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New Title • CURRENT AFFAIRS

BURNEd
ThE INSIdE SToRy oF ThE ‘CASh-FoR-ASh’ SCANdAl
ANd NoRThERN IRElANd’S SECRETIvE NEw ElITE

Sam McBride
‘One of the most important books on Northern Ireland politics
since the Good Friday Agreement; and certainly the most im-
portant on the Assembly and the function – and dysfunction
– of devolution. Disturbingly revelatory.’
ALEX KANE

‘Unlike the RHI legislation she introduced, I hope Arlene Foster
actually reads this.’
TIM McGARRY
One of the most shocking scandals in Northern Irish political
history: originally a green-energy initiative, the Renewal Heat
Incentive (RHI) or ‘cash-for-ash’ scheme saw Northern Ire-
land’s government pay £1.60 for every £1 of fuel the public         PAPERBACK
and commercial customers burned in their wood-pellet boil-
ers, leading to widespread abuse and ultimately the collapse         OCTOBER 2019
of the power-sharing administration at Stormont.                    €18.95 / £16.99
Revealing the wild incompetence of the Northern Ireland civil       9781785372698
service and the ineptitude and serious abuses of power by in-
dividuals at the head of the Democratic Unionist Party, this           418 pages
scandal exposed not only some of Northern Ireland’s most pow-        234 x 156 mm
erful figures but revealed problems that go to the very heart of
how NI is governed. A riveting political thriller from the jour-
nalist who covered the controversy for over two years, Burned
is the inside story of the shocking scandal that brought down
a government.

Sam McBride is the Political Editor of the Belfast News Letter
and the Northern Ireland political editor of the i newspaper in
London. He is a regular presence on regional and national radio
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and television in the UK and Ireland.                                    PRESS

New Title • CURRENT AFFAIRS

hoME
why PUBlIC hoUSINg IS ThE ANSwER

Eoin Ó Broin

‘Home is undeniably an important and impressive book. Ó Broin
... has certainly made a valuable contribution to this critical na-
tional debate. Every policy-maker in the sector should read it.’
ANDREW LYNCH, SUNDAY BUSINESS POST

Thousands are homeless, tens of thousands are languishing
on social housing waiting lists, even more are unable to afford
to rent or buy. Why is our housing system so dysfunctional?
Why can it not meet social and affordable housing needs?
Home: Why Public Housing is the Answer examines the
structural causes of our housing emergency, provides a de-
tailed critique of government housing policy from the 1980s
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to the present, and outlines a comprehensive, practical and
radical alternative that would meet the housing needs of
                                                                          MAY 2019
the many, not just the few.
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For three decades government policy has been marked by an              9781785372650
undersupply of social housing and an over-reliance on the pri-
vate market to meet housing needs. Housing has become a                   272 pages
commodity, not a public good. The answer, as argued in this             215 x 135 mm
transformative new book, lies in establishing a Constitu-
tional right to housing, large-scale investment in a new
model of public housing to meet social and affordable hous-
ing need, real reform of the private rental sector and regu-
lation of private finance, development and land.

Eoin Ó Broin is a TD for Dublin Mid-West and Sinn Féin’s
spokesperson on Housing, Planning and Local Government. He
is author of Matxinada, Basque Nationalism and Radical Basque
Youth Movements (LRB 2003) and Sinn Féin and the Politics of
Left Republicanism (Pluto 2009). He is a regular contributor to
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the Sunday Business Post and An Phoblacht.                                   PRESS

New Title • MEMoIR

ThATChER’S SPy
My lIFE AS AN MI5 AgENT INSIdE SINN FÉIN

willie Carlin

Early one morning in March 1985, as he climbed the six steps of
Margaret Thatcher’s prime-ministerial jet on the runway of RAF
Aldergrove, little did Willie Carlin know the role Freddie Scappaticci
played in saving his life.

So began the dramatic extraction of Margaret Thatcher’s key un-
dercover agent in Sinn Féin – Willie Carlin, aka Agent 3007. For
11 years the former British soldier worked alongside former IRA
commander Martin McGuinness in the republican movement’s
political wing in Derry. He was MI5’s man at McGuinness’s side
and gave the British State unprecedented insight into the IRA
leader’s strategic thinking. Carlin worked with McGuinness to de-
velop Sinn Féin’s election strategy after the 1981 hunger strike,        PAPERBACK
and the MI5 and later FRU agent’s reports on McGuinness, Adams
and other republicans were read by the British Cabinet, including        SEPTEMBER 2019
Margaret Thatcher herself.                                                €16.95 / £14.99
When Carlin’s cover was blown in mid-1985, thanks to one of his          9781785372858
old MI5 handlers being jailed as a Soviet spy, Thatcher authorised
the use of her jet to whisk him to safety. Incredibly, it was another       280 pages
British ‘super spy’ inside the IRA’s secretive counter-intelligence       234 x 156 mm
unit who saved Carlin’s life: Freddie Scappaticci, aka Stakeknife.

In Thatcher’s Spy, the Cold War meets Northern Ireland’s Dirty
War in the remarkable real-life story of a deep undercover British
intelligence agent, a man now doomed forever to look over his
shoulder…

Willie Carlin was born and raised in Derry. Joining the British
Army in 1965, he was recruited by MI5 in 1974 to infiltrate Sinn
Féin. Over the next 11 years, he built up close contacts with
Martin McGuinness and Mitchel McLaughlin, becoming one of
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Britain’s most valuable long-term agents in Northern Ireland.                  PRESS

New Title • MEMoIR

FRENzy ANd BETRAyAl
ThE ANAToMy oF A PolITICAl ASSASSINATIoN

Alan Shatter

‘Required reading … a case study of how false narratives can de-
velop with lightning speed and become widely accepted with
devastating consequences for those caught in the centre.’
STEPHEN COLLINS, THE IRISH TIMES

On 6 May 2014 two reports wrongly condemning the con-
duct of Alan Shatter, the Minister for Justice, Equality and
Defence, were delivered to government buildings in Dublin.
Pressurised by Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Shatter resigned
from cabinet the next day, his career in tatters. A frenzied
media and political reaction to alleged bugging of the
Garda Ombudsman Commission’s offices and an ava-                    PAPERBACK
lanche of allegations of Garda corruption put Shatter in the        WITH FLAPS
eye of a storm. Damaged by false narratives and political
manoeuvring by Kenny, Shatter, a TD for over thirty years,             MAY 2019
lost his Dáil seat in 2016. Pilloried by opposition politicians,
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journalists and commentators, Shatter was abandoned by
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his Fine Gael party colleagues. From the penalty points
controversy, to the discovery of unknown phone tapping
                                                                      450 pages
in Garda stations, to the explosive Charleton Report, this
is the inside story of a cataclysmic period in Irish politics.       234 x 156 mm

Compelling and sardonic, Frenzy and Betrayal is the deeply
disturbing story of how a dedicated, progressive Irish cabinet
minister was falsely accused of wrongdoing and unjustly
hounded from office in twenty-first-century Ireland, and his
traumatic five-year battle for vindication and the truth.

Alan Shatter is a former Irish Fine Gael politician who served as
Minister for Justice and Equality and Minister for Defence from
2011 to 2014. He was a TD for the Dublin South constituency
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from 1981 to 2002, and from 2007 to 2016.                                PRESS

New Title • MEMoIR

ClIENT CoNFIdENTIAl
SPookS, SECRETS ANd CoUNTER-ESPIoNAgE
dURINg ThE CElTIC TIgER

Seán hartnett

Seán Hartnett left the British Army in 2005, operating as
a covert surveillance technician at JCU-NI, the top-secret
counter-terrorism unit in Northern Ireland. His experiences
were published in the bestselling Charlie One, the book the
British Ministry of Defence tried to ban. But this wasn’t
the end of Hartnett’s career in counter-espionage. After
operations in South Africa, Australia and London, he ar-
rived home to Ireland, just as the Celtic Tiger was about
to implode, but not before Hartnett gets his hands dirty in
the boardrooms of corporate and official Ireland…

Client Confidential is a shocking exposé of the clandestine
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activities that foreshadowed the worst financial crash in
the history of the Irish state. Many of the country’s leading
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financial institutions and business figures began to see the       €14.95 / £13.99
cracks in the economy and their paranoia rattled. Hartnett         9781785372100
was called in to protect and gather information – to carry
out covert and counter surveillance for blue-chip compa-             190 pages
nies, semi-state bodies, national sporting associations and         215 x 135 mm
convicted criminals.

In Client Confidential, Seán Hartnett lifts the lid on the worst
excesses of the Celtic Tiger – the heart of corporate greed,
corruption and ineptitude in Ireland is revealed; the dark se-
crets never meant to see the light of day, are finally exposed.

Seán Hartnett was born in Cork in 1975. He joined the British
Army in 1998 and served for almost seven years before moving
abroad. He has since worked as a security consultant and in the
area of commercial espionage and counter-espionage. His first
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book, Charlie One, was published by Merrion Press in 2016.              PRESS

New Title • FICTIoN

Two SoUlS

henry Mcdonald

‘Go figure that Henry McDonald’s new book is the real
thing. The real thing is what McDonald does. Vivid, au-
thentic and scabrously funny. Good news for readers, bad
news for other writers.’
ROBERT MCLIAM WILSON

‘Starts fast and gets faster, like a good punk song!’
JAKE BURNS, STIFF LITTLE FINGERS

Robbie McManus is tortured. His psychopathic comrade
‘Padre Pio’ McCann is never far from wreaking havoc, his punk
cousin ‘Rex Mundi’ has arrived from England and is getting in
the way, his father is imploring him to finish his A-levels and
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get the hell out of Belfast – and then there’s Sabine, the mys-
terious loner in The Pound who shimmers, trancelike, on the
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dancefloor to the opening track of David Bowie’s Low. Her hair
dyed jet black in a Cleopatra cut, she is a moving hieroglyphic
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that Robbie is desperate to decipher.                               9781785372575

From the summer of 1978 to a frenzied Irish Cup Final day              272 pages
nine months later, and, through a series of smuggled
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‘prison comms’, to the paramilitary-stalked Belfast streets
of the late ’80s, all threads collide in a tense, thrilling de-
nouement. At turns shocking and heart-breaking, Two
Souls is a deeply affecting novel that crackles and en-
thrals, tragically exposing human nature’s futile efforts to
make the right decisions and to choose a life worth living.

Henry McDonald is a staff writer for The Guardian and The Ob-
server, and the author of eight critically acclaimed non-fiction
books. He grew up in Belfast and witnessed first-hand many of
the key early events of the Troubles. He was a punk rocker in the
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1970s and he is still a follower of Cliftonville Football Club.          PRESS

New Title • FICTIoN

kNoCkFANE
A NovEl

homan Potterton
'Absolutely terrific. Beautifully written and instantly engaging
story ... an exceptional literary accomplishment.'
MARY KENNY, IRISH INDEPENDENT

‘Clipping along like a well-sprung brougham on a country road
… Knockfane is a delicate work of art … A fine and curiously
engaging first novel from an author who [has] evidently been
reading Balzac, resonates with the spirit of 19th-century
French Realism.’
PETER MURRAY, IRISH ARTS REVIEW

Ireland in the mid-twentieth century, and Julia and Lydia
Esdaile live with their widowed father, Willis, at Knock-
fane, a country house and farm where the Protestant Es-              PAPERBACK
daile family have lived for centuries. When Willis                   WITH FLAPS
inexplicably banishes his only son and heir, Edward, he
concocts a complex plan to protect and preserve Knock-                 APRIL 2019
fane for succeeding generations. But time passes, and                €16.95 / £14.99
Willis dies, and soon his intentions are threatened by un-
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foreseen events. Ultimately, it must fall to his daughters –
the headstrong, confident Julia and the quiet, reflective
                                                                       270 pages
Lydia – to protect the Knockfane legacy.
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Suffused with gentle lyricism, this is an enthralling, elegant
drama that explores the complexities of family, inheritance
and legacy against the backdrop of the Ireland of its time.
Knockfane is a Big House novel for a new generation.

Homan Potterton was Director of the National Gallery of Ireland
(1980–8) and Editor of Irish Arts Review (1993–2002). His mem-
oir of growing up in County Meath, Rathcormick: A Childhood
Recalled (2002), and its sequel of his career in the London and
Irish art world, Who Do I Think I Am? (2017), were both critically
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acclaimed.                                                                PRESS

New Title • NATURE

IRElANd ThRoUgh BIRdS
JoURNEyS IN SEARCh oF A wIld NATIoN

Conor w. o’Brien

Twelve birds. One country. A wild Ireland waiting to be dis-
covered.

In Ireland Through Birds, Conor W. O’Brien takes the reader
on an ornithological adventure around Ireland in search of
twelve of our rarest and most elusive birds. Along the jour-
ney the author explores every kind of landscape and habi-
tat our island has to offer across all four seasons, from the
remote isles of Donegal to the rugged mountains of Kerry
and urban parks of Dublin. Through it all, O’Brien is en-
chanted by calling corncrakes, mesmerised by hunting                PAPERBACK
harriers, and chased by angry skuas. It’s a journey through         WITH FLAPS
a staggering array of landscapes that’ll bring the reader
face to face with the rich history and stunning wildlife to         NOVEMBER 2019
be savoured right on our doorstep. It explores the stories          €16.95 / £14.99
of the remarkable birds that live here: the genius of the           9781785373053
jay, the sublime mimicry of the cuckoo, the nocturnal
prowess of the barn owl, while paying a moving, poetic                250 pages
tribute to our natural heritage – and a warning about the
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threats that face it.

Ireland Through Birds is a unique blend of natural history
and travelogue, making it a great read for anyone with an
interest in Ireland’s natural world.

Conor W. O’Brien has been birdwatching in Ireland from a very
early age, and it is a passion that has since taken him around
the world. He’s a member of Birdwatch Ireland and has pre-
sented at member meetings of the Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT). This
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is his first book.                                                       PRESS

New Title • ART

dARk BEAUTy
hIddEN dETAIl IN hARRy ClARkE’S STAINEd glASS

lucy Costigan & Michael Cullen

Dark Beauty focuses on the minute detail in Harry Clarke’s
stained-glass windows, particularly in the borders and
lower panels of his work. Clarke’s brilliance as a graphic
artist is clearly visible in his book illustrations, which are
imbued with precise attention to intricate designs, and he        HARDBACK
applied the same lavish focus to every facet of his stained
glass.                                                           SEPTEMBER 2019
                                                                  €35.00 / £29.99
The title ‘Dark Beauty’ refers to the duality of Clarke’s        9781785372339
work that sees delicate angels juxtaposed with macabre,
grotesque figures, and represents the partially hidden de-          228 pages
tails that dwell in the background of his windows – motifs,
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accessories, flora, fauna and diminutive characters –
which may be missed in light of the dominance of the cen-
tral subjects.

The authors spent many years photographing Clarke’s
windows in Ireland, England, America and Australia, and
the resulting 60,000 photos have been carefully whittled
down to 300 glorious images. Dark Beauty will provide
lovers of Clarke’s stained glass with the opportunity to
view previously obscured or unnoticed details in all their
unique beauty and inspire their own travels to view
Clarke’s work.

Lucy Costigan and Michael Cullen are from Wexford. Their pre-
vious collaboration, Strangest Genius: The Stained Glass of
Harry Clarke, was shortlisted for Best Irish-Published Book of
the year by the Irish Book Awards in 2010 and for Book of the
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Decade by Dublin Book Festival in 2016.                               PRESS

New Title • BIogRAPhy

ThE SAlAMANCA dIARIES
FAThER MCCABE ANd ThE SPANISh CIvIl wAR

Tim Fanning

‘Fanning’s vividly written account of the extraordinary life of Fr Mc-
Cabe is a fascinating contribution to both Spanish and Irish history.’
PAUL PRESTON

In July 1936, an army-led coup against the democratically
elected republican government ushered in the Spanish Civil
War. Fr Alexander J. McCabe was rector of the Irish College
in Salamanca when General Francisco Franco seized power a
few months later and established his GHQ in the medieval city.

McCabe recorded the arrival of the nationalist war machine in
his diaries, vividly documenting the horror of the repression and
his encounters with Franco, Nazi officers and diplomats, British          HARDBACK
and American spies and journalists, and adventurers and char-
latans from around the world who flocked to Salamanca. He                SEPTEMBER 2019
also observed the implosion of General Eoin O’Duffy’s ill-fated           €19.95 / £17.99
Irish Brigade, first as one of its chaplains and later mediating         9781785372773
between the nationalist high command and O’Duffy. He unsuc-
cessfully attempted to dissuade a disillusioned O’Duffy from re-            250 pages
turning to Ireland with the Irish Brigade in 1937.
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Historian Tim Fanning uses McCabe’s diaries to provide a fas-
cinating account of life in Spain before, during and after the
war, as well as McCabe’s memories of growing up in Ireland
at a time of momentous change. This is the troubling and en-
thralling story of an eyewitness to one of the most tragic
episodes in twentieth-century European history.

Tim Fanning is a writer and historian with a particular interest
in Spain and Latin America. He has written two critically ac-
claimed books, and he is also a contributor on Spanish and Latin
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American subjects to The Irish Times and Sunday Independent.                  PRESS

New Title • BIogRAPhy

BUCk whAlEy
IRElANd’S gREATEST AdvENTURER

david Ryan

‘Tremendously researched and snappily written … Ryan is
a most reliable narrator, and Thomas Whaley is a thor-
oughly enjoyable and, dare one say, a rollicking good read.’
IRISH INDEPENDENT

Thomas ‘Buck’ Whaley was one of the greatest adventurers
in Irish history. In 1788 he made an extraordinary 10-month
journey from Dublin to Jerusalem for a wager of £15,000,
equivalent to millions today. Nearly shipwrecked in the Sea
of Crete, he avoided a pirate attack, was waylaid by ban-
dits, and met an infamous Ottoman governor called ‘the
Butcher’. On his return, he became an overnight celebrity be-      PAPERBACK
fore suffering a catastrophic series of gambling losses that
exiled him first to continental Europe (where he tried to rescue   FEBRUARY 2019
Louis XVI from the guillotine) and then to the Isle of Man.        €16.95 / £14.99
When he died aged 34 in 1800 he’d squandered an astronom-          9781785372292
ical £400,000 (around €100 million) ‘without ever purchasing
or acquiring contentment or one hour’s true happiness’.              272 pages
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In his lifetime, Ireland was about to erupt in rebellion; France
was on the brink of bloody revolution; and the Ottoman Em-
pire was creaking at the seams. Whaley lit up this volatile
world like a fast-burning candle but retained his ability to
recognise the absurdity of his own actions and the world
around him. Buck Whaley tells the full story of his remark-
able life and adventures for the first time.

David Ryan was born in Galway and holds an MA in history from
NUI Galway. His first book, Blasphemers and Blackguards: The
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Irish Hellfire Clubs, was published by Merrion Press in 2012.           PRESS

New Title • hISToRy

ThE IRISh CIvIl wAR
lAw, ExECUTIoN ANd ATRoCITy

Seán Enright

During the Irish Civil War, eighty-three official executions
were carried out, including four prisoners who had not
even been tried or convicted of any charge. These execu-
tions brought the Civil War to an end. After the war, the
trial records were destroyed and for decades the execu-
tion policy became a bitter memory that was rarely dis-
cussed. In this ground-breaking work, the third volume of
his popular legal analysis of the Irish revolution and civil
war, Seán Enright pieces together the whole grim story.

The government relied on the national army to fight the
war and implement policy, but the national army was new;
it lacked uniforms, guns and discipline. More than 125 fur-        PAPERBACK
ther prisoners were killed in the custody of the state: they
were kidnapped and shot, or shot at the point of capture.           AUGUST 2019
‘Shot while trying to escape’ became a depressingly fa-            €18.95 / £17.99
miliar press release. These men were killed because they           9781785372537
were anti-Treaty fighters, because they were suspected
of involvement, or simply because they were sympathetic              200 pages
to the anti-Treaty cause.                                           234 x 156 mm

In the struggle to survive, the new state turned a blind eye
and the rule of law simply evaporated. Featuring new ma-
terial from the Irish Military Archives, The Irish Civil War:
Law, Execution and Atrocity examines the dark legacy of
this chaotic and bitter conflict.

Seán Enright is a Circuit Judge and the author of The Trial of
Civilians by Military Courts: Ireland 1921 (2012), Easter Rising
1916: The Trials (2014), and After the Rising: Soldiers, Lawyers
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and Trials of the Irish Revolution (2016).                              PRESS

New Title • hISToRy

BIRTh oF ThE BoRdER
ThE IMPACT oF PARTITIoN IN IRElANd

Cormac Moore

The 1921 partition of Ireland had huge ramifications for
almost all aspects of Irish life, and was directly responsi-
ble for hundreds of deaths and injuries, with thousands
displaced from their homes and many more forced from
their jobs. Two new justice systems were created; the ef-
fects on the major religions were profound, with both ju-
risdictions adopting wholly different approaches; and
major disruptions were caused in crossing the border,
with invasive checks and stops becoming the norm.

And yet, many bodies remained administered on an all-
Ireland basis. The major religions continued as all-Ireland
bodies. Most trade unions maintained a 32-county pres-
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ence, as did most sports, trade bodies, charities and other
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voluntary groups. Politically, however, the new jurisdic-
tions moved further and further apart, while socially and         €22.95 / £19.99
culturally there were both differences and links between          9781785372933
north and south that remain to this day.
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Very little has been written on the actual effects of parti-       234 x 156 mm
tion, the-day-to-day implications, and the complex ways
that society, north and south, was truly and meaningfully
affected. Birth of the Border: The Impact of Partition in
Ireland is the most comprehensive account to date on the
far-reaching and enduring consequences of the partition-
ing of Ireland.

Cormac Moore is a Dublin-based historian and is currently
working with Dublin City Council on its Decade of Commemo-
rations. He has published widely on Irish history including The
GAA V Douglas Hyde: The Removal of Ireland's First President
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as GAA Patron (2012) and The Irish Soccer Split (2015).                PRESS

New Title • hISToRy

A Bloody dAwN
ThE IRISh AT d-dAy

dan harvey

The epic Allied invasion of German-occupied Normandy on
D-Day, 6 June 1944, has been extensively chronicled. The
largest seaborne invasion in history, it began the liberation
of German-occupied France, and later Europe, from Nazi
control, laying the foundations of the Allied victory on the
Western Front.

What is less well known, however, is that thousands of
Irish and members of the Irish diaspora were among the
Allied units that landed on the Normandy beaches. Their
vital participation has been overlooked abroad and even
more so in Ireland.
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There were Irish among the American, British and Cana-
dian airborne and glider-borne infantry landings; Irishmen               APRIL 2019
were on the beaches from dawn, in and amongst the first                €14.95 / £12.99
and subsequent assault waves to hit the beaches; in the                9781785372414
skies above in bombers and fighter aircraft; and on naval
vessels all along the Normandy coastline. They were also                 250 pages
prominent among the D-Day planners and commanders.                      234 x 156 mm

This Irish contribution to the most extraordinary military
operation ever attempted in the history of warfare is at
last told for the first time in A Bloody Dawn: The Irish at
D-Day.

Lt. Col. Dan Harvey, now retired, is the author of Soldiering
Against Subversion (2018), Into Action: Irish Peacekeepers Under
Fire, 1960–2014 (2017), A Bloody Day: The Irish at Waterloo and
A Bloody Night: The Irish at Rorke’s Drift (reissued 2017), and Sol-
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diers of the Short Grass: A History of the Curragh Camp (2016).             PRESS

New Title • hISToRy

A Bloody wEEk
ThE IRISh AT ARNhEM

dan harvey

The Battle of Arnhem was a major World War II battle at
the vanguard of the Allied Operation Market Garden, the
dramatic but unsuccessful campaign fought by the British
Army in the Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944.
This was the first time airborne troops were used by the
Allies on such a scale, and the objective was a series of
nine bridges that might have provided an Allied invasion
route into Germany. Airborne and land forces successfully
liberated Eindhoven and Nijmegen but were thwarted by
the Nazis at the Battle of Arnhem in their efforts to secure
the last bridge over the River Rhine.

Only a small British force was able to reach the Arnhem                PAPERBACK
Road Bridge but it was overwhelmed by Nazi defenders
and, after nine days of fighting, the shattered remains of               JULY 2019
the Division were withdrawn. The British 1st Airborne Divi-            €14.95 / £12.99
sion lost most of its strength and didn’t see combat again.            9781785372735

What is less well known in this famous saga, however, is                 170 pages
the vital contribution of hundreds of Irish soldiers from a             234 x 156 mm
host of backgrounds, with a mixture of experience and
range of ranks. Men from the north of Ireland and men
from the south gave their all to this Allied campaign, and
in A Bloody Week, their dramatic story is finally being told.

Lt. Col. Dan Harvey, now retired, is the author of A Bloody Dawn:
The Irish at D-Day (2019); Soldiering Against Subversion: The Irish
Defence Forces and Internal Security During the Troubles, 1969–
1998 (2018); Into Action: Irish Peacekeepers Under Fire, 1960–
2014 (2017); A Bloody Day: The Irish at Waterloo and A Bloody
Night: The Irish at Rorke’s Drift (both reissued 2017); and Soldiers
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of the Short Grass: A History of the Curragh Camp (2016).                   PRESS

New Title • hISToRy

dAChAU To ThE doloMITES
ThE UNTold SToRy oF ThE IRIShMEN, hIMMlER’S
SPECIAl PRISoNERS ANd ThE ENd oF wwII

Tom wall

Dachau to the Dolomites is the dramatic but little-known
story of a group of prominent Nazi SS hostages trans-
ported from various concentration camps to a remote
Alpine valley in the final days of the Third Reich. Five Irish-
men were among the 160 prisoners whom Himmler and
other SS leaders attempted to use as barter to save the
regime or, as a final resort, themselves. As well as emi-
nent international statesmen, aristocrats and clergy, the
group contained opposition German generals and civilian
relatives of those who had plotted against Hitler, among
them the family of Claus von Stauffenberg, who placed
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the bomb in Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair.

                                                                  FEBRUARY 2019
These hostages included a number of RAF officers, sur-
vivors of the famous ‘Great Escape’, and also Colonel             €19.95 / £17.99
John McGrath from Roscommon, a World War I veteran                9781785372254
who had left his job as manager of Dublin’s Theatre Royal
to rejoin the British Army in 1939. They had been held              272 pages
with Russian, Italian and Polish special prisoners as              234 x 156 mm
‘Nacht und Nebel ’ – Night and Fog – prisoners, whose ex-
istence was a state secret. Although generally treated
more favourably than regular prisoners, they lived in con-
stant danger of execution, a fate some did not escape.
Theirs is an astonishing and epic tale encompassing
heroic endurance, escape, betrayal, tragedy and love.

Tom Wall is a retired official of the Irish Congress of Trade
Unions and is a master’s graduate of UCD. He is a regular con-
tributor of essays and reviews on historical themes for Dublin
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Review of Books.                                                       PRESS

New Title • hISToRy

A BRoAd ChURCh
ThE PRovISIoNAl IRA IN ThE REPUBlIC oF IRElANd,
1969–1980

gearóid Ó Faoleán

This groundbreaking book is the first to detail, with star-
tling new revelations, just how integral the Republic of Ire-
land was to the Provisional IRA’s campaign at every level.
The sheer level of sympathy and support that existed for
militant republicanism in Southern Irish society demon-
strates that the longevity of the ‘Troubles’ was due in large
part to this widespread tolerance and aid.

No Irish political party was without members who aided the
Provisional IRA in their early years of their campaign, as for-
mer IRA volunteers attest to in interviews and previously
unpublished accounts of training camps in the Republic. Ju-
                                                                    PAPERBACK
ried courts for IRA suspects were phased out as both juries
and judges were regularly acquitting republicans in cases
                                                                     MARCH 2019
of blatant IRA activity, and juries often celebrated with or        €19.95 / £17.99
congratulated the defendants: in discussion with the British        9781785372452
government Taoiseach Jack Lynch even named judges who
were deemed overly sympathetic to the IRA.                            272 pages
                                                                     234 x 156 mm
The extent of activity, training, financing, armed robberies,
demonstrations and goodwill for the IRA in the Irish Re-
public is rarely if ever acknowledged in Irish mainstream
media or the education curriculum. A Broad Church: The
Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland, 1969–1980 will
dramatically change that view forever.

Gearóid Ó Faoleán was awarded a PhD in Modern Irish History
from the University of Limerick in 2014 and currently works in
scholarly publishing in London. He is a member of the Oral His-
tory Network of Ireland and The Irish Association of Professional
                                                                        MERRION
Historians.                                                              PRESS

New Title • hISToRy

CoRk hARBoUR
AN IllUSTRATEd hISToRy

Cal McCarthy
Cork Harbour’s association with infamous ships like Titanic
and Lusitania ensure its place in world maritime history.
While such tragedies are heavily documented, the story of
the modern evolution of the second-largest natural harbour
in the world and its trade has received less attention. The
Royal Navy’s long and extensive association with Cork
makes it unique among Irish harbours, an association born
of the necessity to protect trade in a growing world of ever-
expanding ships and increasingly global enterprise.

The trade of the world’s most powerful empire instigated
the development of Cork harbour as a military hub, and
the intensity of that development ebbed and flowed for
centuries. The commercial development of the harbour               HARDBACK
proceeded in tandem with its military evolution; each was
driven and facilitated by the other and Cork’s overall de-         NOVEMBER 2019
velopment was greatly impacted by the political and mil-           €29.95 / £24.99
itary consequences of Britain’s increasing prominence on           9781785373015
the global stage. The expansion of the British empire, and
Britain’s periodically turbulent interaction with Ireland,           300 pages
also left their mark on the harbour we know today.                  240 x 170 mm

Beautifully illustrated with new and archival images, Cork
Harbour examines all these interacting themes to outline
not only the events that shaped the harbour’s rich history,
but the complex context in which those events occurred.

Cal McCarthy studied history and economics at UCC before going
on to work as a civil servant. He has completed an MPhil in his-
tory and is the author, or co-author, of Cumann na mBan and the
Irish Revolution (2007; 2014), Green, Blue and Grey (2009), The
Wreck of the Neva (2013), and A History of the Victorian Prison
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on Spike Island (2016).                                                 PRESS

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CoNSIdERINg gRACE
PRESByTERIANS ANd ThE TRoUBlES

gladys ganiel and Jamie yohanis

Considering Grace records the deeply moving stories of
120 ordinary people’s experiences of the Troubles, explor-
ing how faith shaped their responses to violence and its
aftermath. Presbyterian ministers, victims, members of
the security forces, those affected by loyalist paramili-
tarism, ex-combatants, emergency responders and
health-care workers, peacemakers, politicians, people
who left Presbyterianism and ‘critical friends’ of the Pres-
byterian tradition provide insights on wider human expe-
riences of anger, pain, healing, and forgiveness.

The first book to capture such a full range of experiences
of the Troubles of people from a Protestant background,                   PAPERBACK
it also includes the perspectives of women and people
from border counties and features leading public figures,                  OCTOBER 2019
such as former Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon, Jef-                  €16.95 / £14.99
frey Donaldson, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, and                       9781785372896
former Victims’ Commissioner Bertha McDougall.

Considering Grace contributes to the process of ‘dealing                    280 pages
with the past’ by pointing towards the need for a ‘gra-                    215 x 135 mm
cious remembering’ that acknowledges suffering, is self-
critical about the past, and creates space for lament, but
also for the future.

Gladys Ganiel is a sociologist of religion at Queen’s University
Belfast. Her previous books include Transforming Post-Catholic Ire-
land ; Evangelicalism and Conflict in Northern Ireland ; Unity Pilgrim:
The Life of Fr Gerry Reynolds CSsR; and The Deconstructed Church:
Understanding Emerging Christianity, with Gerardo Marti.

Jamie Yohanis focuses on the intersection of confessional faith
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and state-funded education.                                                    PRESS

New Title • BIogRAPhy

RIChARd MUlCAhy
FRoM ThE PolITICS oF wAR To ThE PolITICS oF
PEACE, 1913–1924

Pádraig Ó Caoimh

Chief of Staff of the IRA, Michael Collins’ successor as
Commander in Chief of the National Army, founding mem-
ber of Cumann na nGaedheal and later leader of Fine Gael:
a new biography of revolutionary leader Richard Mulcahy
is long overdue. But who was the complicated man be-
hind the myth? Conspiratorial IRB nationalist; proud, stub-
born military tribune; pragmatic, political officeholder;
serious-minded, self-reliant individual; or a fascinating
combination of these and other complex traits?

Richard Mulcahy: From the Politics of War to the Politics of
Peace explores the awkward, often competitive, relation-        HARDBACK
ships Mulcahy had with Brugha, Cosgrave, de Valera, Mc-
Grath, O’Higgins and Stack, and investigates the forging of     NOVEMBER 2019
the Irish national army out of the furnace of change brought    €24.95 / £22.99
about by the rise of militarism, a mismanaged rebellion and
                                                                9781788550987
two wars, one of liberation, the other of brothers; the am-
biguous role of the IRB; and the strategically important mil-
                                                                  350 pages
itary and political executive positions that Mulcahy himself
occupied during the post-rebellion, army-building and
                                                                 234 x 156 mm
state-building phase of 1917–24.

This extensively researched new biography of Richard
Mulcahy. and the struggle for supremacy over the post-
revolutionary government–army relationship, is a vital
contribution to understanding Ireland’s revolutionary past
and present.

Pádraig Ó Caoimh has an MA and PhD in Irish political history
and has been a regular book reviewer for the Irish Examiner.

New Title • BIogRAPhy

lIAM MEllowS:
SoldIER oF ThE IRISh REPUBlIC
SElECTEd wRITINgS, 1914–1922

Conor McNamara

This landmark new study of the life of Irish Republican
leader Liam Mellows gathers his letters, speeches, articles
and IRA documents from archives in Ireland, the UK and
the United States together to form a unique analysis of
Mellows’ short but dramatic life. It examines his radical
beliefs, fraught personal relationships, political betrayals,
and his severe struggle in the face of seemingly over-
whelming odds.

Mellows was at the forefront of the Republican movement
from its inception. After the Easter Rising, he spent four years
as the representative of the IRA in the United States, but his
                                                                     PAPERBACK
time there was deeply unhappy: jailed in the infamous Tombs
Prison while his comrades dithered over his bail, he was also
                                                                      AUGUST 2019
branded an informer by the Mayor of New York.                        €18.95 / £17.99
                                                                     9781788550789
Back in Ireland in 1920, Mellows was responsible for buy-
ing and distributing arms during the War of Independence.              230 pages
Bitterly opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty, he was a key              226 x 153 mm
opponent of Michael Collins, and his role in occupying the
Four Courts in June 1922 was central to the outbreak of
the Civil War. His execution by the Free State in December
1922 was one of the most divisive moments in the foun-
dation of the state, and he remains an enigmatic icon for
Irish republicans to this day.

Conor McNamara has published several books and edited col-
lections on the history of the Irish revolution. In 2017, he pub-
lished his fourth book, War and Revolution in the West of Ireland,
Galway 1913–22, with Irish Academic Press.

New Title • BIogRAPhy

ThE lIFE ANd TIMES oF MARy ANN
MCCRACkEN, 1770–1866
New Revised Edition

Mary McNeill

Mary Ann McCracken was an abolitionist, a social re-
former and an activist who fought for the rights of women
and championed Belfast’s poor throughout a long life that
encompassed the most turbulent years of Irish history.
Her legacy, however, is overshadowed by that of her
brother, the executed United Irishman Henry Joy Mc-
Cracken, despite outliving him by sixty-eight years.

Through the Poor House Ladies Committee, she helped to
educate children, allowing them to secure apprenticeships
that would provide them with livelihoods. She was Presi-
dent of the Ladies Industrial School, and she campaigned          HARDBACK
to abolish the use of climbing boys in chimney sweeping.
Mary Ann was deeply involved in early women’s suffrage             AUGUST 2019
campaigns and prison reform schemes, and she was a life-          €22.95 / £19.99
long abolitionist. In her late eighties, McCracken could still    9781788550826
be found on the docks, handing out anti-slavery leaflets to
emigrants embarking for the United States.                          354 pages
                                                                   225 x 140 mm
The motto of this remarkable woman, which accurately
sums up her character, was it is ‘better to wear out than
to rust out’. But Mary Ann McCracken’s radical, humani-
tarian zeal and generous strength of character were in-
defatigable, and her contribution to Belfast life is still felt
and celebrated today.

Mary Alice McNeill (1897–1984) served on the Board of the
Belfast Charitable Society from 1945 to 1964. She published her
first historical biography, The Life and Times of Mary Ann Mc-
Cracken, in 1960. She published two further biographies: Little
Tom Drennan (1962) and Vere Foster (1971).

New Title • hISToRy

BElFAST ANd dERRy IN REvolT
A NEw hISToRy oF ThE START oF ThE TRoUBlES
New Revised Edition

Simon Prince & geoffrey warner

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a bloody war started in
Northern Ireland. This book tells that story through Belfast
and Derry, using original archival research to trace how mul-
tiple and overlapping conflicts unfolded on their streets.

The Troubles grew out of a political process that mobilised
opponents and defenders of the Stormont regime, and
which also dragged London and Dublin into the crisis.
Drawing upon government papers, police reports, army
files, intelligence summaries, evidence to inquiries and
parish chronicles, this book sheds fresh light on key
events such as the march of 5 October 1968, the Battle                PAPERBACK
of the Bogside, the Belfast riots of August 1969, the ‘Bat-
tle of St Matthew’s’ (June 1970) and the Falls Road cur-              SEPTEMBER 2019
few (July 1970).                                                       €19.95 / £16.99
To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the          9781788550932
conflict, Prince and Warner offer us two richly detailed, en-
gaging narratives that intertwine to present a new history of            277 pages
the start of the Troubles in Belfast and Derry – one that also         234 x 156 mm
establishes a foundation for comparison with similar devel-
opments elsewhere in the world.

Simon Prince is Senior Lecturer in Canterbury Christ Church
University’s School of Humanities. His publications include
Northern Ireland’s ’68: Civil Rights, Global Revolt and the Origins
of the Troubles (IAP, 2007, New Edition 2018).

Professor Geoffrey Warner is a Supernumerary Fellow in Mod-
ern History at Brasenose College Oxford. He is the author of
many books and has published widely in the field of Northern
Ireland’s history.

New Title • hISToRy

ThE lABoUR hERCUlES
ThE IRISh CITIzEN ARMy ANd IRISh REPUBlICANISM,
1913–23

Jeffrey leddin

The Irish Citizen Army was born from the Dublin Lockout
of 1913, which sparked one of the most dramatic indus-
trial disputes in Irish history. Faced with threats of police
brutality in response, James Connolly, James Larkin and
Jack White established the ICA in the winter of 1913.

By the end of March 1914, the ICA espoused republican
ideology and went on to fight alongside Irish Volunteers
during the Easter Rising. Despite Connolly’s execution and
the internment of many of its members, the ICA reorgan-
ised in 1917 and subsequently provided operative support
for the IRA during the War of Independence in Dublin.
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In Jeffrey Leddin’s extraordinary new work, the most ex-
                                                                   MARCH 2019
tensive survey of the movement to date, The Labour Her-           €24.95 / £21.99
cules explores the ICA’s evolution into a republican army         9781788550741
and its legacy to the present day. It outlines the impetus
for the movement’s use of force, and, through analysis of           304 pages
the Military Service Pension files, provides vital new in-         234 x 156 mm
formation on the military and ideological developments of
the army. A century on from the 1916 Rising, The Labour
Hercules illuminates how a force forged from the after-
math of the 1913 Lockout became a vital cog in Dublin’s
revolutionary movement.

Jeffrey Leddin was awarded a PhD by the University of Limerick
in 2017, where he is currently a Graduate Teaching Assistant.
He was editor of volume 15 of History Studies, Ireland’s oldest
postgraduate history journal.

New Title • hISToRy

FoRgINg ThE BoRdER
doNEgAl ANd dERRy IN TIMES oF REvolUTIoN,
1911–1925

okan ozseker

Donegal was the bastion of Home Rule conservative na-
tionalism during the tumultuous period 1911–25, while
County Derry was a stronghold of hard-line unionism. In
this time of immense political upheaval between these
cultural and social majorities lay the deeply symbolic, re-
ligiously and ethnically divided, and potentially com-
bustible, Derry City.

What had once been a distinct, unified, socio-economic
and cultural area (to nationalists and unionists alike) be-
came an international frontier or borderland, overshad-
owed by the bitter legacy of Partition. The region was the        PAPERBACK
hardest hit by the implementation of Partition, affecting
all levels of society.                                              APRIL 2019
                                                                  €19.95 / £17.99
This completely new interpretation of the history of the          9781788550703
Irish north-west provides a fair and balanced portrait of a
divided borderland and addresses key arguments in Irish             272 pages
history and the history of revolution, counter-revolution,         234 x 156 mm
feuds and state-building.

Ambitious and novel in its approach, Forging the Border:
Donegal and Derry in Times of Revolution, 1911–1925 fills
an important gap in the literature of Irish history, and chal-
lenges long-held assumptions and beliefs about the road to
partition in the north-west.

Okan Ozseker completed his PhD in History in Ulster University,
Coleraine, in 2017.

New Title • hISToRy

IRISh woMEN ANd
NATIoNAlISM
SoldIERS, NEw woMEN ANd wICkEd hAgS
New Revised Edition
louise Ryan and Margaret ward (eds)
Studies of Irish nationalism have been primarily historical
in scope and overwhelmingly male in content. Too often
the ‘shadow of the gunman’ has dominated. Little recog-
nition has been given to the part women have played, yet
over the centuries they have undertaken a variety of roles
– as combatants, prisoners, writers and politicians. In Irish
Women and Nationalism, the full range of women’s con-
tribution to the Irish nationalist movement is explored by
writers whose interests range from the historical and so-
ciological to the literary and cultural. From the little-
known involvement of women in the earliest nationalist
uprising of the 1600s and 1700s, to their active partici-
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pation in the republican campaigns of the twentieth cen-
tury, different chapters consider the changing contexts              OCTOBER 2019
of female militancy and the challenge this has posed to             €24.95 / £22.99
masculine images and structures.                                    9781788550970

This important and influential collection, first published in         240 pages
2004, is now reissued with a new foreword by Marie
                                                                     234 x 156 mm
Coleman. Irish Women and Nationalism is a major contri-
bution to wider feminist debates about the gendering of
nationalism, raising questions about the extent to which
women’s rights, demands and concerns can ever be fully
accommodated within nationalist movements.

Dr Louise Ryan is Professor of Sociology at the University of
Sheffield.

Dr Margaret Ward is Visiting Fellow in the School of History, An-
thropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University
Belfast.

New Title • hISToRy

 A CENTURy oF SERvICE
 A hISToRy oF ThE IRISh NURSES ANd MIdwIvES
 oRgANISATIoN, 1919–2019

 Mark loughrey

 In February 1919, twenty nurses and midwives meeting
 in Dublin to discuss their poor working conditions took a
 historic decision to establish a trade union – the first of
 its kind in the world. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Or-
 ganisation (INMO) now numbers 40,000 and is Ireland’s
 largest nurse and midwife representative association.

 This book examines the heady social and economic back-
 drop that gave birth to the INMO, putting names and
 faces to the founders and delving into the challenges they
 encountered. It details the Organisation’s conservative
 middle years and its recent emergence as one of the most          HARDBACK
 vocal protagonists for nurses, midwives and patients in
 Ireland, while also exploring the vast and varied service          MARCH 2019
 that the Organisation provides to its members.                    €24.95 / £21.99
                                                                   9781788550628
 The prospect of a nurses’ or midwives’ strike always
 raises concerns for patient welfare, and the book looks             352 pages
 closely at how the INMO has negotiated this tension, most          234 x 156 mm
 especially during the 1999 national nurses’ strike – one
 of the largest strikes in Irish history. A Century of Service
 is brought to life by a fascinating series of in-depth inter-
 views with the INMO’s members and leaders in a story of
 an organisation that with talent, tact and tenacity is de-
 livering despite the odds.

Mark Loughrey trained as a general nurse at St Vincent’s Hos-
pital, Dublin, before specialising in intensive care nursing. He
currently works as a research nurse. In 2011 he was awarded
a PhD scholarship by the Irish Nurses’ and Midwives’ Organi-
sation. He graduated with a PhD in history from UCD in 2015.

New Title • hISToRy

hEARINg voICES
ThE hISToRy oF PSyChIATRy IN IRElANd

Brendan kelly

‘A gripping, fascinating tale, told here with elegance, enthu-
siasm and erudition … a carefully crafted, highly readable,
impeccably researched, beautifully illustrated book … the
most important social history in more than a decade.’
PROFESSOR IVOR BROWNE, THE IRISH TIMES

Hearing Voices: The History of Psychiatry in Ireland is a
monumental work by one of Ireland's leading psychia-
trists, encompassing every psychiatric development from
the Middle Ages to the present day, and examining their
far-reaching social and political effects.
                                                                      NEW IN PAPERBACK
From the ‘Glen of Lunatics’, said to cure mental illness, to
the overloaded asylums of later centuries – with more                      JUNE 2019
beds for the mentally ill than any other country in the
                                                                         €29.95 / £26.99
world – Ireland has had an extensive and often unsettled
                                                                         9781788550864
history in the practice and perception of psychiatry.
Kelly’s definitive work examines Ireland's unique relation-
                                                                           500 pages
ship with conceptions of mental ill health throughout the
centuries, delving into each medical breakthrough and                     247 x 186 mm
every misuse of authority – both political and domestic –
for those deemed to be ‘hearing voices’.

Hearing Voices is a marvel that affords incredible insight
into Ireland's social and medical history while providing
powerful observations on our current treatment of mental
ill health in Ireland.

Brendan Kelly is Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin
and Consultant Psychiatrist at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin. He is the
author of Ada English: Patriot and Psychiatrist (Irish Academic
Press, 2014).

New Title • lITERATURE

IN A hARBoUR gREEN
CElEBRATINg BENEdICT kIEly

george o’Brien (ed.)

Novelist, short-story writer, critic, memoirist, broadcaster
and journalist Benedict Kiely (1919–2007) was not only
one of the best-known but one of the most artistically and
culturally distinctive men of letters of his day. His fasci-
nation with the island of Ireland, the myths and memories
of its people, and the many-voiced quality of its traditions,
has secured for him a unique place in the country’s liter-
ary history.

His substantial body of fiction and non-fiction is a repos-
itory of lore and learning, and amply rewards not only the
interest shown in it over many years by his popularity
                                                                   HARDBACK
among the general public, but also that of Irish and inter-
national literary scholarship.
                                                                     JULY 2019
                                                                   €19.95 / £18.99
Strangely, however, despite his renowned reputation and            9781788550888
canonical status, Kiely remains a writer whose work has
generated surprisingly little secondary literature, aca-             193 pages
demic or otherwise.                                                 215 x 135 mm

This charming collection of twelve essays by some of Ire-
land’s foremost writers and esteemed international crit-
ics, in this, his centenary year, will breathe new life into
Kiely’s work and place him back where he belongs, at the
heart of Irish literature.

George O’Brien has published an autobiographical trilogy – The
Village of Longing (1987), Dancehall Days (1988) and Out of Our
Minds (1994) – and various books of literary criticism, the most
recent of which is The Irish Novel 1800–1910 (2015).

New Title • PhIloSoPhy

CIPhERS oF TRANSCENdENCE
ESSAyS IN PhIloSoPhy oF RElIgIoN IN hoNoUR oF
PATRICk MASTERSoN

Fran o’Rourke (ed.)

The title Ciphers of Transcendence reflects the philosoph-
ical interests of Patrick Masterson, Emeritus Professor of
Philosophy of Religion, University College Dublin.

Transcendence is a millefeuille term conveying layered
and diverse nuances, from the first openness of human
awareness towards the outside world, to the ultimate af-
firmation of and commitment to a loving and infinite Tran-
scendent. Patrick Masterson has devoted his
philosophical career to reflection upon the unfathomable
nature of the latter, seeking to decipher instances and im-
ages of transcendence within the realm of limited human
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experience. Through teaching and writing he has shared
with students and readers his deeply personal reflections
                                                                    DECEMBER 2019
on questions of primal importance. Patrick Masterson’s              €35.00 / £30.00
colleagues and students – all devoted friends – here offer,         9781788551175
in return, their diverse perspectives.
                                                                      408 pages
The essays deal in one way or another with transcen-                 234 x 156 mm
dence, examined in dialogue with a roll call of thinkers
across the ages, from ancient authors to medieval mas-
ters, modern giants to recent luminaries. The volume is
enhanced by the inclusion of an essay by leading contem-
porary thinker Alasdair MacIntyre, and a poem from Sea-
mus Heaney that evokes across the silence of solitude the
tender presence of transcendence.

Fran O’Rourke is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University
College Dublin, where he taught for thirty-six years. He has held
Fulbright and Onassis fellowships, and in 2003 was Visiting Re-
search Professor at Marquette University.

New Title • ART

ExRESSIoNS oF NATIoNhood
IN BRoNzE & SToNE
AlBERT g. PowER, RhA

Síghle Bhreathnach-lynch
At the time of his death in 1945, Albert Power was the
leading nationalist sculptor in the Irish Free State, yet
within a few decades he was almost forgotten. This first
major examination of his life and career tells of one artist’s
contribution to national identity before and after political
independence.
                                                                       HARDBACK
In sculpture, at that time, the emphasis was on creating a
                                                                         JULY 2019
pantheon of ‘new’ Irish heroes by means of monumental
and portrait commissions. Power’s work, however, sprang                €39.95 / £35.00
from deeply held nationalist beliefs and he felt that subject          9781788550666
matter alone was insufficient to ensure a distinctive Irish
art. Wherever possible he deliberately chose native stone,               268 pages
believing that this best conveyed a nationalist sentiment,              247 x 180 mm
such as the limestone he used in the beloved monument
to Padraic Ó Conaire in Galway.

His political commissions from 1922 onward reveal the new
State’s desire for a national political and cultural identity,
and in this book Power’s sculpture is explored both at the
time of its production and within the broader context of writ-
ers and artists who wished to contribute to the new nation’s
cultural identity, a legacy that modern Ireland enjoys today.

Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch is an art historian and former Curator
of Irish Art at the National Gallery of Ireland. She has lectured in
at UCD and at New York’s Metropolitan Museum, Oxford Univer-
sity, in Monaco, and throughout Ireland. Her publications include
Fifty Works of Irish Art You Need to Know and Ireland’s Art Ire-
land’s History Representing Ireland, 1845 to Present.

New Title • ART

JANET MUllARNEy
Catherine Marshall & Mary Ryder (Eds)

This catalogue raisonné of the work of Irish artist Janet
Mullarney showcases the diverse, innovative, personal
and original nature of her work over the last 40 years.

Mullarney, like James Joyce, realised the need to be an
outsider. Since 1970 she based her art studio in Italy and
                                                                      HARDBACK
then travelled further afield to include Mexico and India,
learning about art and life in equal measure, filling note-
                                                                        JUNE 2019
books with drawings that held meaning for her, and which
influenced her work.                                                  €45.00 / £40.00
                                                                      9781788550925
Provocatively, she embraces a marginal position between
two countries and between art forms and practices: figu-                224 pages
rative, when the world craved abstraction; a carver when               278 x 240 mm
those skills were decried by the avant-garde; architectural
and object-based, when sculpture seemed to be moving
towards video and photography.

Ultimately her work is driven by a search for psychic free-
dom and balance. While the external targets of oppression
are present and obvious, Mullarney’s work is focused on
more self-imposed restraints.

Curator and Art Historian, Catherine Marshall was Founding
Head of Collections at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and co-
editor of The Art and Architecture of Ireland, Vol V, Twentieth
Century, Yale, London and Dublin, 2014.

Close friend, art lover and political activist, Mary Ryder has par-
ticularly supported Janet Mullarney throughout her career.