Murder in an Irish Bookshop: A Cozy Irish Murder Mystery
In Carlene O'Connor's seventh installment of her USA Today bestselling Irish Village Mystery series, the grand opening of a new bookstore in Kilbane becomes the closing chapter of an author's life--and a whodunit that tests even Garda Siobhán O'Sullivan's deductive reasoning...
Carlene O'Connor
Published: January /
2022
Kensington Publishing
9781496730824
304 Pages
£6.99
Paperback / softback
United States
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Murder at an Irish Wedding: An unputdownable cosy village mystery
The O'Sullivan clan of County Cork, Ireland, are thrilled to be catering the matrimonial affairs of a celebrity couple--until a cunning killer turns an Irish wedding into an Irish wake . . .
Carlene O'Connor
Published: January /
2022
Canelo
9781800326910
336 Pages
£8.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Crime & mystery
Masculinities and Manhood in Contemporary Irish Drama: Acting the Man
This book charts the journey, in terms of both stasis and change, that masculinities and manhood have made in Irish drama, and by extension in the broader culture and society, from the 1960s to the present.
Cormac O'Brien
Published: January /
2022
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
9783030840747
290 Pages
£89.99
Hardback
Switzerland
Theatre studies
Life Sentences: the unforgettable Irish bestseller
At just sixteen, Nancy leaves the small island of Cape Clear for the mainland, the only member of her family to survive the effects of the Great Famine. Finding work in a grand house on the edge of Cork City, she is irrepressibly drawn to the charismatic gardener Michael Egan, sparking a love affair and a devastating chain of events that continues to unfold over three generations. Spanning more than a century, Life Sentences is the unforgettable journey of a family hungry for redemption, and determined against all odds to be free.
Billy O'Callaghan
Published: January /
2022
Vintage
9781529112962
240 Pages
£8.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Irish Wit, Wisdom And Humor: The Complete Collection of Irish Jokes, One-Liners & Witty Sayings
The greatest collection of Irish wit, wisdom and humor ever published. The best of humorous quotes, witty observations, and funny one-liners from those hailing from the Emerald Isle.
Gerd De Ley
Published: January /
2022
Hatherleigh Press,U.S.
9781578269242
224 Pages
£11.99
Paperback / softback
United States
Humour
The Irish Difference: A Tumultuous History of Ireland’s Breakup With Britain
A fascinating and entertaining historical investigation into what makes Ireland so different from its neighbours and why that led to independence.
Fergal Tobin
Published: January /
2022
Atlantic Books
9781838952617
320 Pages
£18.99
Hardback
United Kingdom
History
Irish Diesel Hauled Trains
Until the 1990s almost all Ireland’s trains were diesel-hauled, with operation similar to steam days, ie using station pilots etc.Quantity1
Phil Horton
Published: January /
2022
Silver Link Books
9781857945997
64 Pages
£11
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Trains & railways: general interest
An Immigrant Bishop: John England’s Adaptation of Irish Catholicism to American Republicanism, Second Edition
Offers a revised examination of the Irish intellectual roots of Bishop John England's American pastoral works in the diocese of Charleston, South Carolina (1820-1842). The text focuses on his political philosophy and his theology of the Church, both of which were influenced by the Enlightenment and a theological, not a political, Gallicanism.
Patrick W. Carey
Published: January /
2022
The Catholic University of America Press
9780813234595
296 Pages
€38
£32.95
Paperback / softback
United States
American Civil War
British and Irish Religious Orders in Europe, 1560-1800: Conventuals, Mendicants and Monastics in Motion
Demonstrates how, far from being peripheral, the stable communities of conventual religious in mainland Europe acted as important centres of religious and secular activity in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation.
Cormac Begadon; James E Kelly
Published: January /
2022
Boydell & Brewer
9781914967009
288 Pages
€84
£70
Hardback
United Kingdom
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
Animals in Irish Society: Interspecies Oppression and Vegan Liberation in Britain’s First Colony
The first exploration of vegan Irish epistemology, one that can be traced along its history of animism, agrarianism, ascendency, adaptation, and activism.
Corey Lee Wrenn
Published: January /
2022
State University of New York Press
9781438484341
268 Pages
€37.01
£23.5
Paperback / softback
United States
Sociology