Eddie O’Connor: A Dangerous Visionary
Former CEO of Bord na Móna and Airtricity, and founding member of Mainstream Renewable Power, Irish energy industry leader Eddie O’Connor has always been a visionary.
Eddie O'Connor
Published: May /
2021
Currach Books
9781782189275
230 Pages
€19.99
Ireland
Memoirs
Dipping into Life
Following on from his books of reflections, Dipping Into Lent and Dipping Into Advent, Alan Hilliard opens up space for us to engage with our emotional and spiritual response to ordinary life.
Alan Hilliard
Published: May /
2021
Messenger Publications
9781788123471
120 Pages
€12.95
Paperback / softback
Ireland
Christian prayer
Dead Reckoning
Dead reckoning—used by navigators to calculate their position using a record of speed, drift, and the direction travelled relative to a last known location—is the metaphor at the heart of Jude Nutter’s fourth collection.
Jude Nutter
Published: May /
2021
Salmon Poetry
9781912561896
94 Pages
€12.00
Ireland
Poetry
Crimson and Gold: Life as a Limerick
Now a Benedictine Monk of Glenstal Abbey, Hederman continues to explore how we as Irish Roman Catholics can hone in on the most precious aspects of our faith and cancel the surrounding noise.
Mark Patrick Hederman
Published: May /
2021
Columba Press
9781782183792
260 Pages
€19.99
Hardback
Ireland
Autobiography: general
Churches in the Irish Landscape Ad 400-1100
Between the fifth century and the ninth, several thousand churches were founded in Ireland the premise of this book is that landscape archaeology is one of the most fruitful ways to study them.
Tomas O Carragain
Published: May /
2021
Cork University Press
9781782054306
520 Pages
€49.00
Hardback
Ireland
British & Irish history
Chief O’Neill: The Chicago Police Chief who saved Irish Music
His books of Irish music are famous worldwide, yet the amazing life story of Francis O’Neill (1848-1936) is not as well known.
Ronan O'Driscoll
Published: May /
2021
Somerville Press
9781838254407
296 Pages
€17.99
Paperback / softback
Ireland
Historical fiction
Books from the Attic: Treasures from an Irish Childhood
Alice Taylor takes a journey back to the 1940s and 1950s in rural Ireland through the well-used schoolbooks that she has kept from that time. Poetry, legends, stories and history evoke a way of life, and pace of life, that's long changed.
Alice Taylor; Emma Byrne (The O'Brien Press Ltd)
Published: May /
2021
O'Brien Press Ltd
9781788492690
256 Pages
€12.99
Paperback / softback
Ireland
Memoirs
The Black & Tans, 1920-1921: A complete alphabetical list, short history and genealogical guide
In this book Jim Herlihy lists alphabetically, every individual member of these three distinct groups who was liable to be called a 'Black and Tan.'
Jim Herlihy
Published: May /
2021
Open Air
9781846829871
404 Pages
€50.00
Hardback
Ireland
History
The Black & Tans, 1920-1921: A complete alphabetical list, short history and genealogical guide
In this book Jim Herlihy lists alphabetically, every individual member of these three distinct groups who was liable to be called a 'Black and Tan.'
Jim Herlihy
Published: May /
2021
Four Courts Press Ltd
9781846829604
352 Pages
€29.95
Paperback / softback
Ireland
History
Ballymacandy: The Story of a Kerry Ambush
On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police officers lay dead and another died a day later.
Owen O'Shea
Published: May /
2021
Merrion Press
9781785373879
272 Pages
€14.95
Paperback / softback
Ireland
Military history