Issue 375 - 28 April 2007 - Irish Poetry
    Selected Poems of Louis MacNeice
    Collected Poems of Francis Harvey
    The Mirror Tent by Gerard Smyth
    Among These Waters by Mary O’Donoghue
    A Handful of Light by Livia Viitol, translated from the Estonian by Ilmar Lehtpere
    Wide Boy by Phillip Crymble
    Certain Matters by Milner Place
    Herself in Air by Alan Garvey
    Serious Sounds by John Moriarty

  • Issue 374 - 21 April 2007
    Fianna Fail, Irish Republicanism and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-2005 by Catherine O’Donnell
    I’m Glad You Asked Me That: Irish Political Quotations by Eoghan Corry
    How to Read Joyce by Derek Attridge
    Shadowlord: Theobald Bourke Tibbot-ne-Long, 1567-1629: Son of the Pirate Queen, Grace O’Malley by Anne Chambers
    The Little Big Book of Ireland edited by Christopher Measom and H. Clark Wakabayshi
    Myths and Legends of Britain and Ireland by Richard Jones, with photographs by John Mason
    The Magic of Ireland by Rob Vance
    Irish Language and Culture

  • Issue 373 - 14 April 2007
    Irish Bardic Poetry and Rhetorical Reality by Michaell O'Riordan
    Exploring Newgrange by Liam Mac Uistin
    Gerry Fitt: A Political Chameleon by Michael A. Murphy
    A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany revised edition by Audrey Burl
    A Bloody Canvas: The Mike McTigue Story by Andrew Gallimore
    Jude / Gaeilgeoir Deareanach Charna / Incubus by Micheal O Conghaile, Breandan O hEaghra and Caitriona Ni Chonaola
    The Tragedy of Erskine Childers: Dangers Waters by Leonard Piper

  • Issue 372 - 31 March 2007
    Kicking a Dead Horse by Sam Shepard
    Casement by Angus Mitchell
    Wilde by Jonatahn Fryer
    For the Love of My Mother by J.P. Rodgers
    Ireland: This Land is Ours by Lewis Elia
    Empire of Analogies: Kipling, India and Ireland by Kaori Nagai
    Ireland Painted by Marie Hennessy
    Living & Working in Ireland 2ed by Joe Laredo
    Irish-English Dictionary

  • Issue 371 - 24 March 2007
    Dublin's Nazi No. 1: The Life of Adolf Mahr by Gerry Mullins
    Left to the Wolves: Irish Victims of Stalinist Terror by Barry McLoughlin
    In Search of Ireland's Heroes: The Story of the Irish from the English Invasion to the Present Day by Carmel McCaffrey
    Masters of Irish Music by Liam Gaul
    Weaving Tapestry in Rural Ireland by Meghan Nuttal Sayres
    An Essay on Irish Bulls by Maria Edgeworth
    The Open Secret of Ireland by Thomas Kettle
    The Philosophy of Irish Ireland by D.P. Moran

  • Issue 370 - 10 March 2007
    The Bird Woman by Kerry Hardie
    Understanding Contemporary Ireland edited by Brendan Bartley and Rob Kitchin
    Cycling in Victorian Ireland by Brian Griffin
    Kilkenny: History and Guide by Pat Tynan
    The Barrytown Trilogy by Michael Cronin
    Felicia's Journey by Stephanie McBride
    From There to Here: Irish Rugby in the Professional Era by Brendan Fanning

  • Issue 369 - 3 March 2007
    A Guide to Dublin Bay: Mirror to the City by John Givens
    Dublin 1660-1860: The Shaping of a City by Maurice Craig
    Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the 21st Century edited by Liam Harte and Yvonne Wilson
    Clane: The Village We Knew by Bryan Sammon, Paddy Behan and Liam Burke
    Triumph Over Tragedy: Irish Women's True Life Stories by Trina Rea
    Homocide: Murders and Manslaughters in 21st Century Ireland by John Burke and Eoghan Rice
    The Outsiders: Exposing the Secretive World of Ireland's Travellers by Eamon Dillon
    Making Theatre in Northern Ireland: Through and Beyond the Troubles by Tom Maguire
    Imagining Ireland's Independence: The Debates Over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 by Jason Knirck
    Club, Sweat and Tears: The Newtown Story by Diarmuid O'Flynn
    The Blame Game: Rethinking Ireland's Sustainable Development and Environmental Performance by Brendan Flynn
    By Hereditary Virtues: A History of Lough Runn by Fiona Slevin
    Carraountoohil & MacGillycuddy's Reeks by Jim Ryan

  • Issue 368 - 24 Febuary 2007
    Remember ... It's For Ireland: A Family Memoir of Tomas Mac Curtain
    Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland by Richard English
    The Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising by Shane Hegarty and Fintan O'Toole
    In Time of Civil War: The Conflict on the Irish Railways 1922-23 by Bernard Share
    The Burning of Cork by Gerry Whyte and Brendan O'Shea
    Concise History of Modern Ireland by Richard Kelleen
    The Ulster Anthology edited by Patricia Craig
    The Forgotten Heritage of Kildare by Ger McCarthy
    Baltinglass Chronicles 1851-2001 by Paul Gorry
    Galway and the Great War by William Henry
    A Journey to Change: 25 Years of the Green Party in Irish Politics by Dan Boyle
    Images of Ireland: Central Dublin by Derek Slaney
    Made Holy: Irish Women Religious at Home and Abroad by Yvonne McKenna

  • Issue 367 - 17 Febuary 2007
    Parsons Bookshop: At the Heart of Bohemian Dublin, 1949-1989 by Brendan Lynch
    Field of Bones: An Irish Division at Gallipoli by Philip Orr
    Colonial Crossings: Figures in Irish Literary History by Marjorie Holmes
    Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland by Joe Cleary
    Words We Use by Diarmaid O Muirithe
    Last Word: A Life Working with Managers by Ivor Kenny
    Literary Walking Tours of Dublin by Brian Showers
    Best Walks in Ireland by David Marshall
    In Irish Waterways by Edward O'Regan
    Northabout: Sailing the North East and North West Passages by Jarlath Cunnane
    Lansdowne Through the Years by Edward Newman

  • Issue 366 - 10 Febuary 2007 - Irish Poetry
    Contemporary Irish Poetry edited by Paul Muldoon
    Horse Latitudes by Paul Muldoon
    General Admission by Paul Muldoon
    The House of Clay by Peter McDonald
    Globe by Micheal O Siadhail
    Musics of Belonging: The Poetry of Micheal O Siadhail edited by Marc Caball and David Ford
    The Dublin Review Issue 24 Autumn 2006 edited by Brendan Barrington
    The Silence Came Close by Kerry Hardie
    Adaptations by Derek Mahon
    Mocker by David Wheatley
    The Currach Requires No Harbours by Medbh McGuckian
    Now by Brendan Kennelly
    What Then is Now: Three Greek Tragedies adapted by Brendan Kennelly

  • Issue 365 - 3 Febrary 2007 - Irish Fiction
    Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650-1900 by Rolf & Magda Loeber
    Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories by John McGahern
    The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
    Billy, Come Home by Mary Rose Callaghan
    Baby Zero by Emer Martin
    The Luck Penny by John Maher
    All Because of You by Melissa Hill
    The Gatemaker by Christine Dwyer Hickey
    The Hat Shop on the Corner by Marita Conlon-McKenna
    According the Luke by Gerard Stembridge
    God: A User's Manual by Sean Moncrieff
    Deadlines and Dickheads by Anne Gildea

  • Issue 364 - 27 January 2007
    Engineering Ireland edited by Ronald Cox
    Ireland: An Archaeological Guide by Andy Halpin and Conor Newman
    A Guide to Dublin Bay: Mirror to the City by John Givens
    Family Matters: A Dublin Documentary by Thomas Kinsella
    Seventeenth Century Ireland by Raymond Gillespie
    The Philosopher and the Druids: A Journey Among the Ancient Celts by Philip Freeman
    Cottage Industry: Portraits of Irish Artisans by Betsy Klein
    The Blaskets: People and Literature by Muiris Mac Conghail
    Building the King's Inn: A Favourite Study by Patricia McCarthy
    The Last of the Portadown News by Newton Emerson
    Jenny Bristow Cooks for the Seasons: Autumn and Winter
    From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain by Micheal O Muircheartaigh
    Who Stole Our Game: The Fall of Irish Soccer by Daire Whelan
    Passion and Power: An Irish Missionary's Fight Against Child Sex Slavery by Shay Cullen

  • Issue 363 - 20 January 2007
    Tom Crean: An Illustrated Life by Michael Smith
    Gunrunners: The Covert Arms Trial in Ireland by Sean Boyne
    I Signed My Death Warrant: Michael Collins and the Treaty by T. Ryle Dwyer
    Watching the Door: A Memoir 1971-78 by Kevin Myers
    In Search of Iraq: Baghdad to Babylon by Richard Downes
    Irish Companion: A Think Book by Brendan Nolan
    The Irish Hedge School and Its Books, 1695-1831 by Antonia McManus
    Timeless Wonders: What Irish Provergs Tell Us About Ourselves by Aidan Moran
    The Dark Sacrament: Exorcism in Modern Ireland by David Kiely and Christina McKenna
    John Devoy's Catalpa Expedition edited by Philip Fennell and Marie King
    Irish Tales of Mystery and Magic by Eddie Lenihan
    Lost Lines: Ireland by Nigel Welbourn
    Foxrock and Cabinteely: Memories complied by Liam Clare and Padraig Laffan
    Overheard in Dublin
    Golf Days 2007

  • Issue 362 - 13 January 2007
    Collected Poems by Michael Longley
    A Gaelic Experiment: The Preparatory System 1926-1961 and Colaiste Moibhi by Valerie Jones
    Social Policy in Ireland: Principles, Practice and Problems edited by Sean Healy, et. al.
    The Dubs: Dublin GAA since the 1940s by Sean Og Ceallachain
    Golf: The Mind Factor by Darren Clarke and Karl Morris
    Beating Them At Their Own Game: How the Irish Conquered English Soccer by Patrick West
    Munster: Our Path to Glory by Alan English
    A Biographical Dictionary of Cork by Tim Cadogan and Jeremiah Falvey
    Great GAA Moments 2006 by Finbarr McCarthy
    Rough Shooting in Ireland by Douglas Butler
    No One Wants You: A Memoir of a Child Forced Into Prostitution by Celine Roberts
    The Irish Spirit: Recipes Inspired by the Legendary Drinks of Ireland by Margaret Johnson
    Available Again:
    Reading the Irish Landscape by Frank Mitchell and Michael Ryan
    The Concise History of Ireland by Sean Duffy

  • Issue 361 - 6 January 2007
    Back from the Brink by Paul McGrath
    Ronnie Delaney: Staying the Distance by Ronnie Delaney
    Will You Be Here When I Get Home? by Claire Cashin
    The Frames: Behind the Glass by Zoran Orlic
    Enemy of the People: Life as an International Undercover IRA Activist by Eamon McGuire
    Follow the Moon: A Memoir by Sheila Sullivan
    MTV Ireland
    New in Paperback:
    Vincent O'Brien: The Authorised Biography by Jacqueline O'Brien and Ivor Herbert
    Distric and Circle by Seamus Heaney
    Available Again:
    Now Is the Time: Spiritual Reflections by Sister Stanislaus Kennedy
    Booked (v. carefully): Selected Writings by Tom Humphries
    Helen Dillon on Gardening

  • Issue 360

    Irish Fiction
    Winterwood by Patrick McCabe
    Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
    Zoli by Colum McCann
    The Light of Evening by Edna O'Brien
    Lover's Hollow by Orna Ross
    Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
    Sweetwater by Paul Charles
    Hellfire by Mia Gallgher
    Tell Me Your Secret by Deirdre Purcell
    The Glass Room by Kate Holmquist
    A Place Called Here by Cecelia Ahern

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