The Glorious Guinness Girls: A story of the scandals and secrets of the famous society girls
From London to Ireland in 1920s, a glorious, gripping, moving and richly textured novel which takes us to the heart of the remarkable real-life story of the Guinness Girls.
Emily Hourican
Published: May /
2021
Headline Review
9781472274601
528 Pages
€10.07
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Irish historical fiction
Girls Like You…: The Long Road Back from Bessborough
Girls Like You… tells the story of ‘Margaret’, the name assigned to the author while in Bessborough House Mother and Baby Home. After spending seven months in the home ‘Margaret’ gave birth to a baby girl in September 1973.
Jacinta O'Connell
Published: May /
2021
Red Stripe Press
9781786051370
170 Pages
€15
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
To be updated
Gender, Performance, and Authorship at the Abbey Theatre
A study of the Abbey Theatre, looking specifically at relationships between W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge and the women who performed their works.
Elizabeth Brewer Redwine (Lecturer, Department of English, Seton Hall University)
Published: May /
2021
Oxford University Press
9780192896346
240 Pages
€69.57
Hardback
United Kingdom
Irish theatre history
Fuel
Seán O'Brien tells the remarkable and unlikely story of his rise to the highest levels of world rugby, and of a decade of success with Leinster, Ireland and the British and Irish Lions.
Sean O'Brien
Published: May /
2021
Penguin Books Ltd
9780241985397
384 Pages
€12.50
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Memoir
Four Killings: Land Hunger, Murder and A Family in the Irish Revolution
A history of the fate of a single family in the period of the Irish Revolution.
Myles Dungan
Published: May /
2021
Apollo
9781800244849
336 Pages
€19.70
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Irish history
The First Irish Cities: An Eighteenth-century Transformation
The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization.
David Dickson
Published: May /
2021
Yale University Press
9780300229462
352 Pages
€27.50
Hardback
United States
Irish history
Fields of Wonder: The Incredible Story of Northern Ireland’s Football Heroes 1980-86
For six glorious years and two astonishing World Cup campaigns in the 1980s, tiny Northern Ireland stood up to the global football giants.
Evan Marshall
Published: May /
2021
Blackstaff Press Ltd
9781780732404
224 Pages
€14.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Northern Irish sport history
Fictions of Migration in Contemporary Britain and Ireland
This book examines how the transcultural and transnational migration of people, texts, and ideas has transformed the paradigm of national literature, with Britain and Ireland as case studies.
Carmen Zamorano Llena
Published: May /
2021
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
9783030410551
211 Pages
€52.18
Paperback / softback
Switzerland
Literature and literary studies
Empire and Indigeneity: Histories and Legacies
Indigeneity is inseparable from empire, and the way empire responds to the Indigenous presence is a key historical factor in shaping the flow of imperial history.
Richard Price
Published: May /
2021
Routledge
9780367565787
376 Pages
€139.19
Hardback
United Kingdom
British history
The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism
The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism.
Maud Ellmann; Sian White; Vicki Mahaffey
Published: May /
2021
Edinburgh University Press
9781474456692
500 Pages
€173.99
Hardback
United Kingdom
Art history