The Army of Occupation in Ireland 1603-42: Defending the Protestant Hegemony
Established in 1603 and initially composed almost entirely of English officers and soldiers for the first thirty years of its existence, the army's strength waxed and waned in accordance with the English government's assessment of the security situation in Ireland.
Malcolm Wanklyn
Published: September /
2022
Helion & Company
9781915070364
232 Pages
£25
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Military history
2023 Guide to the Night Sky: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above Britain and Ireland
The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers.
Storm Dunlop; Wil Tirion; Royal Observatory Greenwich; Collins Astronomy; Collins Books
Published: September /
2022
Collins
9780008393540
112 Pages
£6.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Popular astronomy & space
An American in Dublin 1916
An American in Dublin 1916’ is a novel with accurate chronological historical events. Dr Henrietta Modi knows a lot about Irish history from her schoolteacher in Wisconsin, Sister Mary Costello. Irish history remains a huge interest when she leaves school to study medicine in the University of Chicago. Some years after graduation, Henrietta travels to Ireland where during the 1916 Rising she meets Dr James Hogarth an Irish Volunteer. Together they become involved in the struggle for Irish independence. They have an unlikely ally, George Bernard Shaw. He sets up a meeting with Edward Carson. What if the partition of Ireland can be prevented?
Tilly Crockett
Published: January /
2022
9.78192E+12
€6.99
Paperback
Ireland
Darkness Between Stars
In setting the poets side by side, this volume also highlights the two main faith traditions of the West: Deane with his Roman Catholic background, rooted in the landscape of Mayo; and Harpur with his Protestant (Church of Ireland and Quaker) heritage, influenced by myth, medieval history and mystics. Their two approaches to everyday life and ultimate reality - including nature, saints and mystics, music, art, prayer, and issues of faith and doubt - combine to make a single volume full of lyrical beauty and powerful witness. In addition, an afterword consisting of an informal dialogue between the two poets complements in prose the themes their poems explore. This is a book to challenge, console, delight and make its readers think again about their own journeys through this "vale of soul-making".
John F. Deane, James Harpur
Published: August /
2022
Irish Pages
9.78184E+12
152 Pages
£18.00
Hardback
Britain
Poetry by individual poets (DCF)
Sappho: Songs and Poems: Translated From the Greek
Here are Sappho's songs and poems as English poems, all her famous pieces, all the fragments that can make connected sense, and all the discoveries of 2004 and 2014. These translations set out to be good English poetry first and foremost, and succeed well beyond other current versions. They have been made directly from Sappho's Greek, by a poet with three collections to his credit, and are relatively close to the Greek. Each piece has a concise footnote that explains references and allusions, and suggests critical appreciation. A substantial Afterword says much more about Sappho's themes, her art and style, and her historical setting. Sappho is one of the greatest poets of the western world. She lived on the Greek island of Lesbos around 600 BCE, near the very beginning of western literature, and composed 300 or so poems and songs. Her poems create a woman-centred world in which women and relationships are highly valued, a world of beauty and grace, love and loss, sandals and hairbands, all sometimes exalted and idealised. She opposes women's values to those of the dominant male society around her, and is the first to do this in the western canon. She was famous in her lifetime and has been deeply admired ever since.
Sappho, Chris Preddle (Translator)
Published: August /
2022
Irish Pages
9.78184E+12
152 Pages
£18.00
Hardback
Britain
Classical texts (DB)
Phantom Gang
With lyric grace and meditative clarity, Phantom Gang offers a daring dissection of civilizational violence in a variety of contexts from the intimate atavisms and inequalities of Irish history to the insidious growth of the global Big Tech economy in the present day alongside deep, sensually delicate explorations of broken love and salvaged memories. Honouring the work of a range of writers and photographers, including John Clare (1793-1864), Martin Chambi (1891-1973), Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), and Gerda Taro (1910-1937), these poems unsettle the boundaries between past and present, elegy and tribute, folkloric remembrance and political reportage, interweaving each with all to create a compelling vision of a world in motion and a consciousness alive to change - as spectral voices and still-living presences seep "into the open echo-chamber / of poetry", casting light on the inner and outer landscapes of the poet's life in time. Following his acclaimed first collection, The Buried Breath, O'Rourke here expands and enriches the thematic concerns of his early work to accommodate new forms of portraiture and moral questioning, while further honing the "clean-boned" music of his poetic style, lit always by a profound emotional charge. Phantom Gang confirms O'Rourke as a leading new voice in Irish poetry.
Ciaran O'Rourke
Published: August /
2022
Irish Pages
9.78184E+12
128 Pages
£18.00
Hardback
Britain
Poetry by individual poets (DCF)
INDEPENDENT IRELAND 1922 -1992: Raised on Songs and Stories
This latest book from historian and novelist Maurice Curtis is a social, personal and cultural celebration of Ireland in the twentieth century.
Maurice Curtis
Published: July /
2022
Orpen Press
9781786051783
€24.95
Paperback
Ireland
Irish history
Sisters
Nine writers trace the public and private lives of nine sets of sisters.
Mary O'Dowd; Siobhan Fitzpatrick
Published: August /
2022
Royal Irish Academy
9781911479833
224 Pages
€25
£23
Hardback
Ireland
Social & cultural history
A Saucer Full of Secrets
With references to Ireland’s mystical places and magical folklore, Pam Henry has crafted a wonderful take on the legends for children.
Pam Henry
Published: August /
2022
Currach Press
9781782189329
200 Pages
€12.99
£10.99
Paperback / softback
Ireland
Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage)
Can Ireland Be One?
Ireland has changed radically in a generation. Today both parts of the island define themselves by or against the narrative of a freedom struggle. Could they conceivably put that behind them, regard it as closed, and if so, how would they jointly define Ireland’s sovereign national character after that?
Malachi O'Doherty
Published: August /
2022
Merrion Press
9781785373039
288 Pages
€18.95
£16.99
Paperback / softback
Ireland
Politics & government