The team at Discover Irish Children's Books pick their favourite titles for July
With only a tiny number (or sometimes none at all) of Irish children's...
Wild-Looking but Fine: Abbey Theatre Actresses of the 1930s, by Ciara O'Dowd
Cover design by Fiachra McCarthy
In her foreword to Wild-Looking but...
The Dark Art of Darning|Moya Roddy|Salmon
Into the Tangled Past—The Dark Art of Darning, by Moya Roddy
by Neil McCarthy
The Heart in Winter|Kevin Barry|Canongate
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry is an exhilarating read, a forbidden love story at once tender and violent
Catherine Dunne talks with Ruth McKee for the latest episode of Burning Books
A new episode of our popular podcast...
Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) from Traité des Arbres et Arbustes que l’on cultive en France en pleine terre (1801–1819) by Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Original from the New York Public Library. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
Detail from Daughter in a Rocker (1917–1918) painting in high resolution by Henry Lyman Sayen. Original from the Smithsonian Institution. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
FLASH FICTION SECOND PLACE
Winners announced for the Books Ireland Flash Fiction Competition
To celebrate Independent Bookshop Week, we are very pleased to announce the winners of our Flash Fiction...
Vintage illustration "The belle of the ballet" published in 1899 by Julius Mendes. Original from New York public library. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
FLASH FICTION WINNER
Unwanted Things, by...
Author photo by Seán Ó Mainnín
Pádraic Breathnach reads from Póg Mo Thóin agus Scéalta Eile (Cló Iar-Chonnacht)
https://youtu.be/Y8b_8p9TkVY?si=7aiRjgAdUTBgHDy_
Video by Seán Ó Mainnín
