A history of the Irish pharmaceutical industry: Making medicines for the World
Ireland has become a key manufacturing centre for the global pharmaceutical market and in turn pharmaceutical manufacturing is now the backbone of the Irish manufacturing sector.
Pat McCarthy
Published: May /
2021
Four Courts Press Ltd
9781846829796
256 Pages
€35.00
Hardback
Ireland
Social & cultural history
A Guarded Life: My story of the dark side of An Garda Siochana
In 1984, Majella Moynihan was a fresh-faced young garda recruit when she gave birth to a baby boy.
Majella Moynihan
Published: May /
2021
Hachette Books Ireland
9781529335996
336 Pages
€10.99
Paperback / softback
Ireland
Memoirs
The Garden
On a devastated orchid farm in Southern Florida, Swallow, an Irish migrant worker and ex-marine, faces a reckoning in the illegal hunt for an endangered ghost orchid.
Paul Perry
Published: May /
2021
New Island Books
9781848407992
244 Pages
€14.95
Hardback
Ireland
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Fears, Phobias and Fantasies
Fears, Phobias and Fantasies, written by well-known psychiatrist Patricia Casey, deals with the organisation of psychiatric services.
Prof. Patricia Casey
Published: May /
2021
Currach Books
9781782189213
284 Pages
€22.99
Ireland
Science
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