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AUGUST National Gallery Diary 2014 978 0 7171 5772 3 • GILL & MACMILLAN TEAM, WHO ARE:

SEPTEMBER The Publishers Tony Ryan 978 0 7171 5781 5 • • Richard Aldous

Dublin Burning 978 0 7171 5619 1 • • W.J. Brennan-Whitmore FERGAL TOBIN AND NICKI HOWARD

The Year’s at the Spring 978 0 7171 5822 5 • Illustrated by Harry Clarke Caring for the Nation 978 0 7171 5780 8 • Sr Eugene Nolan The Managing Editors New Thinking = New Ireland 978 0 7171 5854 6 • • Louise Hodgson DEIRDRE RENNISON KUNZ AND CATHERINE GOUGH Freedom to Achieve Freedom 978 0 7171 5775 4 • • Donal P. Corcoran

GAAconomics 978 0 7171 5453 1 • Michael Moynihan The Production Chief A Dictionary of Hiberno-English 3rd edition 978 0 7171 5860 7 • Terence P. Dolan

Good Food 978 0 7171 5425 8 • • John McKenna MAIREAD O’KEEFFE

Lilly’s Dream Deli 978 0 7171 5665 8 • Lilly Higgins The Production Controllers OCTOBER JENNIFER BRADY AND ANNA CARROLL The Weekend Chef 978 0 7171 5861 4 • Catherine Fulvio

The Irish Beef Book 978 0 7171 5594 1 • Pat Whelan & Katy McGuinness

The Irish Revolution 1912–25 978 0 7171 5603 0 • Fergal Tobin The Photo Researcher

Different Class 978 0 7171 5858 4 • • Jimmy Magee JEN PATTON How to (Really) be a Mother 978 0 7171 5848 5 • • Emily Hourican

A Portrait of Dublin in Maps 978 0 7171 5616 0 • Muiris de Buitléir The Publicist The Last Word 978 0 7171 5753 2 • • Diarmaid Ó Muirithe TERESA DALY The Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne 978 0 7171 5851 5 • • Gay Byrne

Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf 978 0 7171 5778 5 • • Seán Duffy

Revolutionary Ireland 978 0 7171 5709 9 • George Morrison The Sales Guys

The Christmas Story 978 0 7171 5859 1 • PETER THEW, PAUL NEILAN AND CHRIS CARROLL The Nation’s Favourite Food 978 0 7171 5855 3 • Neven Maguire

The Irish Countrywomen’s Association Book 978 0 7171 5771 6 • Irish Countrywomen’s The Staples that Bind the Process Together of Home and Family Association

Chapter One 978 0 7171 5787 7 • Ross Lewis LINDA MURPHY, DEBORAH MARSH AND AUDREY FLANAGAN

The Money Doctor 2014 978 0 7171 5786 0 • John Lowe

NOVEMBER The Irish Times Book of the Year 2013 978 0 7171 5785 3 • Peter Murtagh

If You Want to Know Who We Are 978 0 7171 5712 9 • Myles Dungan NEW VOICES, OLD FAVOURITES …

Welcome to the Gill & Macmillan catalogue of new books. This season’s collection sees the welcome return of some of Ireland’s best-loved personalities.

GAY BYRNE, who we last published 25 years ago, is back with the first book on his absorbing television series The Meaning of Life. Much-loved Irish chefs CATHERINE FULVIO and NEVEN MAGUIRE return with (in our opinion!) their best books yet. And sports lovers will be delighted to welcome back JIMMY MAGEE in his countdown of the great and the good in Different Class.

And then there are our new voices. EMILY HOURICAN debuts with How to (Really) Be a Mother, a war cry for modern mothers everywhere, and for a totally new way of looking at our capital city, MUIRIS DE BUITLÉIR’S A Portrait of Dublin in Maps illustrates the city’s history, geography, people and society in maps in a truly unique way. And for some refreshing optimism, look no further than NEW THINKING = NEW IRELAND a collection of essays from 21 of Ireland’s brightest young brains.

One book which blends the old and the new is ROSS LEWIS’S Chapter One. It celebrates 21 years of outstanding Irish achievement in food, artisan production and craftsmanship. And this new book orchestrates some of Ireland’s finest talents from food, photography, design and print to create a truly beautiful symphony.

Enjoy!

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OCTOBER 320 PP

277 X 219 MM HARDBACK

978 0 7171 5709 9 €29.99 / £26.99

Revolutionary Ireland GEORGE MORRISON

George Morrison, now in his 90s, is a film director and archivist who was born in Tramore, Co. Waterford. He first established his AN ESSENTIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC GUIDE reputation as long ago as TO A KEY PERIOD IN MODERN IRISH 1959 with the breakthrough HISTORY. film documentary ‘Mise Éire’, for which Seán Ó Ireland’s most distinguished photographic restorer and Riada wrote the famous film maker draws from his huge collection of images to musical score, and ‘Saoirse?’ cover the entire sweep of the ferment that ended British (1961). He also made many documentaries and rule in nationalist Ireland. produced a number of George Morrison reproduces images of the key people important photographic and events up to the end of the Civil War and beyond, books on modern Irish history including The Irish including the background to the events themselves, Civil War: A Photographic as well as the transformative series of revolutionary Record with Tim Pat moments – centred on the Easter Rising of 1916 – that Coogan. created modern Ireland.

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OCTOBER 224 PP

277 X 219 MM HARDBACK

978 0 7171 5616 0 €29.99 / £26.99

A Portrait of Dublin in Maps MUIRIS DE BUITLÉIR

Muiris de Buitléir has lived in Dublin all his life. He studied architecture THIS EXCEPTIONAL VISUAL WORK DOES FOR at the Dublin Institute DUBLIN WHAT THE ATLAS OF THE GREAT of Technology in Bolton IRISH FAMINE HAS DONE FOR ITS SUBJECT. Street and holds a master’s degree in geographical In a unique presentation of data, Muiris de Buitléir information systems. Now provides a cartographic overview of the city of Dublin. retired, he was a surveyor and cartographer with the Each page covers a single view of the whole city at a Office of Public Works and common scale covering a single theme or subject, so that geographical information patterns and inter-relationships can be appreciated. systems manager with Dúchas and the Department The maps deal with tangible things such as social of the Environment. class, economic status, politics and religion and also This unique book is the hidden things such as geology, drainage, water and culmination of his interest electricity supply. Its principal sections cover the history in maps and his love of Dublin. and development of Dublin; its physical structure and function; its utilities and services; its administrative areas; its politics; and its people.

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OCTOBER 224 PP

245 X 175 MM HARDBACK

978 0 7171 5771 6

€22.99 / £19.99

The Irish Country- women’s Association Book of Home and Family WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE WHAT IS IRISH COUNTRY- MORE IMPORTANT THAN HOME AND FAMILY? WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION In their fantastic new book, hundreds of Irish women share their precious first-hand experience on how to make The ICA was founded in a house a home. May 1910 with the aim Whether you’re looking for a tip to remove a stain from ‘to improve the standard of life in rural Ireland your dress, or a quiet word of wisdom on marital harmony, through education and a ‘how-to’ for taking a garden cutting or inspiration for a co-operative effort’. Today home-made gift, you know you can trust the ICA’s advice the ICA has 700 local to be practical and achievable. Guilds. They continue to offer support and fun as If you’ve ever wished you’d written down all that your well as opportunities to mother and grandmother told you, then let the women make friends, learn new of the ICA guide you through home management from skills and contribute to the wider community. The beginning to end. ICA Cookbook (2012) was a bestseller.

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OCTOBER 320 PP

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978 0 7171 5787 7 €39.99 / £34.99

Chapter One ROSS LEWIS with photography by BARRY MCCALL

Ross Lewis is a Michelin star-winning chef and co-owner of the restaurant Chapter One. He grew up on a farm and went on to study Dairy Science at THE MUST-HAVE GIFT COOKBOOK FOR University College Cork. He IRELAND’S FOODIES. worked at Odin’s, Dolphin Brasserie and Le Chat Botté Chapter One turns 21 this year. This cookbook is a fitting Restaurant before opening tribute to the achievements of one of Ireland’s best Chapter One. He is married restaurants and to the achievements of the Irish food with three daughters and industry. Starting out from the basement of the Irish lives in Seapoint, Dublin. Writer’s Museum in Parnell Square in 1992, the restaurant went on to astonishing success, winning numerous awards and a loyal following. The Art of Eating summed it up best when they said: ‘Chapter One today presents a defining picture of modern Irish cooking – superlative in technique, grounded in the produce of artisan suppliers, and served with easeful charm.’ This beautiful book showcases the quality of the cooking at Chapter One, together with the Irish producers and staff who give the restaurant its heartbeat.

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SEPTEMBER 224 PP

247 X 189 MM HARDBACK

978 0 7171 5665 8 €22.99 / £19.99

Lilly’s Dream Deli LILLY HIGGINS

Lilly Higgins was born and raised in Cobh, Co. Cork. She has taught at Ballymaloe Cookery School and writes a popular blog, HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED OF OWNING YOUR Stuff I Make, Bake and OWN CAFÉ? LILLY HIGGINS HAS … Love. Her first book Make, Bake, Love was a bestseller. While she’s waiting for that dream to come true, her new She is a weekly columnist cookbook shares all the recipes that will feature on the for The Sunday Business menu. Post, a regular chef on RTÉ afternoon television and This is a collection of tried and tested, fresh and simple this autumn she will be a recipes that fit nicely into modern life. Lilly will show you mentor on RTÉ’s Ireland’s how to bring lots of flavour into every day food so you can Best Young Baker. Lilly ran a monthly supper club look forward to every mealtime, just like you do at your in Dublin for a year and it favourite café. inspired her delicatessen dreams. Lilly lives in Cobh Enjoy breakfasts of homemade granola and smoothies, with her partner and two gorgeous soups bursting with flavour, stunning supper small sons. ideas and, of course, lots of delicious sweet treats.

So come on in, the dream deli is open!

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OCTOBER 256 PP

247 X 189 MM HARDBACK

978 0 7171 5594 1 €24.99 / £21.99

The Irish Beef Book PAT WHELAN and KATY McGUINNESS

Pat Whelan is the fifth generation of his family to be involved in farming and meat production. He is THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO IRISH BEEF: recognised as an Irish Food BUTCHERY KNOW-HOW AND RECIPES FOR Hero by Rick Stein. From NOSE-TO-TAIL EATING. his farm at Garrintemple, Pat supplies all the beef This is the definitive guide to buying and cooking Irish and lamb to his family beef. Pat Whelan, a fifth-generation farmer and butcher, business, James Whelan shares his evangelical passion with readers, equipping Butchers, Ireland’s first online butchers. Pat lives in them with the knowledge to seek out the very best Clonmel with his wife and beef available, butchery techniques and how-tos. Katy three children. McGuinness shows you how to create delicious dishes Katy McGuinness is a using every part of the animal. restaurant critic and food writer. She is a contributing The recipes have been selected to ensure that this is the editor at The Gloss and only guide to cooking beef the domestic cook will ever writes regular food features need. The classics are all included, as are quick and easy for The Sunday Times. Katy mid-week suppers and more complex dishes for leisurely is a member of the Irish weekend entertaining. Food Writers Guild. She lives in Dublin with her husband and four children.

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OCTOBER 224 PP

247 X 189 MM HARDBACK

978 0 7171 5861 4 €22.99 / £19.99

The Weekend Chef CATHERINE FULVIO

Catherine Fulvio is the proprietor of the FORGET ABOUT WORK. FORGET ABOUT Ballyknocken House Cookery School, Co. EXPRESS MEALS. CLOSE THE DOOR, FIRE UP Wicklow, where she lives THE COOKER, TURN THE MUSIC ON – IT’S with her husband and THE WEEKEND! two children. She is one Catherine Fulvio’s new cookbook takes you through the of Ireland’s top television culinary stars and her most weekend in style, from Friday night curry to Saturday recent cookbook, Eat Like brunch, and rainy-day baking to Sunday’s family dinner. an Italian, was winner of the Irish Cookbook of the If weekday breakfasts consist of a quick bowl of cereal Year at the 2012 Bord Gáis before running out the door, now’s the time for Chocolate Energy Irish Book Awards. French Toast with Hazelnuts and Raspberries. If mid-week meals consist of express rice and fast food, why not host a tapas night and make Garlic Artichokes and Mushrooms, Roasted Grapes with Jamon Serrano and Patatas Bravas? Everybody loves the weekend. It’s time to kick off your shoes, let your hair down and enjoy the good things in life: friends, family and good food.

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OCTOBER 256 PP

247 X 189 MM HARDBACK

978 0 7171 5855 3 €22.99 / £19.99

The Nation’s Favourite Food NEVEN MAGUIRE

After studying catering in Fermanagh College in Enniskillen, Neven Maguire trained in some of the most high-profile DESTINED FOR CLASSIC STATUS, THE restaurants in the world. In NATION’S FAVOURITE FOOD WILL BE THE 2001, Neven took over the MOST HARD-WORKING THING IN YOUR family business, MacNean KITCHEN – SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE. Restaurant, turning a local establishment into In his fantastic new cookbook, Neven presents his top a national phenomenon. 100 recipes. These are Neven’s all-stars – the fool-proof, Neven presents the top- tried and tested definitive versions of the food Irish people rated cookery show on RTÉ, Home Chef. He lives in make every day of the week. Blacklion, Co. Cavan with Each section contains five absolute classics, so you won’t his wife, Amelda, and twins, Connor and Lucia. His most be overwhelmed by choice; rather, you will be inspired to recent book, The MacNean learn the recipes off by heart as you make them over and Restaurant Cookbook was a over again. If you learn just one dish from each section, bestseller. you will have 20 perfect recipes in your repertoire and will be well on your way to wowing in the kitchen.

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SEPTEMBER 288 PP

234 X 156 MM HARDBACK AND EBOOK

978 0 7171 5781 5 €24.99 / £21.99

Tony Ryan RICHARD ALDOUS

Richard Aldous holds the Eugene Meyer Chair at Bard College, New York, having previously taught for 15 years at UCD. He is the bestselling author of numerous books, including Great Irish Speeches , THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY OF ONE OF Reagan and Thatcher, and THE MOST REMARKABLE IRISHMEN OF THE The Lion and Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli. TWENTIETH CENTURY. Tony Ryan was the single-minded, visionary young man from Tipperary who went on to become one of Ireland’s greatest entrepreneurs, overseeing the making of two business fortunes and the losing of one. Ryan set up an airline leasing company, Guinness Peat Aviation, the largest such enterprise in the world. GPA famously crashed in the 1990s and Ryan lost almost everything. What remained was a little airline that was chronically loss making. Ryan set about turning Ryanair around, tasking Michael O’Leary with knocking it into shape – and the rest is history. Ryan remade his fortune, lived lavishly and elegantly, was a generous patron of the arts, and in every respect a larger-than-life character. In a welcome analysis of one of the most influential Irish men of the twentieth century, Richard Aldous is independent in his judgments and writes with verve and pace.

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OCTOBER 256 PP

234 X 156 MM HARDBACK AND EBOOK

978 0 7171 5851 5 €22.99 / £19.99

The Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne GAY BYRNE

Gay Byrne is a veteran presenter of radio and television. Described by The Irish Times as ‘unquestionably the most ALL THE BIG QUESTIONS – AND SOME influential radio and INTERESTING ANSWERS – FROM television man in the history GAY BYRNE’S POPULAR TV SHOW. of the Irish State’, he continues in his What’s it all about? Why am I here? Is there a God? What ‘retirement’ to be a much happens when we die? On RTÉ’s The Meaning of Life, Gay loved Irish broadcaster. Byrne has spoken with public figures about these questions His most notable role was first host of The Late Late and many others. Like him, none of them is a religious Show over a 37-year period expert, but all of them have, at times, had cause to think spanning 1962 until 1999. about life and its meaning. He has presented The Meaning of Life since 2009. Here, for the first time Gay recollects the most insightful discussions on the big themes: childhood, love, faith, disbelief, morality, grief – the universal themes that bind us all – and reveals the meaning the interviews have had for him. Gay suggests that the show’s success is less to do with the profile of its guests and more about the fact that viewers can imagine themselves in the hot-seat. “How would I answer that one…? What do I think…?” Now, readers can re-experience the interviews at leisure and ponder their own beliefs from the written word.

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SEPTEMBER 256 PP

234 X 156 MM PAPERBACK AND EBOOK

978 0 7171 5453 1 €16.99 / £14.99

GAA- conomics MICHAEL MOYNIHAN

Michael Moynihan is a journalist with the Irish Examiner covering sport and politics. He is the Blood bestselling author of THE ECONOMICS OF THE GAA. Brothers, the definitive book on the Cork hurling team of Michael Moynihan takes a look behind the scenes to the last decade. reveal the truth about the GAA and searches for answers to the awkward questions: • Why won’t hurling and Gaelic football become professional? • What would it cost to complete Croke Park? • What is the economic benefit of winning an All-Ireland? • What are the spin-offs for players? • And, by the way, what county supporters really bring their own sandwiches to the All-Ireland final? Michael Moynihan talks frankly to current and recent players and gets the inside story on how money courses through the GAA.

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OCTOBER 224 PP

234 X 156 MM HARDBACK AND EBOOK

978 0 7171 5858 4 €19.99 / £17.99

Different Class JIMMY MAGEE

Jimmy Magee is an institution in Irish broadcasting. Indeed, he has the distinction of being the longest-serving sports broadcaster in the ICONIC SPORTS COMMENTATOR REVEALS English-speaking world. WHO HE THINKS IS THE BEST OF THE BEST. His autobiography, Memory Man, was a bestseller. In Different Class the Memory Man gives us his entertaining and forensic insight into which sporting heroes he believes can be justifiably described as Different Class, all of whom he has met over a career that has spanned seven decades. He casts a critical eye over legendary figures like Muhammad Ali, Maradona, Matt Busby, and Tiger Woods. Among those Jimmy celebrates in the Irish camp are George Best, Katie Taylor, Eamonn Coghlan, Brian O’Driscoll, Stephen Roche and virtually anybody who’s been anybody in the GAA. With such a stellar cast, this book is definitely in a Different Class.

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OCTOBER 256 PP

216 X 135 MM PAPERBACK AND EBOOK

978 0 7171 5848 5 €16.99 / £14.99

How to (Really) Be a Mother EMILY HOURICAN

Emily Hourican is a journalist and editor. She writes regularly for the Sunday Independent MOTHERHOOD HAS NEVER BEEN SO and Image magazine and DISSECTED, DECONSTRUCTED AND contributes to Condé Nast DISCUSSED. WHEN DID MOTHERHOOD Traveller and Woman & BECOME MOTHERSHOULD? Home in the UK. She was founding editor of The This is a book to take the sting out of motherhood, for all Dubliner magazine. She has those times when you feel at the end of your tether and three children and lives in your wits, when the delicate balance you have contrived Dublin. around you starts to tip into chaos and despair, when you feel you’re getting it wrong, while the rest of the world gets it right … and that your children will suffer the consequences. Part memoir, part rant, part laugh-out-loud – buy this book and say goodbye to guilt! Read it. Relax. It’s time to reclaim modern motherhood in all its messiness.

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SEPTEMBER 224 PP

216 X 135 MM PAPERBACK AND EBOOK

978 0 7171 5425 8 €14.99 / £12.99

Good Food JOHN MCKENNA

John McKenna has a science degree and a medical degree and has been practising natural medicine for 25 years. He is the bestselling author of Hard to Stomach, Natural Alternatives to Antibiotics JOHN MCKENNA SURVEYS THE RECENT and Alternatives to HISTORY OF FOOD PROCESSING, ITS Tranquilisers. He lives in Co. Wexford. APPARENTLY RELENTLESS ADVANCE AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR OUR HEALTH. John McKenna was raised on good, healthy food, growing up in the Irish countryside. He went on to spend years working as a doctor in West Africa where he lived on the simple local diet. On returning to the UK in 2003 he was shocked to see the foods that people were eating in the developed world and the damage they were doing to people’s health. Here he analyses the diet of a typical child in modern Ireland, revealing the highly toxic nature of the foods we now eat every day. He explains why diseases such as diabetes, obesity, heart disease and cancer are on the increase and why food intolerances are increasing at a phenomenal rate. He goes on to set out the cornerstones for a healthy, nutrient-rich diet.

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SEPTEMBER 256 PP

216 X 135 MM PAPERBACK AND EBOOK

978 0 7171 5854 6 €14.99 / £12.99

New Thinking = New Ireland LOUISE HODGSON

Louise Hodgson is programme director of The Undergraduate Awards. From humble beginnings, The Undergraduate Awards MEET THE YOUNG IRISH NEW THINKERS has rapidly expanded to AS THEY SHARE THEIR VISION FOR A NEW include top-tier universities IRELAND. across the globe. The annual Undergraduate Awards What Ireland needs now more than ever is new thinking. Summit has been described New Thinking = New Ireland brings together 21 of as ‘a Davos for students’. Ireland’s brightest young minds who are determined to Louise was previously make a bright future for themselves, their communities, editor of Who’s Who in Irish Business 2008–2010; Most and their country. Influential US-Irish Business This new generation thinks differently because the status Leaders 2008 and editor of Life Sciences Review. She quo is not an option. lives in Dublin. Each essay sets out an optimistic and aspirational vision for everything from economics to art, science to banking, and religion to transport. These are tomorrow’s leaders. The future is bright.

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OCTOBER 256 PP

234 X 156 MM HARDBACK AND EBOOK

978 0 7171 5778 5 €24.99 / £21.99

Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf SEÁN DUFFY

Seán Duffy is Professor of Medieval History at Trinity College Dublin and is one of A FAR-REACHING REASSESSMENT OF BRIAN Ireland’s foremost medieval BORU AND THE BATTLE OF CLONTARF, historians. Previous books PUBLISHED ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIAL include Ireland in the Middle Ages (1997) and The ANNIVERSARY. Concise History of Ireland Once, we were told that Brian, the great Christian king, (2000) and he is editor of gave his life in a battle on Good Friday against pagan the long-running Medieval Viking enemies whose defeat banished them from Ireland Dublin series (2000–). forever. More recent interpretations of the Battle of Clontarf have played down the role of the Vikings and portrayed it as merely the final act in a rebellion against Brian, the king of Munster, by his enemies in Leinster and Dublin. Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf offers a new interpretation of the role of the Vikings in Irish affairs and explains how Brian emerged from obscurity to attain the high-kingship of Ireland because of his exploitation of the Viking presence. And it concludes that Clontarf was deemed a triumph, despite Brian’s death, because of what he averted – a major new Viking offensive in Ireland – on that fateful day.

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OCTOBER 224 PP

245 X 175 MM HARDBACK AND EBOOK

978 0 7171 5603 0 €19.99 / £17.99

The Irish Revolution 1912–25 FERGAL TOBIN

Fergal Tobin is an historian and Publishing Director for Gill & Macmillan Books. Under his pseudonym Richard Killeen, Fergal AN ILLUSTRATED, POPULAR HISTORY Tobin is the author of COVERING THE ENTIRE REVOLUTIONARY Historical Atlas of Dublin PERIOD FROM 1912–1925. and Ireland in Brick and Stone. With this book, he Published as we enter the years of commemoration centred reverts to his own name. on the centenary of the Easter Rising, this generously illustrated popular history begins with the Ulster crisis of 1912 and traces the turbulent events of the following ten years, down to the final report of the boundary commission in 1925 which stabilised the border between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. Naturally, the Easter Rising of 1916 is the central event. The Ireland that emerged from the revolutionary period is the Ireland with which we are all familiar. The series of events, vividly described in this book and illustrated with photographs and maps, have made the island that we know.

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SEPTEMBER 224 PP

216 X 135 MM HARDBACK AND EBOOK

978 0 7171 5930 7 €19.99 / £17.99

Dublin Burning W.J. BRENNAN- WHITMORE

W.J. Brennan-Whitmore, a native of Co. Wexford, was a journalist by profession and a member of the Irish Volunteers. In addition to A RARE MEMOIR FROM A PARTICIPANT IN Dublin Burning, he also THE EASTER RISING, REISSUED AHEAD OF wrote With the Irish in Frongoch, an account of his THE CENTENARY COMMEMORATIONS. time as an internee. He died Dublin Burning is a vivid, clear-eyed account of the 1916 in 1977. Rising and is the most complete account we have from a participant. No other senior Volunteer figure has left a similar memoir of Easter Week. The author documents his time commanding the Volunteer position at the head of North Earl Street. He and his troops attempted to frustrate the opposition but were forced to retreat by British artillery and were ultimately captured and interned in Frongoch in Wales until 1917. Brennan-Whitmore’s book is a unique document, one of the most valuable accounts of the Rising available to us.

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SEPTEMBER 288 PP

234 X 156 MM HARDBACK AND EBOOK

978 0 7171 5775 4 €40 / £35

Freedom to Achieve Freedom DONAL P. CORCORAN

Donal P. Corcoran is a retired accountant who did a PhD in the history department in UCC as a THE FIRST MAJOR BOOK ON IRELAND’S retirement project. This TRANSITION FROM REVOLUTION TO STATE book is the product of his MAKING, A PREVIOUSLY NEGLECTED PERIOD doctorate. IN MODERN IRISH HISTORY. Freedom to Achieve Freedom reviews the processes of state building and the policies adopted in all the major areas of government, paying particular attention to law and order, the creation of the Irish public service, land policy, health, education and the Irish language, as well as other areas of public policy. It’s easy to forget that the establishment of a stable, democratic state in the circumstances in which Ireland found itself in 1922 was an achievement unique in Europe. All the other independent states that emerged from the rubble of World War I soon yielded to some form of authoritarian or fascist government. The achievement of the founding fathers of the Irish state, so ably chronicled in this book, is a cause for celebration.

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OCTOBER 224 PP

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978 0 7171 5712 9 €24.99 / £21.99

If You Want to Know Who We Are MYLES DUNGAN

AUTHOR Poster promoting the R&R’s first performance in 1913, The Mikado Myles Dungan is an historian and one of Ireland’s best-known radio THE OFFICIAL CENTENARY HISTORY OF broadcasters. DUBLIN’S CELEBRATED MUSICAL SOCIETY. The Rathmines & Rathgar Musical Society has been part of Dublin’s cultural landscape for 100 years. Founded in 1913, it has been indelibly linked to the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan, although – as Myles Dungan points out in this crisply written history – their repertoire has embraced many other composers including such luminaries of the American musical as Rogers and Hammerstein and Jerome Kern. The history traces the internal politics of the R&R, its often turbulent relationship with theatre managements and its evolution along with general changes in Dublin life and society. At the end of its first century, it is still going strong, a familiar and beloved part of the city’s cultural infrastructure.

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SEPTEMBER 288 PP

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978 0 7171 5780 8 €29.99 / £26.99

Caring for the Nation SR EUGENE NOLAN

Sr Eugene Nolan is the Mater Hospital’s archivist. After training as a nurse and midwife, she joined the Mater as a staff nurse in the THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE MATER Intensive Care Unit. She then entered the Sisters of HOSPITAL, A MAJOR IRISH INSTITUTION. Mercy, qualified as a nurse For 150 years, the Mater Hospital has been at the centre of and midwifery teacher, Dublin life. Founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1861, it was and after some years as Principal of the Mater the only refuge open to those affected by the smallpox School of Midwifery in and cholera epidemics that blighted the tenements, Nairobi, Kenya, she returned and it has been the scene of some of the most dramatic to Dublin to the Mater’s incidents to grip the city. Centre for Nurse Education, where she still works. While taking us through the many medical developments pioneered at the Mater, Caring for the Nation also provides a fascinating insight into the history and health of the city itself.

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OCTOBER 8 PP (AND POP-UP NATIVITY SCENE)

225 X 325 MM HARDBACK

978 0 7171 5859 1 €10.99 / £9.99

The Christmas Story

A NOSTALGIC RETELLING OF THE CHRISTMAS STORY – WITH A BREATHTAKING SURPRISE AT THE END. Nostalgic and charming, this story of Christmas will delight wide-eyed children as they await 25 December. Parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts will also enjoy using this beautiful book to read the story of Christmas to their little ones. The book ends with a wonderful pop-up Nativity scene, complete with gentle twinkling lights so that it can be placed on your child’s bedside table, to be gazed at in wonder as they drift off to sleep. A magical book to be enjoyed year after year.

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AUGUST 2012 112 PP

215 X 185 MM HARDBACK

978 0 7171 5772 3 €19.99 / £17.99

National Gallery of Ireland Diary 2014

THE PERENIALLY POPULAR DESK DIARY. This beautifully illustrated diary contains some of the finest paintings from the National Gallery’s permanent collection. Featuring 52 carefully reproduced paintings in a week-to-view format, this diary highlights some of the finest Irish and European works on view in the Gallery.

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SEPTEMBER 144 PP

257 X 159 MM HARDBACK

978 0 7171 5822 5 €16.99 / £14.99

The Year’s at the Spring Illustrated by HARRY CLARKE

Although best known for his stained–glass work, Harry Clarke (1889–1931) first found fame as a book illustrator. He illustrated A BEAUTIFUL NEW PUBLICATION OF AN editions of The Fairy Tales OLD ANTHOLOGY – A MUST FOR ALL HARRY of Hans Christian Andersen, Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of CLARKE FANS. Mystery and Imagination, In 1923, celebrated Irish artist Harry Clarke illustrated Charles Perrault’s Fairy an anthology of modern poetry entitled The Year’s at Tales of Perrault, and Goethe’s Faust. the Spring, the title of which is taken from the Robert Browning poem. Ninety years later, this new book will delight Harry Clarke fans everywhere, bringing together once more many of the original poems and illustrations, as well as some new additions. Among the poems included are ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ by W. B. Yeats, ‘The Donkey’ by G. K. Chesterton, ‘The Song of the Mad Prince’ by Walter de la Mare, ‘From Dewy Dreams’ by James Joyce, ‘A Thing of Beauty’ by John Keats, and ‘Pippa’s Song’ by Robert Browning.

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SEPTEMBER 320 PP

234 X 156 MM HARDBACK AND EBOOK

978 0 7171 5753 2 €24.99 / £21.99

The Last Word DIARMAID Ó MUIRITHE

Diarmaid Ó Muirithe is senior lecturer Emeritus in the Department of English in UCD. He is the author of many books, including Irish THE FINAL COLLECTION (OR SO HE SAYS) Words and Phrases, Irish FROM THE DISTINGUISHED LEXICOGRAPHER, Slang and A Dictionary of BASED ON THE POPULAR IRISH TIMES Anglo-Irish Words. He was COLUMN. a consultant contributor to The Encyclopaedia of From Diarmaid Ó Muirithe’s vast store of words and glosses, Ireland. here is a bumper collection of favourite words, some on the verge of extinction, many of them dialect words, all worthy of collection in case they soon join the words classed in dictionaries as obsolete. Written in this author’s typically witty style, Ó Muirithe explains the origins of familiar words and phrases, among them ‘be the hokey’, ‘bring down the house’, ‘hullabaloo’, ‘cock and bull story’, ‘daw’, ‘henpecked’ and ‘Peggy’s leg’.

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SEPTEMBER 320 PP

198 X 129 MM PAPERBACK

978 0 7171 5860 7 €14.99 / £12.99

A Dictionary of Hiberno- English TERENCE P. DOLAN

Dr Terence P. Dolan is Professor Emeritus of BERTIE SPEAK, D4, CIRCLING SHANNON, English Literature at UCD AN BORD SNIP NUA, CHANCER, DIG-OUT, and a former Director of DUBES AND GHOST ESTATE. the James Joyce Summer School. He is an authority A Dictionary of Hiberno-English is the leading reference on Old and Middle English authority on Hiberno-English – the form of English as well as on Hiberno- commonly spoken in Ireland. The words above are a English. sample of over one hundred new words which have recently slipped into our daily lexicon, and which are included in this third edition of Terence Dolan’s classic Dictionary of Hiberno-English. T.P. Dolan’s seminal dictionary has established its pre- eminent position as the leading reference authority on Hiberno-English.

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NOVEMBER 256 PP

247 X 189 MM HARDBACK

978 0 7171 5785 3 €22.99 / £19.99

The Irish Times Book of the Year 2013 PETER MURTAGH

Peter Murtagh is a Managing Editor of The Irish Times and the author, THE THIRTEENTH EDITION OF AN with his daughter Natasha, ESTABLISHED CHRISTMAS CLASSIC. of Buen Camino! All the best reportage and photography from Ireland’s paper of record, covering the period October 2012 to September 2013. Once again Peter Murtagh picks out the most notable stories of the year as told by The Irish Times journalists through reportage, analysis and opinion columns. The good, the bad, the challenging, the humorous and the inspiring — it’s all here, from business to politics, to health and education, and culture and environment.

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OCTOBER 400 PP

245 X 175 MM PAPERBACK

978 0 7171 5786 0 €10.99 / £9.99

The Money Doctor 2014 JOHN LOWE

John Lowe, The Money Doctor, has over 30 years’ experience in the finance sector. He is managing director of Money Doctor, the trading name of Providence Finance IRELAND’S NUMBER 1 FINANCE ANNUAL, Services Limited, which PUBLISHED TO COINCIDE WITH THIS is a fully authorised and YEAR’S EARLY BUDGET. independent financial advisory company and For years, John Lowe’s finance annual has helped regulated by the Central thousands of people understand money, get to grips with Bank of Ireland. the basics of budgeting and learn how to save cash in all areas of their life. Whether you buy this book every year or you are looking for help for the first time, you can trust the Money Doctor to give you independent, straight-talking advice. The Money Doctor 2014 is fully updated with budget changes so you can calculate the effect on your income.

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When Michael Gill founded Gill & Macmillan in 1968, The Irish Times described it as ‘a welcome enterprise’ and hoped it would become a home for the best of Irish authors.

Since then, we’ve been honoured to publish the works of great writers such as Noël Browne, Garret FitzGerald, Maureen Gaffney, Diarmaid Ferriter, Tom Garvin, Darina Allen, Fintan O’Toole, Tony Bates and Éamon de Buitléar, to name but a few.

We’ve been there in good times and bad, publishing books you choose to read on every aspect of Irish life: from the 1960s bestseller Prayers of Life to How Stormont Fell; from Rachel’s Favourite Food to The Encyclopaedia of Ireland; from the heady high of The Pope’s Children to the popular reissue of Soundings in 2010 when perhaps we all needed a bit more poetry in our lives. Each book, in its own way, captures a slice of life, a slice of the times we live in.

But it was really Michael’s great-great-grandfather who started our story. In 1856, Michael Henry Gill, then the printer to Dublin University, purchased the and bookselling business of James McGlashan, forming McGlashan & Gill, which then became M.H. Gill & Son. The bookshop, popularly known as Gills, was located on Dublin’s O’Connell Street for 123 years until it closed in 1979.

Whether it’s printing, publishing or bookselling, we believe reading matters. We’ve always believed in Irish talent and we’ve always believed in the curious mind of the Irish reader. If we’ve managed to help produce something from one to satisfy that of the other, then it’s been a good day at the office.

Thanks for reading.

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