New Books from Ireland

CLÉ – The Irish Book Publishers’ Association Welcome

Welcome to the 2004 Edition of New Books from Ireland.

In 2004 CLÉ and ILE have co-produced two rights catalogues for an international audience. New Books from Ireland and New Writing from Ireland promote titles published in Ireland and Irish writ- ing, respectively. Titles in both catalogues present a picture of Irish publishing and writing as one of immense creativity and diversity. The wide range of genres and styles will appeal to both english lan- guage and foreign language publishers across the world.

Translation rights are available for titles included in both catalogues. In the case of translations we would encourage publishers to apply for translation grants from ILE - though inclusion in the catalogue does not indicate that the title has been automatically approved for such a grant.

We hope you enjoy the catalogue and are enticed by the titles within.

Both CLÉ and ILE work as resource organisations for literature in Ireland. For further information about agencies engaged in the promotion of literature and reading in Ireland, please visit our websites www.publishingireland.com and www.irelandliterature.com Printed in Dublin, Ireland by Colourbooks, August 2004 Printing kindly sponsored by Colourbooks

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Design by Language, Dublin. www.language.ie p 3 | CONTENTS

Contents

About CLÉ page 4

About ILE page 5

Children’s Writing page 7

Fiction page 15

Non Fiction Biography page 31 Educational page 42 Health/Lifestyle page 44 Reference page 46 Social/History/Politics page 52 Spirituality/Religion page 69 Sport/Food/Travel page 76

Poetry and Drama page 81

Author Index Page 87

Title Index Page 88

Publisher Index Page 90 p 4 | ABOUT CLÉ

About CLÉ

CLÉ - the Irish Book Publishers’ What does CLÉ do for members? International CLÉ Association - was founded in 1970 as The Irish Book Publishers’ book publishing in Ireland began to Information CLÉ represents Irish publishing as a Association wake from a long period of member of the International 19 Parnell Square, dominance by the over-mighty CLÉ provides contact details for Publishers' Association and the Dublin 1, Ireland. neighbour, Britain, and a heavy- distributors, agents, booksellers, Federation of European Publishers. t: + 353 (0)56 7756333 handed censorship regime. The wholesalers, media, arts organisations e: [email protected] Statistics organisation grew out of meetings of and sister organisations in other www.publishingireland.com countries as well as producing a Irish publishers at the Frankfurt CLÉ undertakes a bi-annual survey weekly email and acting as a conduit Book Fair, and the chief focus from of the Irish Book Publishing for information of general interest to the beginning was outlooking. One Industry providing information on the industry. of the first initiatives was a rights market share, growth (global and by catalogue called Books From Ireland, Marketing category of publishing) and which went into several employment rates. editions. Since then, aided by the CLÉ organises joint promotions and phenomenal success of Irish writers marketing projects, promotional Legal on the international stage, Irish brochures and catalogues targeted at CLÉ provides training on contracts publishers have clawed back a the trade and promotion on the CLÉ and copyright for members, lobbies significant share of the local market. website, www.publishingireland.com Membership of CLÉ now comprises the relevant government depart- most of the publishing houses in Training ments and liases with the libraries, Ireland (North and South) with a the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency mixture of trade, general, legal, CLÉ organises in-service training (of which it is a founder member) academic and educational publishers courses at regular intervals and Multimedia Copyright as members. throughout the year, covering all Clearance Ireland. areas of publishing. CLÉ is funded by both Arts Councils in Ireland. p 5 | ABOUT ILE

About ILE

Ireland Literature Exchange • Promotes its activities on a What is the level of grant aid? When should I apply? multilingual website and through Idirmhalartán Litríocht Éireann is a promotional material. Up to 100% of the translator's fees. The deadlines for 2005 are 7 January, not-for-profit organisation, funded • Hosts an annual residential 1 March, 6 May, 19 August and 28 by both Arts Councils in Ireland, the translation bursary. How do I apply? October. Applicants will be informed Cultural Relations Committee of the • Attends international bookfairs of the board’s decision within 6 Department of Arts, Sport and and seminars. Please submit the following weeks of the deadline. Tourism and Bord na Leabhar • Participates in international documents to Sinéad Mac Aodha, Gaeilge (The Irish Language Books’ literary co-operative projects. Director, Ireland Literature Who receives payment? Board). ILE was established in 1994 Exchange. and since then has grant-aided the Who can apply for translation The applicant publisher once ILE translation of 700 works in 30 grants? • Signed contract between the receives proof of payment to the languages. applicant publisher and the rights’ translator and 6 copies of the Foreign publishers for outward holder. finished work. What does ILE do? translations, Irish publishers for • Signed contract between the inward translations. applicant publisher and the If you would like more information • Promotes Irish literature abroad. translator. about ILE or have any queries about • Funds the translation of literature Which works are eligible? • 2 copies of the sample translation applying for a grant, please e-mail from Ireland into foreign (10-12pp of text or 6 poems) and 2 [email protected], visit our languages (excluding English), and Contemporary fiction, poetry, copies of the original work. website at www.irelandliterature.com of foreign literatures into English drama, non-fiction, children's books • Publisher’s catalogue. or meet us in person at the Frankfurt or Irish. and other categories (details on • Translator’s fee (in Euro) and Bookfair. • Operates an information service request). curriculum vitae. for writers, translators, publishers, • Page extent of the original work; Sinéad Mac Aodha academics and other interested title of the work in translation; Director parties. proposed publication date and Ireland Literature Exchange print run; proposed marketing and 19 Parnell Square Dublin 1 distribution activities. Ireland Wolfhound Press Fiona Darling p 7 | CHILDREN’S WRITING The Horse’s Curse

128pp, 198 x 128mm, pb, 0 86327 904X, August 2003, illustrated throughout with B&W drawings

When horse mad Moy hears about Fiona Darling was born in Omagh. All rights available. the curse she can’t believe it. A magic She did a degree at Oxford horse tried to kill St. Patrick University and a Post Graduate hundreds of years ago and was Certificate of Education at Queen's Rights contact: banished to live in a dark lake University, Belfast Chenile Keogh forever. Moy swears she’ll find a way (English/Economics). Since then she Merlin Publishing/Wolfhound to set him free. has worked as a teacher and a Press, journalist. She is married and has 16 Upper Pembroke Street, Meeting the horse is the easy part. three children. Her hobbies are Discovering a way to break the curse doodling and horses, when she has Dublin 2, Ireland is much harder. Now Moy’s best the time. Cover image: Wolfhound Press friend won’t talk to her anymore and t: +353 (0)1 6764373 her mother thinks she’s going mad. f: +353 (0)1 6764368 e: [email protected] All this just because Moy loves horses!

Age Group: 8+ p 8 | CHILDREN’S WRITING Rosemary Furber Wolfhound Press What You See Is What You Get

208pp, 198 x 128mm, pb, 0 86327 9244, July 2004

Tim thinks that science explains School where (as Rosie Johnston) Rosemary lives in south east London everything, that what you see is what she was the first local girl to get to with her husband James - they met you get, like being able to do an ollie Oxbridge. She read law at Churchill at Farrers, so those legal years were on a skateboard. His annoying sister College, Cambridge and rowed for not wasted - and their daughter and Roxanne doesn’t agree. She believes the university twice. She was a two sons. in séances and ghosts and wants solicitor with Farrers and Herbert nothing more than to meet an evil Smith in London before she joined spirit. publishers Butterworths as their All rights available. commissioning editor of legal When Tim’s family moves into (practice) textbooks. She worked for Medieval Greenwich Abbey, Rox is them until the third of her three Rights contact: Cover image: Faye Keegan Design immediately convinced that it’s children was born. Chenile Keogh haunted. She’s sure that somebody Merlin Publishing/Wolfhound has died a horrible death there and That’s when she realised that she’d Press, decides to investigate, demanding wanted to write since she was nine Tim’s help of course. But Tim knows and it was time to do something 16 Upper Pembroke Street, how to shut her up. He has a plan. about it. She started with freelance Dublin 2, Ireland He sets out to scientifically examine journalism for London’s Evening the evidence but he only discovers Standard, the Independent on t: +353 (0)1 6764373 one solid fact - it looks like the ghost Sunday, various magazines and she f: +353 (0)1 6764368 is trying to kill him... was part of the founding team of The Week. She is a prison visitor and e: [email protected] Age Group: 10+ leads a creative writing group at a drop-in centre for homeless people Rosemary Furber was born in Belfast in south London where she is a and grew up there and on the north trustee. She plays the cornet in East coast. She went to Coleraine High London Brass. Mentor Books | www.mentorbooks.ie Cora Harrison p 9 | CHILDREN’S WRITING Gorgeous

176pp, 129 x 198mm, pb, 1 84210 2435, July 2004

Fern is a quiet, shy girl, and when Gorgeous is a heart-warming story All rights available. she is chosen to act in a film being of growing up, friendships and love. made near Castletown, her life faces new challenges. She is made to feel Cora Harrison has taught primary Rights contact: an outsider at school, and at home school children for over twenty-five Danny McCarthy her mother and father do not seem years. She was one of the pioneers Mentor Books, to be getting on. It is only when she for the ‘Real Books in the Classroom’ 43 Furze Road, learns that her dad has cancer that experiment which used a wide range Sandyford Industrial Estate, she takes stock and realises that all of books in order to teach children her worries about friendships are how to read. Cora Harrison is author Dublin 18, very trivial. New friends and interests of the successful Dragonfly series, Ireland Cover image: Eva Byrne come into Fern’s life. She makes a published by Mentor Books, easy-to- film with Kevin, the son of the pro- read picture books aimed at the t: +353 (0)1 295 2112 ducer, and the operation on her beginner reader. She is also author of f: +353 (0)1 295 2114 father is a the popular Drumshee series, based success. on children going back in time to e: [email protected] experience different events www.mentorbooks.ie throughout history. She lives in Kilfenora, Co. Clare. p 10 | CHILDREN’S WRITING Conor Kostick The O’Brien Press | www.obrien.ie Epic

288pp, 196 x 130mm, pb, 0 86278 8773, October 2004

On New Earth, Epic is a complex power-hungry, dangerous players. All rights available. game, embracing undersea realms, Now they must fight the ultimate sinister moonlit towers, desert masters of the game - The landscapes and the busy markets of Committee. But what Erik doesn't Rights contact: the great city, Newhaven. It is know is that The Committee has a Michael O'Brien / Kunak McGann populated by a host of characters, sinister, deadly secret, and challenging The O'Brien Press Ltd., from the merchants and craftsmen of it could destroy the whole world of 20 Victoria Road, the cities to the dangerous creatures Epic. Rathgar, that reside in the wilderness, including the most powerful monsters Conor Kostick was a designer for the Dublin 6, of them all, the unimaginably world's first live fantasy role-playing Ireland Cover image: The O’Brien Press ferocious dragons. game, based in Peckforton Castle, Cheshire. He now resides in Dublin t: +353 (0)1 492 3333 Yet the millions of game players dare where he teaches medieval history at f: +353 (0)1 492 2777 not stray beyond a very narrow Trinity College Dublin. He is the stretch of ground close to the safety author of several historical works e: [email protected] of the towns, for fear that their and a strategic board game, and is www.obrien.ie characters will be killed. The game chairperson of the Irish Writers' rules everything. And those who Union. have become masters of the game now control the planet. Epic is a matter of life and death.

Seeking revenge for the unjust treatment of his parents, Erik subverts the rules of the game, and he and his friends are drawn into a world of The O’Brien Press | www.obrien.ie Oisín McGann p 11 | CHILDREN’S WRITING The Harvest Tide Project

328pp, 196 x 130mm, pb, 0 86278 834X, September 2004

Taya and Lorkrin are Myunans - Born in Dublin, Oisín McGann was All rights available excluding shape-changers who can sculpt their writing and illustrating stories from Russian (Machaon Publishers). flesh like modelling clay. After childhood. He studied design and disobeying their uncle, they are on animation, worked as art director the run. They accidentally release and copywriter for an advertising Rights contact: Shessil Groach, a timid botanist and design consultancy in London Michael O'Brien / Kunak McGann working in captivity on the top-secret and now works in Ireland as a The O'Brien Press Ltd., Harvest Tide Project. His masters, freelance illustrator/artist, serving 20 Victoria Road, the Noranians, have plans for the the publishing and design industries. research Groach has been working Rathgar, on, plans that are far more sinister Dublin 6, Cover image: The O’Brien Press than anything Groach could have Ireland imagined. But for their project to succeed, they desperately need the t: +353 (0)1 492 3333 information in Groach's head. A major hunt ensues. f: +353 (0)1 492 2777 e: [email protected] With the help of a fiesty scent-seller, www.obrien.ie a barbarian mapmaker and their Uncle Emos, the teenagers and Groach keep one step ahead of the Noranians, while they try to find a way to sabotage the Harvest Tide Project and avert the disaster it will unleash. p 12 | CHILDREN’S WRITING Jack Scoltock Guildhall Press | www.ghpress.com In the Shadow of the Oak

128pp, 128 x 197mm, pb, 0 946451 753, November 2003

Ten-year-old Jake Miller and his friendship and, above all, the All rights available. family are toiling for the local strength of family bonds. landlord on his farm on the outskirts of Derry in 1871. Jack Scoltock is one of Derry’s finest Rights contact: and most widely published children’s Paul Hippsley When the heartless landlord evicts authors with several books produced Guildhall Press, them after his eldest brother Eamon under Wolfhound Press and Impact Rath Mor Business Park, emigrates to America and his father Press. He has produced plays, short Creggan, is injured, they have to beg on the stories, radio dramas and screenplays streets of Derry to survive. But with and is on the Arts Council’s Writers Derry, poverty all around and winter setting in Schools listing. Jack’s own website BT48 0LZ, Cover image: Guildhall Press in, the Millers are forced to seek details his commitment to, and Northern Ireland succour in the Derry Workhouse success in, writing across all where Jake soon falls foul of the disciplines. www.jackscoltock.com t: +44 (0)28 7136 4413 cruel Master and Matron. Before long he is entombed in the dreaded f: +44 (0) 28 7137 2949 Punishment Room and attacked by e: [email protected] MacCallister and his cronies, the www.ghpress.com dormitory bullies.

In The Shadow of The Oak tells, through the Millers ordeals, of the terrible reality of late nineteenth century Derry when many hundreds of families were forced to emigrate or endure the horrors of the Author photo: Guildhall Press Workhouse. It is a tale of survival, The Collins Press | www.collinspress.ie Michael Smith p 13 | CHILDREN’S WRITING Ice Man The Remarkable Adventures of Antarctic Explorer Tom Crean

128pp, 210 x 148mm, pb, 1 903464 447, 2003

Tom Crean was no ordinary man, Michael Smith has been a business All rights available. and his chilling adventures in the and political journalist for thirty Antarctic raise real goosebumps in years. He was formerly Political this stirring story of survival in Correspondent and Industrial Editor Rights contact: extraordinary conditions. He saved of the Guardian, City Editor of the Mr Con Collins comrades from drowning in frozen London Evening Standard, Business The Collins Press, waters, and rescued others from Editor of the Observer and has Westlink Park, freezing snow, whilst following his written for The Irish Times and the Doughcloyne, leaders - Captain Scott and Ernest Irish Independent. He has a long- Shackleton, the famous Polar standing interest in polar exploration Wilton, explorers. Written by Crean’s and wrote the best-selling biography, Cork, Cover image: Artmark with biographer who wrote the An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean, Ireland illustrations by Annie Brady best-selling An Unsung Hero, The Ice Antarctic Explorer and I Am Just Man is a boy’s own story of courage, Going Outside: Captain Oates, t: +353 (0)21 4347717 strength and determination to thrill Antarctic Tragedy. This is his first any young reader. book for children. f: +353 (0)21 4347720 e: [email protected] www.collinspress.ie p 14 | CHILDREN’S WRITING Michael Smith The Collins Press | www.collinspress.ie The Boss The Remarkable Adventures of Ernest Shackleton, Heroic Antarctic Explorer

128pp, 210 x 148mm, pb, 1 903464 579, 2004

Shackleton’s adventures of endurance Michael Smith has been a business All rights available. and survival in the Antarctic have and political journalist for thirty thrilled generations. Michael Smith, years. He was formerly Political an established authority on the Correspondent and Industrial Editor Rights contact: history of Polar exploration, has of the Guardian, City Editor of the Mr Con Collins written, for the first time, an account London Evening Standard, Business The Collins Press, of Shackleton’s exploits especially for Editor of the Observer and has Westlink Park, children. This true and inspiring written for The Irish Times and the Doughcloyne, story of Shackleton, whose men Irish Independent. He has a long- called him The Boss, involved four standing interest in polar exploration Wilton, expeditions to Antarctica spread over and wrote the best-selling biography, Cork, Ireland Cover image: Artmark with 20 years between 1902 and 1922. His An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean, illustrations by Annie Brady incredible adventures included a Antarctic Explorer and I Am Just t: +353 (0)21 4347717 breathtaking march to within a few Going Outside: Captain Oates, f: +353 (0)21 4347720 miles of the South Pole and the Antarctic Tragedy. This is his second amazing saga of hardship and book for children. e: [email protected] survival in the face of extreme odds www.collinspress.ie on the famous Endurance expedition. Lilliput Press | www.lilliputpress.ie John Broderick p 15 | FICTION The Waking of Willie Ryan

130pp, 215 x 136mm, pb, 1 84351 0499, October 2004

Willie Ryan is an old man who John Broderick (1927-1989) was All rights available. arrives back in his home town in 'the born in Athlone and died in Bath. great central plain of Ireland', having He worked as a journalist and was escaped from the insane asylum author of numerous works including Rights contact: where he was wrongfully incarcerated, The Pilgrimage, An Apology for Roses (IRL) Robert Towers and unvisited, by his devout Catholic and The Trials of Father Dillingham. 2 The Crescent, family for twenty five years. The The Pilgrimage, and his biography, Monkstown, given reason for his commitment Something in the Head, are being Co. Dublin, was an attack on his sister-in-law, reissued by The Lilliput Press in Mary Ryan, wife of his brother tandem with this book. Ireland Michael. The true reason: a homo- Cover image: Niall McCormack sexual affair with a hedonistic young t: +353 (0)1 280 6532 man who introduced him to art, f: +353 (0)1 280 6020 literature and music.

When he returns to his family, Mary (UK) Hugh Bulley continues to insist on Willie's insanity. 21 Bruce Grove, After all, didn't he refuse to go to Watford, Confession or to attend Mass during Herts WD24 4DZ, all his years in the asylum? Together United Kingdom with Father Mannix, who was complicit in 'putting away' Willie, she conspires to bring about Willie's t: +44 (0)1923 442566 reconciliation with the Church. f: +44 (0)1923 442577 e: [email protected] p 16 | FICTION Ken Bruen Brandon/Mount Eagle | www.brandonbooks.com The Dramatist

224pp, 234 x 156mm, pb, 0 86322 3192, 2004

The stunning fourth Jack Taylor novel! Irish writer Ken Bruen is the finest De Facto (film option) purveyor of intelligent Brit-noir - Hayakawa (Japan) Outstanding... Ireland's version of The Big Issue Scotland's Ian Rankin - Ken Bruen/ The Killing of the Tinkers St Martins Minotaur (USA) Publishers Weekly Ken Bruen, born in Galway in 1951, is the author of sixteen novels, Duffy & Snellgrove (Australia) Nominated in 2004 in the Best Novel including The Guards (2001), The Frassinelli (Italy) category for both the Edgars and the Killing of the Tinkers (2002) and The Gallimard (France) Shamus Awards for his first Jack Magdalen Martyrs (2003), the three Ripol (Russia) Taylor title, The Guards, Ken Bruen is previous Jack Taylor novels. It is with Hayakawa (Japan) the hottest new name in crime the Jack Taylor novels that his Ken Bruen/ The Magdalen Martyrs Cover image: id communications fiction. writing career has taken off St Martins Minotaur (USA) internationally. Ripol (Russia) In The Dramatist the impossible has happened. Jack Taylor is clean, sober; All rights available except North Rights contact: even the cigs are but a trace of America (St Martin’s Minotaur). smoke. He’s dating a mature woman, Rights sold by other works for the Steve MacDonogh and if not yet a citizen, he’s dancing author include: Brandon/Mount Eagle Publications close to the illusion. Dingle, Ken Bruen/ The Guards Co. Kerry, The accidental deaths of two St Martin’s Minotaur (USA) Ireland students appear random, tragic Duffy & Snellgrove (Australia) events. Except that a copy of a book Frassinelli (Italy) t: +353 (0)66 9151463 by John Millington Synge is found Gallimard (France) f: +353 (0)66 9151234 beneath each. Jack begins to believe Dituria (Albania) e: [email protected] that The Dramatist, a calculating, Ripol (Russia) www.brandonbooks.com ruthless killer, is out there, enticing BMP (Netherlands) Jack to play. Sitric Press | www.sitric.com Ken Bruen p 17 | FICTION Dispatching Baudelaire

160pp, 215 x 136mm, pb, 1 903305 128, May 2004

Throughout his life accountant Mike yet another addictive page-turner All rights available. Shaw has played it safe, kept his head from Ken Bruen, author of the down, and avoided risk. His best-selling Vixen, The Guards and girlfriend is a secretary and their idea The Killing of the Tinkers - and one Rights contact: of a night on the town is to visit the of the critically acclaimed greats of (IRL) Repforce Ireland, local pizza parlour. But when Mike modern crime and suspense fiction. 12 Longford Terrace, meets Laura in a bar off The Strand, Monkstown, their lives are irrevocably changed. Ken Bruen was born in Galway in Co. Dublin, 1951. He spent twenty-five years as Small, sexy, smart - and utterly an English teacher in Africa, Japan, Ireland dangerous - Laura instantly South-East Asia and South America. Cover image: Matthew Thompson spellbinds Mike and leads him into a A film of his novel Her Last Call to t: +353 (0)1 280 1552 world of moral depravity, dominated Louis MacNeice is currently in f: +353 (0)1 280 1054 by the sinister presence of her production for Pilgrim Pictures, and e: [email protected] powerful and rich father, Harold his White Trilogy (A White Arrest, Benton. Dressed in safari suits, dining Taming the Alien and The McDead) in West End restaurants, Benton has been bought for television by drinks only the best of wines and Deep Indigo Productions. whiskies, imitates Richard Burton, and quotes Baudelaire at every opportunity.

Dispatching Baudelaire is about what can happen to the blandest of men when seduced by money, power and sex. Set against the paranoia of early 1990s post-Thatcher London, this is p 18 | FICTION Patricia Hickey Blackstaff Press | www.blackstaffpress.com Green Poppies

320pp, 198 x 129mm, pb, 0 85640 7569, 2004

When Helena is presented with a It's the beauty of the writing that All rights available. lacquered Chinese box containing makes this book special. - The diaries and letters belonging to her Evening Herald mother, she is reluctantly drawn Rights contact: back to her childhood years in Patricia Hickey was born in Dublin Patsy Horton Queenstown, County Cork. Helena and is a sociology graduate of Trinity Blackstaff Press, vividly describes the affect on her College Dublin. Patricia has 4C Heron Wharf, family when her father is called up to broadcast two short stories on Sydenham Business Park, fight in the First World War. While community radio and had a Helena's memories re-create a monologue performed in the City Belfast BT3 9LE, complex picture of the politics and Arts Centre, Dublin. Green Poppies is Northern Ireland Cover image: Dunbar Design history of the period, they are her first novel. dominated by the enigmatic figure of t: +44 (0)28 9045 5006 her mother, Ally, who drifts on the t: +44 (0)28 9046 6237 edge of sanity as she attempts to cope with the sense of loss and e: [email protected] isolation brought on by the war. www.blackstaffpress.com

Weaving together Helena's reminiscences and Ally's own words, Patricia Hickey's fine debut novel is a powerful and lyrical account of the workings of memory and of Irish women's experience of war.

Author photo: Sheldon Photographic Ltd Hodder Headline Ireland Brian Kennedy p 19 | FICTION The Arrival of Fergal Flynn

320pp, trade pb, 0340 832290, September 2004

For sixteen-year-old Fergal Flynn, Brian Kennedy is one of Ireland's All rights available. growing up in 1980’s Belfast isn't most successful ambassadors of easy. music. He is not only a prolific songwriter but also a master Rights contact: His father and brothers despise him; interpreter of lyrics and audiences Ciara Considine he's his mother's favourite one day, around the world continue to praise Hodder Headline Ireland, her punching bag the next; he has no his exceptional vocal talent. The 8 Castlecourt, idea what he wants to do with his Arrival of Fergal Flynn is his first Castleknock, life; and he fancies one of the boys in novel. his class. Fergal just wants to belong, Dublin 15, but knows he never will. Ireland Cover image: Hodder Headline When handsome young Father Mac t: +353 (0)1 824 6288 arrives in the parish, Fergal embarks e: [email protected] on a whirlwind journey towards a new life. As their relationship deepens, he discovers his sexuality, his talent for singing and the wonderful, terrifying opportunities the world has to offer.

Funny, tender and unflinching, The Arrival of Fergal Flynn is the story of a young man struggling to find his voice against all the odds.

Author photo: Alessandro Cecchini p 20 | FICTION Lory Manrique-Hyland Sitric Press | www.sitric.com Revolutions

224pp, 215 x 136mm, pb, 1903305128, October 2004

Winner of the 2004 Evening Set against the ferment of the Cuban All rights available. Herald/Sitric Books Paperback revolution and 1990’s Miami, Writer Competition. Revolutions is a thrilling multicultural weave. Through a Rights contact: Marysol Castillo is a Cuban girl who series of interlocking narratives, it (Ireland) Repforce Ireland, has been raised in a part of America explores the psychically shattering 12 Longford Terrace, where English is rarely heard. nature of revolution and the ways in Monkstown, Growing up in a milieu where long- which migration and diaspora Co. Dublin, ing for a lost homeland permeates disassemble character. everything and everyone, she is torn Ireland between her American and Cuban Lory Manrique-Hyland was born Cover image: Claw Design identities. Marysol’s grandmother, and raised in Miami, Florida to a t: +353 (0)1 2801552 Josefina, shares her tales of life in Cuban father and American mother. f: +353 (0)1 2801054 Cuba before and during the She lived in New York for twelve e: [email protected] revolution - and introduces her years where she met her Irish hus- relationship with the Castro regime. band. They now live in Co. Cork. Through her memories Josefina plays out a drama of glamour and pain that sets Marysol on a journey of discovery about her family that spans time and geography. But Josefina’s narratives reveal a secret that threatens to destroy Marysol’s already fragile sense of self. Blackstaff Press | www.blackstaffpress.com Michael McLaverty p 21 | FICTION Lost Fields

224pp, 198 x 129mm, pb, 0 85640 7593, 2004

Like the caged lark in the overcrowded His tact and pacing, in the All rights available. house in the back streets of Belfast, individual sentence and the overall Johnny Griffin's mother feels cooped story, are beautiful. McLaverty's up. She pines for her country home place in our literature is secure. - Rights contact: and for the fields she has left behind Seamus Heaney Patsy Horton to live with her son's family in the Blackstaff Press, city. Unemployment has brought the Michael Mclaverty was born in 1904. 4C Heron Wharf, Griffins to the brink of eviction, and He became a schoolteacher in Belfast Sydenham Business Park, only the grandmother's pension can and was later a headmaster there tide them over until prospects until his retirement. One of Ireland's Belfast BT3 9LE, improve. most distinguished writers, he is best Northern Ireland remembered for his short stories and In Lost Fields McLaverty powerfully for the novels Call My Brother Back t: +44 (0)28 9045 5006 evokes the details of individual's lives (1939) and Lost Fields (1941). He t: +44 (0)28 9046 6237 in working-class Belfast. The harshness died in 1992. of their struggle to survive is offset e: [email protected] by moments of pure happiness, and www.blackstaffpress.com the characters' faith in their dreams. Presented with all the persuasiveness of a great master, this story is guaranteed to captivate the reader with its poignant drama and authenticity. p 22 | FICTION Fiona O’Brien New Island | www.newisland.ie Charity/Sold

400pp, a format, pb, 1904301282 / 1904301304, 2002 / 2004

A brilliant two-book deal for one of This is ultimate chick-lit! Pure sex All rights available Irelands brightest upcoming stars! and shopping - said U Magazine

Charity by Fiona O’Brien sold nearly Fiona O’Brien had a fairly typical Rights contact: 7000 copies in Ireland, and New Irish upbringing. Mother: famous Edwin Higel Island are delighted to present both beauty and nutty as a jumbo pack of New Island, it and her sparkling follow-up Sold. cashews. Father: handsome, 2 Brookside, dictatorial, renowned surgeon and Dundrum Road, As frothy as a cappuccino and great connoisseur. No surprise then that, fun! - said number one after wrestling with a convent Dublin 14, Ireland bestseller Cathy Kelly. education and an award-winning Cover image: Glen Saville Laced with secrets, bribery and career in advertising, she embraced t: +353 (0)1 2983411 corruption. Read it! - said the Irish her vocation as a commitment- e: [email protected] Independent. phobe, collecting six ex-fiancés and Funny, glitzy a sparkling debut! - one ex-husband to date. She now said number one bestseller lives happily in her old stomping Kate Thompson. ground of Dublin 4 with her Audi TT Roadster and her two dogs, Charity and Sold are note-perfect Bonnie and Harvey. She is currently chick-lit, straight from the land that seeking inspiration for her third brought you Cecelia Ahern and novel. Marian Keyes, and straight from the pen of one of Ireland’s most glamorous authors.

Author photo: Tony Higgins Hodder Headline Ireland | Sarah O'Brien p 23 | FICTION www.hodderheadline.co.uk Gazumped!

432pp, pb, 0340 835648, 2004

Limerick auctioneer Ellen Grace is Suddenly nothing is as it seems and All rights available. back and this time she's less of an all hell is about to break loose. air-head. Her future has 'Sale Agreed' stamped all over it. Her friends are Sarah O'Brien has a dual personality Rights contact: all paired off and reproducing. And - she is both Helena Close and Ciara Considine with lover/boss Andrew all set to pop Patricia Rainsford who have been Hodder Headline Ireland, the question, her future is a done best friends since childhood. Helena 8 Castlecourt, deal. has worked in public relations and Castleknock, journalism and Patricia teaches part- But mayhem seems to have a nasty time. Both live in Limerick with an Dublin 15, habit of sneaking up on Ellen. First assortment of children, husbands, Ireland Cover image: Hodder Headline the charming and handsome Spencer cats and dogs. Alexander the Third arrives from t: +353 (0)1 824 6288 New York, he tends to fall in love Gazumped! is the sequel to the e: [email protected] quickly but the sight of an altar bestselling Hot Property, which seems to bring out the sprinter in introduced Ellen Grace. www.hodderheadline.co.uk him - maybe Ellen could change all that. But, then again, Andrew is still around and just one more small complication - Tony Jordan, ex- criminal and ex-lover also shows up.

And, Limerick being Limerick, in the background is a dark presence, that when it manifests, makes the criminals that Ellen is aware of look like members of the Legion of Mary. p 24 | FICTION Patricia O'Reilly Hodder Headline Ireland | www.hodderheadline.co.uk Time and Destiny

304pp, pb, 0340 831510, 2004

Paris bubbles in the blistering heat of The unexpected visit prompts All rights available. a 1920’s summer. It is the home of Eileen's reluctant memories, and young Irish designer Eileen Gray, both young man and old woman whose spectacular new collection has embark on a journey through time Rights contact: made her the toast of the city's chic. that reveals the remarkable secrets of Ciara Considine a distant past. Hodder Headline Ireland, Hotly pursued by the urbane 8 Castlecourt, couturier Jacques Doucet, Eileen Patricia O'Reilly is a writer and Castleknock, loves another - a secret love to whom researcher who has written she is devoted. And while her work extensively for Irish newspapers, Dublin 15, may seem to the outside world to be magazines and radio. She is a Ireland. Cover image: Hodder Headline all she needs in her life, Eileen alone lecturer/trainer in various aspects of knows the deep void inside that only writing. Her fiction books are t: +353 (0)1 824 6288 one will ever fill. Felicity's Wedding, Once Upon a e: [email protected] Summer. Her non-fiction books are Years later, in 1970’s New York, Dying with Love, Writing for the www.hodderheadline.co.uk Eileen Gray's work makes a major Market, Earning Your Living from comeback when Yves Saint Laurent Home and Working Mothers. pays top price for a piece at auction. This sends young antiques expert Jack Devine hot-footing from New York to Paris. He is determined to reveal the woman behind the enigma.

Author photo: Priory Studios, Stillorgan, Dublin Hodder Headline Ireland | Suzanne Power p 25 | FICTION www.hodderheadline.co.uk The Virgo Club

544pp, pb, 0340 835656, 2004

Meet the Virgo Club, four close Each woman has a reason to put her All rights available. thirty-something friends who share a lover to the test. And when, one star sign and the ups and downs of evening, the Chianti overflows and life twice a month at Angelo's Italian. they hatch a meticulous plan to do Rights contact: just that, the Virgo Club discover Ciara Considine DETTE - Once Bernadette Bender, that rivalries exist in even the closest Hodder Headline Ireland, now Dette Morgan, party animal and of friendships. Soon it's not just their 8 Castlecourt, reigning fashion-journalist. That is lovers who are under scrutiny. Castleknock, until she gets the sack and loses her throne. CATRIONA - Ex-actress Suzanne Power lives in Wexford with Dublin 15, turned mother-of-four. Looking for her partner and two sons. She is a Ireland Cover image: Hodder Headline a part in her own life. Her columnist for The Evening Herald understudy and rival is her au pair, and has written three books: the t: +353 (0)1 824 6288 vying for her role as well kept novel The Lost Souls' Reunion and e: [email protected] woman. RORIE - stage manager, the non-fiction guide for women would-be director. Taboo subject: Being You. www.hodderheadline.co.uk why she puts up with her failed playwright, part-time partner - who keeps a wife and family elsewhere. HELEN - ER doctor and mother-of- three. More comfortable at work. Cannot play. Has reason to believe that her devoted husband Euan is cheating on her.

Author photo: contact Hodder Headline p 26 | FICTION Chet Raymo Brandon/Mount Eagle | www.brandonbooks.com Valentine

288pp, 234 x 156mm, hb, 0 86322 327 3, 2004

A love story about the man who gave Starlight (directed by Michael Arena, Netherlands his name to lovers. Lindsay-Hogg). His acclaimed first Munksgaard/Rosinante, Denmark Goldman Verlag, Germany novel, In the Falcon's Claw (Viking Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhtio, Finland The romance of the physician Penguin 1990) was also widely Editions Hadjinicoli, Greece Valentine and blind Julia provides published in translation. J W Cappelens Forlag A.S,, Norway the central thread of this engrossing Bloomsbury, London Abacus, London novel, which brings alive the world Chet Raymo has been a teacher, science writer, novelist, illustrator Ediorial Atlantida, Buenos Aires of the Roman Empire at the time of Sony Magazines, Inc., Tokyo and naturalist. His fiction has been Claudius II - a time when Christians Circe, Spain were amongst those whose deaths compared to that of Umberto Eco. A Oversattning Hans-Jacob Nilsson, Sweden winner of a Lannan Literary Award, Chang Gong, thru Shin Won Agency, Seoul, provided public entertainment. Korea It is a novel with remarkable his non-fiction includes Biography of Cover image: Anú Design a Planet, The Soul of the Night, resonances, its ideas startlingly All rights available. relevant to our own times: globalisa- Honey from Stone, and The Path: A One-Mile Walk Through the Universe. tion vs. fundamentalism, reason vs. Rights contact: superstition, civil law vs. personal freedom, the perverse gratifications Rights sold by other works for the author include: Steve MacDonogh of sex and violence, the subversion of Brandon/Mount Eagle Publications virtue by wealth and the power of Chet Raymo/In the Falcon's Claw: Dingle, passionate love to overcome all Viking, US Co. Kerry, obstacles to its consummation. Belfond, France Ireland Tidens Forlag, Sweden Valentine is Chet Raymo’s first novel Editorial Atlantida, Buenos Aires. since The Dork of Cork (Warner Klett-Cotta, Germany t: +353 (0)66 9151463 Books 1993), which is still in print, f: +353 (0)66 9151234 Chet Raymo/The Dork of Cork: e: [email protected] was translated into fourteen Warner, US www.brandonbooks.com Author photo: Don MacMonagle languages and was filmed as Frankie Presses de la Renaissance, France Guildhall Press | www.ghpress.com Chris Sheerin p 27 | FICTION Days of Rain

272pp, 128 x 197mm, pb , 0 946451 761 , December 2003

It is 1942, and both neutral Eire and Derry born Chris Sheerin has been All rights available. the British-governed Six Counties writing fiction for over ten years. He have so far escaped generally had his first publishing success with unscathed from the horrors of Chasing Shadows, set in Derry in the Rights contact: WWII. But the arrival in Southern 1970’s at the height of the Troubles, Paul Hippsley Ireland of Peterson, a Nazi assassin published by Marino Press in 2001. Guildhall Press, posing as an undercover German Chris hopes to consolidate on this Rath Mor Business Park, agent, threatens to disrupt the breakthrough with Days of Rain. Creggan, tentative peace between the Allies and de Valera’s Irish Free State. Derry, With the help of a clandestine group BT48 0LZ, Cover image: Guildhall Press of renegade Irish patriots, Peterson’s Northern Ireland mission is to force an Allied invasion of Eire. To do so he has to persuade the British that the IRA are intent on resurrecting Plan Kathleen - an IRA- t: +44 (0)28 7136 4413 Nazi scheme designed to wrest the f: +44 (0) 28 7137 2949 North from British control. His e: [email protected] method of persuasion is www.ghpress.com assassination, his target, President Roosevelt’s wife on a diplomatic visit to the North’s second city, Derry. But the IRA are watching ... and waiting ... and soon the hunter becomes the hunted ...

Author photo: Guildhall Press p 28 | FICTION Kevin Stevens Townhouse | www.townhouse.ie The Rizzoli Contract

432pp, b format, pb, 1 90365 033X, 2003

Divorced and fonder of whiskey than It’s hard to believe that The Rizzoli All rights available. he should be, Harry Donohue Contract by Kevin Stevens is a first haplessly runs a failing small-time novel, so accomplished is the publishing house. plotting and the writing. Rights contact: Kate Hibbert, But Harry has a book to publish. Kevin Stevens is the author of several Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, Obtained in classic Boston-Irish books, including The Cops Are 64-78 Kingsway, style, it is a story that hooks Harry Robbers, an account of New London WC2B 6AH, up with Bobby Rizzoli, the city’s England’s largest-ever bank robbery. most notorious crooked cop, in jail A native of the US, he lives in Dublin England for masterminding the biggest bank with his family. The Rizzoli Contract Cover image: Simon & Schuster UK heist in New England history. is his first novel. t: +44 (207) 316 1900 f: +44 (207) 316 03312 Harry wants to do what no one else e: kate.hibbert@simonandschus- has the guts or the connections to pull off: to publish Bobby’s bestseller, ter.co.uk lock in the profits, and rocket the www.townhouse.ie two of them to financial riches and national glamour.

That is, if he can keep his eyes off Bobby’s lonely wife, and keep the family accountant away from the cooked books that are financing this last-ditch grab for glory.

Author photo: Fiona McCann Lilliput Press | www.lilliputpress.ie Kelly Sullivan p 29 | FICTION Winter Bayou

128pp, 215 x 136mm, pb, 1 84351 0464, September 2004

"Each time we lay down together, I the palm trees 'ripping sideways in All rights available. thought of pounding fetlocks, the the wind'. When the storm is over, 24 flex of tendons, the press of horse people are dead after a storm surge shoe against my chest, the ring of razes the landscape 'flatter than a Rights contact: purple flesh it would leave on my winter bayou'. Grace and Charlie (Irl) Robert Towers, stomach, his galloping, galloping escape, but in the days that follow, 2 The Crescent, into me. Grace meditates on a marriage that Monkstown, has been 'ripped apart too - shredded Co. Dublin, Each night, after, I filled the space and pushed beyond our boundaries'. we'd made with the whine and later Ireland the voice of the violin, my voice, Grace's meditations take her on Cover image: Claw Design coming quicker and quicker through journey through the past - to the t: +353 (0)1 2806532 my bow arm sweeping across the heady flush of teenage love; mother- f: +353 (0)1 2806020 strings, down the flutes of muscle on hood and homebuilding; the struggle his back. It came mellow and low to become a musician; and eventual then quicker and harder and pizzivato sexual betrayal. From this raw mate- (UK) Hugh Bulley, and striking each note, forcing it rial, Kelly Sullivan has forged a per- 21 Bruce Grove, from the wood and into the still fectly poised novel that is as lyrically Watford, sycamores, pin oaks, maples. tender as it is viscerally sensuous in Herts WD24 4DZ, Always, the violin called between the its remarkable probing of 'the England spaces." relationship of things to each other, to seek to throw light upon them'. 18 August 1969, and Hurricane t: +44 (0)1923 442566 Camille is about to hit Louisiana. Kelly Sullivan, was born in America f: +44 (0)1923 442577 Grace Wright and her husband and came to Ireland on a Fulbright [email protected] Charlie are at a 'hurricane party', Scholarship. This is her first book. drinking vodka tonics, and watching p 30 | DRAMA Colm Tóibín Lilliput Press | www.lilliputpress.ie Beauty in a Broken Place

96pp, 215 x 136mm, pb and limited edition, 1 84351 0545, pb and 1 84351 0588 limited edition, August 2004

"The creation of beauty in a broken Colm Tóibín, journalist, essayist and All rights available. place, of beautiful words when there novelist, is one of Ireland's most are only slogans, of images that distinguished living writers. His pierce the soul in an age when the most recent publications include Rights contact: belittling noise, the swagger and the Lady Gregory's Toothbrush and The (IRL) Robert Towers curse reigned in the streets?" WB Yeats Master. This is his first play. 2 The Crescent, Monkstown, Tóibín's drama brilliantly re-enacts Co. Dublin, and evokes the personalities and workings of the Abbey Theatre in Ireland 1926. Lady Gregory, Yeats and Cover image: Niall McCormack and O'Casey defend their daring play t: +353 (0)1 280 6532 Zeus Creative Consultants against the stifling mores of the day f: +353 (0)1 280 6020 and the rule of the rabble and the widows of the 1916 leaders. It is a timely reminder of the perennial (UK) Hugh Bulley, conflict between the demands of art 21 Bruce Grove, and of politics in Irish cultural life. Watford, Herts WD24 4DZ, As Sean O'Casey addresses the ghost England of Lady Gregory he recalls Yeats' Monday evening gatherings and early visits to Coole Park, and the t: +44 (0)1923 442566 staging, rehearsal and enacting of f: +44 (0)1923 442577 The Plough and the Stars, itself com- e: [email protected] missioned for the tenth anniversary of the 1916 Rising. Merlin Publishing Christy Dignam & Neil Fetherstonhaugh p 31 | BIOGRAPHY This Is...

304pp, b format, pb, 1 903582 563, May 2004

The long awaited official biography Writing This Is and bringing a demo bottle of cola for a local man, who of Christy Dignam, one of Ireland’s to a meeting with Bono. They couldn’t then invited him into the house, most infamous rock stars. A believe it when he rejected it and took his shoelaces and tied him up passionate and honest true life story said the song wouldn’t work. The and abused him. which exposes the reality of being whole Christy vs Bono thing escalated Christy Dignam. when Christy’s rant about Bono was Christy Dignam was born in Dublin. published in NME. Injecting heroin He is the lead singer with the From choir boy to rock star. in the toilets in the Mansion House internationally renowned band From soup kitchens to the Munich when the band were invited there for Aslan. They have toured extensively Hilton. From attempted murder to a formal dinner with Ben Briscoe, around Europe, Russia, Australia, contract killing. From The Roxy, just so Christy could say he’d done it Britain, USA and Canada. New York to heroin in the Mansion because he thought it was rock‘n’roll. Cover image: Faye Keegan Design House, Dublin Neil Fetherstonhaugh is a journalist Going from collecting his dole at from Dublin. He has also co-written Christy Dignam lifts the lid on a 11am one morning, to flying to They Never Came Home, The roller coaster ride that has taken him Munich, arriving there that after- Stardust Story, which will become a right to the edge and almost cost noon and getting picked up by limo, major Irish film in 2005. him his life. Enter Christy’s world as brought to a suite in the Munich he delves into rock‘n’roll excess, an Hilton and being wined and dined All rights available. there as a No. 1 star, all in one day. abyss of heroin addiction, dealings Rights contact: with the drug squad, Aslan splitting, child abuse, Bono and Bowie and of Christy finding out that a North Chenile Keogh course - the music. Growing up in Dublin gangster called Peter had put Merlin Publishing/Wolfhound Press Finglas, with hardly any money a contract of 30,000 out on him, 16 Upper Pembroke Street Christy’s family ended up going to a because Pascal Boland was saying Dublin 2 local soup kitchen, called The Stew that Christy had set him up and t: +353 (0)1 6764373 House, to get square meals to keep ratted on him to the cops. As a 6- f: +353 (0)1 6764368 them going. year-old Christy was sent to get a e: [email protected] p 32 | BIOGRAPHY Mick Hanly Gill and Macmillan | www.gillmacmillan.ie Wish Me Well Notes On My Sleeve

192pp, 216 x 135mm, pb, French flaps, 0 7171 3890, 9 February 2005

Mick Hanly is unsentimental about Mick Hanly is one of Ireland's All rights available. himself. This is an honest and clear- best-known singer songwriters and eyed man who knows himself, his entertainers. His song, Past the Point strengths and his failings alike. He of Rescue, was a huge hit in the Rights contact: writes of family, of love, of music, of United States and has been recorded Mr Hans-Joachim Bender the life he has led, and is leading, by many other artists many times. Hagenbach & Bender GmbH, with the skill of an artist. Each He lives in Co. Kilkenny with his Literary and Media Agency, chapter closes with the lyrics from wife and children. Gutenbergstrasse 20, the relevant song. Wish Me Well is a special book. Postfach 6521, CH 3001 Bern, Switzerland

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Author photo: courtesy of author TownHouse | www.townhouse.ie Dorothea Herbert p 33 | BIOGRAPHY The Retrospections of Dorothea Herbert 1770 –1806 432pp, pb, 186059 2201, August 2004

First published in 1929, The Dorothea Herbert lived from 1770 to All rights available. Retropections of Dorothea Herbert 1829. When she died, her 1770-1806 tells the extraordinary, possessions, including her diaries true story of the life of a clergyman’s and writings, eventually passed to Righs contact: daughter in polite 18th century Irish her nephew, Nicholas Herbert Penny Harris society. Mandeville, and have been in the TownHouse, Mandeville family ever since. The Charleston Road, Following the collapse of her love Retrospections of Dorothea Herbert Ranelagh, affair with the handsome John Roe, 1770-1806 was first published, in two Dorothea Herbert poured her heart volumes, in 1929-30. Dublin 6, out onto the pages of her diaries. She Ireland Cover image: Vivid detailed her family life and background, social events and t: +353 (0)1 497 2399 education, grand balls and sparkling f: +353 (0)1 497 0927 parties. But in doing so, she also created a priceless historical record, e: [email protected] detailing the life, expectations and www.townhouse.ie social conditions of an educated young woman of the time. p 34 | BIOGRAPHY Mary Kenny New Island | www.newisland.ie Germany Calling A Biography of William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw

400pp, b format, pb, 1904301592, 2004

The making of a fascist and anti- compassionate, Germany Calling is a All rights available. semite: Mary Kenny's provocative definitive and intimate analysis of biography on William Joyce - the one of the twentieth centurys most notorious Lord Haw-Haw - drew an infamous and reviled figures, written Rights contact: admiring response from reviewers in by one of Ireland’s most controver- Edwin Higel the UK and Ireland when first sial and beloved commentators. New Island published in 2003. 2 Brookside, Dundrum Road, Mary Kenny is a leading journalist, Dublin 14, “An absorbingly elegant study.” writer and broadcaster, publishing The Guardian. on both sides of the Irish Sea. She is Ireland “Will turn out to be a classic.” a senior contributor to The Express Cover image: New Island Biographer A.N. Wilson. and The Daily Mail in London; in t: + 353 (0)1 2983411 Ireland she is the anchor columnist e: [email protected] Written with the full support of for the Irish Independent magazine. www.newisland.ie Joyce’s family, especially his eldest She also writes for The Spectator, The daughter Heather, and with Sunday Telegraph and Daily invaluable assistance from James Telegraph, and The Guardian. Clark, who was a fellow broadcaster with Haw-Haw in Berlin, Germany Mary has previously written books Calling draws on a wealth of previ- on the subjects of feminism, religion, ously unpublished historical material abortion and drug abuse. Her most released through the British Public recent book, Death by Heroin: Record Office, as well as specially Recovery by Hope, was published by commissioned interviews with those New Island in 1999. Mary is married who knew Haw-Haw personally. with two sons and lives in both England and Ireland. Author photo: courtesy of author Dramatic, groundbreaking and TownHouse | www.townhouse.ie Gordon T. Ledbetter p 35 | BIOGRAPHY John McCormack The Great Irish Tenor

256pp, 245 x 190mm, hb, 1860591787, 2003

Born in Athlone in 1884, John what music lover would refuse such All rights available. McCormack first came to public an elegant tome - attention when he won a gold medal Sunday Tribune in the Feis Ceoil of 1903. In 1907, Rights contact: aged only 23, he made his first Gordon T. Ledbetter has long had a Penny Harris appearance at London’s Covent passion for opera and the early TownHouse Dublin, Garden, marking the start of a long history of sound recording, with a Charleston Road, and illustrious career. Over 200 special interest in John McCormack. Ranelagh, million copies of his recordings were He has broadcast on RTE, Lyric FM sold during his lifetime, making him and the BBC and he lectures Dublin 6, one of the bestselling artists Ireland frequently in the United States. Ireland Cover image: Anú Design has ever produced. t: +353 (0)1 497 2399 This beautifully illustrated book tells f: +353 (0)1 497 0927 the story of John McCormack’s life and times and contains many e: [email protected] documents and photographs, some www.townhouse.ie of which have never been published before.

Ledbetter tells the great singer’s life story with a commendable objectivity reminding us just what a gigantic star McCormack was. The large-format book is lavishly illustrated with photos and Author photo: S. Maxwell memorabilia; it is hard to imagine p 36 | BIOGRAPHY Monica Loughman with Jean Harrington Maverick House | www.maverickhouse.com The Irish Ballerina The Irish Jewel in the Soviet's Crown

304pp, 197 x 130mm, pb, 095429 4580, October 2004

Monica Loughman’s story is the Monica Loughman worked with All rights available. enchanting tale of a young girl writer Jean Harrington to produce leaving her family in Ireland to train this book. Harrington worked as a in a strict Russian school with ghostwriter on Survivor: Memoirs of Rights contact: dreams of becoming the next top a Prostitute, which went straight into Jean Harrington, ballerina. Ballerina reveals the darker the bestsellers list upon publication. Maverick House Publishers, side of ballet as well as the glamour She has a degree in journalism and Unit 115 Ashbourne Industrial of the tutus and ribbons. In an now concentrates on writing books. Estate, industry where thin is queen, Loughman tells of the weekly Ashbourne, weigh-ins, the physical punishments, Co. Meath, Cover image: Anú Design and how the young girls’ Ireland acclimatised to the Siberian culture. While many young ballerina's t: +353 (0)1 801 0620 dreams end in ribbons, Loughman became Ireland’s success story and f: +353 (0)87 5992 0755 became the first Western European e: [email protected] invited to join the distinguished www.maverickhouse.com Russian Tchaikovsky Perm State Ballet. Superbly readable, Ballerina charts Loughman’s progress from a timid child who had to fight against the bullying, the lack of state funding and an eternally exhausting regime.

Author photo: Brendan Harrington Blackstaff Press | www.blackstaffpress.com Sam McAughtry p 37 | BIOGRAPHY The Sinking of the Kenbane Head

208pp, 198 x 129mm, pb, 0 85640 7631, 2004

Sam McAughtry's memoir is a Sam McAughtry was an officer All rights available. tribute to his favourite brother, Mart, navigator with the RAF during who died when his ship, the Kenbane World War Two. He is also a Head, was sunk by a German well-known journalist and presenter Rights contact: battleship in 1940. This is a moving on radio and TV. The Sinking of the Patsy Horton memorial not just to Mart but to all Kenbane Head, first published in Blackstaff Press, the other unsung sailors of the 1977, is his first book and has been 4C Heron Wharf, merchant service who played such a followed by numerous novels and Sydenham Business Park, vital role in World War Two. The short story collections. story is told in two strands: the first Belfast BT3 9LE, is a tough, funny and intimate Northern Ireland Cover image: Wendy Dunbar account of life at home in Belfast's Tiger Bay; the second is a t: +44 (0)28 9045 5006 controversial re-telling of the events t: +44 (0)28 9046 6237 leading up to a famous naval encounter. Together the interweaving e: [email protected] strands vividly link the stories of a www.blackstaffpress.com ship from Belfast's Head Line fleet and a young seaman from Tiger Bay as they meet their fate in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Author photo: Darragh Casey p 38 | BIOGRAPHY David Murphy The Collins Press | www.collinspress.ie The Arctic Fox Francis Leopold McClintock - Discoverer of the Fate of Franklin

200pp, 234 x 156mm, hb, 1 903464 58 7, 2004

The Shackleton of his day, Leopold David Murphy has a PhD in Modern All rights available except North McClintock (1819-1907) was one of History. He currently works as an American. the best-known Arctic explorers of editorial assistant with the Royal the Victorian era. He successfully Irish Academy researching, writing undertook four major voyages of and editing biographical essays for Rights contact: discovery as well as epic sledge inclusion in the Dictionary of Irish Mr Con Collins journeys and was the first explorer to Biography. His area of specialisation The Collins Press, bring back definitive information on is in the nineteenth and early Westlink Park, the lost Franklin party. In 1884 he twentieth centuries with particular rose to the position of Admiral and emphasis on political, military and Doughcloyne, was consulted by Scott before he naval figures. He has been a course Wilton, Cover image: Artmark undertook his Discovery expedition tutor in Trinity College and Cork, Ireland in 1901. University College Dublin. t: +353 (0)21 4347717 f: +353 (0)21 4347720 e: [email protected] www.collinspress.ie Brandon/Mount Eagle | www.brandonbooks.comUlick O’Connor p 39 | BIOGRAPHY The Joyce We Knew Memoirs of Joyce

128pp, 198 x 129mm, pb, 086322 3249, May 2004

These fascinating reminiscences by Ulick O’Connor is a biographer, poet All rights available. some of his friends and and playwright. His books include contemporaries give a deep insight biographies of Oliver St John into James Joyce and bring to light Gogarty and Brendan Behan; Celtic Rights contact: many less well-known characteristics. Dawn, The Yeats Companion and Steve MacDonogh Readers may be surprised to find out Biographers and the Art of Biography; Brandon/Mount Eagle from these intimate accounts how in 2001 he published The Ulick Publications, much of an extrovert Joyce was. He O’Connor Diaries 1970-1981: A Dingle, is the practical joker in the school Cavalier Irishman. drama society and in the gymnasium. Co. Kerry, He is the star when they play Ireland Cover image: Anú Design charades at genteel Dublin musical evenings, and later he will entertain t: +353 (0)66 915 1463 the company with songs, serious and f: +353 (0)66 915 1234 comic. He had ambitions to be a first-class swimmer. He is the perfect e: [email protected] Edwardian cad. How different from www.brandonbooks.com the withdrawn, aloof Stephen Dedalus. p 40 | BIOGRAPHY Gerard Ronan Brandon/Mount Eagle | www.brandonbooks.com The Irish Zorro The Extraordinary Adventures of William Lamport (1615-1659)

320pp, 234 x 156mm, hb, 0 86322 329X, 2004

One of the most remarkable Gerard Ronan was born in 1959 and All rights available. adventures ever recorded, this is the reared and educated in Dublin. A true story of a seventeenth century serving civil servant with a passion Irishman who became a Mexican for collecting obscure adventure Rights contact: legend. Described by one author as stories, he currently lives with his Steve MacDonogh the model for Zorro, other sources wife Cliona and daughter, Eleanor, in Brandon/Mount Eagle may have been more important in the village of Donabate, in north Publications the creation of the celebrated fictional County Dublin. Dingle, character, yet the life and adventures of this pirate, heretic and spy were Co. Kerry, stranger and more extraordinary Ireland Cover image: id communications than any fiction. Lamport, a child prodigy, was sent at twelve to be t: +353 (0)66 9151463 educated in London. At thirteen he f: +353 (0)66 9151234 was arrested for treason. Following a mysterious escape he was captured e: [email protected] by pirates, with whom he served for www.brandonbooks.com two years. Sent to Mexico as a spy following a scandalous affair at the Spanish court, he was arrested by the Inquisition for plotting a rebellion, which aimed to abolish slavery and establish an independent state; he is now regarded as the first precursor of Mexican independence. Maverick House | www.maverickhouse.com Maurice 'Bo Bo' Ward with John Mooney p 41 | BIOGRAPHY Rough Justice Memoirs of a Gangster

240pp, 197 X 130mm, pb, 0 9542945 21, September 2004

The remarkable story of how a Maurice 'Bo Bo' Ward dictated his All rights available. young boy emerged from a Borstal to memoirs to journalist John Mooney. become one of Ireland's most feared Mooney is a crime and security criminals. Completed hours before journalist and is considered an Rights contact: Maurice Ward's shocking murder, expert on crime and terrorism. He is Jean Harrington this remarkable book is the first the author of two books: Gangster, Maverick House Publishers, autobiography of an Irish criminal. the biography of the criminal John Unit 115 Ashbourne Industrial Recording his incarceration in Upton Gilligan became a No. 1 bestseller, Estate, Industrial School, Ward recalls how and Black Operations: The Secret War the violence he suffered at the hands against the Real IRA, which he Ashbourne, of the religious altered his personality co-authored with Michael O'Toole. Co. Meath, Ireland Cover image: Slick Fish Design and turned him to crime. Refreshingly honest, Ward writes t: +353 (0)1 8010620 about his involvement in bank f: +353 (0)87 59920755 robberies, fraud and drug trafficking before proverbially turning his back e: [email protected] on crime to campaign for the victims www.maverickhouse.com of child sexual abuse. At the height of his campaign, he was tragically murdered in front of his family, hours after he’d finished dictating his story to Ireland's leading crime journalist, John Mooney. Told in the first person, Ward's voice echoes from beyond the grave. p 42 | EDUCATIONAL Marianne Jordan Celtic Publications | www.celticpublications.com Phonetics for Learners of English Pronunciation

135pp, pb, 190466900X, April 2003

This book teaches the pronunciation Marianne Jordan is a highly All rights available. of the international phonetic symbols experienced and qualified teacher used in the English language. with over 20 years TEFL teaching The English language is not a and writing. She has just completed Rights contact: phonetic language so it is an easy to use Phrasal Verb Marianne Quinn essential for both teachers and Dictionary for learners of English Celtic Publications, students to be able to read, write and and is a contributing author to the 16 Seafield Court, pronounce these phonetic symbols. Learning English in Ireland Malahide, This should be the first lesson taught workbooks aimed at foreign students and studied in the EFL classroom, coming to Ireland to learn about our Co. Dublin, and continued throughout the wonderful culture, history, music, Ireland Cover image: Celtic Publications learning process. etc. as well as English. t: +353 (0)1 816 8680 • It can be used in the classroom and/or as student self-paced study f: +353 (0)1 816 8680 book as it has an accompanying m: +353 (0)86 3701160 CD and an answer section. e: [email protected] • Aimed at giving a thorough www.celticpublications.com understanding of the basics of pronunciation. • Easy language and vocabulary used throughout the book. • Wide variety of exercises. • 66 Listening exercises (easy to find on CD). • Helpful for all levels.

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100pp, a format, pb, 2004

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120pp, pb, 1853907847, September 2004

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270pp, 170 x 240mm, pb, 1 84210 2826, September 2004

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176pp, 210 x 297mm, pb, 1 84210 2028, August 2004

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160pp, hb, 0954617126, 2004

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224pp, hb, 095461710X, 2003

As a result of discussions with the Key features include Excellent Facts, All rights available. Office of the First Minister of Pride of Place, Preserving our Northern Ireland, it was agreed that History and Heritage, People & there was the need for a quality Achievements, Industry and Rights contact: publication to promote all that is Commerce, Food & Produce and Mr Richard Campbell best about the new Northern Ireland People & Places. The profits from the Managing Director, to a national and international sales of the book will go to the Excellence Publications Ltd, audience. Northern Ireland Memorial Fund 34 Cabinhill Gardens, and the Somme Association. To date any publication has either Belfast, been historical (primarily concerned BT5 7AP, Cover image: Chris Hill with the last thirty five years of the Northern Ireland Province’s history), geographical or statistical and whilst these m: +44 (0)797 6283896 publications were important in their own right there wasn’t a publication e: [email protected] that told the reader of the excellence that has emanated from Ireland and Northern Ireland, for example; the way Northern Ireland is governed in light of the Belfast Agreement, the ways in which people of Irish heritage have helped shape the great nations of our world and the work of the north/south bodies, Intertrade Ireland, Tourism Ireland and The Loughs Agency as examples. The Stationery Office | www.tso.co.uk Michael McKernan and Owen McQuade p 51 | REFERENCE Northern Ireland Yearbook 2004

600pp, hb, 0953767299, 2004

The most comprehensive guide to trade groups, trade union, charities, All rights available. the political, economic and social life voluntary and community of Northern Ireland. 2003 Assembly organisations. New chapter on elections - including all the 'Lifestyle and Leisure' including Rights contact: candidates, detailed count information restaurant, pub listings and major Owen McQuade and objective political analysis. leisure activities. Useful visitors bmf business services, Alongside the hard political and guide highlighting top visitor TSL House, economic information there is a attractions, places to stay and other 38 Bachelors Walk, wealth of information about groups visitor information. Special chapter and associations; social activity; the on the European dimension in Lisburn, media and entertainment. Attractive Northern Ireland and extensive BT28 1XN, Cover image: bmf Publishing full-colour, bound volume format, communications and media directory. Northern Ireland. 600 pages crammed with useful information, unique colourful guide t: +44 (0)28 9262 8787 to the 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly elections, A-Z of all e: [email protected] government departments and agencies, insight into the NI Civil Service - responsibilities and key contacts, a detailed guide to local authorities, a unique brief history of Northern Ireland, from early civilisation up to the present day. A practical 'Guide to Doing Business' in Northern Ireland. Comprehensive listings of representative groups, including professional institutes, p 52 | SOCIAL/HISTORY/POLITICS Ann Chambers New Island | www.newisland.ie At Arm's Length Aristocrats in the Republic of Ireland

400pp, royal format, hb, 1904301854, 2004

“Anne Chambers is one of the rare this unique history presents a All rights available. exceptions. She has that quality... of vibrant portrait of a people apart, a seeing, feeling and understanding the people held forever at arms length. period she writes about as if she Rights contact: were a contemporary” Accessible, lively and deeply relevant, Edwin Higel The Irish Independent At Arms Length is an engaging and New Island, thoughtful popular history. 2 Brookside, Dundrum Road, Living in Ireland today, unobtrusively Dublin 14, and ignored by the greater Irish Anne Chambers, historian and biog- public, are the descendants of rapher, was born in County Mayo Ireland Ireland’s former ruling ascendancy. and educated at Castlebar and UCC. Cover image: Anú Design Some are directly descended from Her works include Granuaile: The t: + 353 (0)1 2983411 Ireland’s most ancient kings and Life and Times of Grace O'Malley e: [email protected] chiefs. Others can claim an Irish (1979, revised 1998), Chieftain to www.newisland.ie pedigree a mere five-hundred years Knight: Tibbott-ne-Long Bourke, First old. But by virtue of history they are, Viscount of Mayo (1983), Eleanor, despite their ancestry, regarded as Countess of Desmond (1986), La being less than Irish, not of Ireland. Sheridan, Adorable Diva, a biography of Margaret Burke Sheridan (1989), At Arms Length traces the historical and a novel, The Geraldine and political evolution of this silent Conspiracy (1995). Chambers has division. In her unique and eye- also written a number of opening approach, Anne Chambers documentaries for RT and is talks to 14 present-day Irish chiefs co-author of film scripts. She lives and peers who live and work in the in Dublin, Ireland. Republic of Ireland. Candid and Author photo: New Island warm, rich in detail and anecdote, Wolfhound Press Ultan Cowley p 53 | SOCIAL/HISTORY/POLITICS The Men Who Built Britain A History of the Irish Navvy

272pp, 240 x 240mm, pb, 2004, illustrated throughout with B&W photos, 0 86327 9228

The Scottish make the best supervisors, The Men who Built Britain is the Ultan Cowley was born into a the Irish the best workers and result of years of extensive research theatrical family in Ireland in 1946. England the best country to work in by Ultan Cowley. In it he quotes At the age of fifteen he first took the - Lord McAlpine widely from numerous interviews boat to Britain, where he lived for with Irish navvies and subcontrac- many years. As a mature student he This book is a history of, and a tribute tors, senior English management and attended Essex University and the to, an entire underclass of people relatives of those involved. This book University College of Wales, who left Ireland from the mid-18th is a social history which brings the Aberystwyth, before returning to to the mid-20th century to help past to life, especially for the many Ireland to lecture in Modern History build the infrastructure of a country ancestors in Britain, Ireland and at University College, Cork. He now that was booming on the back of elsewhere, of the Men who Built lives in Co. Wexford with his wife Cover image: Graham Thew Design colonial riches. Britain. and children. Generously illustrated with striking The contribution of the Irish Navvy pictures, many never previously All rights available. to the British construction industry published, this book ensures that the has been immeasurable. For over two true story of the Irish navvy will not Rights contact: centuries, hundreds of thousands of be forgotten. Chenile Keogh rural Irish male emigrants went to Merlin Publishing/Wolfhound Press, Britain, where the best chance of a A lasting tribute - 16 Upper Pembroke Street, new start was in construction. The Belfast Telegraph Dublin 2, While the men themselves have been Ireland largely forgotten or ignored, the Told with unblinking honesty - canals, the railways, the roads, tunnels, Irish Independent t: +353 (0)1 6764373 dams and public utilities of Britain f: +353 (0)1 6764368 stand as lasting monuments to their An extensive work - e: [email protected] sacrifices and achievements. The Irish Times p 54 | SOCIAL/HISTORY/POLITICS Rosemary Cullen Owens Gill and Macmillan | www.gillmacmillan.ie A Social History of Women in Ireland 1870-1970

288pp, 234 x 156mm, hb, 0 7171 36817, November 2004

Using a combination of primary In bringing together a wide ranging All rights available. research and published works, A portfolio of material A Social History Social History of Women in Ireland of Women in Ireland 1870-1970 fills 1870-1970 explores the role and an important gap in the literature of Rights contact: status of women in Ireland from the period, touching as it does on Mr Hans-Joachim Bender 1870 until 1970. It examines lifestyle politics, sociology, marriage patterns, Hagenbach & Bender GmbH, options available to women during religion, education and work. Literary and Media Agency, this period as well as providing an Gutenbergstrasse 20, overview of the forces working for Rosemary Cullen Owens lectures in change within Irish society, the Women's Education and Postfach 6521, concentrating in particular on the Resource Centre, University College CH 3001 Bern, Cover image: Sin É Design interaction between women's groups Dublin. Switzerland and other social and political organisations. t: +41 31 381 66 66 f: +41 31 381 66 77 e: [email protected] Maverick House | www.maverickhouse.com Dara deFaoite p 55 | SOCIAL/HISTORY/POLITICS Paranormal Ireland An Investigation into the Other Side of Irish life

304pp, 197 x 130mm, pb, 0 9542945 64, June 2004

Reports on sightings of UFOs over Dara deFaoite is a working journalist. All rights available. County Roscommon in 1997 set in He has worked for Ireland on train a passionate interest in the Sunday, The Sunday Business Post, paranormal and inspired Dara The Irish Independent and The Irish Rights contact: deFaoite to write this probing and Examiner. A man with a life long Jean Harrington scholarly book. Paranormal Ireland interest in the paranormal, he has Maverick House Publishers, goes beyond recounting stories of spent many years rooting out Unit 115 Ashbourne Industrial ghosts, haunting, strange creatures in mysterious stories often over looked Estate, woods and poltergeists to reveal a by his colleagues rare insight into what science has Ashbourne, failed to explain. Superbly readable, Co. Meath, Ireland Cover image: Slick Fish Design Paranormal Ireland recreates from interviews and notes the appearance t: +353 (0)1 8010620 of big cats in Tipperary, sightings of f: +353 (0)87 59920755 UFOs over Roscommon, the harrowing experiences of a family in e: [email protected] Galway at the hands of a poltergeist, www.maverickhouse.com amongst other mysterious tales. DeFaoite has produced a book with all the feeling and depth of fiction but more shocking because it's true. It also includes a Travel Guide to the Paranormal in Ireland, as almost every county in Ireland has a tale of an eerie nature to tell. p 56 | SOCIAL/HISTORY/POLITICS Greg Harkin and Martin Ingram The O'Brien Press | www.obrien.ie Stakeknife Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

280pp, 196 x 130mm, pb, 0 86278 8439, 2004

An explosive exposé of how British Martin Ingram is the pseudonym of All rights available except U.S. military intelligence really works - an ex-British Army intelligence (University of Wisconsin Press) from the inside. The stories of two officer and FRU handler turned undercover agents: the man known whistleblower. He left the Army after as Stakeknife, Force Research Unit deciding that the truth had to be told Rights contact: (FRU) agent and deputy head of the about activities of intelligence agents Michael O'Brien / Kunak McGann IRA's infamous 'Nutting Squad', the in Ireland during the Troubles. The O'Brien Press Ltd., internal security force which tortured 20 Victoria Road, and killed suspected informers; and Greg Harkin is the award-winning Brian Nelson, who worked for the Belfast journalist who first broke the Rathgar, FRU, aiding loyalist terrorists and story on the Stakeknife affair. Dublin 6, Cover image: The O'Brien Press murderers in their bloody work. Ireland

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432pp, 234 x 156mm, hb, 1 903464 455, 2004

Great pioneers and groundbreakers Colin Harper was born in 1968. He All rights available. of Irish folk, trad and blues music, graduated from Queens University such as Sweeneys Men, Horslips, De Belfast with a BA Hons in Modern Danann and Rory Gallagher, lived History and a Postgraduate Diploma Rights contact: when the media and recording in Information Management. A Mr Con Collins industry showed scant interest. professional writer between 1994- The Collins Press, Accounts of their lives and music 2001, he contributed regularly to Q, Westlink Park, survived through reminiscences and Mojo, the Independent, the Irish Doughcloyne, good fortune. This fascinating Times and other publications. In history reveals the frustrations and August 2000 his Dazzling Singer: Bert Wilton, triumphs of those who blazed trails Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Cork, Cover image: Artmark before acts like U2 existed. Forgotten Revival was published by Ireland heroes and legends intertwine with Bloomsbury to unanimous acclaim. honorary visitors like Bob Dylan and He became a full-time librarian in t: +353 (0)21 4347717 Arlo Guthrie who took a bit of September 2001 but continues to Ireland with them. write prolifically. f: +353 (0)21 4347720 e: [email protected] www.collinspress.ie

Author photo: courtesy of author p 58 | SOCIAL/HISTORY/POLITICS Thomas Hennessey Gill and Macmillan | www.gillmacmillan.ie Northern Ireland: The Origins of The Troubles

416pp, 234 x 156mm, hb, 0 7171 33826, January 2004

The Northern Ireland troubles Dr Thomas Hennessey lectures in All rights available. erupted in 1968. That is the point at Modern History at the University of which Tom Hennessey’s new book Kent at Canterbury. He is the author ends. It begins almost a decade of A History of Northern Ireland and Rights contact: earlier and traces the long course of a detailed account of the peace Mr Hans-Joachim Bender events that led to the climactic events process that culminated in the Hagenbach & Bender GmbH, of October 1968 and after. The Belfast Agreement of 1998. Literary and Media Agency, troubles were the product of a long Gutenbergstrasse 20, inter-communal dispute between unionist and nationalist. From the Postfach 6521, start, nationalists in Northern CH 3001 Bern, Ireland never accepted the legitimacy Switzerland of the state while unionists regarded nationalists as a disloyal fifth column. t: +41 31 381 66 66 This book tells, in a step by step f: +41 31 381 66 77 account, how the bright promises of e: [email protected] the 1960s were shown to be false. It is the most complete account we have of the sleepwalk to disaster.

Author photo: courtesy of author Veritas Publications | www.veritas.ie Edited by Ciarán Mac Murchaidh p 59 | SOCIAL/HISTORY/POLITICS Who Needs Irish? Reflections on the Importance of the Irish Language Today

192pp, pb, 1853907774, March 2004

Who Needs Irish? is a collection of Ciarán Mac Murchaidh lectures in All rights available. essays in English for all those the Department of Irish, St. Patrick's interested in the Irish-language College, Dublin. He was a joint debate today. Why does the Irish editor of Teanga, Pobal agus Réigiún: Rights contact: language evoke such a range of Aistí ar Chultúr na Gaeilge Inniu Helen Carr feelings in people? Why does the (Language, Community and Region: Veritas Publications, debate come across as being so Essays on Modern Gaeltacht Culture) 7 - 8 Lower Abbey Street, polarised? Who Needs Irish? tries to (2000) and Cruinnscríobh na Gaeilge Dublin 1, answer these questions and more. (A Grammar of the Irish language for Third Level students) Ireland The contributors are drawn from the (2002). Cover image: Niamh McGarry ranks of people involved at different t: +353 (0)1 8788177 levels in the Irish language f: +353 (0)1 8786507 movement - language activists, e: [email protected] writers, poets, academics, parents of children in gaelscoileanna and others www.veritas.ie engaged with a range of voluntary Irish language groups. p 60 | SOCIAL/HISTORY/POLITICS John McCormack Mentor Books | www.mentorbooks.ie Twists of Fate Stories Behind Famous Irish Battles

220pp, pb, 1 84210 2443, July 2004

This book brings the reader behind John McCormack’s first book was A All rights available. the scenes in the heroic defence of Story of Dublin, which enjoyed strongholds such as Drogheda, phenomenal success, so much so that Limerick, Derry and Dunboy against within three months it was reprinted. Rights contact: the besieging armies. The battles of His next title, A Story of Ireland,took Danny McCarthy Clontarf, The Yellow Ford, Benburb the same format as its predecessor Mentor Books, and others are brought vividly to life and was equally successful. John 43 Furze Road, with little-known and fascinating McCormack was a secondary school- Sandyford Industrial Estate, details that are not usually found in teacher of History, Mathematics and history books. English in Dublin. An intrepid Dublin 18, traveller, he has visited many Ireland Cover image: Anú Design How did Cromwell seem to lose his countries over the years including head at the siege of Clonmel? every country in Europe, much of t: +353 (0)1 2952112 the Far East, China, America and f: +353 (0)1 2952114 What order given by Hugh Mexico. John is married with four O’Donnell at Kinsale caused all his children and four grandchildren. e: [email protected] foot soldiers to flee in panic? www.mentorbooks.ie

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Read how during the siege of Derry, a certain fat gentleman fancying that several of the garrison were looking at him with hungry eyes hid himself Author photo: courtesy of author away for two days! Veritas Publications | www.veritas.ie Seán McDonagh p 61 | SOCIAL/HISTORY/POLITICS Dying for Water

112pp, pb, 1 85390 6166, October 2003

Dying for Water details the causes Fr Sean McDonagh is a Columban All rights available. and consequences of an Missionary priest. Previous works environmental problem which looks include Passion for the Earth (1995), set to become a major crisis in the Greening the Christian Millennium Rights contact: twenty-first century. Human activity (1999) and Why are We Deaf to the Helen Carr is polluting water in rivers, lakes and Cry of the Earth? Veritas Publications, oceans around the world. In Ireland, 7 - 8 Lower Abbey Street, severe agricultural pollution has led Dublin 1, to a dramatic deterioration in water quality during the past 40 years. Ireland Agriculture, industry and tourism all Cover image: Pierce Design place huge pressure on water t: +353 (0)1 8788177 supplies worldwide. Oceans are f: +353 (0)1 8786507 being over-fished and polluted at an e: [email protected] unprecedented rate, so that deep water eco-systems are destroyed even www.veritas.ie before we discover their existence.

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352pp, 234 x 153mm, hb, 0 9542945 56, December 2003

This book is the definitive account of John Mooney is a crime and security All rights available. the Real IRA. The authors have journalist and is considered an written the best chronicle of the expert on crime and terrorism. His secret army using the experiences of previous book, Gangster, the Rights contact: the bombers, their families, the biography of the criminal John Jean Harrington victims, the security services and Gilligan became a No. 1 bestseller. Maverick House Publishers, others who worked to stop the Michael O'Toole is the Crime Unit 115 Ashbourne Industrial violence. The book reads with an Correspondent for The Irish Daily Estate, urgency and a moral commitment Star. He has written extensively on that belongs to the finest fiction. It the Real IRA. Many of the statements Ashbourne, tells the story from three different made to media by the paramilitary Co. Meath, Cover image: Anú Design perspectives: that of the Real IRA group were issued personally to Ireland army council, that of the security O'Toole. services, and that of republican t: +353 (0)1 8010620 victims. Few people will put this book down without understanding f: +353 (0)87 59920755 the new underground army, its e: [email protected] bloody campaign and those who www.maverickhouse.com control it. Gill & Macmillan | www.gillmacmillan.ie Justin O'Brien p 63 | SOCIAL/HISTORY/POLITICS Terrorising the Terrorists The Inside Story of Britain's Intelligence War

288pp, 234 x 156mm, hb, 0 7171 35438, April 2005

In Terrorising the Terrorists,Justin Justin O'Brien is a fellow in the All rights available. O'Brien tells the full story of Department of Politics, Queen's collusion between loyalist University, Belfast and a former paramilitaries and agents of the state editor, current affairs, at UTV. He is Rights contact: - especially the RUC Special Branch the author of two previous books, Mr Hans-Joachim Bender and sinister elements in the British The Arms Trial and The Modern Hagenbach & Bender GmbH, Army. The result was the corruption Prince, a biography of Charles Literary and Media Agency, of the state itself and the loss of its Haughey. Gutenbergstrasse 20, claim to moral precedence in the fight against republican terrorism. Postfach 6521, CH 3001 Bern, Cover image: Graham Thew Design Switzerland

t: +41 31 381 66 66 f: +41 31 381 66 77 e: [email protected] p 64 | SOCIAL/HISTORY/POLITICS Andrew Phelan Wolfhound Press Turning Tides A Voyage Around the Irish Sea

224pp, 198 x 128mm, pb, 0 86327 9082, 2003

Criss-crossing the Irish Sea, Andrew With maps to help you follow their All rights available. Phelan and his crew investigate a voyage, join the crew as they battle world of prirates, smugglers, heroes, against the elements, sailing from murderers, invaders, slaves and many port to port, rock to rock, around Rights contact: more eccentric characters and the Irish Sea and dealing with every Chenile Keogh strange mysteries from past and type of adventure it has to offer. Merlin Publishing/Wolfhound present. Press, Andrew Phelan was skipper of his 16 Upper Pembroke Street, Amongst other discoveries, Andrew first vessel - a rowing boat - at age tracks the early lives of the fathers of ten. Years of cruising experience led Dublin 2, the Amerian navy, John Paul Jones to many articles on sailing and Irish Ireland Cover image: Graham Thew Design and John Barry. He relates stories history. After twenty-one years as a about characters such as Captain Circuit Court judge, Andrew has t: +353 (0)1 6764373 Kate Tyrell, whose ship was the first now retired and spends even more f: +353 (0)1 6764368 ever to fly the Irish tricolour, and time cruising in the Sarakiniko. His Luke Ryan, a pirate and privateer, previous books include The Law for e: [email protected] commissioned by Benjamin Franklin Small Boats and Ireland from the Sea. as a Commander of the American Navy. Turning Tides also explores the links between all the communities bordering the Irish Sea, and their shared sense of community and history. Lilliput Press | www.lilliputpress.ie Bob Quinn, with a foreword by Barry Cunliffe p 65 | SOCIAL/HISTORY/POLITICS The Atlantean Irish Ireland's Oriental & Maritime Heritage

256pp, colour and b/w illustrations, 234 x 156mm, pb, 1 84351 0243, January 2005

The Irish identity is best approached Morocco, from Arann to Tatarstan, Quinn's reasoning is backed by by sea. For eight thousand years the from Carraroe to Cairo. He has evidence meticulously collected over island has been a haven for intrepid demonstrated the similarity between a vast area. This is a shattering salvo, navigators and a trading-post Connamara sean-nós singing and its in the style of Estyn Evans, against absorbing goods and people from all Middle Eastern equivalents, and the "we are Celts" myth ... enthralling points of the compass. The reduction championed the North African and splendidly told. - John de Courcy of the Irish to the fanciful title of linguistic stratum beneath an Ireland, Sunday Tribune 'Celts' has persisted for three hundred indigenous Gaelic tongue. years too many and is here dismissed. Bob Quinn, writer, film-maker, No classical author ever called the This is a revised, expanded and director at RTE for many years, Irish 'Celts' and until quite recently newly illustrated edition of the text, recently published his autobiography, Cover image: Anú Design neither did the Irish so describe originally published in 1986, - Maverick (2002). themselves. following the famous Atlantean Trilogy of films. All rights available. These islanders are an amalgam of peoples, their culture and language A very exciting book ... Bob Quinn (Irl) Robert Towers, are shaped as much by Middle has encouraged people to be more 2 The Crescent, Eastern civilizations as they are by observant, more inquring and Monkstown, Europe. The Gaelic language itself is healthily sceptical of all received Co. Dublin non-European, forged over thousands kowledge. - Brendán hEither, Irish t: +353 (0)1 2806532 of years of endless trading up and Press f: +353 (0)1 2806020 down the Atlantic seaways. Bob Quinn is as indefatigable as he is (UK) Hugh Bulley, Over the past twenty years Bob enthusiastic ... his book makes a very 21 Bruce Grove, Quinn has traced these archaeological, good read. Watford, linguistic, religious and economic - Tony O'Riordan, Irish Times Herts WD24 4DZ connections from Newgrange to t: +44 (0)1923 442566 p 66 | SOCIAL/HISTORY/POLITICS Annie Ryan Liberties Press | www.libertiespress.com Witness to the Rising

220pp, pb, 1 84210 244 3, July 2004

Groundbreaking historical research All rights available. on the 1916 Easter Rising, based on recently released witness statements taken from the survivors of the Rights contact: Rising and their relatives in the late Seán O'Keeffe 1940’s and early 1950’s. The author Liberties Press, offers new insights into the major 51 Stephens Rd, historical figures of the period, Inchicore, including Michael Collins, Padraic Pearse, Cathal Brugha and others, Dublin, the planning of the Rising, and Ireland particularly the role of women both behind the scenes and on the front t: +353 (0)1 402 0805 lines. Written in an accessible style, e: [email protected] with extensive quotation from the witness statements. www.libertiespress.com Guildhall Press | www.ghpress.com Various p 67 | SOCIAL/HISTORY/POLITICS Free Derry Corner A Photographic and Social Record 1969-2004

200pp, 245 x 210mm, pb, 0 946451 753, November 2004

Despite all of the publicity that Free The extensive use of photographs Corner has been researched by three Derry Wall has received, there has planned, especially those of the back Derry organisations: Gasyard been no systematic attempt to record of the Wall, will highlight the wide Bluebell Arts, Bogside History just what the Wall means, and has range of campaigns representing - Museum and Guildhall Press. These meant, to the people who live beside issues ranging from straightforward local non-profit groups have used it, travel past it, journey thousands of party political issues to womens extensive local contacts and miles to view and photograph it, or rights and AIDS awareness - that knowledge to compile the many see it regularly on their television have made use of the Wall, and the hundreds of photos and social screens. This photographic book is use of art and imagery that has gone history of this world renowned icon. an attempt to rectify that, and to into such campaigns. record it for future generations. All rights available Cover image: Guildhall Press The book will also provide an The publication will outline the opportunity for discussion on the Paul Hippsley historical context which gave birth to juxtaposition of the two most Guildhall Press, Free Derry Corner and chronicle its important cultural symbols in the Rath Mor Business Park, significance, locally and globally, city of Derry, ie Derry’s Walls and Creggan, using approximately 150 colour and Free Derry Wall, and chart the evolu- Derry, 50 B/W photographs. To achieve our tion of the geographical, political, BT48 0LZ, aim of gathering the widest range religious and social community that Northern Ireland possible of local, national and existed in the vicinity of the Wall, ie international opinion on the Wall we Lecky Road and St Columb's Wells t: +44 (0) 28 7136 4413 plan to approach a large number of area of Derry, prior to and during f: +44 (0) 28 7137 2949 politicians, personalities, activists, the most recent phase of the e: [email protected] etc. directly and ask them the simple Troubles. www.ghpress.com question What does Free Derry Corner mean to you? The general This comprehensive photographic public will also be canvassed. and historical record of Free Derry p 68 | SOCIAL/HISTORY/POLITICS Paul Williams Merlin Publishing Crime Lords

326pp, b format, pb, 1 903582 512, October 2003

Crime Lords dissects the murky Paul Williams is Ireland’s most All rights available. depths of Ireland’s criminal under- respected crime writer. A qualified ground. It is a chilling exposé of criminologist, he has won a number organised crimes most dangerous of major journalism awards for his Rights sold by other works for the godfathers and their rackets in courageous work with The Sunday author include: Ireland today. World newspaper. His previous best- sellers, Evil Empire, The General and Paul Williams/Evil Empire, USA Williams investigates the secret Gangland, have all won national and Paul Williams/The General, USA, worlds of brutal gangsters like Joe international acclaim and gained Cotton Eye Delaney and John The outstanding reviews. Williams is also Spanish Colonel Cunningham. Crime Lords a member of the prestigious Paul Williams/Gangland, USA. Cover image: Faye Keegan Design uncovers the truth about the INLAs International Consortium involvement in drugs, protection Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), based Rights contact: rackets and murder. It follows the in Washington DC. His books have Chenile Keogh trail of Europes most wanted drug been published in the USA, Canada trafficker, Mickey The Pimpernel and Spain. Merlin Publishing/Wolfhound Press, Green, and reveals savage gangland 16 Upper Pembroke Street, murders of recent years. Dublin 2, Ireland Feuding has brought chaos and murder to the streets of Limerick City and a new breed of ruthless t: +353 (0)1 6764373 young criminals, epitomised by The f: +353 (0)1 6764368 Westies gang in Dublin, reinforce the e: [email protected] terrifying fact that the gangsters are here to stay. The Columba Press | www.columba.ie Matthew Byrne p 69 | SPIRITUALITY/RELIGION The Day He Died The Passion According to Luke

136pp, 215 x 135mm, pb, 1856074307, 2004

This is a rich, imaginative and very The Very Rev Matthew Byrne was All rights available. informative companion to reading born in Salford, Lancashire, of Irish the story of the passion of Jesus in parents, but was reared and educated the Gospel of Luke. In six chapters, in Dublin. After his ordination he Rights contact: Matthew Byrne takes the reader from served as a curate in Rawtenstall, a Cecilia West the Last Supper to the Burial of the Lancashire cotton town, and was The Columba Press, Lord adding in all the background Army Chaplain from 1954 to 1957, 55A Spruce Avenue, colour and detail which make the on active service in Korea, Kenya and Stillorgan Industrial Park, story come to life in all its horror Cyprus. and sadness. Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Cover image: Bill Bolger He also draws very interesting pen- Ireland pictures of many of the characters involved from Judas, to the High t: +353 (0)1 2942556 Priest to the Roman Governor, Pontius Pilate. f: +353 (0)1 2942564 e: [email protected] The Day He Died looks exclusively at www.columba.ie St Luke's account of the crucifixion, painting in the political, religious and cultural background of the event, and seeking out the insights, feelings and sensitivities that shaped Luke's view of things.

Author photo: courtesy of author p 70 | SPIRITUALITY/RELIGION John Callanan Mercier Press | www.mercierpress.ie Watering the Desert with Anthony de Mello

160pp, 215 x 138mm, pb, 1 85635 444X, 2004

A book of Meditation Exercises John Callanan has qualifications in John Callanan/Dreaming with Tony celebrating the spirit and enthusiasm community development, youth de Mello: of a great Indian Master of Prayer, work, theology and philosophy. His Portugal Anthony de Mello. other works include The Spirit of Verlag Herder, Germany Tony de Mello, and Dreaming with Edizione Piemme S.p.a., Italy 'New Zealand probably has more Tony de Mello. Editorial Distribuidora Lumen srl, resident birds that can't fly than any Spain & Argentina other place on earth. I'm told that All rights available. long ago these birds could fly but life John Callanan/Finding Fire with Tony de Mello: was so good in their land and Rights sold by other works for the enemies so few that they saw no Edizione Piemme S.p.a., Italy author include: Edi es Loyola So Paulo, Brazil Cover image: Mercier Vision reason to exercise and develop their God-given talent, and thus they let Wydawnictwo Wam, Poland John Callanan/The Spirit of Tony de these attributes fall into disuse. If Editorial Lumen, Spain & Argentina Mello: you don't use the talent, you lose the Doubleday, America. talent, and that's exactly what Rights contact: E J Dwyer (Australia) Pty Ltd, happened. John Spillane Australia. Editora Rocco Ltda, Brazil & Mercier Press Ltd, 'We don't want to be like the Kiwi Portugal. Douglas Village, bird. Faith may have been handed on Fides Bellarmin Canada & Desclee, Cork, to us, but if we let it lie dormant, it France & Canada. will surely wither. The philosophy of Ireland Verlag Herder, Germany life and prayer practices offered in Enderle Book Co., Japan t: +353 (0)21 4899858 this book capture some of Anthony Wydawnictwo Wam, Poland de Mello's unique holistic approach t: +353 (0)21 4899887 PPC Editora Distribuidora SA, Spain to spirituality.’ e: [email protected] www.mercierpress.ie The Columba Press | www.columba.ie Michael Collins p 71 | SPIRITUALITY/RELIGION The Fisherman’s Net The Influence of the Papacy on History

192pp, 215 x 135mm, pb, 1856074129, 2003

This best-selling book tells the story Michael Collins was born in Dublin. All rights available. of the oldest non-hereditary After studies at Holy Cross College, monarchy in the world, and its Clonliffe and University College influence over a two thousand year Dublin, he was ordained in 1985. He Rights contact: history, on the lives of billions of pursued postgraduate studies at the Cecilia West people, Christian and non-Christian. Pontifical Institute of Christian The Columba Press, Archaeology in Rome. He is 55A Spruce Avenue, This influence has reached way currently teaching in Rome. Stillorgan Industrial Park, beyond the religious, such as the setting up of the Holy Roman Blackrock, Empire, the demise of paganism, and Co. Dublin, Cover image: Liam Furlong into the realm of global politics. As Ireland patrons of the arts, popes have commissioned some of the finest t: +353 (0)1 2942556 masterpieces, including the Sistine Chapel and St Peters Basilica. In the f: +353 (0)1 2942564 area of politics, Pope Alexander VI e: [email protected] divided the map of the newly www.columba.ie discovered territories of the Americas in the late 15th century. From the earliest forays of the Muslim world westwards, the Popes have launched crusades to stop their advance. Most recently, Pope John Paul II, in his 25-year pontificate, has raised the profile of the papacy immeasurably. p 72 | SPIRITUALITY/RELIGION Donal Dorr The Columba Press | www.columba.ie Time for a Change A Fresh Look at Spirituality, Sexuality, Globalisation and the Church

260pp, 215 x 135mm, pb, 1856074447, 2004

This book is a response to the Donal Dorr is a missionary with All rights available. hunger for a spirituality which both wide experience. A theologian and touches the heart and appeals to the spiritual animator, he has served as a intelligent mind. Donal Dorr resource person for The Irish Rights contact: explores in depth the nature of Missionary Union and as a consultor Cecilia West spirituality both in its worldly to the Pontifical Council for Justice The Columba Press, aspects, and as an intimate and Peace. He is the author of several 55A Spruce Avenue, relationship with the Creator, with books, including the award winning Stillorgan Industrial Park, Jesus, and with the Holy Spirit. He Spirituality and Justice, as well as explains why a lot of people who are Option for the Poor: One Humdred Blackrock, searching for a satisfying spirituality Years of Catholic and Social Teaching Co. Dublin, Cover image: Bill Bolger have become disillusioned with and Mission in Today’s World. Ireland formal religion. t: +353 (0)1 2942556 He goes on to devote three chapters to a fresh look at sexuality as a key f: +353 (0)1 2942564 component in spirituality. He then e: [email protected] explores the need for spirituality in www.columba.ie the workplace, particularly as a response to the damaging effects of globalisation. In the final four chapters of the book he makes practical, and at times radical, suggestions for how the Church can be a more effective 'carrier' and promoter of genuine spirituality. Author photo: courtesy of author The Columba Press | www.columba.ie Edward P. Echlin p 73 | SPIRITUALITY/RELIGION The Cosmic Circle Jesus and Ecology

144pp, 215 x 135mm, pb, 185607451X, 2004

In The Cosmic Circle Edward Echlin Edward P. Echlin is an ecological All rights available. relates Jesus Christ to ecology. He theologian relating Jesus Christ to looks at Jesus Christ in his Nazareth the earth. He chairs Catholic years as craftsman and food grower Concern for Animals and is Rights contact: and his connection with the earth, Honorary Research Fellow in Cecilia West ecology and the environment. He Theology, University College of The Columba Press, looks at the effect his baptism had Trinity & All Saints, Leeds. He is a 55A Spruce Avenue, on water; the inclusion of the earth member of HDRA (the National Stillorgan Industrial Park, in his ministry, miracles, and Organic Gardening Organisation), teaching, and the importance of the the Soil Association, Christian Blackrock, earth in his redemptive act. Ecology Link, and other Co. Dublin, Cover image: Bill Bolger environmental NGOs. Ireland The author maintains that the risen Jesus is present, filling the earth t: +353 (0)1 2942556 today, inviting us to respond to the earth, to heal where earth is suffering f: +353 (0)1 2942564 and to be leading friends of the e: [email protected] earth. Reintegration with the earth, www.columba.ie and a mutually supportive relation- ship between humans and the earth community, is according to the author, the defining issue of the twenty-first century. The book includes readings and other aids to assist Christians, and other concerned earth people to relate to Author photo: courtesy of author the earth community. p 74 | SPIRITUALITY/RELIGION John Masterson Mercier Press | www.mercierpress.ie Working It Out

198pp, 198 x 129mm, hb, 1 85635 4474, 2004

Working It Out is a hugely hopefully you will have a few All rights available. successful column in the Sunday thoughts provoked!' Independent dealing with topics such as: office dynamics, confidence, John Masterson is a weekly Rights contact: motivation, change and daily mental columnist with the Sunday John Spillane workouts. Independent. After college he Mercier Press Ltd, lectured in Psychology in UCG and Douglas Village, 'I am not so much of a sucker for then at TCD until 1984 when he Cork, Self-Help books. I am a bit jaundiced joined RTE as a producer/director with the notion that we must all be working on programmes such as Ireland successful and have to strive to be Today Tonight, Bon Voyage and The Cover image: Paintbox better every waking hour. Late Late Show. He is also a partner t: +353 (0)21 4899858 in Harmony who provide a t: +353 (0)21 4899887 'But I do know that people are find- counselling and psychotherapy e: [email protected] ing the ordinary things that happen service in Blackrock, Co Dublin. to us throughout our four score on www.mercierpress.ie this planet difficult at times. I know it because I am a bit past half-time in my life and I've been around the block a few times.

'So it seems to me to be a good time to put down a few thoughts on some difficult issues. If you are making a reasonable fist of life like the rest of us and every now and then try to make a change for the better then Liberties Press | www.libertiespress.com Risteárd Mulcahy p 75 | SPIRITUALITY/RELIGION Improving With Age What Exercise Can Do for You

220pp, 216 x 135mm, pb, 1 84210 244 3, July 2004

In our youth, we often take our Professor Risteárd Mulcahy was head All rights available. health for granted. As we get older, of the cardiology department and however, we often do too little to the heart disease research unit at St ensure that our bodies remain in Vincent's Hospital in Dublin. He is a Rights contact: good shape. In particular, we do not past president of the Irish Medical exercise as much as we should. In Association and set up the Irish Seán O'Keeffe Improving With Age, Risteárd Heart Foundation. He has devoted Liberties Press, Mulcahy argues that exercise is just much of his professional life to the 51 Stephens Rd, as important for older people as it is prevention of heart disease and the for those of more tender years. He promotion of exercise, healthier Inchicore, frankly discusses his own experiences eating and more effective control of Dublin, Cover image: Liam Furlong of exercise over the course of his life cigarette smoking. Professor Mulcahy Ireland and outlines the many benefits, both also practises what he preaches: he physical and psychological, that works two days a week, cycles to his t: +353 (0)1 402 0805 exercise can bring to older people. clinic, enjoys walking and is a keen Professor Mulcahy also offers golfer. e: [email protected] practical advice on how, by making www.libertiespress.com changes to the way they live, people can enjoy healthier and happier lives into old age. p 76 | SPORT/FOOD/TRAVEL Con Houlihan Liberties Press | www.libertiespress.com More Than a Game Selected Sporting Essays

306pp, 216 x 135mm, pb and hb, 0 95453 350x and 0 95453 3518, September 2003

Con Houlihan is, quite simply, one Con Houlihan was born, as he puts All rights available. of Ireland's finest sports writers. it himself, 'in the hill-country above Over a lengthy career, Con has Castle Island, on the sixth of covered many of the greatest Irish December 1925, in a blizzard.' After Rights contact: and international sporting events, working as a teacher, he became a Seán O'Keeffe from classic Gaelic football and journalist, writing a column three Liberties Press, hurling finals to the soccer and times a week for the Evening Press. 51 Stephens Rd, rugby World Cups, the Olympics and He now writes for a variety of Inchicore, memorable race meetings at home publications, including the Sunday and abroad. He has also written World. Dublin, about sport's biggest stars, from Ireland Cover image: Liam Furlong George Best to Muhammad Ali. More Than a Game gathers together t: +353 (0)1 402 0805 the finest examples of his sports e: [email protected] journalism from the mid-1970s to the present day. Let Con be your www.libertiespress.com guide to some of the greatest moments - and characters - in Irish and world sport. Mercier Press | www.mercierpress.ie Dr Gillian Moore-Groarke & Teresa Nerney p 77 | SPORT/FOOD/TRAVEL Watch Your Weight A Quality of Life Approach

128pp, pb, 1 85635 4334, 2004

Watch Your Weight helps you Like every other successful slimmer, All rights available, except understand why your past attempts you will discover that YOU CAN Australian. at dieting have failed, and gives you LOSE WEIGHT, keep it off and the tools to succeed now. enrich the quality of your life. Dr Gillian Moore-Groarke is a Rights contact: Using a 7-step, easy-to-follow plan, registered Consultant Psychologist in John Spillane this book helps YOU make the Cork city. She has a special interest Mercier Press Ltd, choice to be a healthy weight by: in the area of eating disorders and Douglas Village, has previously published in this area. • getting in tune with your thoughts Her other special interests include Cork, and feelings health psychology, pain and stress Ireland Cover image: Daniel Gaynor • setting goals you can achieve management. She is also the health • understanding the difference advisor to Weight Watchers Ireland. t: +353 (0)21 4899858 between physical and psychological t: +353 (0)21 4899887 hunger Teresa Nerney is a writer and editor • working with, not against yourself based in Sligo. She contributes to e: [email protected] • conquering your food cravings national publications on lifestyle www.mercierpress.ie • gathering up your cheerleaders issues and has written extensively on • relaxing and treating yourself the issue of weight loss. She also • and ultimately, being the person works at the North Western Health you really are Board.

Watch Your Weight is your practical resource as you get ready for a healthier life with the support of a healthy eating and exercise programme. p 78 | SPORT/FOOD/TRAVEL Éamonn Ó Catháin Liberties Press | www.libertiespress.com Around Ireland with a Pan Food, Tales and Recipes

256pp, 216 x 135mm, pb, 0 95453 3534, July 2004

With famous offerings such as Kerry the future holds for Irish food. Each All rights available. lamb and more obscure ones like chapter is accompanied by recipes Armagh boar and artisan cheeses for both traditional dishes and ones from west Cork, Ireland is becoming that bring a modern twist to the best Rights contact: increasingly well known around the local ingredients. Seán O'Keeffe world for its vibrant food scene. Liberties Press, From Belfast and Dublin in the east, Éamonn Ó Cathin has presented 51 Stephens Rd, to Donegal and Galway in the west, three series of TG4’s extremely Inchicore, and all points in between, this island popular cookery programme Bia's offers superb seafood and organic Bóthar and is currently filming a Dublin, meats, fruits and vegetables, fourth, in the ten EU accession Ireland Cover image: Liam Furlong wonderful craft-produced cheeses states, to be broadcast in the and beers, and distinctive whiskeys. autumn. He has hosted world- and t: +353 (0)1 402 0805 traditional-music programmes on e: [email protected] In Around Ireland with a Pan: Food, RTE Radio 1, BBC Radio Ulster and Tales and Recipes, chef and broad- Radió na Gaeltachta. www.libertiespress.com caster Éamonn Ó Cáthin looks at how food is produced, prepared, sold and eaten in Ireland, north and south, and how tastes and standards in food have changed over the years. He discusses many of the outstand- ing chefs, restaurants, markets and food shops to be found in Ireland, recounts his own love of food and his experiences of running a restaurant, and speculates on what Cló Iar-Chonnachta | www.cic.ie Cathal Ó Searcaigh p 79 | SPORT/FOOD/TRAVEL Seal i Neipeal

184pp, pb, 1 902420 608, 2004

Seal i Neipeal is essentially a love- Cathal Ó Searcaigh is from Co. Rights contact: song to a country and its people, a Donegal. He is a poet of Caitríona Ní Bhaoill, beautifully written hymn to a land international renown, and his work poised between the past and the has been translated into English, Cló Iar-Chonnachta, future - Fortnight Catalan, Danish, French, German, Indreabhán, Romanian, Croatian, Japanese, Conamara, From the bustling capital to the Spanish and Albanian. He has won serenity of the Himalayas, tread with Co. na Gaillimhe, many awards for his writing, Éire this charismatic seer as his vision including The Irish Times Literary delights, not only in the external Award for writing in Irish in 2001. beauty he finds but also other, more t: +353 (0) 91 593307 Cover image: Cló Iar-Chonnachta & hidden forms - The Black Mountain All rights available. f: +353 (0) 91 593362 Review Cathal Ó Searcaigh e: [email protected] Seal i Neipeal (A Time in Nepal) is a Rights sold by other works for the www.cic.ie travel diary that describes the charis- author include: matic poet's travels through Nepal. The book begins in the bustling cap- Cathal Ó Searcaigh/An Bealach na Bhaile: ital of Kathmandu, and the author's Ars Longa, Romania poetic descriptions bring to life this Cathal Ó Searcaigh/Homecoming: colourful city of contrasts, vividly Editions Albin, Albania evoking tastes, scents and sounds. Selections of work have also been He then leaves the capital to travel published in the following languages: through the mountains of Nepal. Breton (Skrid), Catalan (Grup Columna), The characters that he meets along French (La Barbacabe,Verdier), Italian the way light up the pages of the (Mobydick), German (Edition die Horen). book, which includes poems and Author photo: courtesy of author photographs by the author. p 80 | SPORT/FOOD/TRAVEL Gabriel Rosenstock Cló Iar-Chonnachta | www.cic.ie Ólann mo Mhiúil as an nGainséis

155pp, pb, 1 902420 780, 2003

A tome to entertain, educate and Gabriel Rosenstock was born in All rights available. enlighten from one of Ireland's Kilfinane, Co. Limerick, and has leading Irish poets, translators and lived in Dublin for many years. He is writers - author/translator of over 100 books, Rights sold by other works for the The Black Mountain Review including poetry, children's books author include: and novels. He has a particular Gabriel Rosenstock/Rogha Ólann mo Mhiúil as an nGainséis interest in Japanese Haiku poetry. He Rosenstock, Romanian (Ars (My Mule drinks from the Ganges) is is a member of the editorial staff of Longa). a travel book which follows the An Gúm publishing house. author and his wife on their travels through Dubai, India, Hong Kong, Rights contact Cover image: m1-foto 2003 Japan, Australia, Chile and the US, Caitríona Ní Bhaoill, charting both a physical and spiritual Cló Iar-Chonnachta, journey. Rosenstock regales us with Indreabhán, hilarious tales of persistent Indian sales men, suicidal mules in the Conamara, Himalayas and the 39 million gods Co. na Gaillimhe, resident in Mumbai. As well as being Éire witty, the book is philosophical and reflective at times. Rosenstock is a t: +353 (0) 91 593307 practitioner of Japanese Haiku poetry, and the book includes many f: +353 (0) 91 593362 of these three-line poems inspired by e: [email protected] his travels, as well as several thoughts www.cic.ie for the day.

Author photo: courtesy of author The O’Brien Press | www.obrien.ie Seamus Cashman (editor) p 81 | POETRY/DRAMA Something Beginning with P

160pp, 235 x 195mm, pb, 0 86278 8684, October 2004

This beautifully illustrated book of Seamus Cashman founded All rights available. newly commissioned poetry for Wolfhound Press and was its young readers brings together work publisher for 27 years. His published from many of the leading names in work includes the classic Irish Poems Rights contact: Irish poetry - poems from over 100 for Young People, which he edited, Michael O'Brien / Kunak McGann internationally acclaimed poets and and as a publisher he commissioned The O'Brien Press Ltd., established national voices including Rusty Nails & Astronauts (Dunbar & 20 Victoria Road, Seamus Heaney, Brendan Kennelly, Fitzmaurice), an international Rathgar, Paul Muldoon, Dennis O'Driscoll, collection of poetry for children. Thomas Kinsella, Medbh Dublin 6, McGuckian, Des Egan, Siobhán Ireland Cover image: Cover copyright O’Brien Campbell and Paula Meehan, among Press, Illustration by Alan Clarke others. t: +353 (0)1 492 3333 f: +353 (0)1 492 2777 Written and published for young readers from ages 5 to 12, this is a e: [email protected] book about words, voices, play, song, www.obrien.ie fun - the perfect channels for ideas, for discoveries. The poems range from serious to trivial, from simple rhyming verse forms to a long poem for four voices. The text is illustrated by two leading Irish artists in colour and black and white, giving the book a dynamic and modern visual' come- hither' to entice young readers. p 82 | POETRY/DRAMA Celia de Fréine Cló Iar Chonnachta | www.cic.ie Fiacha Fola

90pp, 215 x 135mm, pb, 1 902420 888, August 2004

Winner of Cló Iar-Chonnachta Celia de Fréine is from Co. Down. Rights sold for other works by the Literary Prize 2004, in conjunction She now lives in Dublin, and also author include: with Údarás na Gaeltachta spends part of the year in Carraroe, Fiacha Fola (Blood Debts) is an Co. Galway. She has been awarded award-winning sequence of poems many literary prizes for her work, Celia de Fréine/Faoi Chabáistí is which gives an account of the including The Patrick Kavanagh Ríonacha, Romania (Ars Longa), Hepatitis C scandal in Ireland, in Award 1994, and a merit prize in the Bulgaria (Orpheus) which thousands of innocent women Cló Iar-Chonnachta Literary were infected with the virus through Competition 1999 for her collection blood products. In this collection the Faoi Chabáistí is Ríonacha. All rights available. poet has created the type of narrative Cover image: Casper Zier thrust one expects to find only in a Rights contact: novel. Poem after poem, the tragedy Caitríona Ní Bhaoill unfolds in the description of the Cló Iar-Chonnachta, everyday events of family life, love, birth and illness, slowly unveiling, Indreabhán, without fanfare or self-pity, the bru- Conamara, tal truth of a huge injustice visited Co. na Gaillimhe, upon the citizens of this country. Éire Fiacha Fola is a deeply moving book of poetry that reminds us of our humanity and our vulnerability. t: +353 (0)91 59 3307 English translation available. f: +353 (0)91 59 3362 e: [email protected] www.cic.ie Author photo: courtesy of author Townhouse | www.townhouse.ie Marie Heaney (Editor) p 83 | POETRY/DRAMA Heart Mysteries 50 Poems from Ireland to Touch the Soul

144pp, 170 x 200mm, hb, 1860591922, 2003

In this anthology, Marie Heaney collections of contemporary poets All rights available draws on a thousand years of Irish including Paul Muldoon, Nuala Ní writing to bring together fifty Dhomhnaill and Louis MacNeice. poems, songs and ballads that Rights contact: communicate the universal emotions Marie Heaney was born in County Penny Harris of love and loss. Tyrone and is married with three TownHouse Dublin, children. She is the editor of Sources Charleston Road, There are poems for lovers and and Sunday Miscellany, also Ranelagh, poems about the loss of love; poems published by TownHouse. She has that celebrate the family circle and also written two books of Irish Dublin 6, poems that register the anguish Legends, Over Nine Waves (Faber Ireland Cover image: Fiona Andreanelli when that circle is broken; poems and Faber, 1994) and Names Upon that resonate with love of place and the Harp (Faber and Faber, 2000). t: +353 (0)1 497 2399 poems of yearning for years gone by. f: +353 (0)1 497 0927 Each poem is accompanied by a e: [email protected] short, insightful note to the reader. www.townhouse.ie Many of the poems will be familiar, while others will be new and enlightening, but each will offer a glimpse into the enduring mysteries of the human heart.

The selection includes poems, songs and ballads, taken from the full range of Irish writing, from early Author photo: Fiona McCann Irish literature to the recent p 84 | POETRY/DRAMA John Hewitt (editor) Blackstaff Press | www.blackstaffpress.com Rhyming Weavers and other Country Poets of Antrim and Down

176pp, 178 x 112mm, pb, 0 85640 7577, 2004

During the nineteenth century there language and identity in these All rights available. was a remarkable flowering of islands. peasant verse in the Ulster counties of Antrim and Down. Witty and John Hewitt was born in 1907, and Rights contact: irreverent, these poems were written was educated at Queen's University by working people - hand-loom Belfast. He published several Patsy Horton weavers, small farmers and country collections of poetry and is widely Blackstaff Press, school-masters - for people much regarded as the father figure of 4C Heron Wharf, like themselves. The poets drew their Ulster poets. He died in 1987 and his themes from the landscape and life lasting contribution is celebrated at Sydenham Business Park, of the community at a time when the John Hewitt International Belfast BT3 9LE, Cover image: Wendy Dunbar the making of flax into linen played Summer School. Northern Ireland a basic part in the economic and social pattern. t: +44 (0)28 9045 5006 John Hewitt's Rhyming Weavers is t: +44 (0)28 9046 6237 both a study and a celebration of the e: [email protected] loves and work of these country www.blackstaffpress.com poets. First published in 1974, Hewitt's anthology was an act of recovery, an excavation of a vibrant aspect of Ulster's literary history. Reissued now, with a new foreword by Tom Paulin, Rhyming Weavers remains a seminal work, making an important contribution to Ulster- Scots writing and to debates about Cló Iar Chonnachta | www.cic.ie Micheál Ó Conghaile p 85 | POETRY/DRAMA Cúigear Chonamara

125pp, pb, 1 902420 861, 2003

The writing is superb throughout, neighbour and friend. English trans- All rights available. and the dialogue pulsates with nerve lation available. and energy - The Irish Times Michel Ó Conghaile is from Rights sold for other works by the Conghaile has a special gift as a Connemara in Co. Galway. He is a author include: Seachrán Jeaic dramatist; his writing has a natural prolific and versatile writer who has Sheáin Johnny, Romanian (Ars rhythmic flow - Irish Theatre Review received numerous prizes for his Longa) work, including a nomination on the Cúigear Chonamara won the Foras shortlist for The Irish Times Literary na Gaeilge prize at the Listowel Award, Hennessy Young Irish Writer Rights contact: Writers Week 2003, and also the of the Year Award and The Butler Caitrona Ní Bhaoill Cover image: Vincent Murphy and Stewart Parker / BBC Radio Ulster Literary Award. Cló Iar-Chonnachta, Andrew Downes Award 2003. Indreabhán, Conamara, Cúigear Chonamara (The Connemara Five) is a play set in Co. na Gaillimhe, modern-day Connemara in the west Éire of Ireland and focuses on the lives of its five characters, each of whom is t: +353 (0) 91 593307 imprisoned in a life that suppresses f: +353 (0) 91 593362 their spirits. Coated with dark humour, the play echoes with the e: [email protected] loneliness and frustrations of Danny, www.cic.ie the closet transvestite; Cynthia, his committed girlfriend; Darach, his brutish brother; Coilmín, his slightly- Author photo: courtesy of author confused father; and Meaig, the p 87 | AUTHOR INDEX

Author Index

Broderick, John page 15 Hanly, Mick page 32 McAughtry, Sam page 37 Ó Searcaigh, Cathal page 79 Bruen, Ken page 16/17 Harkin & Ingram, page 56 McCormack, John page 60 Phelan, Andrew page 64 Greg & Martin Byrne, Mathew page 69 McDonagh, Sean page 61 Pierce, Bruce page 45 Harper, Colin page 57 Callanan, John page 70 McGann, Oisín page 11 Power, Suzanne page 25 Harrison, Cora page 9 Cashman, Seamus page 81 McHale, Des page 47 Quinn, Bob page 65 Heaney, Marie page 83 Chambers, Ann page 52 McKernan & McQuade, page 51 Raymo, Chet page 26 Hennessey, Thomas page 58 Michael & Owen Collins, Michael page 71 Ronan, Gerard page 40 Herbert, Dorothea page 33 McLaverty, Michael page 21 Conroy & Maguire, page 46 Rosenstock, Gabriel page 80 Don & Alan Hewitt, John page 84 Mooney & O'Toole, page 62 Ryan, Annie page 66 John & Michael Cowley, Ultan page 53 Hickey, Patricia page 18 Scoltock, Jack page 12 Moore-Groarke & Nerney, page 77 Cullen Owens, Rosemary page 54 Houlihan, Con page 76 Dr Gillian & Teresa Sedgwick, Nicola page 48 Darling, Fiona page 7 Jordan, Marianne page 42 Mulcahy, Risteárd page 75 Sheerin, Chris page 27 de Fréine, Celia page 82 Kennedy, Brian page 19 Murphy, David page 38 Smith, Michael page 13/14 deFaoite, Dara page 55 Kenny, Mary page 34 Ó Catháin, Éamonn page 78 Stevens, Kevin page 28 Dignam & Fetherstonhaugh, page 31 Kostick, Conor page 10 Ó Conghaile, Micheál page 85 Sullivan, Kelly page 29 Christy & Neil Ledbetter, Gordon T. page 35 O'Brien, Fiona page 22 Tóibín, Colm page 30 Dooher, Kate page 44 Loughman & Harrington, page 36 O'Brien, Justin page 63 Ward & Mooney, page 41 Dorr, Donal page 72 Monica & Jean Maurice & John O'Brien, Sarah page 23 Echlin, Edward P. page 73 Mac Murchaidh, Ciarán page 59 Williams, Paul page 68 O'Connor, Ulick page 39 Furber, Rosemary page 8 Manrique-Hyland, Lory page 20 O'Reilly, Patricia page 24 Masterson, John page 74 p 88 | TITLE INDEX

Title Index

The Arctic Fox: Francis Leopold The Boss: The Remarkable Free Derry Corner: A Photographic Ireland’s Excellence McClintock - Discoverer of the Fate Adventures of Ernest Shackleton, and Social Record 1969-2004* of Franklin Heroic Antarctic Explorer Irish Folk, Trad and Blues: A Secret Gazumped! History Around Ireland with a Pan: Food, Charity Tales and Recipes Germany Calling: A Biography of The Irish Zorro: The Extraordinary The Cosmic Circle: Jesus and William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw adventures of William Lamport At Arm's Length:Aristocrats in the Ecology (1615-1659) Republic of Ireland Gorgeous Crime Lords John McCormack: The Great Irish The Arrival of Fergal Flynn Green Poppies Tenor Cúigear Chonamara The Atlantean Irish: Ireland's The Harvest Tide Project The Joyce We Knew: Memoirs of Oriental & Maritime Heritage The Day He Died: The Passion Joyce According to Luke Heart Mysteries: 50 Poems from Ballerina Ireland to Touch the Soul Lost Fields Days of Rain Beauty in a Broken Place The Horse’s Curse The Men Who Built Britain: A Dispatching Baudelaire History of the Irish Navvy The Big Movie Quiz Book I've Got Cancer, But It Hasn't Got The Dramatist Me: Rising to the Challenge of Breast Miscarriage and Stillbirth: The Black Operations: The Secret War Cancer Changing Response Against the Real IRA Dying for Water Ice Man: The Remarkable Epic More Than a Game: Selected Volume I: Bloody Sunday Saville Adventures of Antarctic Explorer Sporting Essays Inquiry: Analysis of Process and Fiacha Fola Tom Crean Verdict Northern Ireland: The Origins of The Fisherman’s Net: The Influence Improving With Age: What Exercise The Troubles Volume II: Bloody Sunday: The of the Papacy on History Can Do for You Family View of the Inquiry Northern Ireland Yearbook 2004 In the Shadow of the Oak p 89 | TITLE INDEX

Northern Ireland’s Excellence A Social History of Women in The Waking of Willie Ryan Ireland 1870-1970 Ólann mo Mhiúil as an nGainséis Watch Your Weight: A Quality of Life Sold Approach Open Door Series 4 Something Beginning with P: New Watering the Desert with Anthony Paranormal Ireland: An Investigation Poems from Irish Poets de Mello into the Other Side of Irish life Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in What You See Is What You Get Phonetics for Learners of English Ireland Pronunciation Who Needs Irish?: Reflections on the Terrorising the Terrorists: The Inside Importance of the Irish Language Ready Wit Story of Britain's Intelligence War Today The Retrospections of Dorothea This Is… Winter Bayou Herbert 1770-1806 Time and Destiny Wish Me Well: Notes On My Sleeve Revolutions Time for a Change: A Fresh Look at Witness to the Rising Rhyming Weavers and other Spirituality, Sexuality, Globalisation Country Poets of Antrim and Down and the Church Working It Out The Rizzoli Contract Turning Tides: A Voyage Around the You Too Can Draw: A Guide to Achieving a Lifelong Skill Rough Justice: Memoirs of a Irish Sea Gangster Twists of Fate: Stories Behind Seal i Neipeal Famous Irish Battles The Sinking of the Kenbane Head Valentine The Virgo Club p 90 | PUBLISHER INDEX

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Blackstaff Press Celtic Publications The Collins Press Gill & Macmillan Patsy Horton Marianne Quinn Mr Con Collins Patricia Hannon Blackstaff Press Celtic Publications The Collins Press Gill & Macmillan 4C Heron Wharf 16 Seafield Court Westlink Park Hume Avenue Sydenham Business Park Malahide Doughcloyne Park West Belfast BT3 9LE Co. Dublin Wilton Dublin 12 Northern Ireland Cork t: +353 (0)1 816 8680 t: +353 (0)1 500 9500 t: +44 (0)28 9045 5006 f: +353 (0)1 816 8680 t: +353 (0)21 4347717 f: +353 (0)1 500 9599 t: +44 (0)28 9046 6237 m: +353 (0)86 3701160 f: +353 (0)21 4347720 e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] www.gillmacmillan.ie www.blackstaffpress.com www.celticpublications.com www.collinspress.ie Guildhall Press Brandon/Mount Eagle Cló Iar-Chonnachta The Columba Press Paul Hippsley Steve MacDonogh Caitríona Ní Bhaoill Cecilia West Guildhall Press Brandon/Mount Eagle Cló Iar-Chonnachta The Columba Press Rath Mor Business Park Dingle Indreabhán 55A Spruce Avenue Creggan Co. Kerry Conamara Stillorgan Industrial Park Derry Ireland Co. na Gaillimhe Blackrock Northern Ireland Co. Dublin BT48 0LZ t: +353 (0)66 9151463 t: +353 (0) 91 593307 f: +353 (0)66 9151234 f: +353 (0) 91 593362 t: +353 (0)1 2942556 t: +44 (0)28 7136 4413 e: [email protected] e: [email protected] f: +353 (0)1 2942564 f: +44 (0) 28 7137 2949 www.brandonbooks.com www.cic.ie e: [email protected] e: [email protected] www.columba.ie p 91 | PUBLISHER INDEX

Hodder Headline Ireland Lilliput Press Mentor Books Merlin Publishing Ciara Considine Antony Farrell Danny McCarthy Chenile Keogh Hodder Headline Ireland Lilliput Press Mentor Books Merlin Publishing 8 Castlecourt 62-63 Sitric Road 43 Furze Road 16 Upper Pembroke Street Castleknock Arbour Hill Sandyford Industrial Estate Dublin 2 Dublin 15 Dublin 7 Dublin 18 Ireland t: +353 (0)1 6711647 t: +353 (0)1 6764373 f: +353 (0)1 6711233 t: +353 1 2952112 f: +353 (0)1 6764368 t: +353 (0)1 824 6288 f: +353 1 2952114 e: [email protected] e: [email protected] Maverick House e: [email protected] Jean Harrington www.mentorbooks.ie New Island Liberties Press Maverick House Edwin Higel Seán O'Keeffe Unit 115 Ashbourne Industrial Mercier Press New Island Liberties Press Estate John Spillane 2 Brookside 51 Stephens Road Ashbourne Mercier Press Dundrum Road Inchicore Co. Meath Douglas Village Dublin 14 Dublin 8 Cork t: +353 (0)1 8010620 t: +353 (0)1 2983411 t: +353 (0)1 402 0805 f: +353 (0)87 59920755 t: +353 (0)21 4899858 e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] t: +353 (0)21 4899887 www.libertiespress.com www.maverickhouse.com e: [email protected] www.mercierpress.ie p 92 | PUBLISHER INDEX

The O'Brien Press The Stationery Office Veritas Publications Michael O'Brien / Kunak McGann Dan Lavery Helen Carr The O'Brien Press Ltd. The Stationery Office Veritas Publications 20 Victoria Road 16 Arthur Street 7 - 8 Lower Abbey Street Rathgar Belfast Dublin 1 Dublin 6 BT1 4GD Co. Antrim t: +353 (0)1 8788177 t: +353 (0)1 4923333 f: +353 (0)1 8786507 f: +353 (0)1 4922777 t: +44 (0)28 90238451 e: [email protected] e: [email protected] [email protected] www.veritas.ie www.obrien.ie Townhouse Dublin Wolfhound Press Sitric Books Penny Harris Chenile Keogh Antony Farrell TownHouse Dublin Wolfhound Press Sitric Books Charleston Road 16 Upper Pembroke Street 62-63 Sitric Road Ranelagh Dublin 2 Arbour Hill Dublin 6 Dublin 7 t: +353 (0)1 6764373 t: +353 (0)1 497 2399 f: +353 (0)1 6764368 t: +353 (0)1 6711647 f: +353 (0)1 497 0927 e: [email protected] f: +353 (0)1 6711233 e: [email protected] www.townhouse.ie New Books from Ireland CLÉ - The Irish Book Publishers’ Association