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NEW TITLES 2018

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New Title • FICTION

NOrTherN heIsT richard O’rawe

‘Gritty. Authentic. Close to the bone.

Very close to the bone.’

EOIN McNAMEE ‘Unquestionably a serious and superior work of fiction …

O’Rawe’s book is a stunner‘ MALACHI O’DOHERTY, Belfast Telegraph When James ‘Ructions’ O’Hare put together a crack team to rob the National Bank in Belfast in December 2004, even he didn’t realise he was about to carry off one of the biggest bank heists in British and Irish history.

And he’ll be damned if the Provos are getting a slice of it.

In Richard O’Rawe’s stunning debut novel, as audacious and well executed as Ructions’ plan to rob the National Bank itself, a new voice in Irish fiction has been unleashed that will shock, surprise and thrill as he takes you on a white-knuckle ride through Belfast’s criminal underbelly.

Enter the deadly world of tiger kidnappings, kangaroo courts, money laundering, drug deals and double-crosses.

PAPERBACK SEPTEMBER 2018 €14.95 / £12.99 9781785371936 268 pages 234 x 156 mm

Northern Heist is a roller-coaster bank robbery thriller with twists and turns from beginning to end.

Richard O’Rawe is the author of the best-selling books Blanketmen: An Untold Story of the H-Block Hunger Strike, Afterlives: The Hunger Strike and the Secret Offer that Changed Irish His-

tory, and In the Name of the Son: The Gerry Conlon Story.

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New Title • sPOrT / GAA

The BOYs OF ’93 derrY’s All-IrelANd kINGs

eamonn Coleman with Maria McCourt Foreword by Joe Brolly In 2002, almost a decade after he became the first man to lead Derry’s footballers to All-Ireland success – and in the most unlikely of moves for the cagey Ballymaguigan bricklayer – Eamonn Coleman sat down with a journalist and told his story.

That that journalist was his niece and goddaughter gave the infamously secretive Coleman the time and space to relive the white-hot battles of Ulster football in the early 90s, from Casement to Clones with the boys of ’93, and their triumphant march to Croker to claim Sam, the ultimate prize.

Over a period of months, then years, and in that unique South Derry brogue, he recalls those guts and glory days: the professional triumphs and personal disasters, not least his sacking just a year after seeing his beloved ‘boys’ crowned All-Ireland kings. That was personal.

In this compelling posthumous memoir, the charismatic Coleman pays homage to the halcyon days of Ulster football and to the men who made them: McEniff and McGrath and the influence of legends such as Heffernan and McKeever. At the root of his story though remains his golden philosophy, “the players is the men”.

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A trailblazer throughout his GAA career, in 1993 Eamonn Coleman became the first manager to lead Derry to All Ireland success, a feat that remains his alone.

Maria McCourt is Eamonn Coleman’s niece and goddaughter, and a former journalist and editor who has worked as a news and sports reporter for publications in Ireland, Australia and the US.

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New Title • POeTrY / PhOTOGrAPhY

reCONsTruCTIONs The TrOuBles IN PhOTOGrAPhs ANd WOrds

Words by steafán hanvey Photos by Bobbie hanvey ‘Reconstructions is a wondrous outburst. Steafan Hanvey’s poems are an unrestrained response to the work of his father, the great Irish photographer Bobbie Hanvey ...

These heartfelt refractions find their own shape. They are nobly dishevelled, and they cry out to be read.’

MICHAEL LONGLEY ‘This unique and heady blend of documented violence and photographic memory poses timely questions for present social understanding of the way we were. [Its] drama and tragicomic wit ... is both potent and devastating.’

MEDBH MCGUCKIAN

HARDBACK OCTOBER 2018 €19.95 / £17.99 9781785372162 120 pages 17 b/w photographs 225 x 170 mm

World-renowned photographer Bobbie Hanvey captured some of the Troubles’ most defining and devastating moments, in all their unflinching poignancy. His children grew up with intimate familiarity of these photographs, and of the violence that bred them.

In Reconstructions: The Troubles in Photographs and Words, these images take on even greater resonance when set in context by Bobbie’s son Steafán’s innovative and keenly honed prose-poetry, partly written in response to the photographs he grew up with.

Steafán Hanvey was born in Downpatrick, Co. Down and is an artist and musician.

Bobbie Hanvey was born in Brookeborough, Co. Fermanagh.

Through photographing the aftermath of bombings and shootings in Northern Ireland, he became one of the country’s leading press and portrait photographers.

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New Title • desIGN hIsTOrY

WATerFOrd CrYsTAl The CreATION OF A GlOBAl BrANd, 1700–2009

John M. hearne Waterford Crystal is the first ever fully illustrated history of Ireland’s most iconic cut-glass manufacturer, its name synonymous with high-end glassmaking throughout the world.

Former Waterford glass cutter and local historian John Hearne explores how the art of glassmaking first arrived in Waterford at the turn of the sixteenth century. Hearne reveals how Waterford Crystal developed as a brand under the guidance of skilled artisans and shrewd business leaders with an eye for ingenuity. Waterford developed a global reputation for quality glass and crystalware that was rocked and buoyed by events that span centuries, including the American Revolutionary war, the World Fair in London, World War Two and the attacks of 9/11.

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OCTOBER 2018 €29.95 / £24.99 • €75.00 / £70.00 9781785371813 • 9781785371905 330 pages +150 colour illustrations 232 x 192 mm

Preserving the memory and legacy of Waterford Crystal for future generations of glassmaking, Hearne pays tribute to some of the finest artisans Ireland has ever produced, whose passionate devotion prefigured inspired works of art – turning basic ingredients, sand and ash, into objects of aesthetic beauty.

John M. Hearne is a former teacher, lecturer and master cutter.

His previous works include Thomas Francis Meagher: The Making of an Irish American (ed., 2005), Glassmaking in Ireland: From the Medieval to the Contemporary (ed., 2010), and A History of the City of Waterford Vocational Education Committee, 1930–2013 (2014).

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New Title • CurreNT AFFAIrs

The AdOPTION MAChINe The dArk hIsTOrY OF IrelANd’s MOTher ANd BABY hOMes ANd The INsIde sTOrY OF hOW TuAM 800 BeCAMe A GlOBAl sCANdAl

Paul Jude redmond In The Adoption Machine, Paul Jude Redmond, Chairperson of the Coalition of Mother and Baby Homes Survivors, who was born in the Castlepollard Home, candidly reveals the shocking history of one of the worst abuses of Church power since the foundation of the Irish State. From Bessboro, Castlepollard, and Sean Ross Abbey to St. Patrick’s and Tuam, a dark shadow was cast by the collusion between Church and State in the systematic repression of women and the wilful neglect of illegitimate babies, resulting in the deaths of thousands.

It was Paul’s exhaustive research that widened the global media’s attention to all the homes and revealed Tuam as just the tip of the iceberg of the horrors that lay beneath. He further reveals the vast profits generated by selling babies to wealthy adoptive parents, and details how infants were volunteered to a pharmaceutical company for drug trials without the consent of their natural mothers. Interwoven throughout is Paul’s poignant and deeply personal journey of discovery as he attempts to find his own natural mother.

The Adoption Machine exposes this dark history of Ireland’s shameful and secret past, and the efforts to bring it into the light. It is a history from which there is no turning away.

Chairperson of the survivor umbrella group, the Coalition of Mother and Baby home Survivors (CMABS), Paul Jude Redmond also produced the very first report highlighting the mortality rates and general cruelty in the Homes and calling for a public inquiry. After the Tuam 800 story broke, he was instrumental in working with the media to increase the public and political attention on the other Mother and Baby Homes and their mortality rates. He continues to advocate tirelessly on behalf of all survivors of Ireland’s wider, forced adoption network.

PAPERBACK MARCH 2018 €16.95 / £15.99 9781785371776 311 pages 16 colour & b/w photographs 226 x 153 mm

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New Title • MeMOIr

WITNess TO WAr CrIMes The MeMOIrs OF AN IrIsh PeACekeePer IN BOsNIA

Colm doyle The early 1990s saw Europe’s first conflict for almost 40 years when bitter fighting broke out in the former Yugoslav republic. Colonel Colm Doyle of the Irish Defence Forces found himself in the midst of this appalling civil war when, in October 1991, he became first a European Community Monitor and almost immediately Head of the Monitor Mission in besieged Sarajevo. After six months he was appointed Personal Representative to Lord Carrington, Chairman of the Peace Conference on Yugoslavia.

In this long overdue memoir, he describes his role mediating, negotiating and persuading political and military leaders of all sides to halt the seemingly inexorable path to all-out civil war. He arranged cease-fires, visited prisonerof-war camps, extricated election monitors and organised hostage releases. His experiences made him a key witness at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague at the trials of Milosevic, Mladic and Karadzic.

JUNE 2018 €24.95 / £21.99 9781785371899

With his unprecedented access, Doyle’s personal account can claim to be one of the most significant insights to the brutal Bosnian War.

291 pages 17 b/w photographs 233 x 152 mm

During Colonel Colm Doyle’s career with the Irish Defence Forces, he served with the United Nations in Cyprus, Lebanon and Syria. He was Chief-of-Staff of the Military Division at the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York; Director of Public Relations for the Defence Forces and Commandant of both the UN Training School, Ireland and the Military College.

His experiences with the EU in Bosnia are the subject of this book.

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New Title • BIOGrAPhY

MArkIeVICZ A MOsT OuTrAGeOus reBel

lindie Naughton Countess Constance Markievicz – one of the most remarkable women in Irish history – was a revolutionary, a socialist and a feminist, as well as an artist and writer. A natural leader, “Madame”, as she was known to thousands of Dubliners, took an active part in the 1916 Rising and was one of the few leaders to escape execution. Instead, she spent an arduous year in an English prison, surrounded by murderers, prostitutes and thieves. Later, during another stretch in prison, she would make history as the first woman elected to the British Houses of Parliament, and momentous event that is due to receive widespread commemoration at the time of its centenary in December 2018.

Lindie Naughton’s compelling biography sheds light on all facets of Markievicz’s life – her privileged upbringing in County Sligo, her adventures as an art student in London and Paris, her marriage to an improbable Polish count, her political education, her several prison terms, and her emergence as one of the pivotal figures in early 20th century Britain and Ireland. Constance Markievicz, a woman with a huge heart, battled all her adult life to establish an Irish republic based on co-operation and equality for all.

Her message is as relevant today as it was a century ago.

PAPERBACK SEPTEMBER 2018 €14.95 / £12.99 9781785372216 343 pages 18 b/w photographs 215 x 135 mm

Lindie Naughton is a Dublin-based journalist and writer.

Her books include Lady Icarus: The Life of Irish Aviator Lady Mary Heath and Faster, Higher, Stronger: A History of Ireland’s Olympians.

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New Title • BIOGrAPhY / leTTers

MArkIeVICZ PrIsON leTTers ANd reBel WrITINGs

lindie Naughton The Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz were first published in 1932 as a classic of feminist literature. Now restored to their original form by leading Markievicz expert, Lindie Naughton, this new edition features previously unpublished letters that Markievicz sent to family members and friends, offering a unique insight into her extraordinary life.

After escaping the firing squad for her part in the 1916 Easter Rising, she was sentenced to life imprisonment and transferred to Mountjoy Jail and later sent to other prisons including Holloway in London and Cork Jail. Through these letters, recounting her feelings, political beliefs, opinions on world events and the minutiae of her domestic life, we hear the voice of a remarkable woman, full of life and spirit; a supporter of the underdog, who never gave up the fight for a more equal society.

The first woman elected as an MP to the House of Commons, Markievicz is a controversial figure in Irish and British history but has remained a shadowy symbol of Ireland’s revolutionary past. The real Markievicz shines through her letters to tell the story of one of Ireland’s most remarkable citizens, in her own words.

PAPERBACK OCTOBER 2018 €19.95 / £17.99 9781785371615 280 pages 226 x 153 mm

Lindie Naughton is a Dublin-based journalist and writer. Her books include Lady Icarus: The Life of Irish Aviator Lady Mary Heath and Faster, Higher, Stronger: A History of Ireland’s Olympians.

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New Title • BIOGrAPhY

JOhN redMONd The NATIONAl leAder

dermot Meleady

Through exhaustive research of Redmond’s personal papers, Dermot Meleady has produced the definitive story of one of the most tragic figures in twentieth-century Irish political history. The book details Redmond’s reconstruction of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and his refashioning of it as a political weapon for winning Irish Home Rule; it also documents his turbulent final years, where events would cast him down from triumphant prime-minister-in-waiting to the status of Ireland’s lost leader.

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FEBRUARY 2018 €18.95 / £16.99 9781785371547 522 pages +20 photographs 234 x 156 mm

New Title • BIOGrAPhY / leTTers

JOhN redMONd seleCTed leTTers ANd MeMOrANdA, 1880–1918

dermot Meleady (ed.)

In this fascinating book, Dermot Meleady skilfully edits Redmond’s correspondence to offer new and first-hand perspectives on key moments in Ireland’s history via the many-faceted postbag of one of its most able political figures.

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Dermot Meleady is the author of John Redmond: The National Leader (Merrion Press; 2013, 2018) and Redmond: The Parnellite (2007). He was born in Dublin in 1949; he studied Science at University College Dublin and History at University of London..

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FEBRUARY 2018 €29.95 / £26.99 9781785371554 341 pages +10 photographs 226 x 153 mm

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New Title • hIsTOrY

The PreACher ANd The PrelATe The AChIll MIssION COlONY ANd The BATTle FOr sOuls IN FAMINe IrelANd

Patricia Byrne This is the extraordinary story of an audacious fight for souls on famine-ravaged Achill Island in the nineteenth century. Religious ferment swept Ireland in the early 1800s and evangelical Protestant clergyman Edward Nangle set out to lift the destitute people of Achill out of degradation and idolatry through his Achill Mission Colony.

The fury of the island elements, the devastation of famine, and Nangle’s own volatile temperament all threatened the project’s survival.

In the years of the Great Famine the ugly charge of ‘souperism’, offering food and material benefits in return for religious conversion, tainted the Achill Mission’s work.

John MacHale, powerful Archbishop of Tuam, spearheaded the Catholic Church’s fightback against Nangle’s Protestant colony, with the two clergymen unleashing fierce passions while spewing vitriol and polemic from pen and pulpit.

Did Edward Nangle and the Achill Mission Colony save hundreds from certain death, or did they shamefully exploit a vulnerable people for religious conversion? This dramatic tale of the Achill Mission Colony exposes the fault-lines of religion, society and politics in nineteenth century Ireland, and continues to excite controversy and division to this day.

Patricia Byrne is the author of The Veiled Woman of Achill: Island Outrage & a Playboy Drama (2012). She has contributed the Irish Times (Irishwoman’s Diary), New Hibernia Review, The Irish Story, RTE’s Sunday Miscellany and a range of other publications.

PAPERBACK APRIL 2018 €14.95 / £12.99 9781785371721 275 pages 19 colour & b/w photographs 216 x 135 mm

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New Title • hIsTOrY

sOldIerING AGAINsT suBVersION The IrIsh deFeNCe FOrCes ANd INTerNAl seCurITY durING The TrOuBles, 1969–1998

dan harvey During a time of high tension, terror and fear, the Irish Defence Forces faced the very real threat of the Irish State being plunged into a savagely sectarian civil war. The southern state faced a breakdown of law and order, severely challenged by manhunts, prison breaks, shoot-outs, kidnappings, bank robberies, subversive training camps, bomb-making factories, illegal weapons shipments, and border operations.

Soldiering Against Subversion is the dramatic and previously untold story of the Irish Defence Forces’ critical role in defending the southern state against paramilitary forces during the worse years of the modern Troubles. Retired Lieutenant Colonel, Dan Harvey, describes the major operations via in-depth interviews with Irish Defence veterans, revealing how these brave men and women protected the state on home soil.

From the kidnapping of Shergar and Quinsworth CEO Don Tidey, the manhunt and capture of INLA leader Dessie ‘the Border Fox’ O’Hare, the pandemonium as the Irish army quells a violent prison riot in Mountjoy in 1972, to the Irish navy’s efforts to thwart gun-running off the coast of Kerry, these first-hand accounts reveal the true story of the fight for the nation’s democracy.

Lieutenant Colonel Dan Harvey, now retired, served on operations at home and abroad for 40 years, including tours of duty in the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans and South Caucasus, with the UN, EU, NATO PfP and OSCE. He is the author of Into Action: Irish Peacekeepers Under Fire, 1960–2014 (2017) and Soldiers of the Short Grass: A History of the Curragh Camp (2016).

PAPERBACK AUGUST 2018 €19.95 / £17.99 9781785371851 260 pages 13 b/w photographs 226 x 153 mm

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New Title • hIsTOrY

The MeN WIll TAlk TO Me erNIe O’MAlleY’s INTerVIeWs WITh The NOrTherN dIVIsIONs síobhra Aiken, Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh, liam Ó duibhir & diarmuid Ó Tuama (eds)

The Men Will Talk to Me is a collection of interviews conducted and recorded by famed Irish republican revolutionary Ernie O’Malley during the 1940s and 1950s. The interviews were carried out with survivors of the four Northern Divisions of the IRA, chief among them Frank Aiken, Peadar O’Donnell and Paddy McLogan, who offer fascinating insights into Ulster’s centrality in the War of Independence and the slide towards Civil War. The title refers to the implicit trust that shadows these interviews, earned through Ernie O’Malley’s reputation as a fearsome military commander in the revolutionary movement – the veterans interviewed divulge details to O’Malley which they wouldn’t have disclosed to even their closest family members. Startlingly direct, the issues covered include the mobilization of the Dundalk Volunteers for the 1916 Rising, the events of Bloody Sunday (1920), the Belfast Pogroms, and the planning of historical escapes from the Curragh and Kilkenny Gaol.

Síobhra Aiken is an Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholar at the Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway.

PAPERBACK MAY 2018 €19.95 / £17.99 9781785372056 311 pages +30 b/w photographs 226 x 153 mm

Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh is the author of Fenians and Ribbonmen (2011) and The Irish Revolution: Tyrone 1912–23 (2014).

Liam Ó Duibhir is the author of Prisoners of War: Ballykinlar Interment Camp, 1920–1921 (2013), Donegal & the Irish Civil War: The Untold Story (2011).

Diarmuid Ó Tuama is a former Principal of the first Gaelscoil in the north, Bunscoil Phobal Feirste, and author of Cogadh na gCarad (Ó Chonradh go Saorstát).

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New Title • hIsTOrY

kIlkeNNY IN TIMes OF reVOluTION, 1900–1923

eoin swithin Walsh Veteran IRA leader Ernie O’Malley criticised County Kilkenny as being ‘slack’ during the War of Independence, but this fascinating new study of the period, by historian Eoin Swithin Walsh, challenges that view and reveals that Kilkenny was truly at the forefront of the struggle for Irish freedom. No Kilkenny citizen escaped the revolutionary era untouched, especially during the turmoil that followed the Easter Rising of 1916, the upheaval of the War of Independence and the tumultuous Civil War. Key personalities, revolutionary organisations and dramatic events in Kilkenny illuminate the country-wide struggle. Not to be forgotten, the lives of the ‘ordinary’ men and women of the county are explored, emphasising a life beyond politics and conflict. The listing of Kilkenny fatalities during the War of Independence is examined and, for the first time, combatants and civilians who died during the Truce and the Civil War are recorded, revealing an even more deadly conflict than previously believed.

Presenting a complete history of the county in the opening decades of the twentieth century – including the use of previously unseen archival material – Kilkenny: In Times of Revolution, 1900–1923 is an indispensable contribution to the literature on the turbulent birth of the Irish nation.

Eoin Swithin Walsh has a Master’s degree in Modern Irish History from UCD. He has written extensively on various aspects of Irish history, with articles appearing in local newspapers and periodicals He has worked with the 1916 Rebellion and Michael Collins walking tours of Dublin, and currently works in the civil service in a governmental role.

PAPERBACK AUGUST 2018 €19.95 / £17.99 9781785371974 387 pages +30 colour & b/w photographs 245 x 173.5 mm

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New Title • hIsTOrY

WAr ANd reVOluTION IN The WesT OF IrelANd GAlWAY, 1913–1922

Conor McNamara The period 1913–22 witnessed extraordinary upheaval in Irish society. The Easter Rising of 1916 facilitated the emergence of new revolutionary forces and the eruption of guerrilla warfare. In Galway and elsewhere in the west, the new realities wrought by World War One saw the emergence of a younger generation of impatient revolutionaries.

In 1916, Liam Mellows led his Irish Volunteers in a Rising in east Galway and up to 650 rebels took up defensive positions at Moyode Castle. From the western shores of Connemara to market towns such as Athenry, Tuam and Galway, local communities were subject to unprecedented use of terror by the Crown Forces. Meanwhile, conflict over land, an enduring grievance of the poor, threatened to overwhelm parts of Galway with sustained land seizures and cattle drives by the rural population.

War and Revolution in the West of Ireland: Galway, 1913– 1922 provides fascinating insights into the revolutionary activities of the ordinary men and women who participated in the struggle for independence. In this compelling new account, Galway historian Conor McNamara unravels the complex web of identity and allegiance that characterised the west of Ireland, exploring the enduring legacy of a remarkable and contested era.

Conor McNamara has written extensively about the history of the Irish revolution and rural society. He was previously a winner of the National Library of Ireland, History Fellowship (2009) and was awarded the 1916 Scholar in Residence at NUI Galway (2015–17).

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New Title • POlITICs

A CeNTurY OF POlITICs IN The kINGdOM A COuNTY kerrY COMPeNdIuM

Owen O’shea and Gordon revington In the 100 years since the establishment of Dáil Éireann, rarely has politics been so divisive, turbulent, engaging and entertaining as in County Kerry. A Century of Politics in the Kingdom captures the exhilarating highs and lows of politics in Kerry, featuring tales of scandal, punch-ups, election-campaign shenanigans, bitter inter-dynastic contests, as well as the stories of the ground-breaking Kerry politicians who made their mark on the national stage and beyond.

This fascinating book draws on new material from the political parties’ archives, original research and candid interviews. Featured are comprehensive biographical details of every Kerry Teachta Dála and senator since the foundation of the Irish State, seminal debates and discussions, rivalries and resentments, and good old-fashioned fun and games – all of which has characterised the political cauldron in the county over the last century.

Owen O’Shea, from Milltown, Co Kerry, is Communications Officer with Kerry County Council. A former Labour Party press officer and election candidate, he was journalist with Kerry’s Eye and Radio Kerry. He is the author of Heirs to the Kingdom: Kerry’s Political Dynasties (2011).

PAPERBACK OCTOBER 2018 €16.95 / £14.99 9781785372018 310 pages +100 colour & b/w photographs 226 x 153 mm

Gordon Revington is a journalist from Tralee, Co Kerry, who writes on Irish political history, rural affairs and sport. He contributed to Kerry 1916: Histories and Legacies of the Easter Rising – A Centenary Record (2016) MERRION PRESS

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New Title • POlITICs / CurreNT AFFAIrs

BeYONd The BOrder The GOOd FrIdAY AGreeMeNT ANd IrIsh uNITY AFTer BrexIT

richard humphreys

‘timely and enlightening … an essential read’ BERTIE AHERN, former Taoiseach ‘strives for scrupulousness fairness and impartiality … a thoughtful and excellent work’ DR MARY MCALEESE, former President of Ireland ‘remarkable … a significant publication in the search to maintain peace’ SUSAN DENHAM, former Chief Justice The Brexit vote for UK withdrawal from the EU has put the constitutional future of Northern Ireland centre-stage once again. Beyond the Border is an authoritative, timely and up-to-date guide to the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement. A compelling and accessible exploration of how the Agreement can be upheld despite Brexit uncertainties, and implemented despite political deadlock, it powerfully argues for the permanence of the Agreement and its cross-community approach, even in the event of the achievement of Irish unity.

PAPERBACK JULY 2018 €19.95 / £17.99 9781785372056 311 pages 215 x 135 mm

Richard Humphreys is a Judge of the Irish High Court. As a government adviser in 1996 he attended the launch of All-Party negotiations in Stormont that ultimately led to the Good Friday Agreement. He has lectured in law full-time in UCD and UCC, and part-time in TCD and NUI Galway. This is his third book. He has also authored numerous articles in academic journals and general publications.

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New Title • ArT

hArrY ClArke ANd ArTIsTIC VIsIONs OF The NeW IrIsh sTATe

Angela Griffith, Marguerite helmers & róisín kennedy (eds) This beautifully designed and fully illustrated book reveals how Harry Clarke, an Irish artist of international acclaim, responded to his commissions and to his public, analysing works produced at the height of his career in the context of the quest for a cohesive identity by the new Irish state.

A stellar list of contributors, with backgrounds in literature and art history, examine the complex relationship between visual art and literature that lies at the heart of Clarke’s contribution to Irish post-independence culture.

Their work highlights themes such as patronage, public reception, advertising, propaganda, war and memory, to place Clarke within a larger political and cultural context.

Essential reading for art lovers and scholars alike, Harry Clarke and Artistic Visions of the New Irish State will appeal to anyone interested in the arts of Ireland, and the history and development of early to mid-20th century visual and material culture.

Angela Griffith is an assistant professor with the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, TCD. Her research focuses on the art and agency of the printed image in Ireland.

Marguerite Helmers lectures in rhetoric and visual culture at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh; author of Harry Clarke’s War: Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914–1918 (2015).

Roísín Kennedy teaches in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy at UCD; former Yeats Curator at the National Gallery of Ireland and Curator of the State Collection at Dublin Castle.

HARDBACK NOVEMBER 2018 €29.95 / £26.99 9781788550451 380 pages +100 colour illustrations 240 x 190 mm

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New Title • lITerATure

BeING NeW YOrk, BeING IrIsh reFleCTIONs ON TWeNTY-FIVe YeArs OF IrIsh AMerICA ANd NeW YOrk uNIVersITY’s GluCksMAN IrelANd hOuse

Terry Golway Foreword: President of Ireland, Michael d. higgins Preface: NYu President, Andrew hamilton

New York University’s Glucksman Ireland House opened a quarter-century ago to foster the study of Ireland and Irish America, and since then has witnessed and led tremendous changes in Irish and Irish-American culture.

Alice McDermott writes about her son’s Irish awakening; Colum McCann’s Joycean essay is a brilliant call to action in defence of immigrants and social justice; Colm Tóibín’s first visit to New York coincided with the first St Patrick’s Day parade led by a woman; Dan Barry reflects on Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes; and a new poem by Seamus Heaney is featured, written not long before his death.

Through deeply personal essays that reflect on their own experience, research and art, some of the best-known Irish writers on both sides of the Atlantic commemorate the House’s anniversary by examining what has changed, and what has not, in Irish and Irish-American culture, art, identity, and politics since 1993.

Contributors also include: Paul Muldoon, Marion R. Casey, Miriam Nyhan Grey, Joe Lee, Billy Collins, Daniel Mulhall Terry Golway is a journalist and US political historian and has appeared on television, radio, and film in the US and in Ireland.

He is a senior editor at Politico, and past editorial board member of the New York Times.

HARDBACK SEPTEMBER 2018 €24.95 / £22.99 9781788550499 250 pages +100 colour illustrations 225 x 170 mm

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The ChIeF BuTlers OF IrelANd ANd The hOuse OF OrMONd AN IllusTrATed GeNeAlOGICAl GuIde

John kirwan This is the lavishly illustrated and fascinating account of one of the most powerful families in Irish history, the Butlers, whose lives were defined by astounding opulence – up to 10 per cent of all wine imported into Ireland was destined for their cellars, paid for by the Crown. The Butlers were based at Kilkenny Castle for over five centuries, and at other seats including Nenagh, Cahir, Roscrea, Kilcash and Thurles.

A vital new history for anyone with an interest in British and Irish genealogy and the dominant force of lineage over half a millennium, The Chief Butlers of Ireland and the House of Ormond is a comprehensive record of the lives of the Chief Butlers, Dukes, Marquesses and Earls of Ormond and their families, sumptuously illustrated with their original portraits. Also included is Kilkenny archaeologist Ben Murtagh’s essential essay, ‘Kilkenny Castle: An Outline of its History, Architecture and Archaeology’.

John Kirwan is a historian, author and consultant archivist. He has had many articles and essays published on Kilkenny history, places and families. Previous works include Kilkenny Families in the Great War, The Reminiscences of Marianne-Caroline Hamilton (1777–1861), Nooks and Corners of The County Kilkenny, and Statistical Observations Relative to The County of Kilkenny Made in the years 1801–2.

HARDBACK €50.00 / £45.00 9781911024040 417 pages fully illustrated 245 x 173.5 mm

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The WrONG COuNTrY essAYs ON MOderN IrIsh WrITING

Gerald dawe This engaging, personal chronicle by Irish poet Gerald Dawe explores the lives and times of leading Irish writers, including W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and Stewart Parker, alongside lesser-known names from the earlier decades of the twentieth century, such as Ethna Carberry, Alice Milligan, Joseph Campbell and George Reavey. It also portrays the changing cultural backgrounds of the author’s contemporaries, such as Derek Mahon, Eavan Boland, Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin, Colm Tóibín, Leontia Flynn and Sinéad Morrissey.

Gerald Dawe presents an accessible view of modern Irish literature, filtered perceptively through his own distinctive lens, and raises important questions about cultural belonging, the commercialisation of contemporary writing, and the influence of Irish literary culture in a digital age. In this lyrical exploration of national identity, The Wrong Country repositions our understanding of modern Irish writing in a wider context for today’s readers.

Gerald Dawe is an Irish poet and Professor Emeritus and Fellow, Trinity College Dublin. He has published nine volumes of poetry.

He has also edited Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry, 1914–1945 (2008) and the Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets (2018) and published several books of literary essays including Of War and War’s Alarms (2015) and In Another World: Van Morrison and Belfast (2017).

HARDBACK JUNE 2018 €22.95 / £19.99 9781788550284 302 pages 215 x 140 mm

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IrIsh WOMeN ANd The VOTe BeCOMING CITIZeNs ~ NeW edITION

louise ryan and Maragaret Ward (eds) This landmark book, reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Irish women being granted the right to vote, is the first comprehensive analysis of the Irish suffrage movement from its mid-nineteenth-century beginnings to when feminist militancy exploded on the streets of Dublin and Belfast in the early twentieth century.

The particular complexity of the Irish struggle is explored with new perspectives on unionist and nationalist suffragists and the conflict between Home Rule and suffragism, campaigning for the vote in country towns, life in industrial Belfast, conflicting feminist views on the First World War, and the suffragist uncovering of sexual abuse and domestic violence, as well as the pioneering use of hunger strike as a political tool.

The ultimate granting of the franchise in 1918 represented the end of a long-fought battle by Irish women for the right to equal citizenship, and the beginning of a new Ireland that continues to debate the rights and equality of its female citizens.

Dr Louise Ryan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield. Her publications include Winning the Vote for Women: the Irish Citizen Newspaper and the Suffrage Movement in Ireland (2018).

Dr Margaret Ward is Visiting Fellow in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast. Her publications include Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: Suffragette and Sinn Feiner (2017).

PAPERBACK JANUARY 2018 €19.95 / £17.99 9781788550130 286 pages 226 x 153 mm

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The quesT FOr The IrIsh CelT The hArVArd ArChAeOlOGICAl MIssION TO IrelANd, 1932–1936

MAIrÉAd CAreW The Quest for the Irish Celt is the fascinating story of Harvard University’s five-year archaeological research programme in Ireland during the 1930s to determine the racial and cultural heritage of the Irish people. The programme involved country-wide excavations and the examination of prehistoric skulls by physical anthropologists, and was complemented by the physical examinations of thousands of Irish people from across the country; measuring skulls, nose-shape and grade of hair colour.

The Harvard scientists’ mission was to determine who the Celts were, what was their racial type, and what element in the present-day population represented the descendants of the earliest inhabitants of the island. Though the Harvard Mission was hugely influential, there were theories of eugenics involved that would shock the modern reader.

Mairéad Carew explores this extraordinary archaeological mission, examining its historic importance for Ireland and Irish-America, its landmark findings, and the unseemly activities that lay just beneath the surface.

Mairéad Carew is an archaeologist and writer. She has worked as a lecturer in the School of History and the School of English in UCD, and coordinated courses for UCD International. She is the author of Tara and the Ark of the Covenant: The Guidebook.

She has also published short stories and poetry. She is the recipient of a Listowel Writers’ Week Award and has been shortlisted for the Hennessy Award.

HARDBACK MARCH 2018 €24.95 / £21.99 9781788550093 325 pages 27 b/w photographs 226 x 153 mm

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NOrTherN IrelANd’s ’68 CIVIl rIGhTs, GlOBAl reVOlT ANd The OrIGINs OF The TrOuBles ~ NeW edITION

simon Prince The Troubles may have developed into a sectarian conflict, but the violence was sparked by a small band of leftists who wanted Derry in October 1968 to be a repeat of Paris in May of the same year. Like their French comrades, Northern Ireland’s ‘sixty-eighters’ had assumed that street fighting would lead to political struggle. The struggle that followed, however, was between communities rather than classes. In the divided society of Northern Ireland, the interaction of the global and the local, that was the hallmark of 1968, had tragic consequences.

Drawing on a wealth of new sources and scholarship, Simon Prince offers a fresh and compelling interpretation of the civil rights movement of 1968 and the origins of the Troubles. The authoritative and enthralling narrative weaves together accounts of high politics and grassroots protests, mass movements and individuals, and international trends and historic divisions, to show how events in Northern Ireland and around the world were interconnected during the long ’68.

This new edition features a preface reflecting on how the start of the Troubles has been commemorated and on the role of historians in the dealing with the past process.

Simon Prince is a Senior Lecturer in Canterbury Christ Church University’s School of Humanities. His research is concerned with how relations between the local, national, and transnational shaped protest movements and the production of violence, with civil breakdown in democracies, and with narratives of the Troubles. His publications include Belfast and Derry in Revolt: A New History of the Start of the Troubles (co-authored with Geoffrey Warner, 2011).

PAPERBACK SEPTEMBER 2018 €19.95 / £17.99 9781788550369 296 pages 234 x 156 mm

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The TreATY deBATING ANd esTABlIshING The IrIsh sTATe

Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh and liam Weeks (eds) ‘I tell you this early morning I signed my death warrant’ Michael Collins on the day that the Anglo-Irish Treaty was concluded, 6 December 1921 The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 was narrowly accepted by the revolutionary Dáil Éireann in January 1922, splitting Sinn Féin irrevocably and leading to the Irish Civil War, a rupture that still defines the Irish political landscape almost one hundred years on.

Drawing together the work of a diverse range of scholars, who each re-examine this critical period in Irish political history from a variety of fascinating perspectives, The Treaty addresses the vexed question of the vote itself – how political factions were represented and how they fashioned their fervent rhetoric – and the enduring shockwaves it sent through Irish society.

Liam Weeks is a lecturer in the Department of Government & Politics, University College Cork, and is author of All Politics is Local: A Guide to Local Elections in Ireland (with Aodh Quinlivan, 2009), Radical or Redundant? Minor Parties in Irish Political Life (co-edited with Alastair Clark, 2012) and Independents in Irish Party Democracy (2017).

Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh is a lecturer in the Department of Humanities & Social Science, Dublin Business School, and is author of Irish Agriculture Nationalised: The Dairy Disposal Company and the Making of the Modern Irish Dairy Industry (2014) and Developing Rural Ireland: A History of the Irish Agricultural Advisory Services (forthcoming, 2019).

PAPERBACK • HARDBACK SEPTEMBER 2018 €19.95 / £17.99 • €70.00 / £65.00 9781788550413 • 9781788550406

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BreNdAN O’reGAN IrIsh INNOVATOr, VIsIONArY, PeACeMAker Brian O’Connell with Cian O’Carroll

This authoritative biography of O’Regan sets out that legacy in a well researched and compelling narrative. It is essential reading for anyone seeking a well-founded and original perspective on the evolution of Irish industry, aviation and tourism over the last seventy years. It also provides an assessment of O’Regan’s important, but largely unheralded, role in the promotion of peace and reconciliation in Ireland.

Author, Brian O’Connell, and collaborator, Cian O’Carroll, knew their subject well through Shannon Development (SFADCO), the regional development agency O’Regan first headed. With good foresight, they persuaded him, at the age of eighty-seven, to record orally his personal memories of the events and the many prominent personalities in Ireland and abroad he met and dealt with.

O’Connell’s biography combines this oral account with interviews of nearly 100 of Brendan’s contemporaries and extensive original material from Irish state archives. It makes an invaluable contribution to the history of those transitional years between the era of creating statehood and modern Ireland.

Brian O’Connell is a former director of Shannon Development (SFADCO) and a former chairman of Shannon Heritage. As Chairman of Shannon Heritage, O’Connell initiated the publication of an oral archive of the memories of Brendan O’Regan, in 2004.

His biography John Hunt: The Man, The Medievalist, The Connoisseur was published in 2013 and he co-authored the biography of Tipperary man, General Sir William Carrol, published in Spanish in 2009.

HARDBACK MAY 2018 €29.95 / £24.99 9781788550246 553 pages +200 illustrations 234 x 170 mm

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NANO NAGle The lIFe ANd The leGACY

deirdre raftery with Catriona delaney and Catherine Nowlan-roebuck The first biographical study of Nano Nagle, the foundress of the Presentation order of nuns, that positions her within Irish social history, and assesses her vast international legacy. Nano Nagle: The Life and the Legacy draws on archival materials from three continents, providing a compelling account of how one woman’s extraordinary life challenged social constraints and championed social justice and equality.

Leading education historian, Deirdre Raftery, has produced not only a vital new biographical study of an exceptional Irish woman, but also a study of how thousands of Irish women joined the Presentation order of nuns and taught in their schools all over the world. Within that is the story of the Irish female diaspora in Newfoundland, India, North America, England, Australia, Africa and the Philippines.

Nano Nagle: The Life and the Legacy throws opens a new window on an unknown aspect of Irish social history, while also demonstrating Ireland’s significant contribution to the global history of female education.

Deidre Raftery is Professor of the History of Education at UCD, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her work on the history of women religious has won several awards.

Catriona Delaney is currently the Nano Nagle Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Education, University College Dublin.

Catherine Nowlan-Roebuck completed her PhD in the history of education at University College Dublin, which examined the involvement of the Presentation Sisters Irish education in the nineteenth century.

HARDBACK OCTOBER 2018 €24.95 / £22.99 9781788550574 314 pages 20 b/w photographs 234 x 156 mm

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MArshAl WIllIAM CArr BeresFOrd ‘The ABlesT MAN I hAVe YeT seeN WITh The ArMY’

Marcus de la Poer Beresford

Despite a propensity toward fierce criticism of his generals, with great regard the Duke of Wellington referred to William Carr Beresford as ‘the ablest man I have yet seen in the army’.

Marshal William Carr Beresford is the story of a celebrated and distinguished Irishman, honoured and decorated by the governments of Great Britain, Portugal and Spain, who served as Commander in Chief of the Portuguese army for eleven years. The book follows the trajectory of Beresford’s extensive military career. Born the illegitimate son of the 1st Marquis of Waterford, Beresford joined the British army in 1785, serving in the Mediterranean, Egypt, South Africa and South America, before further distinguishing himself – and meeting Wellington’s redoubtable esteem – as Marshal of the Portuguese forces during the Peninsular War. Sent to Portugal to rebuild its army in the fight against Napoleon, Beresford was so successful that Wellington integrated the Portuguese and British armed forces in that struggle.

Beresford is revealed as a trusted friend and confidant of Wellington, a relationship that was to endure for the rest of their lives. Their ability to work together led to Beresford’s appointment as Master General of Ordinance in Wellington’s government of 1828.

Marcus de la Poer Beresford trained at Trinity College Dublin as an historian, before qualifying as a lawyer. His earlier research focused on Ireland in the eighteenth century and the Irish diaspora following the Treaty of Limerick in 1691. He is a distant relative of William Carr Beresford.

HARDBACK NOVEMBER 2018 €35.00 / £30.00 9781788550321 432 pages +80 illustrations 247 x 180 mm

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